China’s rapid economic transformation is similar in some ways to those that have occurred in other East Asian nations.But the changing structure of perceived class identity that occurs in many rapidly growing economi...China’s rapid economic transformation is similar in some ways to those that have occurred in other East Asian nations.But the changing structure of perceived class identity that occurs in many rapidly growing economies is found to be absent in China,and in fact as China has continued to grow such change as has occurred is found to be downward,despite the immense material improvement there.Objective data on income distribution in China do not explain this phenomenon,but anomalies in China’s urban real-estate market might.展开更多
文摘China’s rapid economic transformation is similar in some ways to those that have occurred in other East Asian nations.But the changing structure of perceived class identity that occurs in many rapidly growing economies is found to be absent in China,and in fact as China has continued to grow such change as has occurred is found to be downward,despite the immense material improvement there.Objective data on income distribution in China do not explain this phenomenon,but anomalies in China’s urban real-estate market might.
基金北京大学社会学系与中共泗水县委办公室的合作项目"流动人口与小城镇发展研究"的成果之一This article is one of the results of the project "Migrant Workers and Development of Small Towns Research"which was cooperated by the Department of Sociology of Peking University and CPC Municipal Committee Office of Sishui County
