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Inequality and stratification in China
China quarterly • (64) • Published In 1975 • Pages: 684-711
By: Whyte, Martin King.
Abstract
This study is based on Chinese research and government reports and interviews conducted with recent arrivals to Hong Kong from the Chinese mainland. The author examines the extent to which the Communist government rectified social inequality, maintained equity, and discouraged new class formation in post-Revolutionary China. A principal means of achieving equity involved a strict regulation of wages, incomes and work points across the country. Another means was the sending of youth and cadres down to the countryside for educational purposes, which, in many cases, turned into permanent relocation. The author found that urban areas had higher incomes and greater social mobility than rural areas.
- Subjects
- Cultural goals
- Urban and rural life
- Occupational specialization
- Wages and salaries
- Status, role, and prestige
- Classes
- Political movements
- Ethnosociology
- Education system
- culture
- Han Chinese
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Sociologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field Date
- 1968-69, 1973-74
- Coverage Date
- 1949-1973
- Coverage Place
- People's Republic of China
- Notes
- Martin King Whyte
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 62000248
- LCSH
- China--Social life and customs