This chapter focuses on two issues: existing studies of social stratification of rural China and
the framework of this study. A background of rural social stratification in Mao's China is first …

What are the effects of market reform on social stratification in rural China? This topic has
been a focus of sociology, especially comparative stratification research, for more than two …

'Let some peasants get rich first'was one of the leading slogans of China's rural reforms,
beginning in the early 1980s. After almost a decade, who has become rich? Who has …

Over the course of 30 years in which sociology research in China is recovering, the
particular research on social stratification is one of the fastest-growing fields of research that …

This study focuses on the effects of market reform on the life chances of rural people in
China. Based on comparative ethnographical evidence from three townships of rural …

In the sociological literature of stratification structure in post-reform China, the market
transition debate in the 1990s has dominated this field by proposing competing arguments …

This paper develops a classification of the emerging agrarian class positions in China today.
Using an instrument based on rural households' combination of market positions in four …

Over the past fifty-five years, since the People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded, the
great changes in the Chinese social stratification structure have rarely been seen elsewhere …

The dissertation aims to bring social classes back into the center of the research on Chinese
social stratification and inequality in its transition to market capitalism. Drawing from the neo …

This chapter examines the effects of market penetration on social stratification in local
economies, by which I refer to townships with the lowest market penetration level in the …