Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 More than three decades of economic growth
have led to significant social change in the Peoples Republic of China. This timely book …

The middle class has emerged as a political phenomenon in China since 2002 through a
state-sponsored discourse that sees it as a universal and universalising class. Although the …

The thriving of China's self‐funded study abroad market is marked by the tremendous
increase of students who use the services of educational intermediaries to facilitate their …

Many studies of the Chinese middle class focus on defining it and viewing its significance for
economic development and its potential for sociopolitical modernisation. This book goes …

Bu çalışmada, son yıllarda toplumsal tabakalaşma tartışmalarının merkezindeki orta sınıf
meselesi ele alınmaktadır. Bu tartışmalar, orta sınıfın kimlerden oluştuğu, kimleri içerdiği ve …

We utilise the implementation of the 1999 higher education expansion in China as a natural
experiment to examine the relationship between university educational attainment …

Many surveys show that China's political regime, under the Chinese Communist Party's
authoritarian rules, enjoys a high level of public support. However, it is still uncertain …

This article explores the seemingly paradoxical attitudes of the Chinese middle class
towards democracy, social stability, and reform. Using fieldwork data from Ningbo, this …

Using a diagonal reference model to analyze data from three waves of Chinese General
Social Surveys conducted between 2006 and 2012, we examine how social mobility affects …

This chapter seeks to throw new light on the emergence of the Chinese economic middle
class using data from the China Household Income Project from 2002, 2007, and 2013. We …