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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959173403321

Autore

Hsu Carolyn L. <1969->

Titolo

Creating market socialism : how ordinary people are shaping class and status in China / / Carolyn L. Hsu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007

ISBN

9786613035578

9780822390428

0822390426

9781283035576

128303557X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

Politics, history, and culture

Disciplina

306.3/450951090511

306.3450951090511

Soggetti

Social change - China - 21st century

China Social conditions 2000-

China Economic policy 2000-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-216) and index.

Nota di contenuto

How narratives shape institutional change -- Narratives and the socialist stratification system -- Harbin : from Paris of the East to the rust belt -- The path of power : revising the meaning of political capital -- Constructing entrepreneurship : the moral meaning of money -- Trust in knowledge : human capital and the emerging Suzhi hierarchy -- The narrative construction of class and status under market socialism : the emerging Suzhi hierarchy -- Appendix 1. Fieldwork sites and interview sample and questions -- Appendix 2. Glossary of Chinese terms.

Sommario/riassunto

Based on interviews with ordinary Chinese citizens, this work examines how people, as opposed to Communist Party elites, are establishing the new economic order in China.