Polarized cities: portraits of rich and poor in urban china
Éditeur :
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN :
9781538116470
Date de publication :
14 sept. 2018
Dimensions :
23,7 x 15,9 x 2,1 cm
Poids :
445 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This powerful book brings to life the human dimension of the social and economic divides in urban China. Leading scholars explore the increasing rigidity of class and social boundaries and analyze of the process of polarization and its outcomes by focusing on two new “castes†in contemporary China—the extravagantly wealthy and the profoundly poor.