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 Guangdong province, this book provides a more recent and detailed story about the social inequality in rural China, a further explanation for the institutional analysis on the social stratification of China, a new typology of…
What are the effects of market reform on social stratifi cation in rural China? This topic has been a focus of sociology, especially comparative stratifi cation research, for more than two decades, because market reform in rural China provides a rare natural experiment involving changes in the stratifi cation order on a scale reminiscent of what was experienced in the West during the rise o…