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State, Market and Life Chances in Contemporary Rural Chinese Society
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 of capitalism. Earlier researches on
Mao’s rural China present a state-centered picture: the state 1
and its agents—cadres
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