Description
Since the late 1970s, China has transformed from an inefficient centrally planned backwater to a fast-growing market-orientated economy. While economic reform has enabled average living standards to improve immensely, the benefits have been shared disproportionately depending on demographic factors such as location, age, gender, and social class.
This new four-volume collection from Routledge addresses some of the pertinent questions raised by the difference in ordinary peopleâs experience of Chinaâs economic modernization. In particular: what are the socio-cultural transformations accompanying Chinaâs economic transition? What are the experiences and responses of people who have gone through these social changes? What are the theoretical implications for social scientists who study social and economic development?
Social Transformation in China answers these questions by collecting essential and cutting-edge scholarship to reflect and capture experiences of socio-cultur
