Introduction: State Policies, Castes, and Agency
Dorothy J. Solinger
Part I: Polarization: Scope, Causes, Manifestations
1 China’s Uphill Battle Against Inequality
Wang Feng
2 Convergence and Divergence Among the Rich and the Poor
Li Zhang
Part II: Portraits of the Urban Poor
3 Banish the Impoverished Past: The Predicament of the Abandoned Urban Poor
Dorothy J. Solinger
4 The Passionate Poor: Foxconn Workers Invited as Volunteers
Mun Young Cho
5 On the Rough Edge of Prosperity: Informal Migrant Recyclers in Beijing
Joshua Goldstein
Part III: The Upper Reaches of the Urban Rich
6 China’s Party Kings: Shanghai Club Cultures and Status Consumption, 1920s–2010s
Andrew David Field and James Farrer
7 Corruption, Anti-Corruption, and the Dynamics of Class: Formation in Post-Mao China
John Osburg
Urban Polarities: Inequality, Social Mobility, and the Role of the State
David S. G. Goodman
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