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Institutional Legacies and the Reproduction of Social Structure in Post-Reform China

Institutional Legacies and the Reproduction of Social Structure in Post-Reform China

Fang, Lumin

Hardcover

Business GeneralEconomicsGeneral Political Science

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ISBN10: 9819261244
ISBN13: 9789819261246
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Apr 2 2027
Pages: 229
Language: English

This book aims to explore how communist legacies have evolved into symbolic domination after China's economic reform and how they contribute to the reproduction of social structure. It highlights that privileges associated with Communist party membership, the household registration system (Hukou), and the state-budged employment system (bianzhi) are the institutional legacies inherited from the state-socialist political regime. Quantitative results conducted by multiple correspondence analysis reveal that in both rural and urban China, the persistence of the communist hierarchical system plays an important role in informing the social structure, even with the rise of emerging classes. Particularly, these institutional legacies manifest more evident signs in rural society than in the urban. Building on the findings, qualitative interviews were conducted in China to construct habitus types and further test the proposed mechanisms. The results suggest that individual behaviour in a post-reform society remains symbolically mediated by communist institutional legacies. The persistence of habitus formed under the earlier communist hierarchical system operates as an invisible mechanism of inequality reproduction. These results imply why social inequality remains legitimized in the post-reform era of economic liberalization.

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