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The Making of the Chinese Middle Class: Small Comfort and Great Expectations

The Making of the Chinese Middle Class: Small Comfort and Great Expectations

Rocca, Jean-Louis

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Series: The Sciences Po International Relations and Political Economy

Chinese HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1349953806
ISBN13: 9781349953806
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jun 16 2018
Pages: 281
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book analyses the making of the Chinese middle class that started in the 1990s using a constructivist approach. With the development of the Chinese economy, a new group of middle wage earners appeared. Chinese social scientists and state institutions promoted the idea that China needs a middle class to achieve modernization. Middle class members are defined-and define themselves-as good consumers, educated people, politically engaged but reasonable citizens. As such, the making of the middle class is the result of three convergent phenomena: an attempt to define the middle class, a process of civilization, and the development of protest movements. The making of the Chinese middle class, Rocca argues, is a way to end the stalemate that modern Chinese society is facing, in particular the necessity to democratize without introducing an election system.

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