Inequality and Stratification in China
- 1 December 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The China Quarterly
- Vol. 64, 684-711
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000007566
Abstract
Vague and often somewhat contradictory impressions of equality and inequality in China abound. Some recent visitors to China have reported that income differentials there have been reduced to nominal levels. At the same time the recurring themes of the class struggle and the dangers of revisionism alert us to the continuing conflict within China over the inequalities that still exist. In this paper I try to draw together the scattered pieces of information already available in order to examine, first, the kinds of inequalities that do continue to exist in China, and then the policies designed to affect the transmission of these inequalities over time and from generation to generation, or, in other words, stratification. Although the available information is not precise enough to permit any systematic comparisons with other countries, I hope to be able to arrive at some rough impressions of the extent to which the Chinese elite has been successful in producing a society with more equality and less stratification than is generally the case elsewhere.Keywords
This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
- Children's Children: Time and Relatedness in Eastern UgandaAfrica, 2003
- Socialism and the Chinese Peasant FamilyJournal of Asian Studies, 1975
- Book ReviewJournal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry, 1974
- ethnolinguistic groups in chinaEquity & Excellence in Education, 1974
- China's Industry Produced More to Equip Agriculture Last YearChinese Economic Studies, 1974
- The great gasoline shortageBusiness Horizons, 1974
- Effects of Isoproterenol, dl-Propranolol and d-Propranolol on the A-V Transmission and the A-V Nodal Transmembrane Action PotentialJapanese Heart Journal, 1973
- EditorialBritish Homoeopathic journal, 1967
- Inequality and Instability: The Relation of Land Tenure to PoliticsWorld Politics, 1964
- The Apocalypse of John and the Liturgy of the Ancient ChurchChurch History, 1951