Rethinking the Rural-Urban Divide in China’s New Stratification Order

• Main Author: ZHANG, Qian Forrest
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: rural-urban inequality; class stratification; mode of production; household registration; rural migrants; Asian Studies; Inequality and Stratification; Rural Sociology; Urban Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1088; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2344/viewcontent/ZHANGFQ2007IJCSV2N.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

I use a Marxist framework centred on the mode of production to conceptually analyze the changing stratification structure in today’s China with a focus on the changing nature of rural-urban inequality. As the state-managed tributary mode of production, once dominant under socialism, is being gradual...