China`s emerging middle class beyond economic transformation

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-372) and index.

Foreword / Kenneth Lieberthal -- PART 1. The Global Significance of China's Emerging Middle Class -- 1. Introduction : the rise of the middle class in the Middle Kingdom / Cheng Li -- 2. The new global middle class : a crossover from West to East / Homi Kharas and Geoffrey Gertz -- PART II. The Chinese Perspective : Social Stratification and Political Ideology -- 3. Chinese scholarship on the middle class : from social stratification to political potential / Cheng Li -- 4. Globalization, social transformation, and the construction of China's middle class / Zhou Xiaohong and Qin Chen -- 5. The Chinese middle class and xiaokang society / Lu Hanlong -- PART III. Issues of Definition : Compositional Differences and Internal Divisions in China's Middle Class -- 6. Characterizing China's middle class : heterogeneous composition and multiple identities / Li Chunling -- 7. China's new upper middle classes : the importance of occupational disaggregation / Jianying Wang and Deborah Davis -- PART IV. Expanding China's Middle Class : Housing Reform and Educational Development -- 8. China's housing reform and emerging middle class / Joyce Yanyun Man -- 9. The housing effect : the making of China's social distinctions / Luigi Tomba -- 10. Higher education expansion and China's middle class / Jiang Lin and Xiaoyan Sun -- PART V. The Chinese Middle Class in Comparative Perspective -- 11. Placing China's middle class in the Asia-Pacific context / Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao -- 12. Middle-class grassroots identity and participation in citizen initiatives, China and South Korea / Han Sang-Jin -- PART VI. China's Middle Class : An Agent of the Status Quo or a Force for Change? -- 13. China's cooperative capitalists : the business end of the middle class / Bruce J. Dickson -- 14. What do Chinese lawyers want? Political values and legal practice / Ethan Michelson and Sida Liu -- 15. Attitudes toward democracy and the political behavior of China's middle class / Jie Chen