Download e-book for kindle: Organizing Through Division and Exclusion: China's Hukou by Fei-Ling Wang

By Fei-Ling Wang

ISBN-10: 0804750394

ISBN-13: 9780804750394

This booklet is the 1st entire exam of China's hukou (household registration) process. The hukou method registers and governs the 1.3 billion chinese language, whereas growing deep and inflexible divisions and exclusions; in lots of domain names the method determines how the chinese language dwell and shapes China's sociopolitical constitution and socioeconomic improvement. This booklet indicates that the approach has made either optimistic and destructive contributions to modern chinese language society: it has helped foster swift financial progress and political balance, but additionally has bolstered social stratification, the rural-urban divide, nearby inequalities, and discrimination and injustice.

Using wealthy new fabrics, this publication lines the historical past and improvement of the hukou approach. It describes the capabilities, influence, and operational mechanisms of the process. It additionally analyzes the hukou compared to the platforms of exclusion and discrimination in different countries, significantly Brazil and India. This booklet offers vital insights for knowing China's previous, current, and future.

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