Stratification dynamics under state socialism: The case of urban China, 1949-1993

Social Forces

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 759-796

  Zhou, Xueguang ^a   Tuma, Nancy Brandon ^b   Moen, Phyllis ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBERSHIP; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DOMESTIC POLITICS; LABOUR MARKET ENTRY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; SOCIALIST SYSTEM; STATE POLICY; STATE SOCIALISM; STRATIFICATION;

CHINA;

EID: 0030446189     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sf/74.3.759     Document Type: Article

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