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Creating Market Socialism

How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China

By: Carolyn L. Hsu

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Creating Market Socialism

How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China

By: Carolyn L. Hsu

In the midst of China’s post-Mao market reforms, the old status hierarchy is collapsing. Who will determine what will take its place? In Creating Market Socialism, the sociologist Carolyn L. Hsu demonstrates the central role of ordinary people—rather than state or market elites—in creating new institutions for determining status in China. Hsu explores the emerging hierarchy, which is based on the concept of suzhi, or quality. In suzhi ideology, human capital and educational credentials are the most important measures of status and class position. Hsu reveals how, through their words and actions, ordinary citizens decide what jobs or roles within society mark individuals with suzhi, designating them “quality people.” Hsu’s ethnographic research, conducted in the city of Harbin in northwestern China, included participant observation at twenty workplaces and interviews with working adults from a range of professions. By analyzing the shared stories about status and class, jobs and careers, and aspirations and hopes that circulate among Harbiners from all walks of life, Hsu reveals the logic underlying the emerging stratification system. In the post-socialist era, Harbiners must confront a fast-changing and bewildering institutional landscape. Their collective narratives serve to create meaning and order in the midst of this confusion. Harbiners collectively agree that “intellectuals” (scientists, educators, and professionals) are the most respected within the new social order, because they contribute the most to Chinese society, whether that contribution is understood in terms of traditional morality, socialist service, or technological and economic progress. Harbiners understand human capital as an accurate measure of a person’s status. Their collective narratives about suzhi shape their career choices, judgments, and child-rearing practices, and therefore the new practices and institutions developing in post-socialist China.

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Duke University Press

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0822390426

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Social Entrepreneurship and Citizenship in China

The rise of NGOs in the PRC

By: Carolyn L. Hsu

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Social Entrepreneurship and Citizenship in China

The rise of NGOs in the PRC

By: Carolyn L. Hsu

Over the last thirty years, social entrepreneurship has boomed in the People’s Republic of China. Today there are hundreds of thousands of legally registered NGOs, and millions more unregistered, working in the areas of the environment, education, women’s issues, disability services, community development, LGBTQ rights, and healthcare. The rise of these Chinese NGOs and their implications for civil society merits the focus of significant scholarly attention. This book draws upon the personal stories of social entrepreneurs in China, as well as their supporters and beneficiaries, in order to examine what the rapid growth of social entrepreneurship reveals about China's complex and dynamic society in the 21st century. It discusses the historical, cultural, and political circumstances that allowed and inspired people to become social entrepreneurs and create new forms of democratic engagement. Examining what social entrepreneurship with Chinese characteristics looks like, the book explores how it is changing the relationship between Chinese citizens and the state, and goes on to explain the subsequent effect on Chinese society. Highlighting the importance of citizen activism in the PRC from an interdisciplinary perspective, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese Studies, Chinese Politics, Civil Society and Sociology.

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Taylor & Francis

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1134854307

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Creating Market Socialism

How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China

By: Carolyn L. Hsu

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Creating Market Socialism

How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China

By: Carolyn L. Hsu

DIVBased on interviews with ordinary Chinese citizens, this work examines how people, as opposed to Communist Party elites, are establishing the new economic order in China./div

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0822340364

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Social Entrepreneurship and Citizenship in China

The rise of NGOs in the PRC

By: Carolyn L. Hsu

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The rise of NGOs in the PRC

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Creating Market Socialism

Creating Market Socialism

Social Entrepreneurship and Citizenship in China

Social Entrepreneurship and Citizenship in China

Creating Market Socialism

Creating Market Socialism

Social Entrepreneurship and Citizenship in China

Social Entrepreneurship and Citizenship in China

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