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This book offers a comprehensive review of the far-reaching social changes that have taken place since the start of the Chinese economic reform and opening up of Chinese society over 30 years ago. As such, it examines various aspects of the social transformation of China, from urbanization, population aging and social governance to family structure, youth society and social mentality. It identifies major issues and challenges emerging during the process of the great social change, and proposes solutions to aid in future strategic planning. The analysis is supported by a wealth of empirical data collected in the course of extended social survey research. The book also provides a systematic summary of the most important research findings from the past few years, helping readers to understand and interpret the ongoing and complex process of transformation in Chinese society

Key Features:Fresh Chinese perspectives by prestigious scholars in Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, based on unique sources of data which is available only to Chinese scholarsFirst English book based on the data collected in the Chinese General Social Survey (CSS)Elaborates key issues on the Chinese society from the perspective of people's livelihood.

This book introduces a multidimensional system that evaluates quality of life in China by pursuing a quantitative and analytical approach. A host of factors, including economic conditions and individual wellbeing, can affect people's satisfaction with their lives. In addition to GDP-associated indicators, sociological and environmental factors are also relevant when it comes to evaluating quality of life. Providing a general framework, while also considering gender, education and geographical differences in assessing quality of life, the book offers policy suggestions for improving both individual quality of life and the health of society as a whole

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Part 1 Transformation of social structure and its consequences -- Chapter 1 The invisible hand: Social structure transformation -- Chapter 2 "The other invisible hand" revisited -- Chapter 3 The "characteristics" of China's economic reforms -- Chapter 4 Oriental modernization and Chinese experience -- Chapter 5 China's path to overcome the double middle-income trap -- Part 2 Transformation of urban and rural societies in contemporary China -- Chapter 6 Analysis of the social costs of the state-owned enterprises: A survey of 508 enterprises in 10 major cities in China -- Chapter 7 Beyond the shadows of adversity: A study of human capital failure in the reemployment of laid-off workers -- Chapter 8 Managing unemployment in China's northeast: "Post-industrialization" and market-oriented transformation - a study of nine large state-owned enterprises in northeast China -- Chapter 9 China's rural industrialization over the past 100 years -- Chapter 10 Social network of rural migrants in China -- Index.

"There have been two "hands" exerting influence on China's resource allocation and economic development: one is tangible (government intervention), and the other intangible (market regulation). This book focuses on a third factor, "another invisible hand," which is social structure transformation. This two-part study explores the process of China's social structure transformation while conducting a theoretical examination of its characteristics. The first part presents a theoretical analysis of the nature of social structure transformation and its economic consequences, both in general and within the Chinese context. The second part examines the transformation of urban and rural societies in contemporary China from different perspectives; including state-owned enterprises, laid-off urban workers, rural migrants, and rural industrialization. The book is written for scholars, researchers and students across the social sciences and area studies, including Sociology, Urban studies, Rural studies, Contemporary China studies and all those who are interested in economic development in China"--

More powerful market and more effective government in resource allocation -- Improving the basic economic system -- Deepening the fiscal and tax system reforms -- Strengthening the rule of law and reforming judicial administration -- Rural-urban integration and household registration system reform -- Regional Analysis of the target population of the "Selective Two-child Policy" -- Incremental raise of the retirement age and its impact -- Optimizing the income distribution structure -- Toward a scientifically-informed and effective social governance system -- Reforming environmental protection and management systems. .

Foreword:The End of the Village: the Urban Villages' Great Transformations over the Last Decade -- Examining the "Urban Village": My Methodology in Studying "The End of Villages" -- The Worship of Land and Enterprising Spirit -- A Village Without Arable Land and Agriculture -- The Village Boundaries and Life Radius -- From "Village Unit System" to "Village Corporate System" -- The Village-turned Enterprise and Internal Market -- Rental Housing Market and Peasants' Rationality -- Social Embeddedness and Incomplete Property Rights -- Informal Institutions and Village Social Networks -- The Exchange of "Renqing" and Private Lending in Rural Areas -- The Replicative Cycle, Replacement and Succession of Village Power -- The Social Stratification Structures in the Urban Villages: the Established and the Generated -- The Underground Economy of Urban Villages -- Conflict and Integration During the End of the Village: Relocation of Ancestral Tombs and Change of Residences -- Appendix The Stories of Yangcheng Village -- Bibliography -- Afterword and Acknowledgements.

Urbanization and Stage of New Growth of China -- General State of Urbanization and People's Livelihood -- Consumption State and Consuming Characters of Urban and Rural Residents -- Labor Market Segmentation in Process of Urbanization -- Urbanization and Social Integration of Migrant Workers -- Increase of Education Chance and Urban Education Inequality -- Urbanization and Growth of Middle Class -- Discovery from Research and Related Suggestions

Acknowledgements -- Another invisible hand : the structural transformation of the society -- The implications of Chinese structural transformations for resource allocation -- Searching for modernization : enlightenment, evolution, and reformation -- "Chinese school" of sociology in the first half of 20th century -- "Chinese experience" of reform and development -- Urbanization and a new phase for Chinese development -- On the structure of class and stratum since China's reform -- Social conflict and class consciousness : a research on contradictions in China today -- Problems on China strengthening and innovating social management -- Mass consumption stage and social reform -- Radical changes : the end of the village-studies on the villages in the city -- Examine the "urban village" : my methodology to study "the end of village" -- Index -- Note on romanization and translation

This book offers a comprehensive review of the far-reaching social changes that have taken place since the start of the Chinese economic reform and opening up of Chinese society over 30 years ago. As such, it examines various aspects of the social transformation of China, from urbanization, population aging and social governance to family structure, youth society and social mentality. It identifies major issues and challenges emerging during the process of the great social change, and proposes solutions to aid in future strategic planning. The analysis is supported by a wealth of empirical data collected in the course of extended social survey research. The book also provides a systematic summary of the most important research findings from the past few years, helping readers to understand and interpret the ongoing and complex process of transformation in Chinese society.

After over 30 years of reform and opening up, China's aggregate economic volume is now the second largest in the world. Over the past decade many provinces in the western region of China have implemented ecological migration projects of different scales, which have attracted considerable attention both in China and abroad. The projects indicate, first, that there is an urgent need for this type of endeavor: whether the goal is to reduce poverty or to protect the environment, we need to move the poor populations out of the ecologically fragile regions. Secondly, the projects indicate that the Chinese government is capable of meeting this need. Migration projects are complex and costly and without sufficient financial resources and systematic planning, migration may fail to reduce poverty, and could even aggravate it. The rapid economic growth in China, however, makes such migration projects viable.

Contents -- Chapter 1 Marching Toward a New Phase of Development: Building a Moderately Prosperous (Xiaokang) Society -- Chapter 2 Chinese Urban-Rural Income and Consumption in 2012 -- Chapter 3 Problems in China's Income Distribution and Focuses of Reform: 2012-2013 -- Chapter 4 New Development in Chinese Social Security in 2012 -- Chapter 5 Report on Reforms to and Development of the Medical and Healthcare Industries in 2012 -- Chapter 6 China's Floating Population in 2012 -- Chapter 7 Chinese Urban Resident Quality of Life Investigative Report 2012 -- Chapter 8 The Chinese Senior Population's Living Arrangements, Health, and Nursing Care Analysis of Data from the Sixth Population Census -- Chapter 9 New Changes to the Employment Difficulties Experienced by University Graduates: A Longitudinal Study of Graduates of Twelve Higher Learning Institutions -- Chapter 10 Analysis of Internet-based Public Opinion in China, 2012 -- Chaptter 11 Differentiation of Economic and Political Status of Chinese Private Entrepreneurs -- Chapter 12 2012 Peasant Development Report -- Chapter 13 Labor Relations Regulations and Institutions amid Slow Economic Growth, 2012 -- Chapter 14 Statistical Overview of Social Development -- Index

This book offers a comprehensive review of the far-reaching social changes that have taken place since the start of the Chinese economic reform and opening up of Chinese society over 30 years ago. As such, it examines various aspects of the social transformation of China, from urbanization, population aging and social governance to family structure, youth society and social mentality. It identifies major issues and challenges emerging during the process of the great social change, and proposes solutions to aid in future strategic planning. The analysis is supported by a wealth of empirical data collected in the course of extended social survey research. The book also provides a systematic summary of the most important research findings from the past few years, helping readers to understand and interpret the ongoing and complex process of transformation in Chinese society. Peilin Li, the director of the Institute of sociology, CASS, senior researcher, doctoral supervisor, president of Sociology Society, and chief editor of Sociological Studies. Li graduated from Sorbonne University, Paris, France as PhD. Li' s research fields include: enterprise organization structure, social Structural changes, social stratification, and evaluation of development, etc. The representative works are China Social Structural Transformation: Sociological Analysis on Economical System Reform and Employment and Institution Changes, etc.

Along with the fast growing economy, the term 'BRICs' was coined to represent the newly emerging countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China. The enhanced economy in these countries has largely improved people's lives; at the same time, it has also strongly influenced the transformation of social structure, norms and values. This book examines specifically the changes in each society from the perspective of social stratification, with topics covering the main social classes, the inequality of education and income, the different styles of consumption as well as the class consciousness and values