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Urban Life in Contemporary China

Martin King Whyte author William L Parish author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of Chicago Press

Published:1st Nov '85

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Through interviews with city residents, Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish provide a unique survey of urban life in the last decade of Mao Zedong's rule. They conclude that changes in society produced under communism were truly revolutionary and that, in the decade under scrutiny, the Chinese avoided ostensibly universal evils of urbanism with considerable success. At the same time, however, they find that this successful effort spawned new and equally serious urban problems—bureaucratic rigidity, low production, and more.

ISBN: 9780226895499

Dimensions: 23mm x 16mm x 3mm

Weight: 652g

415 pages