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The Making of the Chinese Middle Class

Part of the The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-39339-5

ISBN: 978-1-137-39338-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 8, 2016

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Talking About the Middle Class

Rocca, Jean-Louis

Pages: 1 –19

[This book attempts to explain why the Chinese middle class plays so great a role in public debate and what Chinese society reveals of itself in this debate. The approach adopted here is very different from that used by Western and Chinese scholars who rely on a normative framework. The size and...
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The Rise of the Social in China

Rocca, Jean-Louis

Pages: 21 –67

[This chapter describes how the story of the Chinese middle class started with deep changes affecting Chinese society. The reforms of the 1990s led to economic growth, a dramatic increase in living standards, the first manifestations of a consumer society and the emergence of new social...
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The Making of an Ideal Class

Rocca, Jean-Louis

Pages: 69 –116

[This chapter argues that since the end of the 1990s, Chinese researchers—in connection with political leaders—have started to talk about middle social strata and contributed to popularizing the idea that the modernization process cannot but create middle classes in China. Members of the middle...
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The Making of a Lifestyle

Rocca, Jean-Louis

Pages: 117 –169

[The naming of the middle class led to the identification of this group with new social figures, new symbols, new desires, new representations—in a word a new lifestyle, “a set of practices and/or representations specific to a social group.” The media has played an important role in this...
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Middle Class Politics

Rocca, Jean-Louis

Pages: 171 –226

[At the beginning of the 2000s, the media, the intellectuals, and the ruling classes all pointed out that the Chinese middle class should give birth to so-called “political modernity,” that is, to further democratization. For the ruling classes, the middle class is a quiet class: demanding in...
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Conclusion

Rocca, Jean-Louis

Pages: 227 –250

[What is promoted today through the creation of a Chinese middle class is the dream of governing by relying on people who deserve to participate in politics because they govern themselves correctly. It is considered a way for China to enter the world of modern societies.]

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