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Inequality and Social Stratification in Maoist China
- Twentieth-Century China
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 43, Number 2, May 2018
- pp. 196-202
- 10.1353/tcc.2018.0020
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Abstract:
A growing body of scholarship is showing that the Chinese Communist Party did not produce an egalitarian society, as it intended. It generated a country riven by inequalities. Three recent books shed light on various ways that the party's policies induced new forms of social stratification.