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  • Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives
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  • Edited by Errol P. Mendes and Sakunthala Srighanthan
  • 2009
  • Published by: University of Ottawa Press
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Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant workers, women, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities. The Canadian contributors offer rich regional, national, and international perspectives on how constitutions, laws, policies, and practices, both in Canada and in other parts of the world, battle discrimination and the conflicts that rise out of it. The Chinese contributors include some of the most independent-minded scholars and practitioners in China. Their assessments of the challenges facing China in the areas of discrimination and inequality not only attest to their personal courage and intellectual freedom but also add an important perspective on this emerging superpower.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. pp. v-vii
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  1. List of Contributors
  2. pp. viii-xiv
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  1. Editors'Note
  2. p. xv
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  1. Acknowledgements
  2. p. xvi
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-14
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  1. PART ONE: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST RURAL AND MIGRANT WORKERS
  1. Chapter One: Prosperity at the Expense of Equality: Migrant Workers are Falling Behind in Urban Chinas Rise
  2. pp. 16-29
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  1. Chapter Two: The Historical Causes of Chinas Dual Social Structure
  2. pp. 30-69
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  1. Chapter Three: Restoring Private Ownership of Rural Lands to Safeguard the Basic Rights of Farmers
  2. pp. 70-98
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  1. Chapter Five: Chinese Farmers' Right of Access to Judicial Relief: An Investigative Report into Forest Land Expropriation Claims by Hebei Farmer Wen Shengcun
  2. pp. 129-148
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  1. Chapter Six: China's War on its Environment and Farmers' Rights: A Study of Shanxi Province
  2. pp. 149-184
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  1. PART TWO: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN
  1. Chapter Seven: The Gendered Reality of Migrant Workers in Globalizing China
  2. pp. 186-207
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  1. Chapter Eight: An Analysis of Rural Women's Entitlements to Land and Other Property
  2. pp. 208-231
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  1. Chapter Nine: Systemic Discrimination and Gender Inequality: A Life Cycle Approach to Girls' and Women's Rights
  2. pp. 232-243
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  1. PART THREE: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE DISABLED
  1. Chapter Ten: A Study of the Legislative Inhibition of Discrimination on the Basis of Disability
  2. pp. 246-273
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  1. PART FOUR: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THOSE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS
  1. Chapter Eleven: The Application of International and Regional Instruments to HIV-Related Discrimination in China and Southeast Asia
  2. pp. 293-308
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  1. Chapter Twelve: Gender and HIV/AIDS: Understanding and Addressing Stigma and Discrimination Among Women and Girls
  2. pp. 309-328
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  1. Chapter Thirteen: Promoting the Right to Education for AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC): A Study on Anti-Discrimination
  2. pp. 312-361
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  1. Chapter Fourteen: The State of Life and Survival Strategies of AIDS-Infected Rural Women: An Analysis Based on Field Investigations in Selected Areas of Henan
  2. pp. 362-394
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  1. PART FIVE: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MINORITIES
  1. Chapter Fifteen: The Canadian Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms: A Global Template for Minority Rights?
  2. pp. 396-404
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  1. Chapter Sixteen: Indigenous Peoples and Hunting Rights
  2. pp. 405-421
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