China : getting rich first : a modern social history / Duncan Hewitt.
Author: Hewitt, Duncan.
Edition: 1st Pegasus Books ed.
Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books ; distributed by W W Norton, 2008
ISBN: 1933648473
9781933648477
Description: xxi, 454 p., [8] p. of plates : 1 map ; 24 cm.
Subject: Social change China.
China Social conditions 1976-2000.
China Social conditions 2000-
Contents: Cities in motion -- Shanghai between old and new -- Aspiration nation -- Farewell to welfare? -- A half-open media -- The "me" generation -- Unsentimental education -- The great proletarian sexual revolution -- Floating people -- The land they left behind -- Consumers and citizens -- Culture shock -- Faith, hope and disillusionment.