Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary material / Qiang Li -- TRANSFORMATION IN SOCIAL STRATIFICATION STRUCTURE IN CHINA AFTER THIRTY YEARS OF REFORM / Li Qiang -- RURAL REFORM AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE / Wang Xiaoyi -- URBANIZATION AND MOVEMENT OF RURAL LABOR / Bai Nansheng -- REFORM AND CHANGES IN URBAN GOVERNANCE / Wang Ying -- REFORM AND CHANGES OF WORK UNITS / Li Hanlin -- CONSUMPTION AND CONSUMERS DURING THE SOCIAL TRANSITION / Wang Ning -- TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND SOCIAL CHANGE / Qiu Zeqi -- THE REFORM AND THE CHANGES TO THE STATUS OF WOMEN / Tan Shen -- THIRTY YEARS OF REFORM AND CHANGES OF SOCIAL POLICIES / Li Peilin -- INDEX / Qiang Li.

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Thirty Years of Reform and Social Changes in China is translated from the original Chinese to provide a look into how scholars in China have been assessing their country's recent societal and political history. This volume and the others in the SSRC series, provide western scholars with an accessible English language look at the state of current scholarship in China, and as such, does not simply provide information for the direct study of socio-political issues, but also for meta-level analysis of how the domestic scholarship in China is developing and assessing the interplay of the country's political and economic reforms with the society and daily life of its people.