Urban Life in Contemporary China
Download or Read eBook Urban Life in Contemporary China PDF written by Martin King Whyte and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985-11-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Martin King Whyte |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 1985-11-15 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780226895499 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0226895491 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Urban Life in Contemporary China by : Martin King Whyte
Book excerpt: Through interviews with city residents, Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish provide a unique survey of urban life in the last decade of Mao Zedong's rule. They conclude that changes in society produced under communism were truly revolutionary and that, in the decade under scrutiny, the Chinese avoided ostensibly universal evils of urbanism with considerable success. At the same time, however, they find that this successful effort spawned new and equally serious urban problems—bureaucratic rigidity, low production, and more.
