Class and the Communist Party of China, 1978-2021

Marc Blecher is James Monroe Professor of Politics and East Asian Studies at Oberlin College, USA.David S. G. Goodman is Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia.Yingjie Guo is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia.Jean-Louis Rocca is a professor and researcher at the Center for International Studies, Sciences Po Paris, France.Beibei Tang is Senior Associate Professor in the Department of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China.

• Introduction: Class, Stratification, Market Socialism, David S G Goodman  1. Class in Themselves and Classes for Themselves: Social Consciousness Divorced from Social Existence  2. Class and Social Mobility: Stratification and Social Change since 1978  3. The Performance of Class: Lifestyles and Behaviour  4. The Peasant Class under the Impact of Industrialisation, Urbanisation, and Household Registration  5. Economic Growth and Working Class Decline: Structural reform and social change after 1978  6. The Middle Class in Reforming China: The dream of a classless society  7. The Dominant Class after 1978: Elite Persistence and the Ironies of Social Change