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Creating Market Socialism - How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China (Paperback)
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Creating Market Socialism - How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China (Paperback)
Series: Politics, History, and Culture
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In the midst of China's post-Mao market reforms, the old status
hierarchy is collapsing. Who will determine what will take its
place? In Creating Market Socialism, the sociologist Carolyn L. Hsu
demonstrates the central role of ordinary people-rather than state
or market elites-in creating new institutions for determining
status in China. Hsu explores the emerging hierarchy, which is
based on the concept of suzhi, or quality. In suzhi ideology, human
capital and educational credentials are the most important measures
of status and class position. Hsu reveals how, through their words
and actions, ordinary citizens decide what jobs or roles within
society mark individuals with suzhi, designating them "quality
people."Hsu's ethnographic research, conducted in the city of
Harbin in northwestern China, included participant observation at
twenty workplaces and interviews with working adults from a range
of professions. By analyzing the shared stories about status and
class, jobs and careers, and aspirations and hopes that circulate
among Harbiners from all walks of life, Hsu reveals the logic
underlying the emerging stratification system. In the
post-socialist era, Harbiners must confront a fast-changing and
bewildering institutional landscape. Their collective narratives
serve to create meaning and order in the midst of this confusion.
Harbiners collectively agree that "intellectuals" (scientists,
educators, and professionals) are the most respected within the new
social order, because they contribute the most to Chinese society,
whether that contribution is understood in terms of traditional
morality, socialist service, or technological and economic
progress. Harbiners understand human capital as an accurate measure
of a person's status. Their collective narratives about suzhi shape
their career choices, judgments, and child-rearing practices, and
therefore the new practices and institutions developing in
post-socialist China.
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