[T]he book is splendid. Wortzel combines his expertise in Sinology
with his meticulous attention to epistemology and methodology in
studying the class structure and stratification in Maoist China,
accomplishing the rare feat of freeing himself from ideological
bias and parochial ethnic subjectivity. . . . It is indeed
refreshing to read Wortzel's realistic book. Journal of Third World
Studies Although the hierarchy of class is said to have been
replaced with distinctions between the friends and enemies of
Communism, Larry Wortzel argues that the Chinese Communist Party
has in reality evolved into a ruling class which serves its own
interests. Drawing on literature from dissident Marxists and using
analyses of writings from underground journals and the Beijing
publication People's Literature, the author examines perceptions of
social stratification and finds that the determinants of social and
economic standing now appear to depend on lines of management and
authority, residence in urban or rural areas, and Party membership,
especially when combined with positions of authority This work
presents one of the first comprehensive analyses of the class
system in socialist China as it exists in practice rather as
conceived in theory.
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