Class and Class Conflict in Post-Socialist China traces the origins and the profound changes of the patterns of class conflict in post-socialist China since 197

Monograph on social class conflicts (social conflicts) in the contemporary sociology of China - compares Marxism and Maoist social theories of social stratifica

China’s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just begin

This new social history of Maoist China provides an accessible view of the complex and tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule.

Applying an original theoretical framework, an international group of historians and social scientists here explores how class, rather than other social bonds,