Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
1 The Paradoxes of Rural- Urban In e quality in Contemporary China
I China's Rural- Urban Gap: Setting the Context
2 Small- Town China: A Historical Perspective on Rural- Urban Relations
3 Rural Migrant Workers and China's Differential Citizenship: A Comparative Institutional Analysis
II China's Rural- Urban Income Gap
4 How Large Is China's Rural- Urban Income Gap?
5 Reestimating the Income Gap between Urban and Rural House holds in China
III The Rural- Urban Gap in Access to Social Resources
6 Rural- Urban Disparities in Access to Primary and Secondary Education under Market Reforms
7 Disparities in Health Care and Health Status: The Rural- Urban Gap and Beyond
8 The Narrowing Digital Divide: A View from Rural China
9 The Impact of Variations in Urban Registration within Cities
IV The Experience of Being a Migrant in Contemporary China
10 Boundaries of Inequality: Perceptions of Distributive Justice among Urbanities, Migrants, and Peasants
11 Rural Prejudice and Gender Discrimination in China's Urban Job Market
12 Gender and Citizenship Inequality: The Story of Two Migrant Women
13 Ethnicity, Rurality, and Status: Hukou and the Institutional and Cultural Determinants of Social Status in Tibet
V Evolving Policy toward Rural Migrants and the Rural- Urban Gap
14 Bringing the City Back In: The Chinese Debate on Rural Problems
15 Renovating the Great Floodgate: The Reform of China's Hukou System
Notes
Contributors