Introduction / Wanning Sun and Yingjie Guo
Political power and social inequality : the impact of the state / Yingjie Guo
Inequality and culture : a new pathway to understanding social inequality / Wanning Sun
Between social justice and social order : the framing of inequality / David Kelly
Temporality as trope in delineating inequality : progress for the prosperous, time warp for the poor / Dorothy Solinger
Uneven development and the time/space economy / Carolyn Cartier
The great divide : institutionalized inequality in market socialism / Beibei Tang and Luigi Tomba
Education and inequality : education and equality / Andrew Kipnis
(in)equality under the law in China today / Colin Hawes
Between entitlement and stigmatization : the lessons of HIV/AIDS for China's medical reform / Johanna Hood
Grassroots activism : non-normative sexual politics in post-socialist China / Lisa Rofel
Gender as a categorical source of property inequality in urbanizing China / Sally Sargeson
Law of the land or land law? : notions of inequality and inequity in rural Anhui / Graeme Smith
What's wrong with inequality : power, culture and opportunity / David S. G. Goodman.