TY - BOOK AU - Su,Hainan . AU - Wang,Hong AU - Chang,Fenglin TI - The Rise of the Middle Class in Contemporary China T2 - The Great Transformation of China, China's Economic Transformation, Innovation and Development , SN - 9789811950995 U1 - 330.9 23 PY - 2022/// CY - Singapore PB - Springer Nature Singapore, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Economic history KW - Social structure KW - Equality KW - Asia-Politics and government KW - Economy-wide Country Studies KW - Social Structure KW - Asian Politics N1 - Chapter 1 The Urgent Need for the Rise of the Middle Class in Contemporary China -- Chapter 2 The Origin and Development of Middle Class -- Chapter 3 Who is the Modern Middle Class in China? -- Chapter 4 Analysis of the Status Quo and the Problems of the Middle Class in Contemporary China -- Chapter 5 The Rise of the Middle Class in Contemporary China Looks Promising -- Chapter 6 Valuable Experience Overseas -- Chapter 7 Thoughts and Objectives regarding the Comprehensive Rise of the Middle Class -- Chapter 8 Basic Measures for the Overall Rise of the Middle Class -- Chapter 9 Key Work of the Comprehensive "Xingzhong" (Rise of the Middle Class) at Present N2 - This book portrays the middle class in contemporary China with plain language and precise professional knowledge in an all-round, broad and responsible way from the perspectives of income, property, profession, education, consumption, investment, physiological and behavioral characteristics, history and development. It gives, in a logical order, the reasons for stimulating the rise of the middle class in contemporary China. It emphatically describes what the middle class is and what the middle class in contemporary China looks like. It also analyzes whether the middle class can rise in China and sheds light on the basic thinking, medium and long-term goals, main measures and current work priorities for achieving full rise of the middle class in contemporary China. As China becomes the world's largest economy, the new middle class will be the Chinese people facing the world; as such, this book will be of interest to sociologists, sinologists, political scientists, and economists. UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5099-5 ER -