Social Issues in China Gender, Ethnicity, Labor, and the Environment
Social Issues in China:Gender, Ethnicity, Labor, and the Environment Zhidong Hao and Sheying Chen, editors One of the great ironies of world politics belongs to China. Having carried out a revolution to reform societal ills, it has ended up with
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Zhidong Hao Sheying Chen Editors
Social Issues in China Gender, Ethnicity, Labor, and the Environment
International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice Volume 1
Series Editors Sheying Chen Jason L. Powell
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Zhidong Hao • Sheying Chen Editors
Social Issues in China Gender, Ethnicity, Labor, and the Environment
Editors Zhidong Hao Department of Sociology University of Macau Taipa, Macau
Sheying Chen Pace University New York, NY, USA
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We dedicate this book to those who strive to build a more fair and just China which both the present and future generations, including Longzai and Ting-ting (Hao’s and Chen’s new family members, respectively), will all find inhabitable.
Acknowledgements
Most of these papers on China’s development came from the four panels Zhidong Hao organized at Left Forum held at Pace University in New York in March 2011. The four panels were respectively on gender, ethnicity, labor, and the e
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