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Urban Life In Contemporary China by Whyte, Martin King, Parish, William L. is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Urban Life In Contemporary China about?
Through interviews with city residents, Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish provide a unique survey of urban life in the last decade of Mao Zedong's rule. They conclude that changes in society produced under communism were truly revolutionary and that, in the decade under scrutiny, the Chinese avoided ostensibly universal evils of urbanism with considerable success. At the same time, however, they find that this successful effort spawned new and equally serious urban problems—bureaucratic ri
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Whyte, Martin King, Parish, William L.
- Publisher
- THE UNIVERSIRY OF CHICAGO PRESS
- Published
- 1984
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226895499
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Sociology, Social Science, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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