Urban Life in Contemporary China(English, Paperback, Whyte Martin King)

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Urban Life in Contemporary China(English, Paperback, Whyte Martin King) is written by Whyte Martin King and published by The University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226895491 (ISBN 10) and 9780226895499 (ISBN 13).

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 rigidity, low production, and more.