【作者】戴慧思等
【内容提要】
In the course of thirty years of unbroken economic growth China's classstructure has experienced fundamental changes, While workers and peasants were the dominant classes before 1978, the structural and institutional transformation that followed has led to the rise of new social groups, which have subsequently changed the class maps of contemporary China. These new social groups, ranging from private entrepreneurs to professionals and managers in the nonstate sector, often fall into the broad category of middle class.The emergence of a new middle class in contemporary China inspires important questions concerning its social and political impact. Nevertheless, to answer these questions one has to go beyond the general characterizatiun of ther.e differcnt social groups as fine': middle class. Rather，studymg the emerging middle class……