Carolyn L. Hsu, Creating Market Socialism: How ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China

The authorities and the governing elite are not the only agents to have a hand in shaping the emergent institutional and moral order in China. Although the one-party state took the initiative in dismantling socialist institutions, it does not act the part of an autonomous divinity; in all its diversity, society itself participates in building new institutions and value systems. These are the basic arguments underlying Carolyn L. Hsu’s work. The outcome of her postgraduate research, it is one ..