Sullivan_Inequality and Ethnicity in Reform Era China

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1、InequalityinReformEraChina:TheEthnicQuestionChristopherSullivanDepartmentsofSociologyandDemographyUniversityofCalifornia,BerkeleyPaperpreparedforthePopulationAssociationofAmerica’sAnnualConference,SessiononChineseInequalityApril2006,LosAngeles,CAAbstractScho

2、larlyworksoninequalityinChinatendtofocusonregionalinequality,whilestudiesofethnicinequalityreceivefarlessattention.ThefewdirectstudiesofethnicinequalityinChinafailtoreachaconsensusoverwhetherethnicinequalityislargelytheresultofethnicity,oraconsequenceofwell-

3、documentedregionalinequalities.Thisstudyanalyzeswhetherethnicinequalityistheresultofethnicityperse,oracombinationofotherfactors,particularlyregionofresidence.DrawingontwomodelsfromMichaelHechter’sInternalColonialism,Iexaminethecomplexrelationshipbetweenethni

4、cityandregionalinequalitiesinChinausingdataattheindividuallevel.WhileatfirstglancetheremaybeinequalitybetweentheHanandnon-Hanamongseveralindicatorsofinequality:totalfamilyincome,occupation,commodityownershipandattitudes,usingnationalsurveydatafrom1996Ishowth

5、atsuchdifferencescanbetterbeexplainedthroughregionalinequalitiesandsocio-economicindicators.Pleasedirectcorrespondenceto:ChristopherSullivan,DepartmentofSociology,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,Berkeley,CA94720-1980.E-mail:cbsully@berkeley.eduPleasedirectco

6、rrespondenceto:ChristopherSullivan,DepartmentofSociology,410BarrowsHall,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,BerkeleyCA94720-1980;e-mail:cbsully@berkeley.edu.InequalityinReformEraChina:TheEthnicQuestionIntroductionTheprocessofnationaleconomicdevelopmentincreasing

7、lygeneratesinequalitieswithinnations.Whilerural-urbanandregionalinequalitiescontinuetowideninmanycountries,internaldivisionsalongethniclinesarelesswellunderstood.Historicallyandinthepresent,ethnicinequalitieshavegrownalongsideregionalinequalitiesinmanynation

8、s.Aresuchethnicinequalitiestheresultofethnicdiscrimination,byproductsofregionalinequality,orsomecombinationoftheseandotherfactors?Oneprominentapproachtoanalyzingethnicinequalitieswithintheglobal