Socioterritorial Fractures in China: The Unachievable “Harmonious Society”?
Résumé
This article offers an inventory of the social and territorial fractures in Hu Jintao’s China. It shows the unarguable but ambiguous emergence of a middle class, the successes and failures in the battle against poverty and the spectacular enrichment of a wealthy few. It asks whether the Confucian ideal of a “harmonious society,” which the authorities have been promoting since the early 2000s, is compatible with a market economy. With an eye to the future, it outlines two possible scenarios on how socioterritorial fractures in China may evolve.
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Guillaume Giroir, « Socioterritorial Fractures in China: The Unachievable “Harmonious Society”? », China perspectives, n°2007/3, 2007, [En ligne], mis en ligne le 9 avril 2008. URL : http://chinaperspectives.revues.org/document2073.html. Consulté le 11 octobre 2008.