Contesting Citizenship in Urban China

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors examined the effects of employment conditions, political affiliation, and regional level of marketization on self-reported symptoms of psychological distress, and found that individuals whose personal conditions expose them more to the risks and uncertainty brought about by market reform such as self-employed workers are more likely to suffer from psychological distress.

TL;DR: Li Rong as discussed by the authors became the first female college student in Zhongshan village, a rural community of Hubei Province in central China, and traveled more than a thousand miles to Huizhou city in Guangdong province to find a white-collar job as a bookkeeper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored how decentralization has affected the equality of social provision for rural-urban migrants in China by taking hukou system reform as a case study.

TL;DR: How the gendered parent–child relations in migrant households in Shanghai have been shifting away from the traditional focus on sons and gradually giving way to pragmatic adjustments and emotional redefinition under the forces of socialist institutions and capitalist markets is demonstrated.