Chapter from: 'Rising Inequality in China: Challenge to a Harmonious Society', edited by Shi Li, Hiroshi Sato and Terry …

Chapter from: 'Rising Inequality in China: Challenge to a Harmonious Society', edited by Shi Li, Hiroshi Sato and Terry …

This chapter seeks to throw new light on the emergence of the Chinese economic middle class using data from the China … Household Income Project from 2002, 2007, and 2013. We find that between 2002 and 2013 China's income distribution was … rich if living in a high-income country, we find that the share of China's population that was middle class was extremely …

This chapter investigates how household income, income inequality, and poverty among urban residents in China have … developed since 1988, with an emphasis on the period from 2007 to 2013. We use data from the China Household Income Project …, household incomes in urban China were growing by an average of 7 percent per annum. However, unlike during previous periods …