aspects of inequality by applying decomposition analysis on a new set of prefecture-level data from 1993, 1998 and 2003. The … the relative impact of pure spatial factors on total inequality as compared to the impact of the distinction between the … rural and the urban sectors. We can show that trends in inequality differ across macro-regions, with individual provinces …

investigate the relative roles of inter- and intra-regional factors of total inequality. Main results include: There is a strong … inequality continues to be much lower and more uniform than rural inequality, however, with increasing urban inequality in the … coastal areas; there is a clear trend towards greater inter- and intra-regional inequality which is driven by rural …

impact of different levels of spatial aggregation on the assessment of regional disparities in China. We analyze the …

phenomenon of localism in China, which I relate to other cultural phenomena, in particular networks, culturalism and modernism …