Respect for the individual person and individualism -- Human rights and individual rights -- Freedom from want and freedom of choice -- Equality and respect for differences -- Democracy and the democratic process -- Law and order

"Behind China's growing economic and political power is a vast underworld of marginalized social groups. In this powerful and timely book, Wanning Sun focuses on the country's hundreds of millions of rural migrant workers, who embody China's most intractable problems of inequality. Drawing on...