General introduction / LU Xueyi HU Jianguo, YAN Ye XIE Zhengzhong -- The cause of people's welfare, well-being and livelihood / ZHAO Weihua -- Social undertakings / YANG Guihong -- Income distribution / LI Alin -- Urban and rural communities / ZHOU Yan -- Social organizations / CAO Feilian --...

Existing studies on public policy and ethnicity either included only one of the three main non-class cleavages in society - racial (phenotypical), linguistic, religious - or considered them as separate variables. This paper suggests that they should be regarded as different manifestations of one...