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Raising Successful Offspring by Chinese Middle-Class Parents
2016
Asian Journal of Social Science
This article analyses the intergenerational mobility of the Chinese "new middle class" in Shanghai, China. Building on the Bourdieusian concept of social capital, it puts forward a sociocultural approach to explaining the reproduction of the middle class in contemporary urban China. It explores why cultural capital and marketable professional qualification are not enough for younger members of this class to secure their class status and upward mobility. It also discusses how and why the
doi:10.1163/15685314-04401010
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