8 The Narrowing Digital Divide: A View from Rural China

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. 1 The Paradoxes of Rural- Urban In e quality in Contemporary China 1
5. I China’s Rural- Urban Gap: Setting the Context
6. 2 Small- Town China: A Historical Perspective on Rural- Urban Relations 29
7. 3 Rural Migrant Workers and China’s Differential Citizenship: A Comparative Institutional Analysis 55
8. II China’s Rural- Urban Income Gap
9. 4 How Large Is China’s Rural- Urban Income Gap? 85
10. 5 Reestimating the Income Gap between Urban and Rural House holds in China 105
11. III The Rural- Urban Gap in Access to Social Resources
12. 6 Rural- Urban Disparities in Access to Primary and Secondary Education under Market Reforms 125
13. 7 Disparities in Health Care and Health Status: The Rural- Urban Gap and Beyond 147
14. 8 The Narrowing Digital Divide: A View from Rural China 166
15. 9 The Impact of Variations in Urban Registration within Cities 188
16. IV The Experience of Being a Migrant in Contemporary China
17. 10 Boundaries of Inequality: Perceptions of Distributive Justice among Urbanities, Migrants, and Peasants 219
18. 11 Rural Prejudice and Gender Discrimination in China’s Urban Job Market 241
19. 12 Gender and Citizenship Inequality: The Story of Two Migrant Women 265
20. 13 Ethnicity, Rurality, and Status: Hukou and the Institutional and Cultural Determinants of Social Status in Tibet 287
21. V Evolving Policy toward Rural Migrants and the Rural- Urban Gap
22. 14 Bringing the City Back In: The Chinese Debate on Rural Problems 311
23. 15 Renovating the Great Floodgate: The Reform of China’s Hukou System 335
24. Notes 367
25. Contributors 443