Gustafsson, Björn; Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna - 2017
This chapter seeks to throw new light on the emergence of the Chinese economic middle class using data from the China … transformed from a pyramid shape, with a majority having rather low income, to a more olive shape, as the middle class emerged …. Defining "middle class" as having an income high enough not to be regarded as poor but also low enough not to be regarded as …