Is popular anger about rising inequality propelling China toward a" social volcano" of protest
activity and instability that could challenge Chinese Communist Party rule? Many inside …

Through interviews with city residents, Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish provide a
unique survey of urban life in the last decade of Mao Zedong's rule. They conclude that …

… MARTIN King Whyte is associate professor of sociology and associate of the Center for …
coding and initial analysis of our data, while Martin Kong and Cheng-hung Chang helped track …

Perhaps the central problem in the social sciences is the riddle of economic development:
Why do some countries, groups, and individuals prosper economically while others do not? …

How does the status of women in different cultures actually compare with that of men? How
does this position vary from one realm—religious, political, economic, domestic, or sexual—…

The paradoxes of rural-urban inequality in contemporary China/Martin King Whyte--Small-town
China: a historical perspective on rural-urban relations/Hanchao Lu--Rural migrant …

Data from a probability sample of 586 ever-married women in Chengdu, Sichuan, in the
People's Republic of China, are used to examine the transition from arranged to free-choice …

The association of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with an increased risk of
venous thromboembolism (VTE) has resulted in specific guidelines for its prevention and …

In early 1924, in his lectures on the Three Principles of the People, Sun Yat-sen criticized
Chinese society as a" sheet of loose sand": The Chinese people have shown the greatest …

This book examines the American system of dating, mate choice, and marriage. It analyzes
a wide range of established ideas about how dating and mate choice are changing, and …