Wanning Sun is Professor of Chinese Media and Cultural Studies in the China Research Centre at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.Yingjie Guo is Associate Professor in Chinese Studies at University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.

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• Introduction 1. Political power and social inequality: the impact of the state 2. Inequality and culture: a new pathway to understanding social inequality 3. Between social justice and social order: the framing of inequality 4. Temporality as trope in delineating inequality: progress for the prosperous, time warp for the poor 5. Uneven development and the time/space economy 6. The great divide: institutionalized inequality in market socialism 7. Education and inequality: education and equality 8. (In)equality under the law in China today 9. Between entitlement and stigmatization: the lessons of HIV/AIDS for China’s medical reform 10. Grassroots activism: non-normative sexual politics in post-socialist China 11. Gender as a categorical source of property inequality in urbanizing China 12. Law of the land or land law? notions of inequality and inequity in rural Anhui 13. Conclusion: What’s wrong with inequality: power, culture and opportunity

Wanning Sun is Professor of Chinese Media and Cultural Studies in the China Research Centre at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.Yingjie Guo is Associate Professor in Chinese Studies at University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.

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• Introduction 1. Political power and social inequality: the impact of the state 2. Inequality and culture: a new pathway to understanding social inequality 3. Between social justice and social order: the framing of inequality 4. Temporality as trope in delineating inequality: progress for the prosperous, time warp for the poor 5. Uneven development and the time/space economy 6. The great divide: institutionalized inequality in market socialism 7. Education and inequality: education and equality 8. (In)equality under the law in China today 9. Between entitlement and stigmatization: the lessons of HIV/AIDS for China’s medical reform 10. Grassroots activism: non-normative sexual politics in post-socialist China 11. Gender as a categorical source of property inequality in urbanizing China 12. Law of the land or land law? notions of inequality and inequity in rural Anhui 13. Conclusion: What’s wrong with inequality: power, culture and opportunity