Social mobility and stagnation
Social mobility and stagnation
- February 16, 2026
- Samantha Vortherms, political science, LA Review of Books, Feb. 16, 2026
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Reviewed book: Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China (Stanford University Press, 2024) by Samantha A. Vortherms, UC Irvine associate professor of political science. ... The hukou system is the subject of Samantha A. Vortherms’s carefully researched 2024 book Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China. Based on careful assessments of documentary evidence as well as interviews she conducted between 2012 and 2017, with government officials and others, the work sheds light on hukou reforms over the last few decades and what they mean for Chinese citizens.
For the full story, please visit https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/manipulating-authoritarian-citizenship-highest-exam-china-class-education/.
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