Introduction: Class, Stratification, Market Socialism, David S G Goodman  1. Class in Themselves and Classes for Themselves: Social Consciousness Divorced from Social Existence  2. Class and Social Mobility: Stratification and Social Change since 1978  3. The Performance of Class: Lifestyles and Behaviour  4. The Peasant Class under the Impact of Industrialisation, Urbanisation, and Household Registration  5. Economic Growth and Working Class Decline: Structural reform and social change after 1978  6. The Middle Class in Reforming China: The dream of a classless society  7. The Dominant Class after 1978: Elite Persistence and the Ironies of Social Change