Introduction

Six years after sociology was reinstitutionalized in the People's Republic of China, we find the study of social problems becoming a major focus of current social research on the mainland. Several ideological and methodological issues related to the perception and analysis of social problems in socialist China were discussed in the preceding volume of Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, which included seven selections—empirical research reports on migration, beggary, urban population growth, traffic congestion, and the role of housekeepers. Most of the articles were written by researchers in Shanghai and dealt with problems in their city, China's largest and most densely populated urban center

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