Economic transition in China has witnessed (re)centralization of resources from the margin to the core in economic, social and political senses. This book employs a marginalization lens to reveal, delineate and better understand the processes, patterns, trends, multiple dimensions and dynamics of the phenomenon, and the consequences and implications for development and well-being in the country.

Chapter 1 Introduction, Heather XiaoquanZhang, RichardSanders; Part 1 China in Transition; Chapter 2 Marginalisation in the Chinese Countryside, RichardSanders, YangChen, YiyingCao; Chapter 3 Marginalisation of Laid-off State-owned Enterprise Workers in Wuhan, JunTang, MingzhuDong, MarkDuda; Chapter 4 Marginalisation in the Chinese Energy Sector, PhilipAndrews-Speed; Chapter 5 Living and Working at the Margin, LiZhang; Chapter 6 Marginalisation and Health Provision in Transitional China, ZhiqiangFeng; Chapter 7, KaLin; Part 2 Marginalisation in the Era of Globalisation in China; Chapter 8 Globalisation and Marginalisation of Chinese Overseas Contract Workers, BinWu; Chapter 9 The World Trade Organization and Chinese Farmers, John Q.Tian; Chapter 10 China, the World Trade Organization and the End of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, MarkusEberhardt, JohnThoburn; Chapter 11 Conceptualising the Links, Heather XiaoquanZhang; Chapter 12 Spatial and Social Marginalisation of Health in China, Ian G.Cook, Trevor J.B.Dummer; Chapter 13 Civil Society and Marginalisation, KatherineMorton;

'Despite fast growth for three decades, millions of people in China still live in poverty due to rising inequality. This volume, focusing on various aspects of marginalization in Chinese society, is a valuable contribution to existing literature and should be an essential reference for studies on China.' Shujie Yao, University of Nottingham, UK 'China’s extraordinary economic success has had considerable social costs. This interesting edited volume offers in depth accounts of increasing inequality, rural poverty, reduced access to healthcare, the social exclusion of rural migrants and laid off workers and the impacts of globalisation on marginalised groups in China. It makes an important contribution to Chinese poverty studies.' Delia Davin, University of Leeds, UK