The paradoxes of rural-urban inequality in contemporary China / Martin King Whyte -- Small-town China : a historical perspective on rural-urban relations / Hanchao Lu -- Rural migrant workers and China's differential citizenship : a comparative institutional analysis / Wu Jieh-min -- How large is China's urban-rural income gap? / Terry Sicular ... [et al.] -- Reestimating the income gap between urban and rural households in China / Li Shi and Luo Chuliang -- Rural-urban disparities in access to primary and secondary education under market reforms / Emily Hannum, Meiyan Wang, and Jennifer Adams -- Disparities in health care and health status : the rural-urban gap and beyond / Winnie Yip -- The narrowing digital divide : a view from rural China / Rachel Murphy -- The impact of variations in urban registration within cities / Li Limei and Li Si-ming -- Boundaries of inequality : perceptions of distributive justice among urbanites, migrants, and peasants / Wang Feng -- Rural prejudice and gender discrimination in China's urban job market / Lei Guang and Fanmin Kong -- Gender and citizenship inequality: the story of two migrant women / Arianne Gaetano -- Ethnicity, rurality, and status : Hukou and the institutional and cultural determinants of social status in Tibet / Xiaojiang Hu and Miguel A. Salazar -- Bringing the city back in : the Chinese debate on rural problems / Lei Guang -- Renovating the great floodgate : the reform of China's Hukou system / Fei-ling Wang.