Classes in Maoist China.

A neo-Marxian class schema is laid out to explain the class boundaries of the hukou institution, danwei institution and cadre position in Maoist China. The core of rural hukou is the bounded lobar power of the peasant—the ownership of the labor power is partially appropriated by the people's communes; the core of danwei as the ownership of organizational assets is the administrative rank of work units; and the core of cadre position is the ownership of skills and authority in the workplaces. According to the ownership of the three assets, an empirical schema with 6 locations—peasant, rural cadre, collective worker, collective cadre, SOE worker and SOE cadre—is used to map the class structure in Maoist China. The Multinomial Logit (MNL) Regression models and a 1996 national survey are used to show the impermeable class boundaries before the economic reform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]