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This book includes the latest research works of famous scholars at home and abroad. It made an in-depth discussion to the formation, development, features, social economic status, social political function and corresponding theory of middle class, with the stress on the conceptual definition, development size, the value recognition, social attitude, income and consumption characteristics of middle class. Under the international comparative perspective, scholars both abroad and domestic has researched the similarities and dissimilarities between the middle class in Euramerican developed countries, “Asian four small dragons” and that of emerging economies.