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| I would also have liked to see distinctions drawn between (a) a powerful political bureaucracy which controls the allocation of the nation's resources; (b) a managerial elite which controls much of production and investment; (c) a capitalist owning class as in the West which can only be removed by revolution and (d) a new social caste that has enriched itself from the depths of petty-commodity production in the period after Mao Zedong. By the sixteenth century, it had emerged as a social caste. We learn that the gifting of sleeves and cloaks frequently transcended the barriers of social caste and even of secular (dress) versus ecclesiastical (altar) display. |
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