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Growing class division in China is examined, focusing on the residential housing market in Beijing. The city's urban affluent are beginning to take advantage of more opulent home choices, such as single-family detached villas, demonstrating the emergence of consumption patterns similar to those of middle-class Western populations.

The issues of ethnic and racial segregation are examined by considering the factors that produce segregation, the measurement, categorization and meanings of segregation and the consequences of segregation. The meaning of segregation and the way it relates to the values, both negative and positive, are determined to find out the general implications of segregation.

Research in ethnic segregation is a progress report dealing with segregation research in geography. The overview of segregation is divided into factors that produce it, the varied meanings ascribed to it, and the manifold consequences of group separation.