Throughout the history of China, there have been many distinct classes; although complex relationships existed amongst different classes, there has always been a defined hierarchy that separates each class from the others. In dynastic China, although the possibility existed, rarely did masses of people change classes or interact with those of a higher class on a regular basis. Only in modern times, with the help of contemporary film and literature, along with communist influence, and several revolutions has this system been able to change as much as it has. In recent years, the lightening of political censorship in China, along with the releases of new literature, some of which concentrates directly on the subject of socialism's classless society, more and more people have awakened to the class distinctions and relationships and their affect on the rising amount of capitalistic attributes of the society that exist in present day China.…
