Handbook of welfare in China [electronic resource] / [edited by] Beatriz Carrillo Garcia, Johanna Hood, Paul I. Kadetz.
This Handbook is a timely compilation dedicated to exploring a rare diversity of perspectives and content on the development, successes, reforms and challenges within China's contemporary welfare system. It showcases an extensive introduction and 20 original chapters by leading and emerging are...
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2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: Introduction / Beatriz Carrillo, Johanna Hood and Paul I. Kadetz
- Part I Welfare in the Chinese context: an historical perspective
- 1. Welfare provision in China from late empire to the People's Republic / Thomas David DuBois
- 2. Leprosy welfare: entrenched stigma and policy formation / Shao-hua Liu
- 3. Chinese psychiatric care in historical perspective / Emily Baum
- Part II The Chinese welfare system in reform era China
- 4. The politics of welfare policy: towards social citizenship? / Anthony Saich
- 5. Health inequalities, medical insurances and medical financial assistance / Zhongwei Zhao, Hongbo Jia and Jiaying Zhao
- 6. Housing welfare policies in urban China / Bingqin Li
- 7. The minimum livelihood guarantee: social assistance (just to) stave off starvation / Dorothy J. Solinger
- 8. Geographical stratification and the provision of education in contemporary China / Ye Liu
- 9. The social welfare of ethnic minorities: rationale, impact and outcomes / Reza Hasmath and Andrew W. MacDonald
- Part III Gaps in the welfare system
- 10. Rural-to-urban migrants: access to welfare services and integration into urban life / Juan Chen
- 11. Urban welfare and social justice: individual perspectives of highly-educated rural-to-urban migrants in the city of Guangzhou / Kimiko Suda
- 12. Disability and welfare services / Karen R. Fisher, Xiaoyuan Shang and Megan Blaxland
- 13. Gender, welfare and the economy of care in reform era China: How the welfare system shapes women's opportunities and gender equality / Sarah Cook and Xiao-Yuan Dong
- 14. Ageing in rural China: State, family and gendered care responsibilities / Jieyu Liu
- Part IV Engaging non-State welfare providers domestically and abroad
- 15. Chinese NGOs as welfare providers: challenges and constraints / Jennifer Y.J. Hsu and Reza Hasmath
- 16. Entrepreneurs, celebrities and charitable foundations: elite philanthropy in China / Elaine Jeffreys
- 17. Outsourcing China's welfare: Assessing 'sustainable' Sino-African health diplomacy / Paul I. Kadetz and Johanna Hood
- Part V Future challenges of welfare provision
- 18. Climate, environment and State-society relations in the mobilisation for welfare in China / Ole Bruun
- 19. The impacts of the universal two-child policy and strategies to face the challenges of population ageing / Yi Zeng and Therese Hesketh
- 20. Stemming the tide of demographic transformation through social inclusion: Can universal pension rights help finance an ageing population? / Mark W. Frazier and Yimin Li
- Index.