Social Welfare in Transitional China

At a time of significant transformations in Chinese society, this book addresses the key issue of social welfare and the reform of the welfare system in 21st century China. Considering both the theory and policy making across a variety of welfare issues which directly impact on the country’s economi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Han, Keqing
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Palgrave Macmillan 2020, 2020
Edition:1st ed. 2020
Series:Sociology, Media and Journalism in China
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Part I Central Concepts
  • Introduction
  • China’s social transition and social welfare reform
  • Impact of economic globalization on China’s social welfare policy
  • Financial crisis and institutional countermeasures amid China’s social welfare reconstruction
  • Social stratification objectives of China’s welfare construction
  • Civil society and China’s social welfare reform
  • Social quality theory and its enlightenment to China’s welfare reform
  • “Third Way” theory and Chinese way of welfare reform
  • Part II China’s welfare system
  • Development of China’s elderly welfare in the transitional period
  • Development of welfare for the Chinese disabled in the transitional period
  • Changes on children’s palace and fulfillment of child welfare in China
  • Welfare reconstruction for the urban poor: taking the subsistence security system as an example
  • Social mobility and urban inclusion of migrant workers