Handbook of Welfare in China

Beatriz Carrillo, Johanna Hood, Paul Kadetz (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

464 Seiten

2017
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78347-273-4 (ISBN)

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The book offers novel empirical research and includes topics often not discussed in the literature on welfare in China, including: mental health, highly educated rural-to-urban migrants, NGOs as welfare providers, China’s overseas welfare aid, environmental challenges and welfare, amongst others.

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 area specialists who explore a century of welfare provision from the Nationalist era, up to and concentrating on economic reform and marketisation (1978 to the present).Organised around five key concerns (social security and welfare; emerging issues and actors, including gender issues, NGOs, and philanthropy; gaps; and future challenges, such as population ageing and environmental pressures) chapters draw on original case-based research from diverse disciplines and perspectives, engage existing literature and further key debates. Key historical insights into welfare provision in the Chinese context serve as a starting point with the remaining chapters combining a review of the literature with original case studies. The book offers novel empirical research and includes topics often not discussed in the literature on welfare in China, including: mental health, highly educated rural-to-urban migrants, NGOs as welfare providers, China's overseas welfare aid, environmental challenges and welfare, amongst others.

This comprehensive and multidisciplinary Handbook will be of immense value to researchers and scholars in the fields of China Studies, social policy, the welfare state, politics and related areas. Accessible to a non-specialist audience interested in China's welfare development and welfare states more broadly, it will also serve as a useful resource for undergraduates.

Contributors Include: E. Baum, M. Blaxland, O. Bruun, B. Carrillo, J. Chen, S. Cook, X.-y. Dong, T.D. DuBois, M.W. Frazier, K.R. Fisher, R. Hasmath, T. Hesketh, J. Hood, J.Y.J. Hsu, H. Jia, E. Jeffreys, P.I. Kadetz, B. Li, Y. Li, J. Liu, S.-h. Liu, Y. Liu, A.W. MacDonald, A. Saich, X. Shang, D.J. Solinger, K. Suda, Y. Zeng, J. Zhao, Z. Zhao

Edited by Beatriz Carrillo, University of Sydney, Australia and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China, Johanna Hood, Roskilde University, Denmark and Paul Kadetz, Drew University, US and University College London, UK

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 welfare in historical perspective
Emily Baum

Part II The welfare system in reform era China
4. The politics of welfare policy: towards social citizenship?
Tony Saich

5. Health inequalities, medical insurance and medical financial assistance
Zhongwei Zhao, Hongbo Jia and Jiaying Zhao

6. Housing welfare policies in urban China
Bingqin Li

7. The urban 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: Unpacking the outcomes of ‘sustainable’ self-development in Sino-African health diplomacy
Paul 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

Erscheinungsdatum	12.08.2017
Reihe/Serie	Handbooks of Research on Contemporary China series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78347-273-1 / 1783472731
ISBN-13	978-1-78347-273-4 / 9781783472734
Zustand	Neuware