Rural Welfare in China

This comprehensive reference views China's welfare system through a cultural-historical lens to integrate its complex story into the global study of welfare. Focusing on the mainland's vast, mainly rural population and its long and complicated history, it analyzes rural welfare from the im...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Pan, Yi (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesInternational Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice
Subjects
Social sciences.
Political economy.
Economic policy.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319566276
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-56627-6
Physical DescriptionVIII, 223 p. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to Rural Welfare in China. - Research framework and methodology
  • Welfare concepts and systems
  • Historical studies of the Chinese welfare system
  • Traditional Chinese Rural Welfare
  • Ancient families and communities
  • The state and traditional thoughts
  • Driven by missionary, the republic government, and intellectuals in modern times
  • The Socialist Welfare System under Planned Economy
  • The social foundation of welfare: socialist transformation and construction
  • Contents of welfare: assistance, health, and education
  • Welfare under the dual social and economic structure
  • The Reconstruction and Exploration of Welfare under Market Economy
  • Poverty relief
  • Social security system
  • Old age insurance
  • Welfare Involvements in Political, Economic, and Social Contexts
  • Management and service of welfare: community construction
  • Welfare political economy: grassroots democracy
  • Collectivism and solidarity: re-collectivization of economy and welfare
  • Summary and Conclusion
  • Bibliography.

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