Rural Welfare in China

✍ Scribed by Yi Pan (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Series: International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 imperial dynasties, to the socialist planned economy under Mao Zedong, to its recent history in the current market economy. Findings from government and academics explore salient topics such as urban/rural inequity, the situation of migrant workers, change of social security system, the community development of the countryside, and the relationships of rural welfare policy with social structure, cultural background, economic development and political institution. This broad and deep knowledge gives readers the tools necessary for understanding the relationship of China’s unique and nuanced past to its prominent status in the evolving global economy.

Among the book’s topics: <

• Welfare studies in the West and China
  
• Welfare practice in the period of 1840-1949
  
• Creation of the Socialist Welfare System: socialist reformation and construction
  
• The Social Security system in rural China, 1979-1998
  
• Re-collectivized process in welfare and economy
• Welfare’s political contexts: rural grass-roots democracy

With its accessible, up-to-date coverage and holistic approach to its subject, Rural Welfare in China will find a diverse interested audience, including sociologists, political economists, and social policymakers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Rural Social Welfare....Pages 3-15
Welfare Studies in the West and China....Pages 17-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Traditional Welfare: Family and Community the State and Welfare Thoughts....Pages 29-38
Traditional Rural Welfare: the State and Welfare Thoughts....Pages 39-55
Welfare Practice: The Period of 1840–1949....Pages 57-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
The Social Foundation of Welfare: Socialist Reformation and Construction....Pages 77-85
The Contents of Welfare....Pages 87-98
The Dual Welfare Structure....Pages 99-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Social Relief....Pages 111-122
The Social Security System in Rural China....Pages 123-131
Pension Schemes (After 1998)....Pages 133-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Social Administration and Public Governing of Rural Welfare: Rural Community Construction (After 2000)....Pages 151-162
Re-collectivised Process in Welfare and Economy....Pages 163-169
Welfare’s Political Contexts: Rural Grassroot Democracy....Pages 171-187
Conclusion: The Factors of Welfare Model of China....Pages 189-199
Back Matter....Pages 201-223

✦ Subjects

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging;Economic Policy;Political Economy