China's changing welfare mix : local perspectives / / edited by Beatriz Carrillo and Jane Duckett

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461371003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-34037-2; 1-136-83868-6; 9786613340375; 0-203-83277-9
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (275 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies on China in transition ; ; 37
• Disciplina: 361.951
• Soggetti: Public welfare - China; Electronic books.; China Social policy; China Economic policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; China's Changing Welfare Mix; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Glossary of Chinese terms; Map of the provincial-level administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China; 1. China's changing welfare mix: introducing the local perspective: Jane Duckett and Beatriz Carrillo; 2. Central-local relations in social policy and the development of urban and rural social assistance programmes: Xinping Guan and Bing Xu; 3. Dibaohu in distress: the meagre minimum livelihood guarantee system in Wuhan: Dorothy J. Solinger; 4. Local variation in urban social assistance: community public service agencies in Dalian: Daniel R. Hammond5. Life goes on: redundant women workers in Nanjing: Jieyu Liu; 6. 'If you can walk and eat, you don't go to hospital': the quest for healthcare in rural Sichuan: Anna Lora-Wainwright; 7. Regional disparities and educational inequalities: city responses and coping strategies: Ka Ho Mok and Yu Cheung Wong; 8. Life considerations and the housing of rural to urban migrants: the case of Taiyuan: Bingqin Li and Mark Duda; 9. Older people and the (un)caring state in 'China's Manhattan': Anna Boermel10. Support for the social participation of children and young people with disability in China: a Jiangxi county case study: Karen R. Fisher, Xiaoyuan Shang andJiawen Xie; 11. Global discourses, national policies, local outcomes: reflections on China's welfare reforms: Sarah Cook; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book draws attention to two neglected areas in the growing body of research on welfare in China: subnational variation and the changing mix of state and non-state provision. The contributors to this volume demonstrate the diversity of local welfare provision that lies behind broad national policies and programmes. Their focus on local diversity is particularly relevant to understanding the welfare system in China because national state programmes are so often organized by local governments in line with the specifics of their economic and social development. At the same time that social and economic development is itself independently creating an array of different conditions that shape non-state (family, business and third sector) welfare roles.Beatriz Carrillo is Lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, AustraliaJane Duckett is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Politics at the University of Glasgow, UKThis book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese society, social policy, and Chinese studies more widely.Through chapters that draw on original research in eight provinces, the book adopts a ‘local’ perspective to illustrate and explain some of the transformations that are under way and discuss not only local government initiatives and programmes, but also the services and support provided by families, informal social networks and community or third sector organizations, as well as those delivered by private businesses on a commercial, for-profit basis.