China’s leaders faced a major challenge to provide citizens with acceptable social welfare during the economic transition. They are confronted with building a

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 ce

This book offers an authoritative and in-depth analysis of the social and economic changes that have swept through the Chinese countryside in the last twenty ye

Since the late 1970s, China has experienced the most rapid social and economic changes in world history. Over 200 million rural inhabitants were lifted out of a

China's leaders are confronted with building a new support system in the countryside, shifting the burden in urban China from the factory to the local state, an