East Asian welfare regimes in transition

Autorentext

Alan Walker, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield and Chack-kie Wong, Social Work Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Klappentext

This book explores the Chinese and South-East Asian welfare systems, providing an up-to-date assessment of their character and development. In particular it examines their underlying assumptions and the impact of the processes of globalisation. As well as specific case studies, there is a comparative analysis of Eastern and Western welfare states.

Inhalt

Part One - Introduction - Eastern welfare states - Alan Walker and Chack-kie Wong; Is welfare unAsian? - Ruby C.M. Chau and Wai Kam Yu; Part Two - Social welfare in China - Joe C.B. Leung; Hong Kong - from familistic to confucian welfare - Sammy Wai Chiu and Victor Wong; Managing welfare in post-colonial Hong Kong - Chack Kwan Chan; The welfare regime in Japan - Makoto Kono; Taiwan - what kind of social policy regime? - Michael Hill and Yuan shie Hwang; The development of the South Korean welfare regime - Sang-Hoon Ahn and So-Cheung Lee; The welfare regime in Singapore - Vincent Wijeysingha; Conclusion - Chack-kie Wong and Alan Walker.