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The story of China's spectacular economic growth is well known. Less well known is the country's equally dramatic, though not always equally successful, social policy transition. Between the mid- 1990s and mid-2000s---the focal period for this book---China's central government went a long way toward consolidating the social policy framework that had gradually emerged in piecemeal fashion during the initial phases of economic liberalization. Major policy decisions during the focal period included adopting a single national pension plan for urban areas, standardizing unemployment insurance, (re)establishing nationwide rural health care coverage, opening urban education systems to children of rural migrants, introducing trilingual education policies in ethnic minority regions, expanding college enrolment, addressing the challenge of HIV/AIDS more comprehensively, and equalizing social welfare spending across provinces, among others. Unresolved is the direction of policy in the face of longer-term industrial and demographic trends---and the possibility of a chronically weak global economy. Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition offers scholars, practitioners, students, and policymakers a foundation from which to explore those issues based on a composite snapshot of Chinese social policy at its point of greatest maturation prior to the 2007 global crisis.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition ; Karen Baehler and Douglas J. Besharov ; Chapter 2. Welfare Regimes in the Wake of State Socialism: China and Vietnam ; Jonathan London ; Chapter 3. Social Benefits and Income Inequality in Post-Socialist China and Vietnam ; Qin Gao, Martin Evans, and Irwin Garfinkel ; Chapter 4. Social Security Policy in the Context of Evolving Employment Policy ; Barry Friedman ; Chapter 5. Urban Social Insurance Provision: Regional and Workplace Variations ; Juan Chen and Mary Gallagher ; Chapter 6. Health and Rural Cooperative Medical Insurance ; Song Gao and Xiangyi Meng ; Chapter 7. The Quest for Welfare Spending Equalization: A Fiscal Federalism Perspective ; Xin Zhang ; Chapter 8. Financing Migrant Child Education ; Jing Guo ; Chapter 9. Labor Migration, Citizenship, and Social Welfare in China and India ; Josephine Smart, Reeta Tremblay, and Mostaem Billah ; Chapter 10. Ethnic Minorities and Trilingual Education Policies ; Bob Adamson, Feng Anwei, Liu Quanguo, and Li Qian, ; Chapter 11. Danwei, Family Ties, and Residential Mobility of Urban Elderly in Beijing ; Zhilin Liu and Yanwei Chai ; Chapter 12. Marriage, Parenthood, and Labor Outcomes for Women and Men ; Yuping Zhang and Emily Hannum ; Chapter 13. Implications of the College Expansion Policy for Social Stratification ; Wei-Jun Jean Yeung ; Chapter 14. The Evolving Response to HIV/AIDS ; Zunyou Wu, Sheena G. Sullivan, Yu Wang, Mary Jane Rotheram,and Roger Detels ; Index
