Social Cohesion in Greater China : Challenges for Social Policy and Governance

by Mok, Ka-Ho; Ku, Yeun-Wen

• ISBN13: 9789814291927
• ISBN10: 9814291927
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-30
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

This book critically examines the issues and challenges social development of faced by societies in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, with particular reference to the major strategies these societies adopt to promote social cohesion and civil harmony in the context of globalization. It focuses on people who have been socially marginalized by the Asian financial crisis in 1997, and examines the measures Greater China has adopted to balance economic growth and social development. The book will be of interest to readers who wish to know more about societies in Mainland China, and the effects of globalization.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: The Quest for a Balanced Economic Growth and Social Development-Ideas and Practices Promoting Social Cohesion in Greater China	p. 1
Concepts of Social Cohesion and Policy Response	p. 41
Social Cohesive Efforts to Meet Youth Development Needs in Tin Shui Wai, Hong Kong	p. 43
In Search of Harmonious Society in China: A Social Policy Response	p. 69
Social Cohesion in a Divided Society: Lessons from Taiwan's Welfare Politics	p. 95
One Country, Two Cities: A Comparison of Perceived Cohesion in Guangzhou and Hong Kong	p. 121
Social Change and Urban Governance	p. 147
Governing a Global City in the Context of Political Transition	p. 149
Embracing the Market: Examining the Consequences for Education, Housing, and Health in Chinese Cities	p. 187
Urban Governance from Below: A Case Study of Kaohsiung, Taiwan	p. 225
Economic well-being, Urban Poverty and Pension Reforms	p. 251
Elderly Poverty and Old-Age Pension Reform in Hong Kong: Issues and Prospects	p. 253
Is Welfare Restructuring and Economic Development in Post-1997 Hong Kong in Search of a Cohesive Society?	p. 287
Economic Development and Household Economic well-being in Urban China	p. 319
The Fragmentation of the Old-Age Security System: The Politics of Pension Reform in Taiwan	p. 339
Index	p. 373
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