Handbook on East Asian social policy

Contents:IntroductionMisa IzuharaPART I: SHAPING WELFARE STATES IN EAST ASIA: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT PATHS1. Pathways of Welfare State Development in East AsiaJohn Hudson and Gyu-Jin Hwang2. Between Western Europe and East Asia: Development of Social Policy in JapanShogo Takegawa3. Social Policy and its Implications to Structural Shifts: A Comparison between Taiwan and Korea in the Colonial EraYu-fang Chang and Yeun-wen Ku4. Past Policies, Current Arrangements: The Enduring Influence of British Colonial Social Policy in Malaysia and Hong KongKevin Caraher5. Shaping Social Policy in the Reform Era in ChinaKinglun NgokPART II: DEMOGRAPHY, ECONOMY AND SOCIAL POLICY6. After the Regional and Global Financial Crises: Social Development Challenges and Social Policy Responses in Hong Kong and MacauKa Ho Mok7. Exploring Social and Generational Equity in the Context of China’s Socio-economic and Demographic TransitionMaggie Lau8. Transitional Generations? The Contrasting Experiences of the 30-Somethings in China and JapanRay Forrest and Misa Izuhara9. The Shaping of Social Policies in Relation to Demographic Ageing in East AsiaKalyani K. Mehta PART III: EAST ASIA AND WELFARE REGIME DEBATES10. Developmentalism and Productivism in East Asian Welfare RegimesYoung Jun Choi11. Ethnocentrism, the Developmental State and East Asian WelfareAlan Walker and Chack-kie Wong12. Social Protection, Governance and the Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in East AsiaPatricia Kennett, Kam Wah Chan and Lucille Lok-Sun Ngan13. Gender and Welfare States in East Asia: Women between Tradition and EqualitySirin Sung PART IV: RESEARCH AND SOCIETY14. Presence of the State: Probing the Middle Class and Civic Organizations in Chinese SocietiesTai-lok Lui and Shuo Liu15. The Role of Philosophy and Ethics in Social Policy and Research: A Case Study of Hong Kong and Other Chinese SocietiesHo Mun Chan16. Challenges and Directions: Building a Comparative Quantitative Dataset for East Asian Social PoliciesChan-ung Park and Dongchul Jung17. Qualitative Research on Family Generations in Changing East Asian SocietiesMisa Izuhara and Ray ForrestPART V: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL POLICY CHALLENGES IN EAST ASIA18. Housing Policy in East AsiaRichard Ronald19. From Apartheid to Semi-citizenship: Chinese Migrant Workers and their Challenge to Social PolicyLinda Wong20. Poverty, the Working Poor and Social Policy in East Asia: Exploring the Second Safety Net Proposal in JapanMasami Iwata21. The Political Economy of Cross-border Higher Education: The Intra-national Flow of Students in Greater ChinaWilliam Yat Wai Lo22. Re-examining Family-centred Care Arrangements in East AsiaJunko Yamashita, Naoko Soma and Raymond K.H. Chan Index