Routledge Research on Social Work, Social Policy and Social Development in Greater China
Class Consciousness Construction of Rural Migrant Children in China: Seeking the Alternative Way Out in Meritocratic Schooling
1st Edition
By Jiaxin Chen
May 27, 2024
The monograph examines the constructive process of class consciousness among rural migrant children in China and how their perceptions of social reality are shaped by their interactions within family, community, and school contexts. Using evidence from qualitative investigations conducted in two ...
Disability Identity and Marriage in Rural China
1st Edition
By Jing Yang
March 20, 2019
Based on data collected through in-depth fieldwork observation and interviews in Bai Township, this book examines how women with disabilities in rural Southwest China compensate for their disability identity through marriage. As the first book to theorize the married life of rural-based women with ...
Mobile Communication and Greater China
1st Edition
Edited
By Rodney Wai-chi Chu, Leopoldina Fortunati, Pui-Lam Law, Shanhua Yang
June 16, 2017
This edited volume is the first book-length study focusing entirely on mobile phone use in China. Drawing on examples from a wide range of contemporary situations in China and beyond, the contributors argue that the mobile phone is in fact an important means by which one can understand a rapidly ...
Asset-Building Policies and Innovations in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Sherraden, Li Zou, Ben Hok-bun Ku, Suo Deng, Sibin Wang
May 24, 2017
Asia has long been a testing ground for efforts to augment financial and social security by developing assets that may support individuals and households and contribute to long-term social development. Rapid growth in the number and breadth of asset-based social policies has prompted Asian scholars...
Hong Kong’s Governance Under Chinese Sovereignty: The Failure of the State-Business Alliance after 1997
1st Edition
By Brian C. H. Fong
May 24, 2017
As a hybrid regime, Hong Kong has been governed by a state-business alliance since the colonial era. However, since the handover in 1997, the transformation of Hong Kong’s political and socio-economic environment has eroded the conditions that supported a viable state-business alliance. This ...