Lee, James, James Midgley, and Yapeng Zhu

0739174568From the Publisher: Social Policy and Change in East Asia is a collection of essays from a group of indigenous East Asian social policy researchers who met bi-annually to discuss social development issues. The book’s focus is the policy responses of respective East Asian government since the 2008 financial tsunami struck the region. Together, the essays in Social Policy and Change in East Asia argue that traditional social policy approach has failed to account for the problem of economic volatility and to devise policy measures that can promote long-term stability. Avoiding a static and Eurocentric approach, the authors of this book seek to unravel the meaning of the social development approach in various policy contexts. This book supports a dynamic understanding of social policy formulation that does not neglect the problem of economic turbulence in policy and planning.

James Lee is professor and head of the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
James Midgley is Harry and Riva Specht Professor and dean emeritus of the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley.
Yapeng Zhu is associate director at the Institute for Social Policy and associate professor in the School of Government, Sun Yat-Sen University.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Change and Social Policy in East Asia
James Midgley, James Lee & Yapeng Zhu
Chapter 1: Economic Turbulence and Social Welfare: Social Policy and Social Development
Perspectives
James Midgley
Chapter 2: Gender, Social Security and Citizenship: Experiences in Four East Asian Cities
Kam-wah Chan, Patricia Kennett & Lucille Lok-sun Ngan
Chapter 3: Risk Governance in Financial Tsunami in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
Raymond Man-hung Ngan
Chapter 4: Financial Crisis and Institutional Response in the Reconstruction of China’s Social
Welfare System – Keqing Han
Chapter 5: Towards Integrated Healthcare for Migrants in Mainland China
Qiaobing Wu & Kai Liu
Chapter 6: Economic Crisis and Housing Policy Development in China
Yapeng Zhu
Chapter 7: Maintaining Power or Maintaining the Law: How Corporate Social Responsibility
with Chinese Characteristics Challenges Traditional Western Model?
Heidi Reed
Chapter 8: The Legitimacy Crisis of the Mandatory Provident Fund Scheme in Hong Kong
Kim-wah Chung
Chapter 9: Housing Policy and Asset Building: Exploring the Role of Home Ownership in
East Asian Social Policy
James Lee