Hong Kong social policy & Chinese welfare ideologies -- Co-optive politics & welfare constraints -- Legitimacy & Chinese welfare ideologies -- Traditional Chinese welfare ideologies -- Social security & Chinese welfare ideologies before 1945 -- Social security & Chinese welfare ideologies: 1945-1967 -- Social security & Chinese welfare ideologies: 1968-1997 -- Postcolonial polity & welfare approach -- Postcolonial social security & Chinese welfare ideologies -- Chinese welfare ideologies & Hong Kong's capitalism.
Summary
Social Security Policy in Hong Kong: From British Colony to Special Administrative Region of China, by Chak Kwan Chan, is the first book which systematically examines Hong Kong's social security policies across a period of 170 years. In particular, Chan analyses how Hong Kong, the world's freest economy, has maintained its small government by manipulating Chinese welfare ideologies.
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