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Author Chan, Cecilia L. W

Title The myth of neighbourhood mutual help : the contemporary Chinese community-based welfare system in Guangzhou / Cecilia L.W. Chan
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : illustrations
Contents List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface; Introduction; Ch. 1. Neighbourhood Administration in Traditional and Contemporary China; Ch. 2. Community Service Policy; Ch. 3. Organization and Structure of the Community-Based Welfare Network; Ch. 4. Beijing and Yuelong Jiedao -- Two Typical Street Offices; Ch. 5. Community Service Outputs; Ch. 6. Recipients of Community Welfare Services; Ch. 7. Neighbourhood Mobilization of Human Resources; Ch. 8. The Determinants of Welfare Service Delivery; Conclusion; Appendix One: The Urban Welfare Delivery System of the PRC
Summary This book describes the traditional Chinese neighbourhood structures at different historical periods and discovered that the neighourhood structures were tightly knitted more for the purpose of control than for welfare protection of the people
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-26) and index
Notes Print version record
In Digital Editions from Hong Kong University Press
Subject Human services -- China -- Guangzhou
Neighborhood government -- China -- Guangzhou
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Human services
Neighborhood government
Social conditions
Nachbarschaftshilfe
SUBJECT Guangzhou (China) -- Social conditions
Subject China -- Guangzhou
Kanton Stadt
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789882202269
9882202268
9789622093379
962209337X
Other Titles Contemporary Chinese community-based welfare system in Guangzhou