"Presenting a comprehensive examination of China's medical care system, this book tackles issues of policymaking, organization, management and financing in the context of the provision of affordable care in China. Making use of extensive field investigations, interviews and a thorough analysis...

Three phases of enterprise autonomy policy, their unintended consequences, and the corresponding policy adjustments from 1978 to 1983 are examined. The relative influence of the past policy coupled with the changing balance between the central and local powers in the policy-making process in the...

This article focuses on the restructuring of the governing apparatus of occupational welfare in the industrial sector within a territorial hierarchy during the reform era. The paper focuses on the transformation to a program-centered provision from a work-unit-centered provision in examining the...