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  • Services for Aging Persons in China

    Spatial Variations in Supply and Demand

    by Xiaoping Shen, Shangyi Zhou, Xiulan Zhang ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume draws upon one of the first comprehensive studies on the regional variations of services for aging persons in China to provide an empirical and theoretical understanding of the impact of China's rapidly growing aging population on the country's socioeconomic, cultural, and political systems. In three parts, the manuscript combines case-oriented comparative methods with variable ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

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  • Korean Immigrants in Canada

    Perspectives on Migration, Integration, and the Family

    by Samuel Noh, Ann Kim, Marianne Noh ...
    Series series Asian Canadian Studies
    Koreans are one of the fastest-growing visible minority groups in Canada today. However, very few studies of their experiences in Canada or their paths of integration are available to public and academic communities. Korean Immigrants in Canada provides the first scholarly collection of papers on Korean immigrants and their offspring from interdisciplinary, social scientific perspectives.The ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Toxic Politics

    China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State

    by Yanzhong Huang ...
    Environmental degradation in China has not only brought a wider range of diseases and other health consequences than previously understood, it has also taken a heavy toll on Chinese society, the economy, and the legitimacy of the party-state. In Toxic Politics, Yanzhong Huang presents new evidence of China's deepening health crisis and challenges the widespread view that China is winning the war ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Hong Kong's Health System

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Having experienced benign neglect and inertia since the last major set of reforms when all public and subvented hospitals were corporatised in the early 1990s, Hong Kong’s health system now faces another round of consultation about reform. This book provides a significant contribution to the discussions about the future of the system. The evidence-driven content draws from the deep expertise and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Higher Education in Romania: Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Opportunities

    Edited by Adrian Curaj, Jamil Salmi, Cezar Mihai Hâj ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book includes a series of relevant policy research articles, elaborared in the framework of the “Quality in higher education: internationalisation and databases to enhance the Romanian education system” project, implemented by the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI), together with the Ministry of Education. The project ... Read more

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  • Social Unrest and the Poverty Problem in Hong Kong

    Growth Imbalance and Sustainable Development

    by Paul Siu Fai Yip ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses the policy and public health challenges in Hong Kong from the perspective of economic and social welfare challenges, specifically focusing on the poverty and inequality research supported by the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) Charities Trust. Conducted by Prof Yip and his research team at the HKJC’s Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention at the University of Hong Kong across ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Medical Education in East Asia

    Past and Future

    Edited by Lincoln C. Chen, Michael R. Reich, Jennifer Ryan ...
    Series series China Medical Board Centennial Series
    Pivotal to Asia's future will be the robustness of its medical universities. Lessons learned in the past and the challenges facing these schools in the future are outlined in this collection, which offers valuable insights for other medical education systems as well. The populations in these rapidly growing countries rely on healthcare systems that can vigorously respond to the concerns of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China's New Public Health Insurance

    Challenges to Health Reforms and the New Rural Co-operative Medical System

    by Armin Müller ...
    Series series China Policy Series
    Especially since the 2003 SARS crisis, China’s healthcare system has become a growing source of concern, both for citizens and the Chinese government. China’s once praised public health services have deteriorated into a system driven by economic constraints, in which poor people often fail to get access, and middle-income households risk to be dragged into poverty by the rising costs of care. The ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Emergence of a New Urban China

    Insiders' Perspectives

    Edited by Zai Liang, Steven Messner, Cheng Chen, Youqin Huang ...
    This book provides first-hand, insiders’ perspectives on urban issues in China, aiming to provide a theoretically informed and empirically rich discussion of the new social landscape of urban China in the 21st century. The research reported encompasses both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, with the latter based on extensive and in-depth fieldwork. The authors, most of them being native ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Higher Education in Korea

    Tradition and Adaptation

    by Namgi Park, John Weidman ...
    Series series RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
    This definitive collection takes an in-depth look at the higher education system in Korea. The editors and contributors present a fundamentally Korean view of the important issues for the Korean higher education system. In systematic, well written essays, they construct theoretical perspectives to analyze the development of the higher education system in Korea's competitive society, a project ... Read more

    $233.99 USD

  • Mega-City Region Development in China

    Edited by Anthony G.O. Yeh, George C. S. Lin, Fiona F. Yang ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    This book sheds light on the mega-city region development in China as a new form of urbanization which plays a crucial role in the economic development of the country. It examines the challenges faced by the mega-city regions and opens up avenues for debates and further research.Economic reform of 1978 has led to an unprecedented growth in the population and economic development of China. A large ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Welfare, Work, and Poverty

    Social Assistance in China

    by Qin Gao ...
    Series series International Policy Exchange Series
    Welfare, Work, and Poverty provides the first systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts and effectiveness of China's primary social assistance program -- Minimum Livelihood Guarantee, or Dibao -- since its inception in 1993. Dibao serves the dual function of providing a basic safety net for the poor and maintaining social and political stability. Despite currently being the world's ... Read more

    $60.29 USD