Economic Reform and Social Welfare: the Chinese perspective portrayed through a social survey in Shanghai.
This article starts with a brief comparative analysis of China and East Europe in terms of their stark differences in approaching economic reform and social welfare. Perhaps China has the benefit of learning, from the 1989 Tiananmen Incident, of the undesirable social costs incurred by economic refo...
| Published in: | Journal of Contemporary China Vol. 10; no. 28; pp. 517 - 533 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2001
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