Linda Wong is Associate Professor in the Department of Public and Social Administration at the City University of Hong Kong. She is co-editor with Stewart MacPherson of Social Change and Social Policy in Contemporary China, and has written on social welfare, social insurance, migration and employment issues in China under reform.

• Tables and Figures. Preface. Foreword. 1. Chinese socialism and social welfare 2. The culture of welfare -the pre-revolutionary legacy 3. Social welfare in the first three decades 4. The new welfare challenge 5. Welfare for veterans and peasants 6. Urban Welfare and mutual aid 7. The role of the state 8. Utilitarian Chinese familism 9. The collective canopy 10. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.