Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: China into the Next Stage of Development 1. Society Must Be Defended: Reform, openness and social policy in China 2. China’s New Stage of DevelopmentPart 2: Social Policy Reform Moving to the Fore 3. Issues and Options for Social Security Reform in China4. China’s Fiscal Expenditure on Social Security since 19785. Healthcare Reform: Where is China heading? 6. How Successful are China’s Public Housing Schemes? 7. China’s Rapid Demographic Transition and its Challenges to Social Security System 8. Political Dynamics of Social Policy Reform in China 9. Developmentalism, Secularism, Nationalism and Essentialism: Current Situation and Challenges of the Ethnic Issue in China Part 3: China's Social Development in a Comparative Perspective 10. The Evolving East Asian Welfare Regimes: The Case of China 11. Singapore’s Social Development Experience: Relevant Lesson for China?

About the Author

Litao Zhao is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.