Social Development and Social Changes in China - From 1949 to 2019

From a sociological perspective, this book explores issues related to population mobility, family pensions, and the lives of workers and peasants during the 70 years of urbanization since the founding of New China from the perspectives of population, pension security, employment structure transformation, and social insurance systems, thus exploring the deep logic behind China's successful experience. The relevant issues studied in this book are a systematic summary of the experiences and lessons learned from social reforms since the founding of the country and also provide guidance for the future direction of social development and change.

List of contents

Population transformation.- Population Flow and Social changes.- The change of social representation of rural floating population.- Population aging and old-age security.- Employment structure transformation.- The evolution of China's social security system.- Changes in the production and life of farmers.- The changes of working class composition.- Social changes at the grass-roots level.- The change and development of Social organizations.

Product details

• Authors: Yi Zhang
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.04.2025
• EAN: 9789819711864
• ISBN: 978-981-9711-86-4
• No. of pages: 235
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 14 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 388 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 235 p. 43 illus.
• Series: Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China's Development Path
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries