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1. The Chinese State's Retreat from Health

   Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment

   By Jane Duckett

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   Over the post-Mao period, the Chinese state has radically cut back its role in funding health services and insuring its citizens against the costs of ill health. Using an analytical framework drawn from studies of state retrenchment in industrialized democracies and in post-communist Eastern Europe...

   To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. China's Changing Welfare Mix

   Local Perspectives

   Edited by Beatriz Carrillo, Jane Duckett

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   This book draws attention to two neglected areas in the growing body of research on welfare in China: subnational variation and the changing mix of state and non-state provision. The contributors to this volume demonstrate the diversity of local welfare provision that lies behind broad national...

   Published June 8th 2011 by Routledge
3. The Entrepreneurial State in China

   Real Estate and Commerce Departments in Reform Era Tianjin

   By Jane Duckett

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   Jane Duckett describes in detail new state business activities in China and explains why they have appeared. Using research on the northern city of Tianjin during the 1990s, she argues that individual departments, within the Chinese state, are involved in the market economy through the...

   Published August 12th 1998 by Routledge