This paper analyses past developments and future challenges of welfare state systems in Japan and China, comparing the two countries history in constructing and adapting their welfare state systems. The paper uses the concept of welfare state systems to better reflect particularistic features of...

This study examines the nature and variations of welfare state systems in Northeast Asia, taking the examples of Japan, South Korea and Mainland China. While parting from the very popular and dominating classification of welfare states of Esping-Andersen, this article proposes the existence of...

The study of social development in China is yet to emerge from the backwaters of international development studies. While China as a whole is highly integrated and understood in the body of international research, the differences between rural, semi-urban, urban areas, and importantly the...