The Myth of Neighbourhood Mutual Help
Subtitle: The Community-Based Urban Welfare System of China
Publisher: Hong Kong Univ Pr; Hong Kong University Press
Published: December 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9789622093379
Subjects: Community care
Description: This book describes the traditional Chinese neighbourhood structures at different historical periods and discovered that the neighourhood structures were tightly knitted more for the purpose of control than for welfare protection of the people.