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New perspectives on China and aging / Ian G. Cook and Jason L. Powell, editors. - New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2007. - 160 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Price.70 L

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: New perspectives on China and aging / Ian G. Cook and Jason L. Powell -- Child coresidence among older adults living in Beijing, China: trends, determinants and transitions / Zachary Zimmer ... [et al.] -- Pension reform in China - who are left out? / Bingqin Li -- Grandparents who care for their grandchildren in rural China: benefactors and beneficiaries / Merrill Silverstein, Zhen Cong and Shuzhuo Li -- China and aging in the new century: challenges to research and practice / Sheying Chen and Elaina Y. Chen -- Dynamics of elderly living arrangements in China / Zeng Yi -- Aging and the Chinese welfare state: managing the transition from industrial to post-industrial welfare / Christian Aspalter -- Consumption as freedom? Intergenerational relationships in a changing China / Steven Miles -- The state, trust and aging in China: a neo-foucauldian excursion / Jason L. Powell and Ian G. Cook.

ISBN: 9781600217500 1600217508

LCCN: 2007015954

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Older people--Social conditions.--China
Older people--Economic conditions.--China
Older people--Government policy--China.
Older people--Care--China.
Intergenerational relations--China.
Parent and adult child--China.
Aging--China.

Subjects--Index Terms: Demography. Population studies

LC Class. No.: HQ1064.C6 / N49 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 305.260951

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 314 / 16