Nelson Chow: 2 books
Socialist Welfare in a Market Economy: Social Security Reforms in Guangzhou, China
Social Security Reforms in Guangzhou, China
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This title was first published in 2001. Using the city of Guangzhou as a case study, this text looks at how China has adopted a market economy, whilst still maintaining state-owned enterprises and an all-embracing social security system which protects the majority of Chinese workers. This volume examines...
Dancing with the Dead
Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. Nelson explores the work of a circle of Okinawan storytellers, ethnographers, musicians, and...