Post-handover Hong Kong was rocked by a series of citizenship battles, especially in terms
of struggles for the right of abode. The right of abode movement was central to the social life …

This article narrates the development of social work practice in Hong Kong during the last
more than half a century. As in other British colonies, social work was first known as a …

In the 1970s, as the now compact, mature economies in East and Southeast Asia were
industrializing, their governments had claimed that they saw no need for the kind of welfare …

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 …

The last decade of the twentieth century has seen a thriving interest in the economic
successes of four East Asian economies: namely, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, and …

This paper aims to provide a rendition of the care ethic in Confucian philosophy and to
argue that social policy developments in Hong Kong society, including health care policy …

Hong Kong has undergone rapid and substantial social, economic, political and
demographic changes since the 1970s. This book examines critically the real impact of …

An historically significant transfer of land from one country to another occurred on 1 July
1997, with the handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China. At that time, Hong …

在一九五○ 年代的中國人戰亂時期背景下, 同時也蘊育了臺灣與香港專業的社會福利工作的
發展; 之後臺灣與香港的社會工作專業發展歷程均是經二手擴散及本土化的過程 …

This article presents and analyses the background to the resistance of many frontline
welfare practitioners against the recent introduction of reforms to the welfare management …