Gender and Welfare States in East Asia: Confucianism or Gender Equality?

Sung, Sirin; Pascall, Gillian

Contributors address questions about gender equality in a Confucian context across a wide and varied social policy landscape, from Korea and Taiwan, where Confucian culture is deeply embedded, through China, with its transformations from Confucianism to communism and back, to the mixed cultural environments of Hong Kong and Japan.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2014-01-22

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230279087

DOI: 10.1057/9781137314796

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 198