Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

Related Discourses, Practices, and Institutions in Japan and China

Empirical Studies in Historical Perspective

A Selected Bibliography of Protecting the Weak in East Asia, Past and Present


Social Welfare

Anheier, Helmut K. and Toepler, Stefan (Eds.) (2010), International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, Springer US, New York, NY.

Buck, David D (1982), “Imperially Inspired Philantrophy in the Ch´ing: The Case of Granaries in the Eighteenth Century”, Zhongyang yanjiuyuan jindaishi yanjiusuo jikan, No. 11, pp. 225-250.

Cai Qinyu 蔡勤禹 (2003): Guojia, shehui yu ruoshi qunti: Minguo shiqi de shehui jiuji, (1927-1949) 囯家、社会与弱势群体: 民囯时期的社会救济 (1927-1949) [State, Society and Socially Marginalised Groups: Social Welfare in the Republic of China (1927-1949)], Tianjin renmin chubanshe, Tianjin.

Chen, Janet Y. (2012), Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953, Princeton University Press, Princeton.

Chen Lingyun 陳凌雲 (1937), Xiandai geguo shehui jiuji 現代各國社會救濟 [Social Welfare in Different Modern Countries], Shangwu yinshuguan, Shanghai.

Chi Zihua 池子华 (2001), Zhongguo liumin shi: jindai juan 中国流民史: 近代卷 [A History of Refugees in China: Volume for the Modern Period], Anhui renmin chubanshe; Distributor, Xinhua shudian, Hefei.

Deutsch, Morton (1985), Distributive Justice: A Social-Psychological Perspective, Yale University Press, New Haven.

Ehlers, Maren A. (2013), “Charity Reconstructed: The Transformation of Social Welfare in Rural Japan in the Nineteenth Century”, in Brown, A. R./ Pierce, Justin (eds.) (Ed.), Charities in the Non-Western World: The Development and Regulation of Indigenous and Islamic Charities, Rouledge, London, New York, pp. 88–111.

Estévez-Abe, Margarita (2008), Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan, Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York.

Forrest, Ray and Murie, Alan (Eds.) (1995), Housing and Family Wealth: Comparative International Perspectives, Routledge, London, New York.

Fourie, Carina, Schuppert, Fabian and Wallimann-Helmer, Ivo (2015), Social Equality: On What it Means to Be Equals, Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York.

Gladstone, David (Ed.) (1999), Before Beveridge: Welfare before the Welfare State, Choice in Welfare, no. 47, IEA Health and Welfare Unit, London.

Gloria S. H. Denoon (2010), “Philanthropy and Religion, Buddhism”, in Anheier, H.K. and Toepler, S. (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, Springer US, New York, NY, pp. 1159–1162.

Goodman, Roger, White, Gordon and Kwon, Huck-ju (Eds.) (1998), The East Asian Welfare Model: Welfare Orientalism and the State, ESRC Pacific Asia Programme, Routledge, London, New York.

Hayase, Yukiko (1974), The Career of Gotô Shinpei: Japan's Statesman of Research, 1857 - 1929, Florida State University PhD-thesis.

Hirayama, Yôsuke (2010), “The Role of Home Ownership in Japan’s Aged Society”, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Vol. 25 No. 2, pp. 175–191.

Hirayama, Yôsuke (2012), “Post-Bubble Housing in Japan”, in Smith, S.J. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Oxford, pp. 328–335.

Hirayama, Yôsuke and Hayakawa, Kazuo (1995), “Home Ownership and Family Wealth in Japan”, in Forrest, R. and Murie, A. (Eds.), Housing and Family Wealth: Comparative International Perspectives, Routledge, London, New York, pp. 215–230.

Hirayama, Yôsuke and Ronald, Richard (Eds.) (2007), Housing and Social Transition in Japan, Housing and Society Series, Routledge, London, New York.

Iwata, Masami (2007), “Social Exclusion and Homelessness”, in Hirayama, Y. and Ronald, R. (Eds.), Housing and Social Transition in Japan, Housing and Society Series, Routledge, London, New York, pp. 140–164.

Iwata, Masami and Nishizawa, Akihiko (Eds.) (2008), Poverty and Social Welfare in Japan, Japanese Society Series, Trans Pacific Press; Distributors, USA and Canada International Specialized Book Services, Melbourne, Portland, Or.

Jordan, Jason (2014), “Religion and Inequality: the Lasting Impact of Religious Traditions and Institutions on Welfare State Development”, European Political Science Review, pp. 1–24.

Kasza, Gregory J. (2006), One World of Welfare: Japan in Comparative Perspective, Cornell Studies in Political Economy, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y.

Kinzley, W. D. (1988), “Japan's Discovery of Poverty: Changing Views of Poverty and Social Welfare in the Nineteenth Century”, Journal of Asian History, No. 22:1, pp. 1–24.

Krämer, Hans M. (2013), “Historical Origins of a Welfare-State Regime: Unemployment Protection in Japan, 1919-1949”, Social Science Japan Journal, Vol. 16 No. 1, pp. 131–153.

Kreis, Hannah (2013), Das Wirtschaftsdenken in Japan: Eine Studie zur japanischen Rezeption europäischer Wirtschaftstheorien im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert, Metropolis-Verl., Marburg.

Li Rui 李瑞 (2009), “Jianguo qian Zhongguo shehui fuli sixiang fazhan gaishu” 建國前中國社會福利思想發展概述 [An Overview of the Development of Pre-1949 Social Welfare Thinking in China], Tianfu xinlun, No. 3, pp. 137–139.

Lin, Alfred H. (2004), “Warlord, Social Welfare and Philanthropy. The Case of Guangzhou under Chen Jitang, 1929-1936”, Modern China, Vol. 30 No. No. 2, pp. 151–198.

Liu Xiuhong 劉秀紅 (2013), Nanjing minguo zhengfu shiqi laogong shehui baozhang zhidu yanjiu (1927-1937) 南京民國政府時期勞工社會保障制度研究(1927-1937)[Research on the Social Security System during the Nanjing Period of the Chinese Republic (1927-1937)], Yangzhou University PhD. Diss.

Ma Tehyun (2012), “A Chinese Beveridge Plan: The Discourse of Social Security and the Post-War Reconstruction of China”,” European Journal of East Asian Studies, No. 11:2, pp. 329–349.

Matsui, Shigenori (2011), The Constitution of Japan: A Contextual Analysis, Hart, Oxford.

Miyamoto Tarô 宮本太郎 (2008), Fukushi seiji: Nihon no seikatsu hoshō to demokurashī 福祉政治 日本の生活保障とデモクラシー [Politics of Welfare - Livelihood Security and Democracy in Japan], Yûhikaku Insight, Yûhikaku, Tokyo.

Nagayoshi, Kikuko and Sato, Yoshimichi (2014), “Who Supports Redistributive Policies in Contemporary Japan? An Integrative Approach to Self-Interest and Trust Models”, International Sociology, Vol. 29 No. 4, pp. 302–323.

Najita, Tetsuo (2009), Ordinary Economies in Japan: A Historical Perspective, 1750-1950, Twentieth-Century Japan, Vol. 18, University of California Press, Berkeley.

Okamoto, Y. and Bretherton, J. (2012), “Homeless People. Single Men in Japan”, in Smith, S.J. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Oxford, pp. 122–126.

Rawls, John (1999), A Theory of Justice, Rev. ed, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Ronald, Richard (2004), “Home Ownership, Ideology and Diversity: Re-Evaluating Concepts of Housing Ideology in the Case of Japan”, Housing, Theory and Society, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 49–64.

Schwentker, Wolfgang (1993), “Fremde Gelehrte. Japanische Nationalökonomen und Sozialreformer im Kaiserreich”, in Aldenhoff, R., Hübinger, G. and Mommsen, W.J. (Eds.), Intellektuelle im Deutschen Kaiserreich, Originalausg, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 172–197.

Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin (1995), “The Development of Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in Germany and Japan”, Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 29 No. 3, pp. 269–293.

Smith, Johanna H. (2009), The Art of Doing Good: Charity in Late Ming China, University of California Press, Berkeley.

Smith, Susan J. (Ed.) (2012), International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Oxford.

Takegawa, Shogo (2010), “Liberal Preferences and Conservative Policies: The Puzzling Size of Japan's Welfare State”, Social Science Japan Journal, Vol. 13 No. 1, pp. 53–67.

Thränhardt, Anna M. (1989), “Historische und konzeptionelle Grundlagen japanischer Sozialpolitik”, NOAG, No. 145-146, pp. 9–27.

Tian Yipeng 田毅鹏 (2001), “Xixue dongjian yu jindai Zhongguo shehui fuli sixiang de boxing” 西學東漸與近代中國社會福利思想的勃興 [The Diffusion of Western Knowledge in China and the Vigurous Growth of Social Welfare Thought], Jilin daxue shehui kexuebao, No. 4, pp. 120–125.

Vincent, A. W. (1999), “The Poor Law Reports of 1909 and the Social Theory of the Charity Organisation Society”, in Gladstone, D. (Ed.), Before Beveridge: Welfare before the Welfare State, Choice in Welfare, IEA Health and Welfare Unit, London, pp. 64–85.

Wang Rong 王榮 (2008), Nanjing guomin zhengfu fulifa yanjiu 南京國民政府福利法研究 [Research on the Welfare Legislation of the Nanjing Government], Nanjing shifan daxue MA-thesis.

Will, Pierre-Etienne (1990), Bureaucracy and Famine in Eighteenth-Century China, Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif.

Will, Pierre-Etienne, Wong, Roy B. and Lee, James Z. (1991), Nourish the People: The State Civilian Granary System in China, 1650-1850, Michigan, Vol. 60, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.