The Myth of Neighbourhood Mutual Help
The Community-Based Urban Welfare System of China
(鄰里互助的迷思：中國社區為本的城市福利系統)
ISBN : 978-962-209-337-9
November 1993
280 pages, 5.5″ x 8.5″
Paperback
- HK$165.00
This book describes the traditional Chinese neighbourhood structures at different historical periods and discovered that the neighourhood structures were tightly knitted more for the purpose of control than for welfare protection of the people. The transformation into the socialist system has revitalized the neighbourhood network since 1949.