This book presents an ethnographic account of the significance of kinship in welfare matters in Chinese society. It will be a useful reference book and secondary text for anthropologists, sociologists and university students who are interested in Chinese kinship and welfare issues, the relationship between welfare and culture, and the cultures underlying systems of welfare.

Introduction: Welfare and Security, an Anthropological Perspective
Chapter 1: The Pang Lineage
Chapter 2: Living Under Threat? Reactions to Hong Kong's Return to China
Chapter 3: Corporate Resources and Financial Security
Chapter 4: Communal Safety and Protection
Chapter 5: Employment and Care Provisions
Chapter 6: Entitlement and Value: Housing
Chapter 7: Old Age Welfare and Security
Chapter 8: The Religious Pursuit of Welfare and Security
Conclusion
Methodological Appendix

Kwok-shing Chan is an anthropologist. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is currently assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University. His research interests are in kinship, property management and property transfer, and pilgrimage and tourism, in Chinese society. He has published articles in journals such as Visual Anthropology and Modern China.