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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400839988
035 _a(DE-B1597)453768
035 _a(OCoLC)979578826
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082 0 4 _a305.569095109041
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aChen, Janet Y.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aGuilty of Indigence :
_bThe Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953 /
_cJanet Y. Chen.
250 _aCore Textbook
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2012]
264 4 _c©2012
300 _a1 online resource (320 p.) :
_b14 halftones. 1 table.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tA Note on Conventions --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter 1. Between Charity and Punishment --
_tChapter 2. "Parasites upon Society" --
_tChapter 3. "Living Ghosts" during the Nanjing Decade --
_tChapter 4. Beggars or Refugees? --
_tChapter 5. Keeping Company with Ghosts --
_tEpilogue --
_tNotes --
_tGlossary --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country. Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, Guilty of Indigence examines the solutions implemented by a nation attempting to deal with "society's most fundamental problem." Interweaving analysis of shifting social viewpoints, the evolution of poor relief institutions, and the lived experiences of the urban poor, Janet Chen explores the development of Chinese attitudes toward urban poverty and of policies intended for its alleviation. Chen concentrates on Beijing and Shanghai, two of China's most important cities, and she considers how various interventions carried a lasting influence. The advent of the workhouse, the denigration of the nonworking poor as "social parasites," efforts to police homelessness and vagrancy--all had significant impact on the lives of people struggling to survive. Chen provides a crucially needed historical lens for understanding how beliefs about poverty intersected with shattering historical events, producing new welfare policies and institutions for the benefit of some, but to the detriment of others. Drawing on vast archival material, Guilty of Indigence deepens the historical perspective on poverty in China and reveals critical lessons about a still-pervasive social issue.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
650 0 _aPoverty
_xGovernment policy
_zChina
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aPoverty
_zChina
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aUrban poor
_zChina
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Asia / China.
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653 _aBeijing.
653 _aChina.
653 _aCommunists.
653 _aJapanese penology.
653 _aNanjing Decade.
653 _aNationalist Party.
653 _aNationalist government.
653 _aPeople's Republic.
653 _aRepublican-era China.
653 _aShanghai.
653 _aWorld War II.
653 _aagrarian revolutionaries.
653 _abeggars.
653 _acitizenship.
653 _acoffin repositories.
653 _acustodial detention.
653 _adetention.
653 _agovernment custody.
653 _agovernment institutions.
653 _ahomelessness.
653 _aincarceration.
653 _aindustrial training.
653 _alabor.
653 _anonworking poor.
653 _apoor relief.
653 _apoorhouses.
653 _apoverty policies.
653 _aproductive citizens.
653 _aproductivism.
653 _areforming elites.
653 _arefugee crisis.
653 _arefugees.
653 _arelief agencies.
653 _arelief agenda.
653 _ascientific charity.
653 _asecurity.
653 _ashantytowns.
653 _asocial dislocation.
653 _asocial parasites.
653 _asocialist ideology.
653 _asociology.
653 _astraw huts.
653 _atwentieth-century China.
653 _aurban disorder.
653 _aurban poor.
653 _aurban poverty.
653 _avagrancy.
653 _awar victims.
653 _awork relief.
653 _aworkhouse.
653 _aworkhouses.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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