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.

Through a detailed qualitative analysis of localized welfare practices, Chan examines the continued significance of lineage membership to the economic security and welfare of Hong Kong’s lineage villages. ... A Localized Culture of Welfare presents a rich ethnography with a series of stories of the lived experiences and everyday practices of welfare provision by various Pang families and their individual members. Chan’s case study offers an example of the ways in which rural and ethnic minority communities in both Hong Kong and China may respond to the gradual retrenchment of the state from welfare provision. This book will be of interest to anthropology students with a focus on Hong Kong and China’s changing sociocultural practices of lineage support, as well as to those examining localized practices of welfare provision.

• 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 SecurityConclusion 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.

Through a detailed qualitative analysis of localized welfare practices, Chan examines the continued significance of lineage membership to the economic security and welfare of Hong Kong’s lineage villages. ... A Localized Culture of Welfare presents a rich ethnography with a series of stories of the lived experiences and everyday practices of welfare provision by various Pang families and their individual members. Chan’s case study offers an example of the ways in which rural and ethnic minority communities in both Hong Kong and China may respond to the gradual retrenchment of the state from welfare provision. This book will be of interest to anthropology students with a focus on Hong Kong and China’s changing sociocultural practices of lineage support, as well as to those examining localized practices of welfare provision.

• 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 SecurityConclusion 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.

Through a detailed qualitative analysis of localized welfare practices, Chan examines the continued significance of lineage membership to the economic security and welfare of Hong Kong’s lineage villages. ... A Localized Culture of Welfare presents a rich ethnography with a series of stories of the lived experiences and everyday practices of welfare provision by various Pang families and their individual members. Chan’s case study offers an example of the ways in which rural and ethnic minority communities in both Hong Kong and China may respond to the gradual retrenchment of the state from welfare provision. This book will be of interest to anthropology students with a focus on Hong Kong and China’s changing sociocultural practices of lineage support, as well as to those examining localized practices of welfare provision.

• 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 SecurityConclusion Methodological Appendix