Introduction: Chinese social policy in a time of transition / Karen Baehler and Douglas J. Besharov -- Welfare regimes in the wake of state socialism : China and Vietnam / Jonathan London -- Social benefits and income inequality in post-socialist China and Vietnam / Qin Gao, Martin Evans, and Irwin Garfinkel -- Social security policy in the context of evolving employment policy / Barry Friedman -- Urban social insurance provision : regional and workplace variations / Juan Chen and Mary Gallagher -- Health and rural cooperative medical insurance / Song Gao and Xiangyi Meng -- The quest for welfare spending equalization : a fiscal federalism perspective / Xin Zhang -- Financing migrant child education / Jing Guo -- Labor migration, citizenship, and social welfare in China and India / Josephine Smart, Reeta Tremblay, and Mostaem Billah -- Ethnic minorities and trilingual education policies / Bob Adamson, Feng Anwei, Liu Quanguo, and Li Qian -- Danwei, family ties, and residential mobility of urban elderly in Beijing / Zhilin Liu and Yanwei Chai -- Marriage, parenthood, and labor outcomes for women and men / Yuping Zhang and Emily Hannum -- Implications of the college expansion policy for social stratification / Wei-Jun Jean Yeung -- The evolving response to HIV/AIDs / Zunyou Wu, Sheena G. Sullivan, Yu Wang, Mary Jane Rotheram, and Roger Detels -- Index.