An online gathering of students, faculty and other members of the CSSW community ushered in the Year of the Ox with joy and hope.
The Columbia China Center for Social Policy continues its 2020-2021 lecture series on “Chinese Social Policy from Comparative Perspectives” with six lectures from multidisciplinary backgrounds in spring 2021. The lecture series is co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and offered online via Zoom Webinar. All lectures are free and open to the public.
Racial discrimination against people of Chinese and other Asian ethnicities has risen sharply in number and severity globally amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In a new publication in the journal International Social Work, Qin Gao and Xiaofang Liu review the prevalence and consequences of anti-Asian racial discrimination during COVID-19 and call for action in practice, policy, and research to stand against it.
The Columbia China Center for Social Policy and Fordham Research Consortium on Disability held a multidisciplinary and international Social Policy and Disability Symposium on November 12-13, 2020.
Prompted by the pandemic, Professor Jinyu Liu produced a bilingual guide for Chinese seniors with dementia.
An expert on poverty in China and Asia, Professor Qin Gao is the first social work scholar to join this prestigious academic committee, which crafts University-wide responses to global challenges.
China’s health care system has undergone dramatic changes in recent decades: On October 14, 2020, Xian Huang, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, gave a talk on her new book - “Social Protection under Authoritarianism: Health Politics and Policy in China” (Oxford University Press, 2020).
China’s rapid growth has relied heavily on unskilled labor. On November 2, 2020, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations hosted a conversation between Scott Rozelle and Qin Gao on the implications of China’s rural human capital crisis for the future of China and the world.
With expanded fiscal capacity and rising concerns over economic inequality, the Chinese government in the last decade and a half has vastly rebuilt and expanded its social welfare regime. In a public lecture on October 7, 2020, Wang Feng, Professor of Sociology at UC Irvine, examined the distribution of public transfers in education, health care and pension across generations and income groups in China.
What happens during a strict lockdown of a megacity of 22 million residents for two months? Isolation, anxiety, fear, and depression for many. But thanks to an innovative Internet-based social work intervention, some also found solace and hope.
How does gender-based discrimination play out in the workplace? What are the overt and covert forms of gender discrimination existing in the Chinese and Western societies? What have been done and what more need to be done to address this profound inequality that has held generations of women back in gaining independence and equal rights?