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Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 History of Chinese Sociodemographic Changes -- 1.2 Long-Term Care in the USA and Urban China -- 1.3 Study Purpose and Significance -- 1.4 Outline of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: The Setting: The Nursing Home and Its Sociocultural Context in Urban China -- 2.1 The Nursing Home -- 2.2 Current Nursing Home Care in Urban China -- 2.3 The Social Context Related to Nursing Home Care in Urban China -- 2.4 Research Gaps in Deciding to Institutionalize -- 2.5 Conclusion

This paper argues for Lukacs' lasting significance in the modern world, for his critique of modernity that reveals the irrationality behind the rational notion of progress, specifically, through how human subjectivity is sacrificed in a society dominated by reason.

The COVID-19 crisis of 2020 has harmed the health, lives, and economies of people around the world. The hospitality industry, already vulnerable to external threats, has been severely affected by this crisis. The industry has always been a major employer, providing a significant number of jobs in the global labour market. Part-time and seasonal hospitality work can meet the needs of women, especially those who have children, as it enables them to have time to work and care for their families. Worldwide, most hospitality workers are women, and since the hospitality industry was hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis, women's employment in the hospitality industry is bound to be greatly affected. Compared with previous crises such as the Global Financial Crisis of 2018, the COVID-19 crisis has had a greater impact and was unpredictable in its nature and effects. Therefore, it is important to determine the impact of COVID-19 on the hospitality industry generally, and on women working in the hospitality industry in particular. This study used an interpretivist paradigm to guide the research process. Using a qualitative approach, secondary data collection method was applied to collect data from mass media. A thematic analysis method was used to analyse the data to provide a holistic view of information related to COVID-19's impact on women working in the hospitality industry. The findings of this study revealed that COVID-19's impact changed the hospitality industry. Government's reactions to the COVID-19 crisis had an impact on hospitality businesses and the hospitality workforce. Hospitality employers were affected by Government's reactions and responded to defend their businesses, but hospitality employees had to accept the effects. The COVID-19 crisis changed the characteristics of the hospitality industry. Not only did the hospitality industry lose its status as a significant employer, but hospitality work became more demanding due to COVID-19. In the COVID-19 crisis, problems such as low pay, gender pay gaps and work-family conflict in the hospitality industry were amplified. The requirements for suitable employees to work in the industry also changed, as evidenced by the reduced aesthetic labour requirements. Hospitality career paths may also change due to limited mobility caused by travel restrictions. Furthermore, women working in the hospitality industry were more likely to have reduced job opportunities than were men, and many had to stay at home as primary caregivers during the COVID-19 crisis. Women's confinement at home and men returning to the workforce can arise from social system problems that cannot give women an equal chance to have work and gender-based stereotypes that force women to take the main share of family responsibilities.

This article takes Suzhou Museum as a case to analyze various aspects of its narrative constitution, narrative time, and narrative voice. The analysis reveals that the new museum building tells a story of tradition and modernity, the local and the world, personalization, and customization. The museum's exhibition with "Wu" leading the story of local tradition and historical culture provides resources for the city identity of Suzhou. Visitor's narratives, aided by new media technologies, infiltrate, fuse, and reconstruct the museum narrative. This case study makes clear the following theoretical points. First, by dealing with the relation between narrative time and space, the museum as a medium displays its uniqueness in the city communication system. Second, through visitors' appropriation, production, and reproduction, the museum as a built environment presents its openness, fluidity, and inconsistencies. Third, the constitutive power of new media technologies facilitates the intervention of visitors' subjectivity in the museum narrative and makes the meaning construction of the narrative more interactive. And finally, the communicative practices activated by the narrative construction in the museum as a mediaspace in the city contribute to the liminal experiences that bear traces of both ideological regulation and the city's identity, turning the proposition that "citizens create the city" into a real possibility.

China's housing market attracts widespread attention, not only for its huge profits, but also for its potential harms. In order to cool this overheated market, the Chinese government has enforced a series of regulations and policies that aim to control the housing market. This article discusses these policies from 2003 to 2013 and mainly focuses on limited residential property purchases, tighter mortgage lending requirements and real estate taxation. No matter how much success China has had in regulating housing in the past 10 years, it still has its work cut out for it given China's robust economic development. (China/GIGA)

A rapidly growing aging population, the one-child policy, and the Economic Reform in urban China pose unprecedented challenges to its ingrained tradition of family caregiving. An increasing number of elders in Shanghai have entered nursing homes to meet their needs for long-term care. The contradiction between self-reliant caregiving tradition and growing nursing home utilization calls for an exploration of how these elders and their children decide to institutionalize. Integrating crisis theory, social identity theory, and uncertainty management theory, this study proposes a framework to conceptualize the phases of this decision-making process.This phenomenological study retrospectively described both generations' experiences of deciding to institutionalize. The author conducted semi-structured interviews with 12 dyads of matched elders and their children (total N = 24) in a government-sponsored, municipal-level nursing home in Shanghai. From a dyadic perspective, data analysis emphasized the relational aspects of participants' intergenerational communication about reaching consensus on institutionalization.In accordance with a phenomenological approach, the essence of participants' experience of deciding to institutionalize is that elders and their children proactively or reactively chose institutionalization. Decision-making occurred in the face of family caregiving crises, such as elders' declining health conditions, disrupted caregiving arrangements, and strained intergenerational relationships. Proactive families chose institutionalization to prevent potential caregiving pressure that might exceed family caregiving capacity, while reactive families sought institutionalization after they had encountered tremendous caregiving pressure and depleted caregiving resources. Within dyads, each generation, respectively, had its own motivation to institutionalize while preserving positive social identity in intergenerational communication, but ultimately children held decision-making power. When family caregiving crises occurred, filial piety may have become less practical for children, though it remained an integral part of the decision-making process.This study addresses the importance of catering to various needs for long-term care of Chinese elders--the world's largest aging population in the coming decades. This study informs policy to develop diverse and specialized home- and community-based long-term care in urban China and emphasizes social work practice to establish specific needs assessment criteria, improve overall caregiving communication, advocate for elders' decision-making autonomy, and enhance geriatric training for frontline workers.