Social protection under authoritarianism: Health politics and policy in China.

In I Social Protection under Authoritarianism: Health Politics and Policy in China i , Xian Huang provides a meticulously detailed account of China's social health insurance system, explaining both its development and variation. The central government uses fiscal transfers to provinces to ensure protection for elites in the public sector and the state-owned economy. Chinese welfare programs are complex by design, as Huang emphasizes, and it is rare to have a single source that lays out the system's nuances as well as Huang's book does for the health insurance program. [Extracted from the article]

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