Care and Ageing in North-West and South-West ChinaBjörn Alpermann

ASIEN – Nr. 160/161 (2021) pp. 244–47

Rose K. Keimig, Growing Old in a New China: Transitions in Elder Care
Rutgers University Press, 2021. 195 pp.
Heila Sha, Care and Ageing in North-West China
Berlin: LIT, 2017. 307 pp.

Since China is facing rapid demographic ageing, a lot of scholarly attention has been paid to study how this process plays out within its society. However, most studies focus on the Eastern coastal regions and its metropolises. In contrast, the two books reviewed here examine the issues of care and ageing and what they tell us about larger societal transformations by looking at Xinjiang and Yunnan, respectively…