Overview
- Provided open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license
- Gathers oral histories reflecting the life stories of individuals with intellectual disabilities in China
- Offers a rare look behind the scenes of how China is addressing a major social issue
- Highlights the employment seeking and retaining process of individuals with disabilities
Part of the book series: Economy and Social Inclusion (ESI)
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About this book
This open access book brings together oral histories that record the experiences of individuals with intellectual disabilities in Shanghai as they participate in their careers. Employees with intellectual disabilities describe their experiences seeking, attaining, and maintaining employment. Their managers, colleagues, and family members also provide keen insight into the challenges and opportunities these individuals have encountered in the process of securing employment. An appendix provides a compilation of employment policies related to people with intellectual disabilities, particularly with respect to Shanghai.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mei Liao is an independent scholar at present. From 1996 to 2004, she taught as an assistant professor and associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University in Shanghai. Her research interests include Chinese intellectual history and history of late Qing dynasty. She has published the book Wang Kang-nian: From the Civil Rights Theory to Cultural Conservatism (Shanghai Classics Publishing House, 2001); the novel Under the Tower of Ivory (Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House, 2012); and a number of papers. She received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in history from Fudan University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China Volume 3
Book Subtitle: Finding and Keeping a Job
Editors: William P. Alford, Mei Liao, Fengming Cui
Series Title: Economy and Social Inclusion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5005-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5004-1Published: 27 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5007-2Published: 18 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-5005-8Published: 26 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2509-4270
Series E-ISSN: 2509-4289
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 489
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Disability Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sports Economics, Oral History, Public Health, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights