Event Category: East Asian History
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Nov 13HSMT Colloquium: “Rewarding Supporters and Alienating Workers: Towards a Critical History of Health Insurance, Medicine, and Idealogy in China and Taiwan”
Wayne Soon (University of Minnesota)
Room 4281, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall, 232 N. Park St.
This presentation examines the history of health insurance in the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China in Taiwan and argues that both states privileged key political supporters while often failing the workers they claimed to serve from the 1950s to 1980s. Health insurance programs for party cadres in China and civil servants …