This course aims at providing students with theoretical as well as an analytical framework in understanding welfare regimes in the Greater China Region, including Taiwan, Hong Kong as well as other related regions. Students will first examine the theoretical underpinning of regime model followed by a critical examination of how different regimes have been developed (the liberal, conservative, social democratic and Confucian). Case examples of social policies in relation to different welfare regimes in the Greater China Region will be used as illustrations throughout the course.