The Quality of Life in Contemporary China [electronic resource] / edited by Peilin Li.

Introduction: Step Forward to the Stage of Emphasizing Life Quality -- Classification of Individual Consumption and Life Quality -- The Quality of Employment and Job and its influence factors -- Education, Social Mobility and the Quality of Life -- Housing Conditions of Urban and Rural Residents and housing inequality -- Middle-income Group and Olive-shaped Society -- Workers with Urban Household and the Income Gaps of Migrant Workers -- Government evaluation on New Generation Youth and Internet Use -- Environmental Awareness and Life Quality -- The Impact of Medical Treatment on Gender differences in the sense of happiness -- Social Trusts and Social Supports -- Social Involvement and the Quality of Life -- Residents’ Satisfaction to Life and its Factors -- The Sense of Residents’ Happiness and Spatial Layout -- Value Judgment on “Good Society” and Social Cognitio -- References.

This book introduces a multidimensional system that evaluates quality of life in China by pursuing a quantitative and analytical approach. A host of factors, including economic conditions and individual wellbeing, can affect people’s satisfaction with their lives. In addition to GDP-associated indicators, sociological and environmental factors are also relevant when it comes to evaluating quality of life. Providing a general framework, while also considering gender, education and geographical differences in assessing quality of life, the book offers policy suggestions for improving both individual quality of life and the health of society as a whole. .