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
- Provides a compilation of aid policies concerning people with intellectual disabilities, particularly with regard to Shanghai
Part of the book series: Economy and Social Inclusion (ESI)
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About this book
This open access book is unique in presenting the first oral history of individuals with an intellectual disability and their families in China. In this summary volume and the two accompanying volumes that follow, individuals with an intellectual disability tell their life stories, while their family members, teachers, classmates, and co-workers describe their professional, academic, and family relationships. Besides interview transcripts, each volume provides observations and records in real time the daily experiences of people with an intellectual disability. Drawing on the methodologies of sociology and oral history, the summary volume provides an unprecedented account of how people with intellectual disabilities in China understand themselves while also examining pertinent issues of public policy and civil society that have ramifications beyond the field of disability itself.
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.
Cui Fengming serves as the director of China Program at Harvard Law School Project on Disability. She is also an adjunct professor at China Renmin University School of Law, an honorary professor at Nanjing Normal University of Special Education in China, and a senior fellow of China Renmin University Disability Law Clinic. Her main scholarly interests, academic, and public interest work focus on issues of comparative disability rights studies, disability laws and policies in China; rights in inclusive education, employment, and community for persons with disabilities; family involvement and system support; and the development of civil society for equal participation and general social development. She is an editor for Legal Rights for Persons with Disabilities in China: A Guide Book (China Renmin University Press, 2016, both in Chinese and English, with JianFei Li et al.). Her book chapters and journal articles cover topics concerning inclusive education, equal participation of disabled persons’ organizations and parent organizations, and rights in employment for persons with disabilities in China. She holds an Ed.M. in higher education from Nanjing University in China and an Ed.D. in special education from Boston University in the United States.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China Volume 1
Book Subtitle: Overview
Editors: William P. Alford, Mei Liao, Fengming Cui
Series Title: Economy and Social Inclusion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5132-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5131-4Published: 23 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5134-5Published: 18 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-5132-1Published: 22 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2509-4270
Series E-ISSN: 2509-4289
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 142
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Disability Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sports Economics, Oral History, Public Health, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights