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Junior Professor in Comparative Sociology and Chinese Society

Research

Monograph 

• Liu, Tao (2015): Globale Wissensdiffusion in der Politik sozialer Sicherung. Die Einführung einer gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung in der Volksrepublik China. Frankfurt, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, London etc.: Lang

Monograph (in Chinese)

• Cheng, Ping; Liu, Tao (2012): Analysis of evaluation index system for science and technology personnel in China from the perspective of Luhmann’s theory. Beijing: The State Administrative Institute Publishing House

• Liu, Tao (2007): China’s strategy of rise. Investigation into a Chinese strategy towards revival with a historic view and global perspective. Beijing: Xinhua Publishing House Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)

• Liu, Tao / Sun, Li (2016): Pension reform in China. In: Journal of Aging and Social Policy 28 (1), 15-28.

• Sun, Li / Liu, Tao (2016): Occupational diseases and migrant workers’ compensation claiming in China: An unheeded social risk in asymmetrical employment relationships. In: Health Sociology Review 25 (1), 122-136.

• Liu, Tao / Sun, Li (2015): Maternity insurance in China: Global Standards and Local Responses. In: Asian Women 31 (4), 23-51. 

• Liu, Tao / Sun, Li (2015): An apocalyptic vision of ageing in China: Old age care for the largest elderly population in China. In: Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie 48 (4): 354-364.

• Sun, Li / Liu, Tao (2014): Injured but not entitled for legal insurance compensation: Ornamental institutions and migrant workers’ informal channels in China. In: Social Policy & Administration 48(7): 905-922.

• Liu, Tao / Flöthmann, E.-Jürgen (2013): Die neue alternde Gesellschaft. Demographische Transformation und ihre Auswirkungen auf Altersversorgung und Altenpflege in China. In: Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie 46 (5), 465-475.

• Leisering, Lutz / Liu, Tao (2010): Globale Wissensdiffusion in der Sozialpolitik. Die Einführung einer Arbeitsunfallversicherung in der Volksrepublik China. In: Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 56 (2), 173-207.

Journal Articles (in Chinese)

• Liu, Tao (2016). Deguo shehui fuli tixi jiqi dui zhongguo shehui fuli zhidu sheji de qishi (The inspiration of the German welfare system for creating a social welfare system with Chinese characteristics). In: Zhongguo Gonggong Zhengce Pinglun [Chinese Public Policy Review] 9: 164-179.

• Liu, Tao (2015): Deguo laodongli shichang de gaige: shehui zhengce de V xing zhuanwan he zhengzhi guangpu de zhongxinghua (Reform of the German labour market: A V-shaped turnaround of social policy and the neutralization of the political spectrum). In: Ouzhou Yanjiu [Chinese Journal of European Studies] 32 (1): 64-81.

• Liu, Tao (2015): Deguo fading yiliao baoxian zhidu gaige jiqi qishi (The reform of the German statutory health insurance system and its theoretical implications). In: Zhongguo Gonggong Zhengce Pinglun [Chinese Public Policy Review] 8: 66-78.

• Liu, Tao (2014): Deguo yanglao baoxian gaige: chonggou fuli guojia de bianjie (The Reform of the German pension scheme: Reconstruction of the boundary of welfare state). In: Gonggong Xingzheng Pinglun [Journal of Public Administration] 6 (6): 34-54.

• Liu, Tao (2013): Shijie shehui zhong de bupingdeng: women shifou xuyao yige quanqiu de shehui baozhang (Inequalities in a world society: Do we need a global social protection network?). In: Shehui Baozhang Yanjiu [Social Security Studies] 8 (2), 25-31.

• Liu, Tao (2011): Deguo shehui jiuzhu zhidu gaige dui woguo dibao zhidu de qishi (The reform of the German social assistance scheme and its inspiration for the Minimum Living Standard Scheme in China). In: Shehui Baozhang Yanjiu [Social Security Studies] 6 (2), 158-170.