This book analyses parental anxieties about their children s healthcare issues in urban China, engaging with wider theoretical debates about modernity, risk and anxiety. It examines the broader social, cultural and historical contexts of parental anxiety by analysing a series of socio-economic changes and population policy changes in post-reform China that contextualise parental experiences. Drawing on Wilkinson s (2001) conceptualisation linking individual s risk consciousness to anxiety, this book analyses the situated risk experiences of parents and grandparents, looking particularly into...