In China's Social Insurance in the Twentieth Century, Aiqun Hu develops a framework of "interactive diffusion of global models" in examining the history of China's social insurance since the 1910s. The book covers both Nationalist- and Communist-controlled areas (1927-1949) and Taiwan (1949-present).

Aiqun Hu, Ph.D. (2008), is Associate Professor of Asian and Global History at Arkansas State University. She has published her work in Journal of Global History, Journal of World History, World History Connected, and Chinese Public Policy Review.