Updates are available Correction dated 2019-08-29

Article History

First Online: 30 March 2017

Change Date: 29 August 2019

Change Type: Correction

Change Date: 29 August 2019

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: The present special issue (Philanthropy in China: Institutional and Social Factors) should also include the previously published papers linked below.

Change Details: The present special issue (Philanthropy in China: Institutional and Social Factors) should also include the previously published papers linked below.

Compliance with Ethical Standards

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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

: The data collection involved interviews with adult workers in nonprofit organizations and the government system. Oral informed consent was obtained in the interview scheduling stage and at the beginning of each interview. The oral informed consent includes clear explanation of the research purposes, interview procedure and contents, potential risks and benefits, ways to ensure confidentiality, and voluntary participation. Formal written consent form was intentionally avoided because of the particularity of the Chinese culture and government controls over the nonprofit sector: interviewees usually do not feel comfortable signing the form and seeking written consent can have the effect of making the interviewees less candid in their responses. In addition, because the interviews sometimes required them to provide a critical assessment of the government-controlled philanthropy sector, the interviewees sometimes expressed their preference not to leave their names on any records.