Fists of Fury Turn to Song

Apopular saying goes,“Seventy-twoof the 108 outlaws of the marsh arefrom Yuncheng.”Located inShandong Province with Liangshan Hill onits east,the Huanghe River to the north andthe Beijing-Kowloon Railway runningthrough,Yuncheng has given birth to manyheroes.Sun Bin,also called Sunzi,famousmilitarist in the Warring States Period(475-221 BC)and Song Jiang,leader of afarmers uprising in the Northern SongDynasty(960-1127 AD)were both bornthere.Wushu has prevailed there forgenerations in past dynasties.Now the     

All of China Should Contribute to Success of Children's Program

IN February 1992 the State Council Standing Meeting discussed and endorsed the National Program of Action for Child Development (hereinafter referred to as National Program for short) in China in the 1990s which is a program of action for children. Children are the future of our motherland and the hope of our Chinese nation. The wholesome development of children has a bearing upon the future of China. Improvement of the quality of our entire nation begins with them.     

Dancing to the Tune of World Culture

WHEN the evening lights up with colorful lights, the crescendos of music signal that the carnival parade at Shenzhen's "World Plaza" is about to start. About ten cars with exotic decorations stream out into the Plaza, a prelude to every evening's spectacular show of international flavors. The royal cavalry, the military band, the all-nation flag team, the masquerade team, the Spanish dance of Don Quixote, the stilt-walkers, the clowns...they are all walking in-between the colorful cars that dazzle the audience. The art troupe active at the Plaza, known as the "Five Continents Art Troupe," is composed of performers from all over the world, including 50     

Devoted to Spreading of Ancestors’Spirit

"A NCIENT legends," a seriesof giant wooden reliefs, hasfinally been completed.There are 91 pieces in all, including 45which deal with myths. Wang Xingquanand his son Wang Yu were the maincreators, and the mother Zeng Shuli wasalso involved in this nine-year project. Wang Xingquan believes hischaracters are closely linked with theatmosphere of mythical culture and arts,which constantly influence him.Consequently, he persists in carryingforward the Chinese mythology.     

What is the right way to protest? On the process of justification of protest,and its relationship to the propensity to participate in different types of protest

This study explores how citizens in Spain perceive different tactics employed in anti-austerity protests in 2011–2013, and tests the model of the process of justification of protest. This model combines the elements of Gamson’s collective action frames theory (effectiveness, anger and grievances, operationalized as appraisal of harm) with the concept of legitimacy. It also links justification to the intention to participate. We empirically differentiate between three protest tactics: normative demonstrations, non-normative peaceful strategies, and non-normative violent actions. We find that demonstrations are perceived to be more legitimate, but less effective than non-normative peaceful protests. Violent strategies, on the other hand, are seen to be more effective than legitimate. We postulate and find that legitimacy and effectiveness partially or fully mediate the impact of political ideology, anger, and appraisal of harm on the probability of participation in non-normative protest. Finally, we establish meaningful differences in the predictors of the likelihood of joining normative, non-normative peaceful, or non-normative violent protests. Overall, our results suggest that the study of justification of collective action and especially, the inclusion of the notion of legitimacy, enriches our understanding of the popular approval of and propensity to participate in different forms of collective protest.     

Queen of Children Teacher Gives Heart to Students

WANG Huiqin, 48, is an English teacher at the Beijing Yanjingli High School. She started her career as "queen of children" at 20. After so many years of teaching, she has acquired unique skills that enable her to effectively educate and redeem students who lag behind the rest of the class. No matter how naughty or mischievous the     

Recovery: experiences of resistance to disablism?

This article explores whether it is fruitful to use a service user/survivor approach to recovery, by seeing recovery as survival of social invalidation. That is survival of the psychosocial forces that were the source of the experience of mental distress, and as survival of social oppression by the psychiatric services and/or wider society. It could be argued that the participants in this study in the United Kingdom and Sweden recovered, and reclaimed and (re)constructed positive identities. They actively resisted experiences of disablism and rebuilt their lives. By approaching recovery from a service user/survivor perspective, one is focusing on the social, structural and political aspects of the recovery process, and one is resisting biomedical, deviant and reductionist notions of recovery.     

UN to lssue Stamps of Chinese Children's Paintings

A set of stamps designed by Chinese children who took peace as their theme will be issued by the United Nations on October 25, 1996. This will be the first time the United Nations has used children's paintings in its stamps. The paintings chosen are prize-winners of the Chinese national stamp-designing     

Older Adults’ Trait Impressions of Faces Are Sensitive to Subtle Resemblance to Emotions

Younger adults (YA) attribute emotion-related traits to people whose neutral facial structure resembles an emotion (emotion overgeneralization). The fact that older adults (OA) show deficits in accurately labeling basic emotions suggests that they may be relatively insensitive to variations in the emotion resemblance of neutral expression faces that underlie emotion overgeneralization effects. On the other hand, the fact that OA, like YA, show a ‘pop-out’ effect for anger, more quickly locating an angry than a happy face in a neutral array, suggests that both age groups may be equally sensitive to emotion resemblance. We used computer modeling to assess the degree to which neutral faces objectively resembled emotions and assessed whether that resemblance predicted trait impressions. We found that both OA and YA showed anger and surprise overgeneralization in ratings of danger and naiveté, respectively, with no significant differences in the strength of the effects for the two age groups. These findings suggest that well-documented OA deficits on emotion recognition tasks may be more due to processing demands than to an insensitivity to the social affordances of emotion expressions.     

Perceptions of Stepfathers’ Obligations to Financially Support Stepchildren

The perceived fairness of financial arrangements following divorce and repartnering have significant ramifications for social policy and family well-being, yet relatively little is known about public opinion regarding the extent of stepparents’ financial responsibility towards stepchildren’s living costs. This study investigated perceptions of stepfathers’ obligation to financially support stepchildren using quantitative and qualitative methods, and built on previous research by including contextual variables to explore the processes underpinning judgements of kinship responsibilities using a distributive justice framework. Data from a community sample in Western Australia (N = 200) showed a large amount of variability in responses, however most participants believed stepfathers should contribute financially to some extent. Significant reductions in perceived obligations were associated with both cohabiting relationship status and maternal employment, but not with the presence of prior child support commitments by the stepfather. This study highlights the heterogeneity and complexity of attitudes around this issue and associated social policies.     

What to do instead of significance testing? Calculating the ‘number of counterfactual cases needed to disturb a finding’

This brief paper introduces a new approach to assessing the trustworthiness of research comparisons when expressed numerically. The ‘number needed to disturb’ a research finding would be the number of counterfactual values that can be added to the smallest arm of any comparison before the difference or ‘effect’ size disappears, minus the number of cases missing key values. This way of presenting the security of findings has several advantages over the use of significance tests, effect sizes and confidence intervals. It is not predicated on random sampling, full response or any specific distribution of data. It bundles together the sample size, magnitude of the finding and the level of attrition in a way that is standardised and therefore comparable between studies.     

A Recall of the Trauel to the Heauenly Pand

THE pine trees of the Huangshan Mountains surprise many people because of their different artistic and expressive shapes. All through the ages many people have carved poems at the top of the Taishan Mountains. However, my favorite spot is the Heavenly Pond on top of the Changbai Mountains. The Changbai Mountains are located in Antu County in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of Jilin Province.     

Years of Trials and Hardships Give Way to Happiness

Imarried my wife in 1946. I was 19 years old then and my wife Shao Chunrong was 22. The second year after we got married the Kuomintang army was forcibly recruiting able-bodied men. I ran away from home to avoid being forced to join. For two years I wandered the country; Chunrong was left alone at home to make a living selling pancakes. In 1951 I got a job as a teacher, and soon was sent to the Linjiang Middle School in Jilin Province, far away from my home. Chunrong again waited in peace for me,     

Close Attention to the Character Development of Only Children

SOME 20.72 percent of China's over 320 million families have only one child. Parents and teachers alike have confronted numerous problems related to nurturing only children. Solving related problems requires that we first gain a greater understanding of today's children.     

Development of a Questionnaire to Assess University Students’ Intentions to Use Behavioral Alcohol-Reduction Strategies

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the psychometric properties of a new self-report questionnaire designed to assess college students’ intentions to employ 31 specific alcohol-reduction strategies. Method: Students attending a large public university were recruited to complete alcohol-reduction, drinking history, and personality questionnaires online. Results: Based on item–total correlations and principal components analysis, the authors eliminated 3 items and calculated average intention ratings across the remaining 28 items. The resulting scale had appropriate unidimensionality and excellent internal consistency. Correlations of intention questionnaire scores with measures of drinking history, alcohol outcome expectancies, sensation seeking, and impression management provided some support for criterion and discriminant validity of the questionnaire. Conclusion: This questionnaire could be employed as an outcome measure to evaluate prevention programs and as a clinical tool to identify clients who have little intention to employ drinking reduction strategies in heavy drinking situations.