A Wholistic Ethno-Cultural Paradigm: A New Model for Community Organization Teaching and Practice

To prepare workers for effective practice in community organizing and development in emerging communities, schools os social work need to give careful attention to desiging relevant practice teaching and field practicum experiences. This article proposes a new model for community organization teaching and practicing, aimed at increasing the effectiveness of social work interventions in neo-gemienschaft ethnic-minority communities.     

Affective lexicons and indigenous responses: therapeutic interventions in social work practice with Chinese immigrant elders

This article discusses social work practice with a group of Chinese‐speaking immigrant elders in New York City who favour the use of traditional affective lexicons that communicate distress in oblique, metaphorical and somatic forms. It examines the therapeutic values of the social workers' indigenous responses, as shaped by their intuitive understanding of the latent emotional content of communication within the cultural context. The discussion affirms the importance of the emotional connection between worker and client, invariably shaped by language, cultural norms, and individual proclivity, as the universal substrate of cross‐cultural social work practice.

本文讨论关于针对一群移居纽约市但仍然喜欢以传统中文词汇， 隐喻等沟通的华语长者的社会工作实务。本文也探索了社会工作者的本土反应包括:通过理解语言背后的文化脉络， 从而认识当事人的潜在情绪等在治疗学上的价值。本文申明了社会工作者与当事人之间情感联系的重要性， 而这种联系往往是由跨文化社会工作底下的语言和文化规范等塑造而成的。     

The Reconstruction of Chinese Literary Theory: Environment and Resources

A common symptom of the blanket coverage of Western literary theory was the way Chinese intellectuals “kept harping on Greece,” to the neglect of their own literature’s distinctive features. Even worse were attempts to force Chinese literature into the Procrustean bed of Western literary propositions. How can Chinese literary theory be used more effectively to interpret native literature and culture, or Chinese experience? How can it throw off Western theoretical models and become a component of the Chinese nation’s own narrative? Reconstruction of the discourse system of Chinese literary theory must be a high priority. It is a complex project, one that necessarily entails stepping on to the discourse platform of modernity, accepting various kinds of open dialogue, and thence envisioning a new form of discourse system set amid multilayered overlapping perspectives and even the challenge of different ideas.     

自主创新、进口和FDI的动态互动研究

在开放经济系统中,进口贸易和FDI是获得技术进步的重要渠道,把握自主创新、进口和FDI三者之间的关系有助于从内在机制和外在动力双重角度来理解未来经济的可持续发展。作为宏观经济系统中的子系统,国家自主创新示范区也是开放的系统,从国家宏观经济层面,分析自主创新、进口和FDI三者的动态关系,有利于加快国家自主创新示范区的建设。     

论国际法中的indigenous peoples

自20世纪初以来,在涉及到各国家和地区人们共同体的权利关系问题的讨论中,首先在国际性文件里出现了"indigenous peoples"这一概念,并对其内涵与外延进行了界定。同时,伴随着先住民运动在世界各地的风起云涌以及世界各国家和地区政治、经济、文化等的发展,"indigenous peoples"的内涵与外延也处于不断的变化过程中。然而,由于英文的"indigenous peoples"在汉语中并无直接对应词汇,再加上学术传统的差异等各种原因,造成中西方对其内涵与外延的理解上产生歧义,进而影响到所涉及对象的基本权利以及相互关系的构建。因此,从人类学的视角出发,厘清国际法语境中"indigenous peoples"在中西方文化中内涵与外延的异同,有助于多民族国家各人们共同体权利的维护以及和谐关系的建设。     

Working with Narratives

ABSTRACT

This article will discuss healing across cultures and describe narrative practice as a means of access to coping strategies in African American folk beliefs and traditional healing practices. Four elements were found in empirical research on folk healing among African Americans: spirituality, ritual, the power of words, and dreams. These culture-specific healing elements often emerge as themes in personal narratives about coping in response to stress, crisis, and trauma. Viewing healing elements as themes is a useful framework for construing meanings from clients' experiences of stress, trauma, and crisis and coping strategies embedded in folk beliefs and traditional healing practices.

Additionally, the author presents a structured interview questionnaire for identifying folk healing themes, illustrates narrative practice as an approach for integrating folk beliefs and healing practices, and discusses implications for clinical training.     

对当代民族主体性与本土性的反思

民族的主体性和本土性是在一定的时空中产生和发展的,民族主体的自我意识和本土的文化实践因而也是不断建构的。民族主体意识是在历史发展中不断更新和建构的,而本土文化也是在实践中不断更新和重新发现的。民族主体性与本土性的关系是值得认真研究的课题。     

中国传统哲学与本土管理研究:讨论与反思

围绕中庸、阴阳与悟3个中国传统哲学的核心概念展开论述,既指出了李平教授的观点中可能存在的一些失误之处,又提出了一些容易被忽视或想当然的问题供人们反思.中国传统哲学与西方哲学是2套截然不同的思想体系.西方哲学的志趣在于求真,即探索世界的客观真理,而中国哲学的志趣在于求善,即追寻天人合一的境界.     

Stemming the Tide of Trauma Systemically: The Role of Family Therapy

The initial section of this article describes the frequency with which people are exposed to various forms of traumatic stressors and the limitations of linear thinking in both assessing and treating the consequences of traumatic exposure as reported by the Institute of Medicine. The middle section of the article identifies the research and theory that supports the utility of systemic thinking and action in working with traumatised systems, especially families. The final section includes an outline of a protocol for family therapists and other systems‐informed practices to help traumatised families and other systems. A critical part of the protocol is that it meets the standards of trauma‐informed practice reflected by the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology and the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) guidelines, and the six criteria for evaluating treatment approaches. These criteria include do no harm, exposure titration control, reciprocal inhibition tuning, quantity and quantity of training, fit and fidelity and evidence of effectiveness.     

Child dialect acquisition: New perspectives on parent/peer influence1

Regardless of the variability and complexity in the linguistic environment around them, children begin constructing stable linguistic identities at a young age. Prior research has effectively modeled child dialect acquisition in terms of parent influence versus peer influence, and peer influence has often been shown to be the key determiner. The present study takes the next step by showing that the parent/peer group contrast in prior studies should be viewed as a special case of a more general pattern: children learn and construct dialect identity as a process of group distinction. Using data the author collected among exogamous Sui clans in rural southwest China, the present study shows how diverse cultures can lend new perspectives to the issue of parent/peer influence; Sui children's linguistic worlds are not divided along parent/peer lines but rather along clan lines, yet a similar process of group distinction occurs.