Chinese migrant women and families in Britain

This article examines the mode of understanding and experiences of family relationships of Chinese migrant women in Britain. In contrast to much existing research work on the patterns and experiences of postwar settlement of unskilled Chinese male labourers in Britain, the focus here is on the life stories of 41 Chinese women with different migration trajectories and varying economic and cultural capital. Their oral testimonies reveal Chinese women's diverse expectations and experiences of migrant family relationships and their different strategies to achieve self-fulfillment both within and outside the confines of the migrant family. For some women, migration brings opportunities for a fulfilling and independent lifestyle. They are successful in negotiating their way around and sometimes out of their initial familial and social position. For others, they bear the disproportionate cost and labour of familial strategies of advancement and remain vulnerable to the most constraining aspects of diasporic existence.     

Enantiomeric separation of methamphetamine and related analogs by capillary zone electrophoresis: intelligence study in routine methamphetamine seizures

A method for simultaneous enantiomeric separation of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and methamphetamine (MA) in a single run by simple capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) with beta-cyclodextrin as a chiral selector is described. The effects of the buffer pH, phosphate concentration, beta-cyclodextrin concentration, voltage and temperature on the peak resolution were examined. Good enantiomeric resolution was attained for each analyte under our optimized conditions: 15 mM beta-cyclodextrin, 300 mM NaH2PO4 at pH 2.5 with an uncoated capillary (64.5 cm x 50 microm), applied potential at 20 kV and temperature at 30 degrees C. Ultraviolet (UV) detection at a fixed wavelength (200 nm) was employed using a diode array detector. Using phentermine as an internal standard, migration times for all analytes are reproducible within 0.16% for intra-day and 0.6% for inter-day runs. Application of this method to the analysis of confiscated drugs is discussed.     

我国农村合作医疗模式的历史演变、评析及启示

我国农村合作医疗经历了萌芽、初建、发展、辉煌、衰落、探索重建、新合推广七个主要阶段,与之伴随,因时因地出现了战时管制型合作医疗、队社福利型合作医疗、新福利型合作医疗、风险型合作医疗、福利———风险型合作医疗、医改型合作医疗模式六种主要合作医疗模式。文章评析了上述六种模式,分析了影响合作医疗模式有效运行的主要因素,并提出了正确、积极定位政府角色和合作医疗制度设计应考虑与医疗保险的“梯次接轨”两点启示。     

西方社会建设的基本理论及其演变

西方社会建设理论大体经过了产生、发展与反思三个大的发展阶段。19世纪中叶,以追求社会和谐、社会均衡为目标的社会秩序理论的产生,是西方社会建设理论产生的标志;20世纪30年代后,以追求社会福利最大化为目标的社会福利理论与福利国家理论获得了重大发展,西方社会建设理论逐渐走向成熟;20世纪80年代以来,西方国家“第三条道路”理论与“社会投资型国家”理论的产生,标志着西方社会建设理论进入了反思阶段。     

坚持社会公正构建和谐社会

当前,社会公正缺失已对我国社会的稳定和发展构成潜在威胁。社会公正是构建和谐社会的核心价值,为构建和谐社会提供动力支持,也是社会主义的本质要求。要实现维护社会公正,构建社会主义和谐社会的战略目标,就必须在大力发展生产力的基础上,控制和缩小贫富差距,使全体社会成员共享社会发展成果,协调好各个阶层的利益关系,建立健全利益协调整合机制。     

新国际主义理念与中国对外政策的选择

新国际主义是在全球化背景及和平与发展的新时代主题下的国际主义,其基本理念和内涵是淡化意识形态纷争和不同社会制度的对抗,通过参与国际体系、国际机制及区域共同体的构建,在民族利益、自尊与人类和平相处、共同发展之间谋求最大限度的安全、合作、共赢。在这一理念指导下,中国外交政策的制定必须坚持和平主义传统,倡导共同安全的新安全观,使全球范围的合作与地区层面的共同体构建并举,政治外交与经济外交并重,自我发展与“睦邻、安邻、富邻”协调,做到“有所为,有所不为”。     

Assessing the Impact of Bureaucracy Bashing by Electoral Campaigns

The literature on the implications of electoral "bureaucracy bashing" for public management is thin. This is partly because of the difficulty of defining basic terms and measuring results in meaningful ways. Using focus group data, this article explores how senior federal managers perceive campaign bureaucracy bashing and assess its consequences. The participants perceive that candidate-based bashing affects federal management on two levels: one emotional, the other programmatic. The emotional impact is pronounced, producing frustration and hostility from senior managers toward political candidates, political appointees, and the media. Senior managers report that bashing adversely affects policy implementation through low morale, poor recruitment, and training and by fostering an environment of distrust toward bureaucracy. Grounded in a diverse literature relating to public administration, the presidency, campaigns and elections, and political communication, this inquiry finds that senior managers confirm many of the speculations these works raise about how bashing affects public employees and public policy.