LIVING THE DREAM

<正>Dynamic entrepreneur finds her calling—and love—on Kulangsu Island Wandering through a maze of alleyways just a stone’s throw away from the crowded Sanqiutian Wharf on Kulangsu Island in Xiamen,Fujian Province,the surrounding peace and tranquility is broken only by the whisper of banyan tree leaves in the gentle     

SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE

<正>A maverick has become one of Kulangsu’s most endearing and emblematic figures When memory fades and blurs the boundary between reality and fantasy,larger-than-life characters may emerge.Han Guangle is one of them.In his late60s—he doesn’t even know his real age—Han is the epitome of eccentricity,a modernday Beau Brummel who cuts a striking figure in     

Fairness in Context

This article is a contribution to the occasional series dealing with a major book that influenced the author. Previous contributors include Stewart Macaulay, John Griffith, William Twining, Carol Harlow, Geoffrey Bindman, Harry Arthurs, and André-Jean Arnaud.
It describes the author's original encounter and subsequent dialogue with Bureaucratic Justice , by Jerry L. Mashaw which transformed his thinking about administrative justice and shaped the research he conducted over the next 25 years. The article assesses the strengths and weaknesses of Mashaw's approach to administrative justice, describes the author's attempts to modify and extend Mashaw's approach, outlines four case studies conducted by the author, and describes how the United Kingdom government has recently adopted an approach to administrative justice that is very similar to Mashaw's. The article concludes by considering the implications of Mashaw's approach for researchers and policy makers who wish to promote the idea that governments should attempt to treat people fairly.     

Political involvement among Toung women: a qualitative analysis

The depoliticization and non‐participation of young people in city life is often a topic of discussion. Given this context, how and why do young people then become activist? This is the main question addressed by a sociological research project on the way young women in Quebec practise political involvement and on the meaning that involvement has for them. The question of why young women get involved has to do with their biographical history, their life trajectories, and the influence of family and friends. How they get involved has to do with what involvement and activism mean to them. One of the principal findings is that the young female activists who participated in this study all have an active conception of citizenship that is not restricted to political involvement. Some of our respondents said that involvement is a way of being, a lifestyle that requires them to act consistently in all aspects of daily life and thus implies living in accordance with one's ideals. In other words, the involvement practised and conceptualized by these young activists corresponds to what can be called a ‘search for ethical consistency’, which aims ‘to give meaning to the values we hold as individuals and as a collectivity’.