从信访工作中存在的突出问题看和谐社会建设的难点重点

本报告力求以深入分析当前信访工作面临的形势、信访问题的成因及规律为切入点,探寻当代中国社会发展中存在的若干普遍性问题,揭示和谐社会建设的难点和重点问题,并为解决这些问题提出若干思路和对策。     

From France-action-China

Ladies, Gentlemen, Thank you for your notification of the 40th anniversary of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and your recognition of the work we have done together to bring closer the People's Republic of China and France.     

帝国主义在东盟地区的利益

近年来,东盟成员国成为美国、日本和西欧等大型帝国主义中心极为关注的对象。东南亚次地区变成了资本主义世界主要工业强国日益增长的政治和经济利益的领域,这些利益的对比关系在一定程度上决定帝国主义“力量中心”在该地区的政策的性质。 这种“利益”取决于一系列重要因素。东南亚次地区优越的地理位置和有利的气候条件有助于相对降低基本建设费用。此外,该地区还是独一无二而丰富的原料的基地,东盟国家是下列产品的大宗生产国和     

Asylum-seekers and national histories of detention

The Australian system of mandatory detention of asylum–seekers has become increasingly controversial. Insofar as commentary on detention has been framed historically, critics have pointed to Australia's race–based exclusionary laws and policies over the twentieth century. In this article, we suggest that exclusion and detention are not equivalent practices, even if they are often related. Here we present an alternative genealogy of mandatory detention and protests against it. Quarantine–detention and the internment of "enemy aliens" in wartime are historic precedents for the current detention of asylum–seekers. Importantly, in both carceral practices, non–criminal and often non–citizen populations were held in custody en masse and without trial. Quarantine, internment and incarceration of asylum–seekers are substantively connected over the twentieth century, as questions of territory, security and citizenship have been played out in Australia's histories of detention.     

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.     

The search for truth and freedom: ethical issues surrounding human cloning and stem cell research

The reality of cloning and stem cell research has provoked wonder, fear and anger. These developments have the potential fundamentally to alter humanity. But how well informed is the range of views being expressed? Is progress being threatened by understandable but uninformed fears? Or are scientists rushing toward an ethical abyss, so concerned with what they can do that they never stop to ask what they should do? This article identifies some of the fears and hopes surrounding cloning and stem cell research. It aims to provoke ethical debate in evaluating such research.