Saving Strong Neighborhoods From the Destruction of Mortgage Foreclosures: The Impact of Community-Based Efforts in Detroit,Michigan

Mortgage foreclosures hit Detroit, Michigan hard between 2005 and 2014, especially in what we define as strong neighborhoods; there, more than one third of homes experienced foreclosure. Before the crisis hit, these selected tracts had largely intact physical environments and higher owner occupancy, household income and property value than the citywide median. In some of them residents worked intensely to abate the neighborhood effects of mortgage foreclosures. This study examines those efforts’ effectiveness. We selected neighborhoods with the most extensive efforts, as measured, for instance, by creation of community-based plans and applications for grants, and we conducted interviews and field observations to examine those efforts. To assess strengthening of neighborhood housing markets, we applied a modified adjusted interrupted time-series approach to evaluate changes in prices as one measure of neighborhood change. We found that strong resident initiative supported by community development organizations and external assistance led to increased neighborhood housing prices, compared with comparable neighborhoods. However, when initiative, context, and support were weaker, community-based efforts could not prevent considerable decline.     

Hukou and land: market reform and rural displacement in China

Scholarship about the Chinese hukou (household registration) system has focused on the advantages and entitlements associated with urban hukou. This paper shifts attention to the key entitlement provided by rural hukou – village land. While early hukou reforms were mainly designed to open up urban labor markets to rural migrants, recent reforms have also begun to open up rural land markets, by replacing hukou-based land rights with market-based rights. These reforms are designed to facilitate land concentration and the transfer of land to outside developers and agribusiness companies, which has been hindered by hukou-based land rights. Underlying the reforms is the government's agenda of promoting large-scale agriculture and urbanization, both of which require the removal of a large portion of the rural population from the land. By focusing on land rights rather than urban benefits, this paper provides a new perspective on the evolution of the hukou system, and highlights the negative implications of recent reforms for livelihood security in the countryside.     

Activists playing a dual role: identities,organizational goals,and public relations practices

• This study explores the relationship among identities, goals, and public relations practices of an activist organization through in‐depth interviews and document analysis. Findings suggest different levels of the participant organization's identity in communication with its different audiences. In playing its dual role (as a “public” to its target organizations and a “public communicator” to its own publics), the organization acts as an honest representative voice and a credible source of information to both parties, a process that requires a balance position compatible with its mission. Its public relations practices were found to be consistent with the identities it appropriates and the values it respects.

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关于国际汉学中“误读”的思考

国际汉学中的"误读"是外国汉学家接触中国文化时不可避免的。"误读"作为一个批评术语,它的出现明显受到了20世纪西方科学主义与人本主义哲学思潮及相关文论的影响。"误读"理论为我们正确对待汉学家的"误读"提供了可借鉴的方法论意义:汉学家研究中国、"误读"中国的根本目的是要借对汉学的研究审视自身;同时,其他民族对中国的研究也不妨成为我们自识的"镜像"。     

北京及周边地区乳牛乳腺炎的调查与病原菌分离鉴定

为了解乳牛乳腺炎的发病原因,对北京及其周边地区4个奶牛场的乳牛乳腺炎的发病情况进行了临床调查、诊断和检测,采集患临床型乳腺炎和隐性乳腺炎乳牛的乳样;用接种法对采集乳样进行培养,对可疑菌落进行分离、接种、染色、镜检鉴定.结果显示,从采集的266份乳样中分离到7种434株病原菌,其中葡萄球菌150株,链球菌204株,革兰阴性杆菌80株.证实,北京及其周边地区乳牛乳腺炎的主要病原菌为葡萄球菌和链球菌,且细菌混合感染引起的乳牛乳腺炎有上升趋势.     

广西边境涉外拐卖妇女犯罪探究

因为广西独特的地理和社会环境,导致涉外拐卖妇女犯罪活动在广西与越南边境一线尤为突出,进而诱发了广西一系列刑事、民事和治安案件,极大地危害着社会的稳定。分析广西涉外拐卖妇女犯罪的现状、特点、成因以及所面临的困难和问题,进一步提出相应的对策。     

WHAT CHINA CAN OFFER IN COVID-19 CONTAINMENT

More than a month of intense prevention and control measures have borne fruit in China:Both new confirmed and suspected cases of the novel coronavirus disease(COVID-19)are dropping,so is the fatality rate and the number of cured and discharged patients keeps growing.The fi nal victory against the disease in the country seems within sight.     

Access Denied

The 117,000 doses of British AstraZeneca vaccine shots that arrived in Taiwan on March 3 made up the first batch of vaccines the island had received at that point.Nevertheless,this relatively small number of vaccines simply is not sufficient for distribution among frontline medical staff,let alone among regular residents across the island.One year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic,residents in the Chinese mainland。     

Dual-Circulation Drive

The outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan(2021-25) and the long-range objectives through the year 2035 approved in this year’s National People’s Congress session further highlights the new development strategy of dual circulation, in which the domestic and overseas markets reinforce one another, and the domestic market serves as its backbone.