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.     

“三型”马克思主义执政党:开拓党的建设新境界

党的十八大报告中首次提出"建设学习型、服务型、创新型的马克思主义执政党",而且将这个党的建设总目标写入了新修改的党章。从党的建设总目标的历史探索轨迹和党的建设总布局的形成发展轨迹看,从对执政党建设的理论意义和现实意义看,要把中国共产党建设成为学习型、服务型、创新型的马克思主义执政党确实是一项全新的重大课题。"学习型、服务型、创新型"既是一个系统的价值整体,同时,在这个系统中,又必须凸显全心全意为人民服务的根本宗旨,紧紧围绕改进服务方式、提高服务质量来加强学习、开拓创新,惟其如此,才能真正体现马克思主义执政党作为实现、维护和发展人民群众利益的工具的本质。     

Herbal Tea Dispute

When Yao Bo went to work one morning,he didn’t expect to be stabbed in the face.At a hospital in Suzhou,Jiangsu Province,Yao(not his real name),a sales representative for Guangzhou Wanglaoji Pharmaceutical Co.     

Private Capital Into the Mix

China to merge public and private sectors to develop a mixed economy The idea of a mixed economy comprising of state,collective and private capital has gained much traction as China turns its attention to future development.The Decision on Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Deepening Reforms released right after the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has decided that this economic model is to be the primary vehicle for economic reform.     

No Subsidy,Now What?

Small appliance retailers fear the future as government subsidy programs come to an end Li Haiyan is a saleslady in the TV section of a Dazhong Electronics store in Beijing.At 3 p.m. on June 5, Li was napping on the shop’s sofa instead of servicing customers.     

Plans for H2

The Chinese leadership sets the tone for China’s economy in the second half of 2013 A meeting held on July 30 by the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China(CPC)Central Committee,the country’s top decision maker,diagnosed the Chinese