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Bilingual dossier of the Executive and Legislative Councillors in 1992. Besides the usual information one picks up on their individual profiles which often appear in the printed media, the contact telephone numbers, office and residential addresses are provided. The most interesting feature is perhaps the leading politicians' positions on important public issues in the past decade. In view of the rapid shifts and turns of the politician's stands on public policies in recent years, the publication offers a useful index with dates. (DÜI-Alb)

Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction -- 2 Stresses and Issues in Parenthood -- 3 Adoption in the Family and Child Welfare Context -- 4 Issues in Adoptive Parenthood and Conceptual Framework -- 5 Methodology -- 6 Ethnographic Insights and Hypotheses for Testing -- 7 Profiles of Adoptive Parents, Adoptive Children and Birth -- Parents -- 8 Demographic Data of Respondent Adoptive Families -- 9 Traditional Adoption: Stresses and Patterns of Coping in -- Descriptive Statistics -- 10 Nontraditional Adoption: Stresses and Patterns of Coping in -- Descriptive Statistics -- 11 Hypotheses Testing and Scale Construction -- 12 Discussion and Recommendations -- v -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 Semi-structured Interview Guide for the -- Ethnographic Study -- Appendix 2 Profile of Adoptive Parents -- Appendix 3 Profile of Adoptive Children and Birth -- Parents -- Appendix 4 Structured Questionnaire in English -- Appendix 5 Structured Questionnaire in Chinese

"In 1898, Qing Dynasty emperor Guangxu ordered a series of reforms to correct the poltiical, economic, cultural, and educational weaknesses exposed by China's defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War. The "Hundred Days" reform has received a great deal of attention from historians who have focused on the well-known male reformers, but until now the Qing women reformers have received amost no consideration. In this book, literary historian Nanxiu Qian examines the late Qing reforms from the perspective of Xue Shaohui (1866-1911)--a leading woman writer who openly argued against male reformers' approach that subordinated women's issues to larger national concerns. Xue and her circle went beyond the inherited Confucian pattern, demanding equal political and educational rights with men in their quest for an ideal womanhood and an ideal social order"--Back cover

Public discourse on cultural identity was not possible on the island of Taiwan until martial law was lifted there in 1987. While until then culture had mainly been an arena for the suppressed political discourse, the demise of the one-party reign of the Guomindang (KMT) at the end of the 20th century signified not only the transformation from an autocratic to a democratic system but also the end of the cultural hegemony of the mainlanders on the island. The transformation process paved the way for further cultural innovation, the keywords here being education reform, language debate, establishment of new academic disciplines, historiographic reconstruction etc. It has also led to a widespread discussion of a specifically Taiwanese cultural identity which is reflected in literature, language, art, theatre and film. The international workshop "Transformation! - Innovation? Taiwan in her Cultural Dimensions", held at Ruhr University in Bochum from March 7th-9th 2001, set out to shed new light on these issues and generated an intensive discussion of potential new interdisciplinary approaches to cultural and literary research in the field of Taiwan studies