published_or_final_version / Chinese Historical Studies / Master / Master of Arts

published_or_final_version / Social Work and Social Administration / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

China’s economic reform has not only led to the rapid growth of cities, but also to the dramatic transformation of villages. To fulfill the demand for land and other resources, the state expropriates rural land and the villagers attached to the land are turned into urban residents. Villagers’ committees, the governing body of the village, are also restructured in response to urbanization. For a long period of time, villagers and villagers’ committees have been deemed to be in a weaker position, suffering from the exploitation by the state and a lack of sufficient social welfare. The literature has suggested that the development of modern cities will result in the demise of peasantry and rural collectives. Is this true in Southern China? As a set of new institutional arrangements, the rural shareholding cooperative (RSC) was created in the 1980s that appeared to have reassembled the power and interests of individual farmers and restored the importance of collective actions in the countryside. Using Guangzhou as a case study, this research attempts to find out what role the RSC plays in China’s urbanization. To achieve this goal, quantitative data were collected from national and local governmental departments to illustrate the “big picture” of rural development and shareholding reform in Guangzhou. Qualitative data were obtained from interviews with government officials, rural cadres and villagers, and from fieldwork conducted in representative towns and villages. This study also examines the roles of RSC in three aspects: rural governance, land development and welfare provision. Rural governance mainly refers to the impacts of administrative restructuring, village election and kinship. Land development focuses on the retained land policy, rural land use planning and “Three Oldies (old city, old factory and old village)” redevelopment. In terms of welfare provision, rentier issues, conflicts on shareholdership and rural taxation have also been investigated. The results of spatial analyses and quantitative analyses show that shareholding reform normally took place in economically developed villages situated in locations that were close to the city center. Analyses on rural governance show that RSC has remodeled the interactions of state, cadres and villagers. The powers of these parties have become more balanced now. RSC can also promote physical urbanization in the countryside via profitable development projects and new arrangements on rural planning and land property rights. Moreover, the RSC can facilitate villagers to acquire labor skills, a sense of social equity and awareness as taxpayers. This study has updated the empirical works on institutional change in rural southern China. More importantly, it has examined the new roles of rural collective organizations and contributed to the theories on collectivization in the post-reform era, which have been largely ignored by previous research. Findings of this study imply that the RSC is playing a critical part in China’s urbanization process. As an emerging form of rural collective, it can facilitate rural-urban transformation or even achieve unprecedented integration of Chinese villages and cities. / published_or_final_version / Urban Planning and Design / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

This study examines how agencies might work together more effectively to improve the life chances of young people who fall `through the net' of agency provision. Whatever the situation, the failure to co-operate challenges a democratic society and basic human rights. The problem occurs when individual primary care agencies either: • try to do on their own what can only be achieved by co-operation, or • fail to do anything because, in their view, the client's needs should be met by some other agency, or • only do what they can do on their own. The purpose of this study is to establish: • to what extent improvements in inter-agency co-operation would help agencies work more effectively with young people variously described as falling through the net, or on the margins of an agency's responsibility • what factors contribute to these improvements • what characterises effective models of inter-agency practice. The study finds that over the last thirty years, the legislative framework surrounding inter-agency co-operation for young people provides few examples of structures or procedures requiring agencies to co-operate. Where these exist, they have been set up in response to needs or crises of pressing concern at the time. Research into the practice of inter-agency work shows that successful inter-agency projects set up to meet the needs of those at risk of falling through the net follow a characteristic pattern. This led to the construction of a model based on the idea that successful inter-agency practice depends on the existence of collaborative activity at three interconnected levels: policy and planning; implementation, case work, research and training; networking/liaison. Projects supported at all three levels are more likely to be successful and survive than those which are not. This pattern can be replicated in different contexts and with different client groups to ensure effective co-ordination and redistribution of resources, and that a balance is held between preventative and proactive work. The model's key elements enable it to structure communication pathways within and between agencies, to co-ordinate activity in relation to a particular issue, to develop the interpersonal skills of participants and to provide feedback to policy makers. The research concludes that: • formal structures promoting inter-agency collaboration encourage agencies to innovate and to provide co-ordinated services for young people needing more support than can be provided by any one of them • inter-agency work has become a new area of professional and para professional expertise • models designed to help agencies meet the needs of people at risk can be applied to other projects set up to solve complex problems involving more than one department.

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University of Macau / Faculty of Arts and Humanities. / Department of Portuguese

by Lo Wai-kuen, Ng Wai-ming. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1986

by Lo Wai Sum, Wong Yau Yung, Catherine. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1981. / Bibliography: l. 182.

by Cathy Yuen. / Bibliography: leaves i-v / Thesis (M.S.W.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1984

據稿本複印 / 論文(博士)--香港中文大學硏究院歷史學部,1993. / 參考文獻: leaves 168-180 / 李廣健. / Chapter 第一章 --- 引言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二章 --- 顏氏起家背景 / Chapter 第一節 --- 魏晉以前有關顔氏的記錄 --- p.7 / Chapter 第二節 --- 從《晉書.顔含傳》看顏氏起家的背景 --- p.9 / Chapter 第三節 --- 顔含冒昇與兩晉之際政治社會情態 --- p.12 / Chapter 第四節 --- 顔含與顔氏家族訓誡的確立 --- p.16 / Chapter 第三章 --- 顔氏家訓的形成 / Chapter 第一節 --- 顔之推生平簡歷及《顔氏家訓》成書 --- p.20 / Chapter 第二節 --- 《顔氏家訓》的形成 --- p.22 / Chapter 第三節 --- 顔之推的經歷及其經史觀 --- p.26 / Chapter 第四節 --- 《顏氏家訓》內容结構的分析 --- p.31 / Chapter 第四章 --- 顏氏家學中的經史研究傳統 --- p.38 / Chapter 第五章 --- 顔氏家族中對經典的研究-顔師古與《漢書注》 / Chapter 第一節 --- 顔師古的時代與生平 --- p.45 / Chapter 第二節 --- 顔師古《漢書注》的寫作背景-南學與北學 --- p.47 / Chapter 第三節 --- 顔師古《漢書注》的成書與成就 --- p.55 / Chapter 第四節 --- 顏氏家族環境對顔師古《漢書注》的影響 --- p.66 / Chapter 第六章 --- 顔氏家族的書法家學 --- p.71 / Chapter 第七章 --- 顏氏家學中的藝術成就-顏真卿及其書法 / Chapter 第一節 --- 顔真卿的生平與人格 --- p.78 / Chapter 第二節 --- 顏書出現前的書法發展大勢 --- p.81 / Chapter 第三節 --- 顔真卿書法的淵源 --- p.87 / Chapter 第四節 --- 顏真卿書法的特色 --- p.93 / Chapter 第五節 --- 顔真卿的書法與《顔氏家訓》 --- p.98 / Chapter 第八章 --- 结論 --- p.100 / 註釋 --- p.105 / 〔圖表一.一〕顏氏世糸表 --- p.159 / 〔圖表二 .一〕《漢書.古今人表》顔姓人物品第表 --- p.160 / 〔圖表二.二〕《漢書.古今人表》顏姓人物分佈比例表 --- p.161 / 〔圖表二.三〕《晉書》顔畿故事來源關係表 --- p.162 / 〔圖表五.一〕南北朝《漢書》研究一覽表 --- p.163 / 〔圖表五.二〕顔師古引用前人《漢書》硏究表 --- p.164 / 〔圖表六.一〕顔氏家族善書成員名單 --- p.165 / 〔圖表七.一〕王虞歐褚顏五家「如」、「以」字比較 --- p.166 / 〔圖表七.二〕顏真卿書法淵源譜糸略圖 --- p.167 / 引用書目 --- p.168