Chinese Hand Research Articles

Repair of degloving injury of the fingers using the H shape abdominal flaps with subdermal vascular plexus

Objective To introduce a surgical procedure for repair of skin aegloving injury of the fingers using H shape abdominal flaps with subdemal vascular plexus. Methods Eleven cases(30 fingers)of skin degloving iniury of the fingers distal to the proximal interphalangeal joint were treated with several H shape abdominal flaps with subdermal vascular plexus.Early functional exercises were carried out postoperatively. Results Sixty H shape abdominal flaps for the 30 finers of 11 cases all survived.Postoperative follow up ranged from 3 months to 5 years.The involved fingers had good movement.The apaearance of the fongers was satisfactory without flap bulkiness.Sensory recovery of the 60 flaps reached S0 in 6,S1 in 46 and S2 in 8.According to the criteria of Chinese Hand Surgery Society,the functions of these fingers were evaluated as good in 7 cases,fair in 2 cases and pool in 2 cases.The overall excellent and good rate was 81.8%.Threr was no morbidity at flap domorsite. Conclusion The H shape abdominal flaps with subdermal vascular plexus is an ideal option for repairing skin degloving injury of the fingers.It is simple,has minimal donor site morbidity and is a valuable option for functional recovery. Key words: Fingers; Wounds and injuries; Surgical flaps; Subdermal vascular network

Repairing skin defects at multiple fingers by abdominal flap with subderminal plexus of vessels

目的 介绍一种修复多指皮肤缺损的手术方法.方法 2000年3月-2004年11月,对17例(58指)应用分指腹部真皮下血管网皮瓣修复多指皮肤缺损.结果 17例58块皮瓣全部成活,术后随访4个月～4年.皮瓣感觉恢复:S0级5块,S1级49块,S2级4块.手功能评定:优13例,良2例,差2例,优良率达88.2%.结论应用分指腹部真皮下血管网皮瓣修复多指皮肤缺损是一种理想的选择,手术操作简单,效果好,供区损伤小,对手外伤功能的恢复具有较好的临床价值。

The 9th Congress of the Chinese Hand Surgery Society

Hand surgery started in China when Dr. Shuhuan Wang, founder of hand surgery in China, established China's first hand surgery service in Jishuitan Hospital in Beijing, September 1958. Shortly after this, in southern China, a division of hand surgery was established at Huashan Hospital, Shanghai, in 1960. Owing to the dedication of generations of hand surgeons, hand surgery has developed and flourished throughout China. Nowadays, more than 60 medical centers and hospitals have hand surgery service, and over 10 of them have an independent hand surgery department. © 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc. Microsurgery 25:90–95, 2005.

Repair of degloving injury at fingers using double miniature flaps

目的 介绍手部微型皮瓣组合应用修复手指套状皮肤缺损的手术方法.方法 199 6年7月至2002年12月,应用微型皮瓣组合修复手指套状皮肤缺损21例,术后辅以早期功能锻 炼.结果 21例41块皮瓣全部成活,1块皮瓣部分坏死,经换药后愈合.术后随访5个月至4 年,患指感觉、运动功能及外形均较满意,手功能评定[1]:优13例,良4例,优良率达81%. 结论应用微型皮瓣组合修复手指套状皮肤缺损手术操作简单,效果好, 供区损伤小,有一定的临床应用价值。

Treatment of metacarpal and phalangeal intraarticular fractures with AO mini titanium plate and nail

目的 探讨AO微型纯钛板钉内固定治疗掌指骨关节内骨折的技术及疗效.方法对32例38处掌指骨关节内骨折,采用早期切开复位、A0微型纯钛板钉进行内固定治疗,并辅以术后早期功能训练.38处骨折中掌骨骨折25处,其中掌骨头骨折14处,基底部骨折11处;指骨骨折13处,均为指骨基底部骨折.结果术后随访6个月至1年.38处骨折完全愈合.按手外科功能评定标准:优28指,良1指,中3指,优良率达到90.6%.结论掌指骨关节内骨折,采用AO微型纯钛金属板钉内固定,可得到满意的治疗效果。

Pride and Prejudice: The Role of Policy and Perception Creation in the Chinese Revolt of 1652 on Dutch Formosa

The events of September 1652 on the island of Formosa were one of the bloodiest chapters in the history of Dutch management of the island, and could arguably be viewed as one of the most severe suppressions of a rebellious group in the seventeenth century. The unexpected, ill-prepared uprising of thousands of frustrated, angry and impoverished Chinese farmers and field hands against Dutch colonial management were successfully, yet in the most severe and savage way, suppressed through a military collaboration between the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the local Aborigines of the island. In total some 3,000 Chinese residents of the island were killed, the ‘hacked-off’ head of the leader ‘displayed on a stake […] to frighten the Chinese as a sign of victory over those dastardly traitors’, while three of his lieutenants were tortured to death by Company officials in an effort to extract confessions and information from them. Indeed severe action towards a section of the Formosan colonial society that was primarily responsible for the economic success of the Dutch settlement enterprise.

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy For Objectifying Cerebral Effects Of Needle And Laserneedle Acupuncture

Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has been successfully used in this study to objectify cerebral alterations in oxy- hemoglobin and desoxyhemoglobin, due to manual needle acupuncture and laserneedle acupuncture, in 88 healthy volunteers mean age 25.7 ± 4. 0( x ± SD) years (19-38 years). Results from Traditional Chinese Acupuncture, Korean and Chinese hand acupuncture, ear acupuncture, combinations of the different acupuncture methods and placebo needling are presented. NIRS seems to be able to shed some light upon the functioning of the different acupuncture methods.

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Cultural and Intercultural Functions of Chinese Restaurants in the Mountain West: "An Insider's Perspective"

As Jan Harold Brunvand points out (Brunvand 1998:591), folk foods (in which category we can also include the kinds of ethnic and national foods I will discuss here) are unique among traditional expressions because they are so quickly and wholly consumed by their makers and eaters (their performers and audiences, in folklore terms). Since traditional foods appear and disappear so constantly, a proper study of food folklore must focus not only on the foods themselves, but also on the cultural codes that determine how and why they are produced, and on the customs, assumptions, and shared tastes on which these codes are founded. Virtually all studies of foodlore that go beyond regional recipe books take the contextual, culturally constructed dimension to be at least as important as the resultant foods themselves-often more so, as a look through Brunvand's extensive bibliography indicates (1998:609-614). Most of the essays in the special foodways issue of Western Folklore (vol. 40 [1981]) are also related to the cultural, rather than the metabolic, aspects of food, as are the essays by Yvonne R. and William G. Lockwood, Janet S. Theophano, David Shuldiner, Carolyn Lipson-Walker, Larry Danielson, Olivia Cadaval, and Susan Auerbach in Stephen Stern's and John Allan Cicala's Creative Ethnicity: Symbols and Strategies of Contemporary Ethnic Life (1991). By now, that is, the ethnic dimension of folk foods is more often assumed than questioned. Even so, many studies are shaped by outside inquirers who, though fascinated by the food customs and convinced of their importance, approach their topics without deep personal experience in the assumptions that lie behind the customs they seek to document and discuss. The insider, on the other hand (and several of the articles indicated above were written by members of the community being studied), faces another problem: deep personal acquaintance makes it difficult to be objective about the details of the tradition-a dilemma resolved in part by access to the nuances of language not available to the outsider. The present essay lies somewhere between these two positions for, although the author is a native-born Chinese, the American Chinese traditions discussed here are not exactly what a Chinese insider might initially expect to find. For one thing, while many Chinese dishes in America reflect their regional origins in China with great accuracy, others are new or modified. Thus, in addition to the topic of cultural maintenance or cultural identity through food (which we more or less expect to see), we have a record of modification and change in response to the American cultural environment, which provides evidence of subtle cultural pressures expressed in food more fully than in words. We will also see that Chinese food in American restaurant form plays an important role in active, ongoing cultural relations-as is the case with many national cuisines now resident in the United States. One can hardly find a town in the western United States that does not offer at least one Chinese restaurant. Chinese food, like Italian food, has become almost ubiquitous in American everyday life: Americans take their dates to Chinese restaurants, they take their whole families out on weekend evenings for fancy Chinese dinners, or they order a take-out when they have to work overtime at their businesses. However, Chinese restaurants in America not only serve their function as restaurants but also represent Chinese culture and help Chinese-Americans or overseas Chinese to re-experience and maintain many of their cultural values. Chinese food and the functions it serves represent Chinese traditions, customs, personal points of view, skills, and experiences. Chinese food is good to eat, yet it is troublesome to prepare, since cooking Chinese food properly is like creating a piece of art, and to Chinese it requires a Chinese hand. This may bring up some questions: Can Chinese food in America really be authentic? …

Near–infrared spectroscopy for objectifying cerebral effects of needle and laserneedle acupuncture

Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has been successfully used in this study to objectify cerebral alterations in oxyhemoglobin and desoxyhemoglobin, due to manual needle acupuncture and laserneedle acupuncture, in 88 healthy volunteers mean age 25.7±4.0 ( ±SD) years (19–38 years). Results from Traditional Chinese Acupuncture, Korean and Chinese hand acupuncture, ear acupuncture, combinations of the different acupuncture methods and placebo needling are presented. NIRS seems to be able to shed some light upon the functioning of the different acupuncture methods.

Are Academic Standards A Threat or an Opportunity?

According to Chinese philosophy, crisis and opportunity go hand in hand. The standards movement can be described as being in a state of crisis, a crucial time whose outcome will make a decisive difference for better or worse. On the one hand, a great deal of progress has been made; on the other, some of the standards-driven reforms represent significant threats to students, principals, and teachers.

A Theatre of Taiwaneseness: Politics, Ideologies, and Gezaixi

In September 1990o, for the first time after four decades, the Taiwanese government decided to send performance group to participate in state-sponsored cultural event in Beijing-the Art Festival of the Asian Games. The decision was significant not only because the KMT (Kuomintang) government has been on bad terms with China's government since it lost the mainland to the Chinese Communist Party and retreated to Taiwan in 1949. It was also because the group chosen as the representative of Taiwan was Minghuayuan, newly emerged model troupe of gezaixi (Taiwanese opera). Gezaixi, in contrast to the widely studied jingju (Beijing opera), is little known in the West. Yet, in today's Taiwan, gezaixi is getting particular attention from intellectuals, politicians, the media, and the world. This attention is generated mainly because gezaixi is widely recognized as a of Taiwaneseness. Generally speaking, Taiwaneseness refers to the nature of Taiwanese culture and its presumed attributes. It is largely connected with the culture and history of southeastern Chinese immigrants who first arrived in numbers during the 17th century and continued pouring in through the Qing dynasty. It not only excludes the culture of the aborigines (mountain people),' who were the first settlers of the island, but also draws line against the latest immigrants from all over mainland China in the 1940s. The Taiwaneseness designation is given partly because gezaixi is performed in Taiwanese, the mother tongue of the majority of Taiwan's population. Though not the only human theatre (as opposed to puppetry) performed in Taiwanese, it is the most popular, even if in decline. Chinese genres that had existed on the island for long time-such as budaixi, type of Chinese hand puppetry, and liyuanxi, form popular in Taiwan since the I7th century-lost their popularity to gezaixi. Qiou Kunliang, in his pioneering research on the performing arts during the Japanese colonization (I895-I945), concludes that by I925 gezaixi had become the most popular genre in Taiwan (1992:I86).

America in Taiwan' Post Cold-War Foreign Relations

Since losing the mainland to Communist conquest in 1949 (more accurately, since the North Korean invasion of the South in June 1950), Taiwan has become a continuous foreign policy protectorate of the United States. Had it not been for American security protection, Taiwan would long since have come under Beijing's rule. Several causative agents, separately, in combination or sequentially, kept Taiwan out of mainland Chinese hands. These included, initially, the American Seventh Fleet, then generalized American military might in concert with the American-Taiwan Defence Treaty of 1954, thence the three American- Chinese communiques forming the basis of post-1971 relations between the two countries, concomitantly the American Congress's Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 and the accompanying (and subsequent) legislative history, and, throughout, China's inability to overcome, with a high probability of success, active Taiwan military resistance and probable American military support. While the economic and, more recently, political transformation of Taiwan materially strengthened that entity such that its defensibility against attack rose greatly, to say nothing of its overall attractiveness, from the onset of the People's Republic of China it was the American connection that was the sine qua non of Taiwan's quasi-independent existence.

To Save China, to Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York (review)

To Save China, to Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York (review)

To Save China, To Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York.

To Save China, To Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York.

To Save China, to Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York

To Save China, to Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York

To Save China, to Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York.

Journal Article To Save China, to Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York. By Renqiu Yu. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. xiv, 253 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-87722996-1.) Get access Franklin Ng Franklin Ng California State University, Fresno, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1140–1141, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080534 Published: 01 December 1993

To save China, to save ourselves: the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York

To save China, to save ourselves: the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York

In the Underworld: An Interview with a Dutch Safe‐Breaker

Abstract: This article records an interview with a professional Dutch criminal that illuminates certain aspects of the traditional Dutch underworld. The aim was twofold; to explore the nature of the underworld and to encourage fieldworkers to explore criminality through the biographies of criminals. The traditional underworld in The Netherlands has been replaced by ‘organised’ crime in the hands of Chinese, Turks, Israelis, Colombians, etc. ‘Aage M.’, as he was known in the media, was a well‐known safe‐breaker whose personal story reveals him almost as a relic of a parochial, cohesive, and largely non‐violent domestic underworld that has largely disappeared. The paper is written as a contribution to the small literature on criminal biographies. And as a plea for more direct involvement in the world of crime (short of committing crime!) by qualitative research that is an antidote to the policy‐based, pragmatic, atheoretical mainstream of current crime and deviance material.

The Chinese Laundryman: A Study of Social Isolation

Chinese hand laundries have been a fixture of America's urban landscape for over one hundred years. Yet little is publicly known about the workings of this familiar institution which originated shortly after Chinese immigrants had started to arrive in some numbers in California in the 1850s. At that time the Chinese worked in a wide range of occupations, hand laundries being one of them. But with the faltering of the Western economy and as European immigration to the United States mounted, the tide of anti-Chinese sentiment swelled, which culminated in violent evictions of the Chinese from West Coast cities and in the imposition of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The laundry became one of the few occupations in which Chinese were able to continue to work. This book is the definitive scholarly study of Chinese laundries and of those who worked in them in the United States. Sio's work, researched in the 1930s, was completed as a dissertation in 1953 at the University of Chicago's School of Sociology. It is an intimate insider's look at the life and work of Chinese hand laundry workers in Chicago, and is one of the most insightful participant observation studies of this kind. Dr. Siu, himself the son of a laundryman, introduces in it the key sociological concept of the sojourner and explores the whole nature of immigrant economies. Considered a classic work by students of overseas Chinese and Asian American studies, The Chinese Laundryman is also a landmark in the study of ethnic occupations and in the social and cultural history of the immigrant in America. Vividly descriptive and highly readable, the book will appeal to anyone interested in the ethnic and the urban experience in America.