Orphan Of China Research Articles

The influence of care types on the development of orphans--An empirical study from China.

Care typess is considered the cornerstone of orphan's happiness and health. In 2022, China had more than 190,000 orphans in different types of care. The purpose of the study is to examine the relationship between care types and development of orphans in China. We conducted an empirical study using cross-sectional survey data related to orphans from LZ City, Sichuan Province, China, in 2020. The data sample consists of 320 valid samples of orphans and their families, including 166 boys and 154 girls. The study conducted multiple linear regression model to analyze the relationship between care types and other family variables and the development of orphans. The results indicate that compared with other care types, grandparent care has a significant positive impact on the overall development and psychological status of orphans, with this impact being moderated by the social participation of guardians. The higher the social participation of guardians, the greater the positive impact of grandparent care on the development of orphans. Further analysis, grouped by sex and age, revealed that the effects of care types on orphan development are influenced by the gender and age of orphans. Specifically, girls and younger orphans tend to exhibit better development in a grandparent care family. The research results of this study provide an empirical basis for the government to formulate policies, and for the government, society and family to jointly ensure the better development of orphans.

A comparative study of Chinese and Western tragedies——Take “The Orphan of Zhao” and “The Orphan of China” as examples

A comparative study of Chinese and Western tragedies——Take “The Orphan of Zhao” and “The Orphan of China” as examples

ORGANIZATIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL FORMS OF SOCIAL CARE FOR ORPHANS IN CHINA AND UKRAINE

The article analyzes the organizational and pedagogical forms of social care for orphans in the People’s Republic of China: children’s villages-communes, Children’s Towns – SOS, boarding schools, boarding schools of religious orientation. It is proved that the commune-settlement named after V. Korolenko was taken as a model for the creation of children’s settlements-communes. Children’s villages are located in the countryside, in nature. In children’s villages there are children of different ages (from 3 years to 16–18), who must take care of each other. Children’s villages are considered a personnel reserve for China’s agricultural sector. SOS Children’s Villages is a charity project to support orphans, children left without parental care and children at risk of losing their families. It is a charitable organization that exists solely at the expense of sponsors. The organization is united in a mini-community of 11–15 houses, in each of which live 6–8 children of different age together with the SOS-mother. In China, there are boarding schools organized by local communities opened at the initiative of the local community in rural economically backward areas. Subjects taught in the boarding schools are Chinese, Local Language, Mathematics, Basics of Agriculture or Handicrafts, Basics of Politics and Laws of the People’s Republic of China. Children between the age of 5 and 12 live permanently on the boarding school, and older children attend Sunday lessons and receive additional education in their free time.
 The purpose of the article is to theoretically analyze the organizational and pedagogical forms of social care for orphans in the People’s Republic of China.
 As a result of the analysis of scientific works dedicated to the problem of social care for orphans in the People’s Republic of China, we can state that the main forms of social care for orphans in China are: children’s villages, “Children’s Towns – SOS”, boarding schools, orphanages and boarding schools with a religious orientation.

War and compassion: the plight of war orphans in East Asia, 1867–1945 and beyond

AbstractWar and peace are the two incompatible notions. War and compassion are not: war often calls for human compassion to save not only friends but also enemies. As the technology of war has advanced since the nineteenth century, the targets of compassion in the form of philanthropy, social work, and humanitarianism have also expanded to include soldiers, civilians, and children. In this article, I explore the link between war and compassion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by focusing on the plight of Japanese war orphans in Japan and Chinese war orphans in China. These sixty-seven Chinese war orphans were brought to Japan in 1939 by a member of the Japanese Imperial army stationed in occupied China. The founders of orphanages in Japan argued that war incited their compassion to save the young victims of war. Yet they were also forced to work under the watchful eyes of the State. How did Japan's power structures, which created misery in both Japan and China, change over time? How did the Japanese social structures, which tried to help alleviate misery among children, change? My goal is to relate these questions to each other for further understanding the link between war and compassion between 1867 and 1945 and in the early postwar era.

The Orphan of China in Voltaire’s Eyes: Analysis on Elements of Chinese Cultures in Ji Junxiang’s The Orphan of Zhao

The Orphan of China in Voltaire’s Eyes: Analysis on Elements of Chinese Cultures in Ji Junxiang’s The Orphan of Zhao

A Spirit of Reciprocity: Service-Learning Opportunities at Iowa

For a number of years, faculty and students from the University of Iowa have been providing services to orphans in China. To improve sustainability, the effort was increased to also include training to hospital and orphanage staff as well. It became clear that the scope of our tasks and the amount of preparation for the students involved was exceeding what we could fit into the spare time of the typical graduate student and the mentor-of the-year. With the onset of a second humanitarian project—demanding similar training preparation and planning—a course was developed to better prepare the students for both the upcoming trips, as well as a lifetime of international collaboration and reciprocity. Funded entirely by student/faculty fundraising efforts (and personal resources), our commitment to global teaching and service is a strong one.

Pprofessional and labor socialization of orphans in China

ABSTRACT It has been defined that the problem of labor socialization of young specialists is a problem of great interest and practical importance for modern pedagogical science. Current issues of professional socialization of young people have been considered. Special attention has been paid to orphans - inmates of institutions of social care in China. It has been determined that labor education throughout the history was considered to play the primary role among all kinds of educational work with young people both in classical and modern China. The experience of China as to the problem mentioned has been characterized. Special attention has been paid to the issues which play a practical role both in motivating orphans to professional and labor search (holding “weeks of professions”, participation in daily work as to maintaining the orphanage, caring for youngsters and olds, work in gardens and workshops located on the territory of orphanage etc.) and the society to taking care of orphans (patronage and guarding from factories and plants, granting jobs’ quotas for orphanages’ graduates, making production areas on the territories of the orphanages etc.). It has been found out that adequate labor and professional socialization of orphans in China is considered to be an important part of public campaigns aimed at making staff reserve for different plants and factories (especially with hard or harmful working conditions), law enforcement agencies and agriculture. It has been defined that appropriate level of labor and professional socialization of orphans in China is seen by the State as an essential condition of their full integration into modern Chinese society.

Home of Hope

This article is an attempt to explore the issues of online representations of orphans in China and India in the intersection of power, voice, and placement. Textual and visual representations of orphans at www.homeofhopeindia.org and www.homeofhope.org are analyzed using the theoretical frameworks of voicings, Whiteness, and the colonial (technological) gaze. We examine how online networks are spaces for discursive reproduction of existing offline hegemonies. We pay particular attention to the reproduction and representation of the so-called voiceless Other in online settings.

Alternative visions and representation: independent documentary film-making in contemporary China

ABSTRACTIndependent documentary filmmaking in contemporary China offers an alternative vision to official, mainstream, and commercial productions. This essay shows how the practices of independent filmmakers constitute alternative perspectives by first exploring representations of the AIDS epidemic and AIDS orphans in China, and then by examining reconstructions of sociopolitical history silenced by official discourse and ignored in collective memory. Also discussed are gender politics in documentaries which use women as discursive or visual subjects and the question of why the perspective of gender remains marginal to the documentary film practices.

AIDS Orphanages in China: Reality and Challenges

With the increasing number of AIDS orphans in China, the government has been building AIDS orphanages since 2004 to accommodate some of those children who have lost both parents to AIDS. However, no data are available regarding the quality of this model of institutional care of AIDS orphans in China. This study, based on qualitative data from children and workers in AIDS orphanages, examines the daily lives, needs, and feelings of orphans and explores the advantages and disadvantages of institutionalized care of AIDS orphans in China. The current study was conducted in 2006-2007 in two rural counties of central China. Data in the current study included individual in-depth interviews with 23 children who lost both of their parents to HIV/AIDS (ages 8 to 17 years) living in AIDS orphanages and 5 AIDS orphanage workers. Findings in this study reveal that children living in orphanages mostly felt that the living conditions were better than the families they lived with after the death of their parents. However, according to the children and orphanage workers, the institutional care has some disadvantages, such as administrative restraints, limited psychological guidance, stigma, lack of education on AIDS, and financial burdens of the operation. Implications for intervention programs include continuing support from the government and nongovernmental organizations, improvements in administrative styles, and the need of incorporating psychological support within the institutions.

Care arrangements, grief and psychological problems among children orphaned by AIDS in China

The China Ministry of Health has estimated that there are at least 100,000 AIDS orphans in China. The UNICEF China Office estimates that between 150,000 and 250,000 additional children will be orphaned by AIDS over the next five years. However, limited data are available regarding the sociodemographic characteristics, care arrangements, barriers to appropriate grief resolution and psychological problems among AIDS orphans in China. In this article, we review secondary data and reports from scientific literature, government, non-governmental organisations and public media regarding children orphaned by AIDS in China to address their living situation, bereavement process and psychological problems. Our review suggests that AIDS orphans in China are living in a stressful environment, with many orphans struggling with psychological problems and unmet basic needs such as food, shelter, education and medical care. Based on our review, we suggest that future studies should address the psychosocial needs of AIDS orphans in China and develop health promotion programmes to mitigate the negative impact of parental death on the physical and psychosocial well-being of these orphans.

Four Epistles Concerning The Orphan of China

Four Epistles Concerning The Orphan of China

David Garrick's reaction against French Chinoiserie in The Orphan of China

This paper sets the success of Garrick's Drury Lane production of Arthur Murphy's The Orphan of China in 1759 against the failure of his staging of Noverre's The Chinese Festival four years earlier. It argues that the Francophobia displayed by the audience in 1755 was an expression of patriotic possessiveness, and that, by 1759, Garrick had found a way of giving a peculiarly English flavour to the taste for Chinoiserie, a flavour that lacked the ingredient of French neoclassicism. Garrick's Chinese staging reflected his English contemporaries' concerns for nationalism, Orientalism and imperial competition with France.

Tiananmen Square and Han-let or The Orphan of China : A Collaboration between History and Co-authors—An Interview with Faye C. Fei and William Sun

Tiananmen Square and Han-let or The Orphan of China : A Collaboration between History and Co-authors—An Interview with Faye C. Fei and William Sun

Transethnic adoption and personality traits: a lesson from Japanese orphans returned from China to Japan

The authors interviewed 25 Japanese who had been left as orphans in China at the end of World War II and who had recently returned to Japan with their Chinese spouses after almost four decades. It was found that even though they had been raised as Chinese culturally for almost their entire lives, most of these subjects had retained certain Japanese personality traits and social behavior from early childhood, and these characteristics distinguished them from their Chinese counterparts.

中国残留日本人孤児・帰国者の世界像に関する研究

It is confermed by both the Japanese and the Chinese government that there are 2135 so-called “Japanese orphans in China” in 1986 who were parted from their parents at the end of world war II. Since the Peace and Friendship Treaty between Japan and Communist China was concluded in 1978, their visit to Japan and looking for their flesh and blood has begun.Even if they can manage to return to Japan, it is very difficult for them to settle in Japan and their activities is not so successful as they have expected.Also training them to settle in their fatherland is a difficult task because they are required to cope with the quite different customs of society.This study aims to extract their spacial recognitions of Weltbild or glove-pictures which are remaining in orphans, and building up while they lived in China, and next to reveal their life-stories according to their individual character. In addition, it is to reveal the relationship between each orphan and his space recognition or his Weltbild, and its characteristics, by classifying heir life histories.The purpose of this study is to find out the minimum community of these orphans and to provide it the fundamental data which is practically useful to develop a school curriculum for the orphans and their family in order to settle in Japan.The method used here was direct questionary to the 10 orphans (5 of them are male and the other 5 female) who have just returned to Japan, entered the training school in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture.The questions are as follows:1 To draw the maps of their houses, towns, villages and their vicinities where they used to live in China.2 How far and wide they traveled while they were in China.3 How their Weltbild or their views about the world have changed when they return to Japan?4 What are thier images about the major countries of the world?5 To what extent they can recognize the names of popular place in China, Japan and the world.The results find out are as follows:1 The life-histories of the orphans differ vastly according to their school career, their previous jobs and their places of residence.2 Their school careers are different from those who never learned at school to those who studied at professional schools (five of them have given up learning or never learnd at elementary school, another five of them have learned at heigher schools and two of them at professional school).3 There is a great difference in their ability to express their space-recognition.4 The type of recognition about Japan is determined by their concerns about Japan rather than their school career. For instance, there is an orphan who has a more ardent desire to return to Japan in spite of his lower school career.Incidentally, all the orphans except one know that they are Japanese from early childhood. The orphans who spent thier childhood in Japan recognize comparatively more names of Japanese place than those who did not.5 The ability to recognize space is remarkably different according to his residence in Chira.6 Farther-in-low's occupation does not have direct influence on the recognition ability of an orphan.His space recognition ability depends upon his educational circumstance in his family.7 Finally, the auther deeply feel it necessary to give geographc education to Japanese orphans in presenting some popular places in Japan.Furthermore, to make the most of their knowledge about China is useful in training more effectively in order to settle in Japan.