Violence In China Research Articles

Intimate Partner Violence in China: National Prevalence, Risk Factors and Associated Health Problems

Intimate partner violence has been studied in many developed and developing countries. China remains one of the few large societies for which the prevalence and correlates of intimate partner violence are unknown. Data from a nationally representative sample of women and men aged 20-64 with a spouse or other steady partner provide estimates of intimate partner violence in China. Binomial and multinomial logistic regression analyses adjusted for sample design examine risk factors and negative outcomes associated with partner violence. Altogether, 34% of women and 18% of men had ever been hit during their current relationship; the prevalence of hitting resulting in bleeding, bruises, swelling, or severe pain and injuries was 12% for women and 5% for men. Significant risk factors for partner violence included sexual jealousy, patriarchal beliefs, low female contribution to household income, low male socioeconomic status, alcohol consumption and residence in regions other than the South and Southeast. Severe hitting was a significant risk factor for self-reported adverse general and sexual health outcomes, including sexual dysfunction, sexual dissatisfaction and unwanted sex. As in other societies, intimate partner violence in China is common and is correlated with adverse general and sexual health outcomes.

Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: the politics of Chinese cinemas

Based on meticulous archival research and a repetorary of rare films, most of which were believed lost, this book is a pioneering critical study of the Chinese cinemas in Hong Kong and Shanghai and their complex interconnections. The years 1935-50 were a period of ceaseless violence in China, of war, occupation, civil war, and colonialism, leading to mass displacements of millions of people and extreme poverty. Both the cinema and the broader popular culture of this period have been little studied, partly because access to research materials is so difficult, partly because of the political problems involved (most films produced during the war have been considered pro-Japanese and their makers traitors). This study brings to light the humanity of the filmmakers, writers, and business people; the many facets of the historical situation in which they worked; and the complex politics of the films they made. This is also an original and important study of the regional networks, diasporic connections, and border-crossing movement of goods, capital, and people that drew Hong Kong and Shanghai together in an intercity nexus that sustained the survival and even flourishing of popular cinema during this tumultuous period.

Collective Violence in China's Cultural Revolution

Collective Violence in China's Cultural Revolution

Contest for Citizenship and Collective Violence in China's Cultural Revolution

Contest for Citizenship and Collective Violence in China's Cultural Revolution

Children’s experience of violence in China and Korea: a transcultural study

Objective: There were two aims: First, to compare children’s rates of being battered in home, by peers, and by teachers among students between China and Korea, and second, to identify particular risk factors for such violence. Methods: Children in grades four through six in Shanghai (238 cases) and Yanji (245 cases) in China and Seoul (248 cases) and Kimpo (241 cases) in Korea were surveyed by questionnaire method. They were asked to complete the Straus’ Conflict Tactics Scale and their frequencies in the three situations respectively, and other demographic items. Results: Family violence during the last 1 year was experienced in 70.6% (minor 42.2%; serious 22.6%) of the children in China and 68.9% (minor 9.4%; serious 51.3%) of those in Korea. Experience rates of violence by peers were 42.7% (minor 25.7%; serious 13.7%) in China and 26.0% (minor 11.5%; serious 14.3%) in Korea. Finally, rates of corporal punishment by teachers were 51.1% (minor 28.0%; serious 4.1%) in China and 62.0% (minor 8.8%; serious 43.8%) in Korea. The most important and common risk factor for violence in one situation was the presence of violence in another situation. Conclusions: The findings indicate that the differences in children’s overall experience rates were not particularly striking. However, Korean children experienced more severe forms of violence from family members and from teachers. Findings of risk factors clearly imply that there are children vulnerable to violence from multiple sources.

Domestic Violence in China: In Search of Legal and Social Responses

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN CHINA: IN SEARCH OF LEGAL AND SOCIAL RESPONSES Yuhong Zhao* INTRODUCTION The status of Chinese women has changed dramatically since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949.1 However, they still have a long way to go to reach a condition of ultimate freedom and true equality in society. Violence against women is manifested by torture, rape, persecution and violence by intimate partners. Home, traditionally seen as a safe haven, has become a war zone for many women, even during times of peace. Although violence against women is illegal, or at least in theory carries the possibility of some legal sanction, the violence still continues. Domestic violence is an issue that has long been ignored by the government and wrongly perceived by Chinese society as acceptable until very recently. It was not until the 1990s that increasing attention started to be paid to the nature, severity and magnitude of the epidemic of domestic violence in China. At the international level, violence against women is finally being seen as a violation of the rights and fundamental freedoms of women as well as an impairment or nullification of their enjoy- ment of those rights and freedoms. 2 It is an obstacle to the achievement of equality, development and peace as recognized in the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Lecturer in Law, City University of Hong Kong. BA and LLB (Peking Uni- versity), MSL (Vermont Law School), PhD (City University of Hong Kong). The author would like to acknowledge her gratitude to the City University of Hong Kong for providing a small-scale research grant to conduct research on the subject. 1. The most recent comprehensive review of women's status in China was con- ducted by the Women's Studies Institute of the All China Women's Federation. See A REVIEW OF THE SOCIAL STATUS OF WOMEN IN CHINA (Tao Chunfang & Jiang Yongping eds., 1995). 2. See UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, U.N. GAOR, 48th Sess., Agenda Item 111, U.N. Doc. A/Res/48/104 (1994) [hereinafter DEVAW].

Family violence in China: Past and present

Family violence in China was raised as a social issue only within the last decade. Many aspects of family violence have not been responded to by social service agencies or policy makers; nor has it...

Book Review: Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture

Book Review: Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture

Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture. Edited by Jonathan N. Kipman and Stevan Harrell. [Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. 259 pp. Hardcover $39.50, paperback $12.95.

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Violence in China: essays in culture and counterculture

Violence in China: essays in culture and counterculture

Policies of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China's Cultural Revolution.

Policies of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China's Cultural Revolution.

Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture. Edited by Jonathan N. Lipman and Stevan Harrell. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1990. x, 249 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).

Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture. Edited by Jonathan N. Lipman and Stevan Harrell. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1990. x, 249 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).

Politics of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China's Cultural Revolution. By Lynn T. WhiteIII. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. 367p. $39.50. - Agrarian Radicalism in China, 1968–1981. By David Zweig. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. 269p. $30.00.

Politics of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China's Cultural Revolution. By Lynn T. WhiteIII. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. 367p. $39.50. - Agrarian Radicalism in China, 1968–1981. By David Zweig. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. 269p. $30.00.

Policies of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China's Cultural Revolution.

The tumult of the Cultural Revolution after 1966 is often blamed on a few leaders in Beijing, or on long-term egalitarian ideals, or on communist or Chinese political cultures. Lynn White shows, however, that the chaos resulted mainly from reactions by masses of individuals and small groups to three specific policies of administrative manipulation: labeling groups, designating bosses, and legitimating violence in political campaigns. These habits of local organization were common after 1949 and gave the state success in short-term revolutionary aims, despite scarce resources and staff--but they also drove millions to attack each other later.First, measures accumulated before 1966 to give people bad or good names (such as rightist or worker); these set a family's access to employment, education, residence, and rations--so they gave interests to potential conflict groups. Second, policies for bossism went far beyond Confucian patronage patterns, making work units tightly dependent on Party monitors--so rational individuals either pandered to local bosses or (when they could) deposed them. Third, the institutionalized violence of political campaigns both mobilized activists and scared others into compliance. These organizational measures were often effective in the short run before 1966 but accumulated social costs that China paid later. The book ends with comparisons to past cases of mass urban ostracism in other countries, and it suggests how such tragedies may be forecast or prevented in the future.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Terrorism in a Bargaining Framework

A LTHOUGH hostage seizures are a small percentage of terrorist incidents, they represent some of the most spectacular and influential events.2 The takeover of the American embassy in Tehran on November 14, 1979, the seizure of eleven dPEC oil ministers on December 21, 1975, and the capture and killing of nine Israeli athletes on September 5, 1972, are incidents not easily forgotten. From 1968 through 1982, of the approximately 8,000 reported terrorist events, 540 (7 percent) were transna-

Collective violence in China, 1880?1980

Collective violence in China, 1880?1980

Provincial Violence in Postrevolutionary China: A Quantitative Study

Research Article| August 01 1981 Provincial Violence in Postrevolutionary China: A Quantitative Study David Kowalewski David Kowalewski Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1952) 21 (8): 885–900. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643889 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation David Kowalewski; Provincial Violence in Postrevolutionary China: A Quantitative Study. Far Eastern Survey 21 May 1952; 21 (8): 885–900. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2643889 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAsian Survey Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1981 The Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.