Resilience–Recovery Factors in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Among Female and Male Vietnam Veterans: Hardiness, Postwar Social Support, and Additional Stressful Life Events

Structural equation modeling procedures were used to examine relationships among several war zone stressor dimensions, resilience-recovery factors, and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in a national sample of 1,632 Vietnam veterans (26% women and 74% men). A 9-factor measurement model was specified on a mixed-gender subsample of the data and then replicated on separate subsamples of female and male veterans. For both genders, the structural models supported strong mediation effects for the intrapersonal resource characteristic of hardiness, postwar structural and functional social support, and additional negative life events in the postwar period. Support for moderator effects or buffering in terms of interactions between war zone stressor level and resiliencerecovery factors was minimal

A ‘Third Culture’ in Economics? An Essay on Smith, Confucius and the Rise of China

China's rise drives a growing impact of China on economics. So far, this mainly works via the force of example, but there is also an emerging role of Chinese thinking in economics. This paper raises the question how far Chinese perspectives can affect certain foundational principles in economics, such as the assumptions on individualism and self-interest allegedly originating in Adam Smith. I embark on sketching a 'third culture' in economics, employing a notion from cross-cultural communication theory, which starts out from the observation that the Chinese model was already influential during the European enlightenment, especially on physiocracy, suggesting a particular conceptualization of the relation between good government and a liberal market economy. I relate this observation with the current revisionist view on China's economic history which has revealed the strong role of markets in the context of informal institutions, and thereby explains the strong performance of the Chinese economy in pre-industrial times. I sketch the cultural legacy of this pattern for traditional Chinese conceptions of social interaction and behavior, which are still strong in rural society until today. These different strands of argument are woven together in a comparison between Confucian thinking and Adam Smith, especially with regard to the 'Theory of Moral Sentiments', which ends up in identifying a number of conceptual family resemblances between the two. I conclude with sketching a 'third culture' in economics in which moral aspects of economic action loom large, as well as contextualized thinking in economic policies

The provisional system at Shanghai in 1853-54: foreign consular administration of the Chinese customs

(Peiping), 1935. 110 p ; 23 cm. "Reprinted from the Chinese Social and Political Science Review, v. 18, no. 4, January, 1935." Persistent link to this record: https://encore.qub.ac.uk/iii/encore_qub/record/C__Rb111016

The creation of the foreign inspectorate of customs at Shanghai

Peiping: Chinese Social and Political Science Review, 1936. 2 pts. in 1. Reprinted from The Chinese social and political science review, 19:4 and 20:1. Persistent link to this record: https://encore.qub.ac.uk/iii/encore_qub/record/C__Rb118150

Notes on the history of the Chinese Customs Service

(Peking, 1934)?. 74 p. Persistent link to this record: https://encore.qub.ac.uk/iii/encore_qub/record/C__Rb111012

H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China

Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934) sailed to China in 1874, and for the next thirty-five years he labored loyally in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service, becoming one of its most able commissioners and acquiring a deep knowledge of China\u27s economy and foreign relations. After his retirement in 1909, Morse devoted himself to scholarship. He pioneered in the Western study of China\u27s foreign relations, weaving from the tangled threads of the Ch\u27ing dynasty\u27s foreign affairs several seminal interpretive histories, most notably his three-volume magnum opus, The International Relations of the Chinese Empire (1910-18). At the time of his death, Morse was considered the major historian of modern China in the English-speaking world, and his works played a profound role in shaping the contours of Western scholarship on China. Begun as a labor of love by his protégé, John King Fairbank, this lively biography based primarily on Morse\u27s vast collection of personal papers sheds light on many crucial events in modern Chinese history, as well as on the multifaceted Western role in late imperial China, and provides new insights into the beginnings of modern China studies in this country. Half-finished when Fairbank died, the project was completed by his colleagues, Martha Henderson Coolidge and Richard J. Smith. John King Fairbank (1907-1991) was Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History at Harvard University and founder/director of Harvard\u27s East Asian Research Center, now the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. Martha Henderson Coolidge is associate in research at the Fairbank Center at Harvard University. Richard J. Smith is professor of history and director of Asian Studies at Rice University. A useful survey of the workings of the late nineteenth-century Maritime Customs service. —Bibliographie With this biography coming as a labor of love and his last work, the reader can almost feel Fairbank closing the circle by once again entering into a dialogue with his old mentor. —Journal of Asian Studies Surprisingly pleasant to read. —Royal Asiatic Society The last fresh work we will have of John King Fairbank (1907-1991), and it is a fascinating coda to his remarkable career. —American Historical Reviewhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_asian_studies/1001/thumbnail.jp