Review: The New Chinatown by Peter Kwong

Book Review of Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry by Peter Stastny and Peter Lehmann (Eds)

Peter Stastny and Peter Lehmann's Alternatives beyond Psychiatry offers a comprehensive and up to date account of the alternatives to mainstream psychiatry that are being developed by service consumers and survivors across the world. As psychiatry moves into a new age less dominated by a biomedical paradigm many of the approaches described in this book may be adopted by mainstream health servic...

Mencius and Early Chinese Thought, by Kwong-Loi Shun (Book Review)

BOOK REVIEW* Responsibility in Law and Morality by PETER CANE

The concept of responsibility underlies many legal rules and remedies. For the most part, criminal liability is incurred only in respect of acts for which the accused is considered responsible; and civil liability is incurred only in respect of loss or damage for which the defendant is considered responsible. However, it seems often to be suggested that questions of responsibility are matters f...

Chinatown Health Clinic

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Revitalizing Chinatown Into a Heterotopia A Geosemiotic Analysis of Shop Signs in Washington, D.C.’s Chinatown

With the changing immigrant population and rising real-estate prices in downtown Washington, D.C., the number of Chinese residents and businesses in its Chinatown has declined in recent years. Meanwhile, non-Chinese stores and restaurants have marched into this thriving neighborhood. Foreseeing the threat of Chinatown’s disappearance from the urban landscape, leaders of the local Chinese commun...