Qingwen Xu, Ph.D.

 
        





Be the change you want to see in the world.    -- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) 

It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice, it is a good cat.  
                                                            -- Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997)  

The poor must know that we love them.        -- Mother Teresa (1910-1997) 

I still believe that We Shall overcome!        -- Martin Luther King (1929-1968)



                        About Me

                        Phone: (617) 552-1634

                        Email: xuq@bc.edu
                        Office: McGuinn 203

                              Teaching
                        Education
                        Hometown Beijing, China

                              Research

                        Research Resources
                        Publicaitons

                        Graduate Student Workshop

                              Social Work Profession

                              Council on Social Work Educaiton
                        Society for Social Work and Research
                        American Public Health Association
                        Inter-University Consortium for International Social Development
                        Association for Community Organization & Social Administration
                        International Sociological Association



 

Teaching

The mediocre teacher tells.  The good teacher explains.  The superior teacher demonstrates.  The great teacher inspires.  – William Arthur Ward


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Education

Ph.D. in Social Work from University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work
LL.M. in Comparative Jurisprudence from New York University School of Law
LL.M. in Economic Law from Beijing University School of Law
LL.B. in Law from Beijing Union University College of Arts and Sciences

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Research Resouces


US Social Welfare Policy
Immigrant and Refugee
Law and Social Work
Development and Human Security
Social Work Community Practice

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Publications

Xu, Q. (2006) (forthcoming).  Defining international social work: A social service agency perspective.  International Social Work.

Xu, Q. & Chow, J. (2006) (forthcoming).  Urban community in China: Service, participation, and development.  International Journal of Social Welfare.

Xu, Q., & Pearson, D. (2006) (forthcoming).  Resetting refugee children.  In Arrighi, B. A. & Maume, D. J. (ed.).  Children and the state.  Praeger.

Xu, Q. (2006).  Defining community and the principles of community social work.  Community social work: An insider-outsider exchange of perspectives (pp.3-19).  In Yan, M. Y. & Gao, J. (ed.).  Beijing, China: Chinese Social Science Press.

Chow, J., Lemon, K., & Xu, Q. (2005).  The risk of timing out: Welfare-to-work services to Asian immigrants and refugees.  AAPI Nexus, 3 (2), 85-104.

Xu, Q. (2005).  Building urban China with residents’ participation.  Lincoln Institute Working Paper, No. WP04QX1.  Available at http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/pub-detail.asp?id=999

Xu, Q. (2005).  In the “best interest” of immigrant and refugee children: Deliberating on their unique circumstances.  Child Welfare, 84 (5), 747-770.

Xu, Q., Gao, J., & Yan, M. C. (2005).  Community service centers in urban China.  Journal of Community Practices, 13 (3), 73-90.

Xu, Q. & Jones, J. F. (2004).  Community welfare services in urban China: A public-private experiment.  Journal of Chinese Political Science, 9 (2), 47-62.

Jones, J. F. & Xu, Q. (2002). Grassroots organizations and community development: Evaluating Chinese neighborhood committee.  Regional Development Studies, 8, 99-118.

Xu, Q. (2001).  Community self-administration: Ideal and reality.  Journal of Civil Affairs (Beijing, China).  June 2001, 18-24.

Jones, J. F., Kumssa, A. & Xu, Q. (2000).  Mongolia’s transition in perspective.  In Jones, J. F. & A. Kumssa (ed.).  The cost of reform: The social aspect of transitional economies (pp163-176).  Huntington, New York: NOVA Science Publishers, Inc.

 

 
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