Political Agenda and Early Social Work Development in China

Social work was attached considerable importance in 1930's and 1940's. On one hand, the government promoted social work development; on the other hand, political agenda and political discourse deeply penetrated its denomination, ranges and functions, and this profession had to respond to the need of state capacity-building and the political discourse of societal building. And that had serious effects on its tendency. To some extent, social work became a native and situated political practice.