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The predicament of social work development and the emergence of social work action/practice research in China

For this special issue, we called for articles on social work action/practice research from Greater China, i.e., Chinese societies located in the different parts of the world. Unexpectedly, all the articles we received originate from the Chinese mainland. While offering a limited vantage, nevertheless, the selected articles we chose from this offered, reveal, at least to a certain extent, the efforts of Chinese social workers in the context of their development of practice research. Additionally they report how a specific Chinese approach to social work has been constructed. Hence in this article, “China” refers to “mainland China” and the action/practice research in this special issue is best understood as describing the context of social work development in mainland China.