中国社会工作的发端

The Origin of Social Work in China

鸦片战争后,西方传教士在中国获得了在华传教权并在中国兴办教会大学,开设了社会工作课程并开展社会服务,使社会工作教育率先在中国发展起来;20世纪二三十年代,中国大兴社会调查,并为社会工作的发展奠定了实践基础;20世纪40年代,中国出现了自己的社会工作教材和相关著作来探讨社会工作理论和方法,并出现了相关立法以及社会工作期刊,社会工作在中国安家落户。

Western missionaries gained the right to preach in China after the Opium War, they founded church universities, taught social work and carried out social service; all these made the social work education developed first in China. Social survey prevailed during 1920s-1930s; this is the practical basis of social work. In 1940s, textbooks of social work and other social work books written by Chinese began coming out to discuss social work theories and methods, and social work journals and relevant laws come out too, social work got rooted in China.