| Abstract | In this article, the author argues that social workers have been, and still are, creating knowledge for a "Chinese" social work. The argument goes like this: Large abstractions, in the form of formal theories, provide inadequate guide for practice. In the "swampy lowland" of the practice world, social workers improvise and create context-specific and practice-relevant "local knowledge" that takes into account client expectancies, cultural knowledge, personal experiences, their professional experiences as well as those of their peers. |
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