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33 Int'l Soc. Work 5 (1900)

handle is hein.journals/intsocwk33 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial One of the amazing aspects of our technologically sophisticated world is the vividness and speed by which information and events can be transmitted. Thus in recent weeks we followed in chilling detail the hourly unfolding of events in Tiananmen Square in Beijing when a group of students struggled to change a social system through use of public assembly. Partly because of the skill of the journalists involved, partly because of the determination of the students, partly because of the availability of media technology and partly because of the excitement and interest of the world in what appeared to be an opening up of China the suddenness of the change and the horror and brutality of the response saddened and troubled us all. What do we as readers and contributors to International Social Work do in a situation such as this? How do we respond to articles written just before these events about the development of a social welfare network in China? These now seem to have been written about another time and another place. Clearly we cannot just turn our back on a country as vast and complex as China. Surely we must continue to develop and foster collegial bonds with social workers in places like China. Yet in attempting to be available and in seeking to work together we do not wish our efforts to be viewed as support for the form of oppression that has taken place both there and elsewhere. Of course China is not the only area of the world about which we have concern. The challenge to a journal such as ours is to find how we can learn from each of these situations. We must try to ensure that we are as knowledgeable as possible about situations in other parts of the world. We need to give strong support to our colleagues who are or have been directly involved in these horrific situations to write about their perceptions, explanations and understanding, to teach us. Our ongoing quest should be to incorporate whatever new under- standings or perspectives that can be drawn into our own areas of interest. The need for international understanding is one of the primary International Social Work (SAGE, London, Newbury Park and New Delhi), Vol. 33 (1990), 5-6.

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