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Lee, Ching Kwan. "Precarization or Empowerment? Reflections on Recent Labor Unrest in China." Journal of Asian Studies 75, no. 2 (2016): 317–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911815002132.

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Labor scholars have highlighted the predicament of “precarization” besetting the working class everywhere in the twenty-first century. Beneath the “proletariat” now stands the “precariat,” for whom exploitation seems like a privilege compared to constant exclusion from the labor market. Amidst worldwide employment informalization and decimation of workers’ collective capacity, media reports and academic writings on Chinese workers in the past several years have singularly sustained a curious discourse of worker empowerment. Strikes in some foreign-invested factories have inspired claims of ris

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Saitua, Iker. "KARUKA, Manu, Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad, University of California Press, Oakland, 2019, 297 pp." Historia Contemporánea, no. 64 (October 1, 2020): 1056–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1387/hc.21628.

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López, Marco Antonio Samaniego. "Formación y consolidación de las organizaciones obreras en Baja California, 1920-1930." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 14, no. 2 (1998): 329–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1051932.

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The article examines the various ways in which labor organizations began to form in Baja California. Because of the nature of the Porfirian political economy, which led to the preeminence of North American capital and the introduction of Chinese laborers, particularly in the Mexicali Valley, the first efforts of Mexican workers were directed against foreigners. This did not prevent them, however, from establishing ties with groups in southern California, principally in the Imperial Valley and in Mexicali. In Ensenada, where conditions were quite different, the stevedores organized to control t

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Zhang, Tracy Y. "From China to the Big Top: Chinese Acrobats and the Politics of Aesthetic Labor, 1950–2010." International Labor and Working-Class History 89 (2016): 40–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547915000332.

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AbstractSince the mid-1980s, North American circus shows have imported jaw-dropping acrobatic acts from the People's Republic of China. This article examines the shifting politics of body and labor that facilitate the international recruitment of Chinese acrobats. Drawing on oral history interviews and archival materials, this study analyzes how a socialist labor hierarchy and ideas of ownership shape acrobats’ relationships with the Chinese state. Since the 1980s, these politics of labor and body have shifted in accordance with the accelerated commercialization of acrobatics, facilitating the

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Thränhardt, Dietrich. "Between State and Market: Local Governments and Immigration." German Politics and Society 16, no. 4 (1998): 68–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/104503098782487040.

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In the mid- to late-nineteenth century, millions of Germans emigratedto the New World. Today, however, immigration to Germanyis an integral aspect of everyday life in the country. The consequencesof immigration are far-reaching, ranging from the wealth ofculinary options offered by Italian, Greek, or Chinese restaurants, tothe social costs of employing thousands of foreign workers in Germany’sconstruction sector. In the Ruhr River area, Germany’slargest industrial melting pot, Turkish names are now as common asPolish names—the latter representing an immigrant group that settledin the area some

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Angevine, Robert G. "Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad. By Manu Karuka (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2019) 318 pp. $85.00 cloth $29.95 paper." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 50, no. 4 (2020): 616–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh_r_01505.

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Zulueta, Benjamin C. "Master of the Master Gland: Choh Hao Li, the University of California, and Science, Migration, and Race." Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 39, no. 2 (2009): 129–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2009.39.2.129.

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This essay examines the origins of the relationship between Choh Hao Li and the University of California, Berkeley. Li came to the United States from China in 1935 for graduate study at the University of Michigan, but ended up enrolling at Berkeley. Over the course of the next two decades, Li went from being a foreign graduate student in chemistry on a temporary visa to an internationally recognized leader in the biochemistry of endocrinology at the head of his own laboratory and a naturalized citizen of the United States. At what was otherwise a dark time for Americans of Chinese descent, Li

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Mungello, D. E. "Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion. By Eric Reinders. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xvi+266, 10 illustrations. $49.95 (cloth)." History of Religions 46, no. 4 (2007): 369–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/518814.

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KING, AMY. "Reconstructing China: Japanese technicians and industrialization in the early years of the People's Republic of China." Modern Asian Studies 50, no. 1 (2015): 141–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x15000074.

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AbstractThe Chinese Communist Party was confronted with the pressing challenge of ‘reconstructing’ China's industrial economy when it came to power in 1949. Drawing on recently declassified Chinese Foreign Ministry archives, this article argues that the Party met this challenge by drawing on the expertise of Japanese technicians left behind in Northeast China at the end of the Second World War. Between 1949 and 1953, when they were eventually repatriated, thousands of Japanese technicians were used by the Chinese Communist Party to develop new technology and industrial techniques, train less s

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Zhang, Xiaodan. "A Path to Modernization: A Review of Documentaries on Migration and Migrant Labor in China - Manufactured Landscapes (2007) 90 minutes. Director: Jennifer Baichwal. Director of photography: Peter Mettler. Produced by Nick de Pencier, Daniel Iron, and Jennifer Baichwal. Released by Zeitgeist Films. - Bing Ai (2007) 114 minutes. Director, writer, and producer: Feng Yan. http://www.cidfa.com/modules/index.php - Up the Yangtze (2008) 94 minutes. Writer and director: Yung Chang. Director of photography: Wang Shi Qing. Producers: Mila Aung-Thwin, Germaine Ying-Gee Wong, and John Christou. Released by Zeitgeist Films. - Losers and Winners (2007) 96 minutes. Directors: Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken. Released by Icarus Films. - China Blue (2005) 86 minutes. Producer and director: Micha X. Peled. Released by Bullfrog Films. - Mardi Gras (2007) 74 minutes. Producer, director, and editor: David Redmon. Directors of photography: David Redmon and Kathleen Rivera. Released by Carnivalesque Films. - A Decent Factory (2005) 79 minutes. Directed, written, and produced by Thomas Balmès for Margot Films/BBC, and Kaarle Aho for Making Movies. Released by First Run/Icarus Films." International Labor and Working-Class History 77, no. 1 (2010): 174–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547909990317.

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None of the award-winning films reviewed in this article has a blissful tone. In these films, we watch young girls in assembly lines producing all sorts of commodities in China as well as four hundred Chinese workers disassembling a coking plant in Germany. We are immersed in people's personal stories, such as a peasant woman forced to leave her farm and her lone hut, located in the area due to be submerged by the Three Gorges Dam project, and a sixteen-year-old girl learning to labor on a cruise ship along the Yangtze River. In most of the films we also meet managers, Chinese or foreign, who

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Laamann, Lars Peter. "BOOK REVIEW: Eric Reinders.BORROWED GODS AND FOREIGN BODIES: CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES IMAGINE CHINESE RELIGION. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2004." Victorian Studies 48, no. 2 (2006): 335–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/vic.2006.48.2.335.

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Barrett, T. H. "Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion. By Eric Reinders. [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. xvi+266 pp. $49.95, £32.50. ISBN 0-520-24171-1.]." China Quarterly 182 (June 2005): 450–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741005330268.

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In 1997, Eric Reinders was awarded a doctorate on the topic of “Buddhist Rituals of Obeisance and the Contestation of the Monk's Body in Medieval China.” Any regret that might be felt in the decidedly restricted field of Anglophone studies of Buddhist China at the subsequent loss of his talents to that area of research must be outweighed by an awareness that he has chosen to move on to open up research in an area hitherto largely untouched by any scholarship at all in any language. For despite the longstanding efforts that have been put into the writing of mission history, the study of the cul

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MITTER, RANA. "Borrowed gods and foreign bodies. Christian missionaries imagine Chinese religion. By Eric Reinders. Pp. xvi+266 incl. 10 figs. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press, 2004. £32.50. 0 520 24171 1." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 57, no. 3 (2006): 627. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022046906968134.

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Jones, Robin. "Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Culture in Republican China. By Andrew D.Morris. [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. xx+368 pp. ISBN 0-520-24084-7.]." China Quarterly 182 (June 2005): 447–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741005310265.

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Over the last decade, there has been a growing media interest in the rise to world prominence of Chinese sport, fuelled first by the startling performances of China's athletes in the mid- 1990s, then by their declared interest in staging the 2000 Olympic Games, and ultimately their successful bid for the 2008 Games. As if to underline this, China leapt into second place in the medals tally of the Athens Olympic Games in 2004, thus ensuring that the media took full note of the Middle Kingdom. However, in the corresponding period (and in fact much further back) there has been little serious inte

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Pante, Michael D. "Rickshaws and Filipinos: Transnational Meanings of Technology and Labor in American-Occupied Manila." International Review of Social History 59, S22 (2014): 133–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859014000315.

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AbstractThis article tells the hitherto unknown history of the rickshaw in the Philippines. The Filipinos’ encounter with this transport mode was brief and largely revolved around a failed rickshaw business in Manila in 1902. The venture quickly fizzled out, but not without controversy, deeply rooted in the colliding socio-political forces in the city at that time: the reliance on a non-motorized transport system; the consolidation of American colonial rule against the backdrop of an ongoing revolution; the birth of the first Filipino labor federation; and the implementation of a law banning t

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Jędrzejko, Paweł. "Translocality/Methodology. The Americas, or Experiencing the World." Review of International American Studies 13, no. 2 (2020): 5–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/rias.10013.

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The Americas offer a peculiar stage for translocal methodologies. If we agree that the products of Chinese American culture—which, in the course of the last 170 years of interaction, has evolved into a unique, American, phenomenon—can not be labeled as “Made in China,” then contemporary Chinese medicine in the Americas cannot legitimately be perceived solely as an ‘import.’ Beyond doubt, phenomena such as the emergence of the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the California Institute of Integral Studies testify to the fact that the once ‘exotic’ forms of therapy are now being

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Jędrzejko, Paweł. "Translocality/Methodology. The Americas, or Experiencing the World." Review of International American Studies 13, no. 2 (2020): 5–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/rias.10013.

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The Americas offer a peculiar stage for translocal methodologies. If we agree that the products of Chinese American culture—which, in the course of the last 170 years of interaction, has evolved into a unique, American, phenomenon—can not be labeled as “Made in China,” then contemporary Chinese medicine in the Americas cannot legitimately be perceived solely as an ‘import.’ Beyond doubt, phenomena such as the emergence of the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the California Institute of Integral Studies testify to the fact that the once ‘exotic’ forms of therapy are now being

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Stewart, Susan L., Julie HT Dang, Natalie J. Török, and Moon S. Chen. "Patterns and co-occurrence of risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma in four Asian American communities: a cross-sectional study." BMJ Open 9, no. 6 (2019): e026409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026409.

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ObjectivesTo investigate risk factor patterns and the simultaneous occurrence of multiple risk factors in the viral, metabolic and lifestyle domains among Asian Americans, who have had the highest mortality rates from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).SettingSacramento County, California, USA.ParticipantsEligible participants were county residents ages 18 and older who had not been screened for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) and were born in a CDC-defined endemic area or whose parent was born in that area. Of 1004 enrolled, 917 were foreign-born Chinese (130 women, 94 men), Hmong (133 women, 75

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Clayton, Cathryn H. "Multi-ethnic Macao: from global village to migrant metropolis." Social Transformations in Chinese Societies 15, no. 2 (2019): 145–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/stics-01-2019-0003.

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Purpose In the past 20 years, Macao has experienced phenomenal economic growth driven by the liberalization of its casino sector. This growth has been enabled by massive influxes of foreign capital and migrant labor that have dramatically altered the city’s ethnic landscape. In this paper, the author examines the demographic changes Macao has experienced as a result of the casino boom, and situates the city’s current economic growth and ethnic diversification within its long history as a multi-ethnic city. Design/methodology/approach Building on Nancy Foner’s notion of “contexts of settlement,

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Andaya, Leonard Y., H. A. Poeze, Anne Booth, et al. "Book Reviews." Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 148, no. 2 (1992): 328–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379-90003163.

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- Leonard Y. Andaya, H.A. Poeze, Excursies in Celebes; Een bundel bijdragen bij het afscheid van J. Noorduyn als directeur-secretaris van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. Leiden: KITLV Uitgeverij, 1991, 348 pp., P. Schoorl (eds.) - Anne Booth, Adrian Clemens, Changing economy in Indonesia Volume 12b; Regional patterns in foreign trade 1911-40. Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute, 1992., J.Thomas Lindblad, Jeroen Touwen (eds.) - A.P. Borsboom, James F. Weiner, The empty place; Poetry space, and being among the Foi of Papua New Guinea. Bloomington: Indiana University Pr

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Wang, Jing. "The Coffee/Café-Scape in Chinese Urban Cities." M/C Journal 15, no. 2 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.468.

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IntroductionIn this article, I set out to accomplish two tasks. The first is to map coffee and cafés in Mainland China in different historical periods. The second is to focus on coffee and cafés in the socio-cultural milieu of contemporary China in order to understand the symbolic value of the emerging coffee/café-scape. Cafés, rather than coffee, are at the centre of this current trend in contemporary Chinese cities. With instant coffee dominating as a drink, the Chinese have developed a cultural and social demand for cafés, but have not yet developed coffee palates. Historical Coffee Map In

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Neubauer, Jack. "Adopting Revolution: The Chinese Communist Revolution and the Politics of Global Humanitarianism." Modern China, July 9, 2020, 009770042093799. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0097700420937990.

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During the tumultuous period surrounding the Chinese Communist revolution of 1949, Chinese children wrote thousands of letters to foreign “foster parents” as part of a humanitarian fundraising program called the “adoption plan” for international child sponsorship. Under the adoption plan, private citizens around the world “adopted” Chinese children by funding their lives at orphanages in China while building personal relationships through the exchange of photographs, gifts, and translated letters. This article uses the case study of the Foster Parents Plan for War Children China Branch to exam

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Chen, Shih-Wen Sue, and Sin Wen Lau. "Post-Socialist Femininity Unleashed/Restrained: Reconfigurations of Gender in Chinese Television Dramas." M/C Journal 19, no. 4 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1118.

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In post-socialist China, gender norms are marked by rising divorce rates (Kleinman et al.), shifting attitudes towards sex (Farrer; Yan), and a growing commercialisation of sex (Zheng). These phenomena have been understood as indicative of market reforms unhinging past gender norms. In the socialist period, the radical politics of the time moulded women as gender neutral even as state policies emphasised their feminine roles in maintaining marital harmony and stability (Evans). These ideas around domesticity bear strong resemblance to pre-socialist understandings of womanhood and family that a

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Riddell, William D. "Does Exclusion Follow the Flag? Merchant Sailors and US Imperial Expansion, 1895–1906." International Review of Social History, May 14, 2021, 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859021000249.

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Abstract This paper examines how class conflict affected US imperial expansion between 1898 and 1906. It focuses on West-Coast-based white merchant sailors and relies on union publications, legislative records, and congressional testimony to reveal how domestic class conflict shaped the boundaries, both internally and externally, of the emerging US empire. The struggle of the sailors’ unions over these imperial boundaries illustrates the real-life consequences they held for working people. These were not just abstractions. These lines often determined the type of labor systems under which work

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Pan, Wei, Le Chen, and Wenting Zhan. "Positioning construction workers' vocational training of Guangdong in the global political-economic spectrum of skill formation." Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management ahead-of-print, ahead-of-print (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ecam-11-2019-0641.

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PurposeThis paper explores the vocational training of construction workers in Guangdong Province of China and identifies its position in the global political-economic spectrum of skill formation.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reviews construction vocational education and training (VET) of major political economies to develop a theoretical framework that guides an in-depth case study of Guangdong. Document analysis, field trip observations, meetings and semi-structured interviews were combined to explore the political-economic environment, political stakeholders and quality assurance mech

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"Language teaching." Language Teaching 36, no. 4 (2003): 252–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261444804212009.

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04–538 Allford, D. Institute of Education, University of London. d.allford@sta01.joe.ac.uk‘Grasping the nettle’: aspects of grammar in the mother tongue and foreign languages. Language Learning Journal (Rugby, UK), 27 (2003), 24–32.04–539 Álvarez, Inma (The Open U., UK). Consideraciones sobre la contribución de los ordenadores en el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras. [The contribution of computers to foreign language learning.] Vida Hispánica (Rugby, UK), 28 (2003), 19–23.04–540 Arkoudis, S. (U. of Melbourne, Australia; Email: sophiaa@unimelb.edu.au). Teaching English as a second language in

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"Reading & writing." Language Teaching 39, no. 1 (2006): 32–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261444806233317.

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06–73Al-Sa'Di, Rami A. & Jihad M. Hamdan (U Jordan, Amman, Jordan; enigma_1g@yahoo.co.uk), ‘Synchronous online chat’ English: Computer-mediated communication. World Englishes (Blackwell) 24.4 (2005), 409–424.06–74Bitchener, John, Stuart Young & Denise Cameron (Auckland, New Zealand), The effect of different types of corrective feedback on ESL student writing. Journal of Second Language Writing (Elsevier) 14.3 (2005), 191–205.06–75Blevins, Wiley (Scholastic Inc., USA), The importance of reading fluency and the English language learner. The Language Teacher (Japan Association for Languag

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Wash, John. "Responsible Investment Issues in Special Economic Zone Investment in Mainland Southeast Asia." VNU Journal of Science: Economics and Business 35, no. 2 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.25073/2588-1108/vnueab.4226.

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This paper seeks to explore environmental, social and governance issues arising from investment in special economic zones (SEZs) in the mainland Southeast Asian region through a mixture of thick analytical description and multiple case study approach. All the states studied here have embraced the SEZ approach as it offers rapid economic development without any implications for the political settlement, which is considered beneficial by current administrations. Particular emphasis is placed on environmental, social and governance issues in the region covered and some complex issues that have em

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"Language learning." Language Teaching 38, no. 4 (2005): 194–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261444805223145.

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05–396Altenberg, Evelyn P. (Hofstra U, USA; sphepa@hofstra.edu), The perception of word boundaries in a second language. Second Language Research (London, UK) 21.4 (2005), 325–358.05–397Baker, Wendy (Brigham Young U, USA) & Pavel Trofimovich, Interaction of native- and second-language vowel system(s) in early and late bilinguals. Language and Speech (Twickenham, UK) 48.1 (2005), 1–27.05–398Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen (Indiana U, USA; bardovi@indiana.edu) & Robert Griffin, L2 pragmatic awareness: evidence from the ESL classroom. System (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) 33.3 (2005), 401–415.05–3

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"Language teaching." Language Teaching 37, no. 4 (2004): 253–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261444805212636.

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04–421Allen, Susan (U. Maryland, USA; Email: srallen@erols.com). An analytic comparison of three models of reading strategy instruction. International Review of Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching (Berlin, Germany), 41 (2003), 319–338.04–422Angelini, Eileen M. (Philadelphia U., USA). La simulation globale dans les cours de Français. [Global simulation activities in French courses] Journal of Language for International Business (Glendale, Arizona, USA), 15, 2 (2004), 66–81.04–423Beaudoin, Martin (U. of Alberta, Canada; Email: martin.beaudoin@ualberta.ca). A principle based approach to tea

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West, Patrick Leslie, and Cher Coad. "The CCTV Headquarters—Horizontal Skyscraper or Vertical Courtyard? Anomalies of Beijing Architecture, Urbanism, and Globalisation." M/C Journal 23, no. 5 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1680.

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I have decided to launch a campaign against the skyscraper, that hideous, mediocre form of architecture…. Today we only have an empty version of it, only competing in height.— Rem Koolhaas, “Kool Enough for Beijing?”Figure 1: The CCTV Headquarters—A Courtyard in the Air. Cher Coad, 2020.Introduction: An Anomaly within an Anomaly Construction of Beijing’s China Central Television Headquarters (henceforth CCTV Headquarters) began in 2004 and the building was officially completed in 2012. It is a project by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) headed by Rem Koolhaas (1944-), who has bee

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"Book Reviews." Journal of Economic Literature 49, no. 1 (2011): 129–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jel.49.1.129.

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Michael Watts of Purdue University reviews “Better Living through Economics” edited by John J. Siegfried. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins, “Twelve papers and fourteen comments explore the fundamental contributions of economic research to important public policy decisions over the past half century. Papers discuss the evolution of emissions trading; better living through improved price indexes; economics and the Earned Income Tax Credit;….” Arthur J. Robson of Simon Fraser University reviews “The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences” by H

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King, Emerald L., and Denise N. Rall. "Re-imagining the Empire of Japan through Japanese Schoolboy Uniforms." M/C Journal 18, no. 6 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1041.

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Introduction“From every kind of man obedience I expect; I’m the Emperor of Japan.” (“Miyasama,” from Gilbert and Sullivan’s musical The Mikado, 1885)This commentary is facilitated by—surprisingly resilient—oriental stereotypes of an imagined Japan (think of Oscar Wilde’s assertion, in 1889, that Japan was a European invention). During the Victorian era, in Britain, there was a craze for all things oriental, particularly ceramics and “there was a craze for all things Japanese and no middle class drawing room was without its Japanese fan or teapot.“ (V&A Victorian). These pastoral depictions

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Liu, Runchao. "Object-Oriented Diaspora Sensibilities, Disidentification, and Ghostly Performance." M/C Journal 23, no. 5 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1685.

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Neither mere flesh nor mere thing, the yellow woman, straddling the person-thing divide, applies tremendous pressures on politically treasured notions of agency, feminist enfleshment, and human ontology. — Anne Anlin Cheng, OrnamentalismIn this (apparently) very versatile piece of clothing, she [Michelle Zauner] smokes, sings karaoke, rides motorcycles, plays a killer guitar solo … and much more. Is there anything you can’t do in a hanbok?— Li-Wei Chu, commentary, From the Intercom IntroductionAnne Anlin Cheng describes the anomaly of being “the yellow woman”, women of Asian descent in Western

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Inglis, David. "On Oenological Authenticity: Making Wine Real and Making Real Wine." M/C Journal 18, no. 1 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.948.

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IntroductionIn the wine world, authenticity is not just desired, it is actively required. That demand comes from a complex of producers, distributors and consumers, and other interested parties. Consequently, the authenticity of wine is constantly created, reworked, presented, performed, argued over, contested and appreciated.At one level, such processes have clear economic elements. A wine deemed to be an authentic “expression” of something—the soil and micro-climate in which it was grown, the environment and culture of the region from which it hails, the genius of the wine-maker who nurtured

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Marsh, Victor. "The Evolution of a Meme Cluster: A Personal Account of a Countercultural Odyssey through The Age of Aquarius." M/C Journal 17, no. 6 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.888.

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Introduction The first “Aquarius Festival” came together in Canberra, at the Australian National University, in the autumn of 1971 and was reprised in 1973 in the small rural town of Nimbin, in northern New South Wales. Both events reflected the Zeitgeist in what was, in some ways, an inchoate expression of the so-called “counterculture” (Roszak). Rather than attempting to analyse the counterculture as a discrete movement with a definable history, I enlist the theory of cultural memes to read the counter culture as a Dawkinsian cluster meme, with this paper offered as “testimonio”, a form of q

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Kadivar, Jamileh. "Government Surveillance and Counter-Surveillance on Social and Mobile Media: The Case of Iran (2009)." M/C Journal 18, no. 2 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.956.

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Human history has witnessed varied surveillance and counter-surveillance activities from time immemorial. Human beings could not surveille others effectively and accurately without the technology of their era. Technology is a tool that can empower both people and governments. The outcomes are different based on the users’ intentions and aims. 2,500 years ago, Sun Tzu noted that ‘If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win numerous (literally, "a hundred") battles without jeopardy’. His words still ring true. To be a good surveiller and counter-surveiller it is essential to know both

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Sharma, Sarah. "The Great American Staycation and the Risk of Stillness." M/C Journal 12, no. 1 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.122.

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The habitual passenger cannot grasp the folly of traffic based overwhelmingly on transport. His inherited perceptions of space and time and of personal pace have been industrially deformed. He has lost the power to conceive of himself outside the passenger role (Illich 25).The most basic definition of Stillness refers to a state of being in the absence of both motion and disturbance. Some might say it is anti-American. Stillness denies the democratic freedom of mobility in a social system where, as Ivan Illich writes in Energy and Equity, people “believe that political power grows out of the c

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