Who needs Cantonese,who speaks? Whispers across mountains,delta, and waterfronts

This essay digs into the ‘dirtiness’ of cultural studies to prioritize praxis, or as the way my mountain folks collect summer lotus: putting our feet in the muddy water, and finding ways to get the stems underneath the smooth leaves. Using Cantoneseness as a case to locate such ‘dirtiness’, I draw on personal/familial histories as well as research projects to tell how conjunctures of Cantoneseness are politically and unevenly lived. This complex journey travels roughly from my childhood in the Yuebei mountains of northern Guangdong through my teenage and early adult years in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) to my current location as a temporary resident in the East Pacific port of Vancouver. I selectively emphasize and speak on three different locations: first, the rural inland Cantonese location of Yuebei mountains – the borderland and hinterland experiences of my family and myself living what the mountains would offer and how these have changed; second, the industrial superior Cantonese location of PRD in Shenzhen and Guangzhou – my personal experiences and identities as a migrant youth, combined with a case study including interviews with migrant peasant-workers and their children; and third, the western transnational Cantonese location of East Pacific waterfronts in Vancouver and Richmond – my personal engagement with social activism as an ethnicized, international student, combined with a narrative study including interviews with social activists with different Cantoneseness and migration routes. While this mix of whispers speaks in its own way towards using cultural studies with more seriously (global) space-sensitive and (social justice) praxis-sensitive approaches, the primary focus is more modestly on my autobiographical accounts and research efforts as a specific case: to show some strategic locations of ‘Cantonescape’ on the one hand, and to invite wider conversations around cultural-spatial politics on the other.     

新一轮区域发展背景下广州南站地区产业发展研究

"高铁经济"的发展对区域经济与社会发展具有重要的带动作用与战略意义,高铁枢纽及其周边地区也将成为城市发展新引擎。对其功能定位与产业发展则是高铁枢纽地区开发建设的前提与成功与否的关键因素之一。以广州南站枢纽地区为例,以区域竞合发展的视角,剖析南站地区发展面临的阶段困境,探索基于新一轮国家对外开放战略与地区合作升级机遇的背景下,南站地区如何利用高铁枢纽和区位优势,对接不同层面的战略需求来清晰定位其功能,并对产业发展路径与空间布局提出相应的合理化建议。     

China’s modern image – contemporary Chinese art

Abstract

As a worldwide cultural phenomenon, contemporary art in China has not only been used as a diplomatic language but also a reflection of contemporary Chinese culture. Contemporary Chinese art, as an emerging field to display China’s global role, provides an important perspective to study China’s self-position in global relations, China’s diplomacy in exercising its soft power, contemporary Chinese culture, and the reinvention of China’s cultural/national identity in post-Mao China. Using the 2000 Shanghai Biennale and the Chinese pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale as case studies, this article investigates how the fluid construct of Chineseness is successfully promoted and demonstrated through the government’s support of contemporary Chinese art.     

山东省高校理工学报影响力分析

文章通过研究山东省21种高校理工学报2007 ～ 2011年的总被引频次、影响因子、基金论文比、来源文献量、引用刊数、地区分布数等6项指标数据,对21种学报的学术影响力进行了评价分析.数据表明:山东省高校理工学报的总体水平不高,影响力有限,且各学报规模和发展水平不平衡.针对存在的问题,山东省高校理工学报应当采取以下措施提升学报影响力:平衡综合性和专业性;找准定位,寻求突破;广开渠道,挖掘稿源.     

Who is Jobless? A Comparison of Joblessness in Rural and Urban Areas in China

Since market‐oriented economic reform was launched in China in the 1980s, unemployment has been recognized by the government. This paper focuses on the differences in joblessness in rural and urban areas between rural migrant workers, peasants, and urban citizens. The results indicate that people in rural areas frequently lose their jobs, which differs from the traditional perception. There is a significantly lower jobless rate in urban areas. In contrast to the results of previous studies, the employment situation of rural migrant workers is closer to urban citizens rather than peasants. Logistic regression results show that the elderly, women, and less educated citizens have a higher likelihood of joblessness, both in urban and rural areas. Minorities have a lower likelihood of joblessness in rural areas and a higher likelihood in urban areas. Chinese Communist Party members and people without dependent children have a lower likelihood of joblessness in urban areas.     

Exploring the intersection of transnationalism and critical race theory: a critical race analysis of international student experiences in the United States

International student mobility to the United States (US) has increased over the past two decades. Despite the increase in numbers, international students may experience racism, nativism, and other forms of discrimination within the US context. Much of the existing literature focus on how international students can assimilate and cope with these issues rather than interrogating the systems of oppression that create negative student experiences. Thus, we utilized critical race theory (CRT) as a framework for interrogating how international student experiences are portrayed in current literature. Although CRT is grounded in US-based legal theory, we argue that CRT must move beyond the rigid confinement within US borders and expand to consider how transnationalism and global exchange contributes to the fluidity and applicability of this theory. We also provide recommendations for critical race praxis, with an emphasis on implications for practice, theory, and future research.     

国内外郊野公园规划案例比较及展望

郊野公园是优化城市空间格局、供人们游憩和健身的重要载体。通过对国内外有代表性的郊野公园规划案例进行归纳总结,利用比较研究的方法对其发展概况、主要活动项目、配套设施建设与相关规划条例等方面进行比较分析,并从选址特征、规划实施与运营管理情况3个方面总结我国郊野公园在规划与管理上的缺点与不足,在此基础上,对我国郊野公园今后的建设与管控模式进行展望。     

Unified Inference for Sparse and Dense Longitudinal Data in Time‐varying Coefficient Models

Time‐varying coefficient models are widely used in longitudinal data analysis. These models allow the effects of predictors on response to vary over time. In this article, we consider a mixed‐effects time‐varying coefficient model to account for the within subject correlation for longitudinal data. We show that when kernel smoothing is used to estimate the smooth functions in time‐varying coefficient models for sparse or dense longitudinal data, the asymptotic results of these two situations are essentially different. Therefore, a subjective choice between the sparse and dense cases might lead to erroneous conclusions for statistical inference. In order to solve this problem, we establish a unified self‐normalized central limit theorem, based on which a unified inference is proposed without deciding whether the data are sparse or dense. The effectiveness of the proposed unified inference is demonstrated through a simulation study and an analysis of Baltimore MACS data.     

农业女性化视野下农村妇女发展的困境与政策调适——基于阿玛蒂亚·森自由发展观的分析

新世纪以来,农村社会变迁进程中农业生产主体女性化特征表现明显。农业女性化背景下,农村妇女发展因遇到新问题而陷入困境。阿玛蒂亚.森的自由发展理论为分析农村妇女发展问题提供了全新视角,依据该理论,农村妇女发展的困境本质上是可行能力贫困,解决农村妇女发展问题的关键是提升其可行能力。农村妇女在获取资源与机会方面的障碍,实质上是经济条件、社会机会、防护性保障等工具性自由的缺失或削弱。从这些方面出发,改善农村妇女的可行能力,是公共决策恰当回应农村妇女发展问题并实施政策调适的可行路径。     

Gender differences in faculty attrition in the USA

In this study, we examined possible gender differences in reasons for faculty attrition during the last 20 years at a small women's liberal arts college. The attrition rate was calculated from archival data collected through old college directories. As in earlier studies, the attrition rate was higher for women (31%) than for men (18.5%). Reasons for leaving the college were assessed in an online survey completed by 45 out of 66 tenure-track or tenured professors who left (excluding retirees). Work–family conflict was the most frequently cited reason for leaving, with disproportionately more women than men giving this reason. Open-ended responses revealed that work–family conflict typically referred to the difficulty of coordinating two careers. Female faculty who left were also significantly more dissatisfied than males with the support for balancing work and family life at the college. The need for colleges to create spousal policies to help faculty coordinate dual careers was discussed.