‘Vietnam is my country land,China is my hometown’: Chinese communities in transition in the south of Vietnam

Studies of Southeast Asian Chinese are voluminous; yet, those about the Chinese in Vietnam are comparatively few. This article provides an updated account of the Chinese Vietnamese with focuses on the Chinese associations in the South of Vietnam and the shifting Chinese identity. Many have discussed the Chinese Vietnamese who fled Vietnam in the 1970s and 1980s, however, little is known about the plights of the Chinese inside Vietnam during those decades. This article elaborates on their situations in the post-unification decade in Ho Chi Minh City and the subsequent changes after the doi moi reforms in the 1990s. It will show how a liberalized economy and accommodative ethnic policies have resulted in a more proactive relationship between the Chinese minority and the Vietnamese society, which consequentially led to changes in the relationship between the Chinese in Vietnam and China.     

US labour unions and green transitions: depth,breadth, and worker agency

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The goal of this article is to interpret and analyse two ambitious and prominent cases of labour environmentalism in the USA – the par excellence example of liberal capitalism. In order to capture the nuances, contradictions, and varieties of labour environmentalism, I employ an analytical scheme based on three dimensions. The first dimension (depth) explores the social and environmental commitments manifested in these cases, the second dimension (breadth) explores their spatiality, and the third dimension (agency) explores the degree to which these initiatives reflect a proactive as opposed to a reactive labour environmentalism.     

Tuberculosis with relapse: A model

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In a model of tuberculosis with relapse, the basic reproduction number R₀ includes new and relapse infections. Lyapunov functions help to prove that the global dynamic is completely determined by R₀. Replicated Latin hypercube sampling shows that early diagnosis and treatment are more efficient when relapse cases are considered.     

Jewish fearless speech: towards a definition of Soviet Jewish nonconformism

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The article proposes a model for analyzing the utterances of Jewish nonconformism in the late-Soviet Russian literature, based on Michel Foucault’s theory of fearless speech and Eric Gans’ theory of the origins of culture. The utterances of nonconformism transform an asymmetrical conflict into symmetrical nonvictimary relations, in which a new, supposedly real identity of a figure is revealed and mobilized for protest. These new relations are based on mutual recodification of different discursive configurations – political, moral, social, aesthetical, metaphysical, or mystical. The discussion will focus on the selected novels of Fridrikh Gorenshtein, Felix Roziner, and, in greater detail, David Shrayer-Petrov.     

试析大学英语写作中存在的问题——基于英汉对比的分析

本文从英汉对比的角度分析问题,并提出改进教学的策略。     

Capturing daily family dynamics via text messages: development of the mobile diary

In this paper we introduce a new tool, the mobile phone, for use in diary research. We demonstrate, with reference to two family studies conducted in Finland, how daily family dynamics can be captured by using the mobile diary. In both studies family members sent text messages (SMSs) in answer to structured diary questions three times a day over a one-week period. The participants kept also paper-and-pencil diaries. Two mobile diary items measuring mood (stressfulness and feelings of competence) both at home and at work are reported here as examples. For both items we found statistically significant daily and weekly variation as well as individual fluctuation. The data gathered by the mobile diary were congruent but not identical with the data gathered by the paper-and-pencil diary. The mobile phone method of data collection facilitated participants’ answers at the agreed times and the participants reported that answering was easy and did not take too much time. The main limitation is the lack of space for answers; therefore, the few questions that are used have to be reliable and valid.     

深港创新合作的战略定位:全球创新极

在经济全球化和知识经济的背景下,创新已经成为经济、社会发展的内在动力和决定性因素,创新水平的高低和创新能力的强弱决定一个城市、地区或国家在国际产业分工中所处的地位。决定创新能力的核心要素是创新型人才,但其又具有高度的流动性。只有有意识地培育良好的环境才能够吸引和留住创新型人才。深港创新合作应以深港共建世界城市为目标,着眼于创建世界范围内集聚顶级创新型人才的创新极,成为带动泛珠三角地区乃至中国经济发展的引擎。     

社会传播下的全球文化变迁

e社会传播具有传播信息的自由性、开放性、复杂性;传播主体的隐匿性、平等性、多层性;传播对象的大众性、年轻性、知识性;传播符号的集合性、视觉性、能指性;传播媒介的快捷性、虚拟性、多媒性;传播过程的时效性、个性化、互动性。在e社会传播中,这些基本特征构成了影响全球文化变迁的要素。全球文化变迁的表现形态和发展趋势,都和e社会传播的诸多要素及其特征紧密相连。e社会传播下全球文化变迁的表现形态有：全球文化的“拟像”式呈现、全球文化的多元化表达、全球文化的价值观碰撞、全球文化的领导权争夺。     

Rethinking the dynamic of global production networks: Integrate the influence of suppliers and towards a flexible strategy making causal mechanism

The global production network (GPN) 2.0 framework mainly considers the organizational capabilities of lead firms, neglecting the influence of supplier capabilities on the strategic making of lead firms. I argue that the GPN 2.0 framework must integrate the influence of supplier capabilities (both industrial and individual firm levels) to better explain the organization of the global economy. Industrial-level capability determines the possible strategic choices that firms may make under certain dynamic combinations, whereas the individual firm level determines the geographic extension direction of GPNs. Therefore, this study incorporates the influence of suppliers and builds a more flexible strategy-making causal mechanism other than the definitive and limiting causal mechanism in GPN 2.0. I hope this article can promote the further development of GPN 2.0 and convey some valuable concepts to make it perform better in deconstructing the organization of the global economy in the real world.     

The discursive construction of language ownership and responsibility for Indigenous language revitalisation

Unpacking the possible ramification of how ownership of language and the responsibility of language revitalisation is perceived and how this may impact language revitalisation, this study uses a critical discourse studies approach to examine how the speakers negotiate their language ownership, which eventually leads to the question ‘who is responsible for language revitalisation’. The data of this study comes from semi-structured interviews with 11 Indigenous participants in Taiwan. The findings suggest that, when deciding who can ‘do’ language revitalisation, only those who are deemed legitimate by the speakers have the power to act. However, the speakers view the non-Indigenous speakers as potential speakers and, thus, were also assigned language revitalisation responsibility. Thus, by encouraging non-Indigenous speakers to become speakers of an Indigenous language via language acquisition, language ownership is shared. This study shows the complexity of how the speakers negotiate language ownership and how this has an impact on language revitalisation efforts.