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Heathen Intimacy: Chinese Migrants and Criminal Sexualities in Turn of the Century California
No full textHeathen Intimacy examines the gender and sexual norms of Chinese migrants in California between the 1860s and 1920s. Drawing on underutilized California court records, I explore how some of the earliest Chinese residents formed intimate relations with one another and across racial lines, as well as the ways in which state and private forces attempted to regulate such liaisons. Through in-depth stories of love and loss, intimacy and tragedy, Heathen Intimacy aims to offer complex portraits of the social lives of the Chinese in America, complicating scholarly conceptions of an oft-misunderstood immigrant community.
By showcasing the multiplicity of ways the Chinese in America interacted with their non-Chinese neighbors in spite or in defiance of what was prescribed by cultural discourse and law, Heathen Intimacy seeks to provide a gender and sexual account of how early Chinese migrants were woven into the racial fabric of California. I examine race through sex and vice versa, showing how, in the words of Nayan Shah, “racialized sexual meanings, identities, and practices travel and stratify.” While this dissertation spans histories from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great Depression, Heathen Intimacy is especially interested in stories from the Progressive Era (c. 1890-1920s), a period when most of the Chinese in California had settled down permanently and became integral parts of local communities. Although court cases involving the Chinese from this era are filled with violence – physical, sexual, racial, and economic – the stories told in court also evidence years of toleration, mutual dependence, and even friendship and intimacy
Systematic Scan Dynamics on the Ising Model
No full textThe Ising model is one of the most extensively studied particle system models thatoriginated from Statistical physics. With the help of the Gibbs measure and the language
of the Markov chain, several questions regarding the mixing times and cutoff phenomena
have been dealt with. The Ising type models vary in terms of the underlying graph and the
dynamics of how to evolve the given model.
Similar to the general card shuffling problems, we can imagine a particle system in which
each particle updates in a certain order but with the same rule as the original dynamics.
This systematic scan dynamics pose another question, which is often challenging due to the
lack of symmetry.
We apply the systematic scan idea to the Ising type model. We study the mixing time and
the existence of cutoffs of the systematic scan Glauber dynamics Ising model on the complete
graph. There is a cutoff in the high-temperature regime, while there is not in the critical
and the low-temperature regime. We provide not only the mixing times for each regime but
also where exactly the cutoff happens and the window size for the high-temperature regime,
in the last chapter of this dissertation. The upper bound can be achieved from the coupling
argument, and the lower bound comes by computing the drift of the magnetization
