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The Gradual Encroachment of an Idea: Large Enterprise Groups in China
No full textThis article illuminates the ideational foundations of China's 'large enterprise strategy', an early experiment in China's efforts to employ industrial policy to cultivate a group of state-controlled business groups. Based on archival research, the author argues that Chinese policymakers believed the development of state-owned large enterprises would bring several kinds of benefits, both economic and political. Drawing eclectically from Marxian economics and the history of capitalist development in East Asia, they argued that large enterprises could serve as both engines of domestic development and as safeguards and vanguards in the context of China's re-entry to the global marketplace. These enterprise groups were also seen as key elements in a market-conforming model of state control that senior officials began to envision and plan for as early as the late 1980s. The archival documents also shed light on internal debate in the 1980s and 1990s about the pros and cons of promoting monopolies, the substance of which anticipates much of the current heated discussion about China's 'monopoly industries' (longduan hangye垄断行业)
The Gradual Encroachment of an Idea: Large Enterprise Groups in China
No full textThis article illuminates the ideational foundations of China's 'large enterprise strategy', an early experiment in China's efforts to employ industrial policy to cultivate a group of state-controlled business groups. Based on archival research, the author argues that Chinese policymakers believed the development of state-owned large enterprises would bring several kinds of benefits, both economic and political. Drawing eclectically from Marxian economics and the history of capitalist development in East Asia, they argued that large enterprises could serve as both engines of domestic development and as safeguards and vanguards in the context of China's re-entry to the global marketplace. These enterprise groups were also seen as key elements in a market-conforming model of state control that senior officials began to envision and plan for as early as the late 1980s. The archival documents also shed light on internal debate in the 1980s and 1990s about the pros and cons of promoting monopolies, the substance of which anticipates much of the current heated discussion about China's 'monopoly industries' (longduan hangye垄断行业)
Political Economy of the Advancing State: The Case of China's Airlines Reform
No full textThis article traces the circuitous route of China's airlines industry into the ranks of China's strategic sectors. Although the airlines industry now belongs to a small group of industries characterized by oligopoly among state-owned enterprises, its initial reform pathway in the post-Mao era hinted at a different future. In the early years of the reform period, a decentralist approach to developing the industry laid the groundwork for an open market structure with a comparatively low degree of state intervention. Why was this trajectory of gradual state retreat abruptly reversed in 1997? In that year, regulators began a bold retrenchment leading finally to an administrative restructuring of the industry around the “Big Three” state-owned carriers. This article argues that this policy reversal was shaped by the state's increasing emphasis on developing a team of state-controlled national champions
Eaton, S J D, 13882
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/383313Surname: EATON. Given Name(s) or Initials: S J D. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 13882. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 25562.222960
Item: [2016.0049.15606] "Eaton, S J D, 13882
Is ASEAN powerful? Neo-realist versus constructivist approaches to power in Southeast Asia
No full textThis paper asks: ‘is ASEAN powerful?’ The argument is made that there is a divide over this question between two broad groups of scholars who are referred to as ‘neo-realists’ (including realists) and ‘constructivists’. Focusing attention on this question is useful because it helps to bring into view three, not always explicit, points of argument between constructivists and neo-realists in their assessments of ASEAN. First, the two groups draw different empirically based conclusions about ASEAN's efficacy in East Asian affairs. Neo-realists are generally sceptical about the Association's role in the region because they view it, along with multilateral organizations more generally, as peripheral to great power politicking, what they see as the real stuff and substance of international affairs. A second, conceptual, point of argument is over understandings of power. For neo-realists, power is frequently used interchangeably with force and coercion. Scholars influenced by social constructivist ideas offer a challenge to this equation of power and dominance on the grounds that power is neither necessarily negative-sum nor limited to conflictual situations. Third, we suggest that closely related arguments are marshalled by both sides in debates over ASEAN's future role and organizational structure. Neo-realists argue that a shift to a more rules-based institutional form is in order, while constructivists place their emphasis on identity building
Femtosecond laser writing of integrated optical structures in glasses
No full textIn this paper, we describe how among the many variables in fs laser waveguide writing, the repetition rate has the most important role as it influences the heat accumulation between laser pulses, which determines the regime of modification and the resulting morphological change. Chapter Contents: • 12.1 Introduction • 12.2 Fundamentals of buried medication of glasses with focused femtosecond laser pulses • 12.2.1 Nonlinear absorption • 12.2.2 Relaxation and material modification • 12.2.2.1 Pulse energy • 12.2.2.2 Repetition rate • 12.2.2.3 Focusing • 12.3 Femtosecond laser waveguide writing in glasses • 12.3.1 Low repetition rate fabrication • 12.3.1.1 Fused silica glass • 12.3.1.2 Silicate and phosphate glasses • 12.3.1.3 Chalcogenide glasses • 12.3.2 High repetition rate fabrication • 12.3.2.1 Fused silica glass • 12.3.2.2 Silicate and phosphate glasses • 12.3.2.3 Chalcogenide glasses • 12.3.3 Ion migration in high repetition rate modification of multicomponent glasses • 12.3.4 Comparison of low and high repetition rate processing • 12.4 Applications • 12.4.1 Photonic devices • 12.4.1.1 Bragg grating waveguides for telecom/sensing • 12.4.1.2 Active devices • 12.4.1.3 3D architectures for astronomy • 12.4.1.4 Directional couplers for quantum information • 12.4.2 Microfluidic devices • 12.4.2.1 Hybrid FLICE for particle filter • 12.4.2.2 Liquid-liquid dynamic interfaces • 12.4.2.3 Refractive index sensor • 12.5 Conclusions • References
The borderland narrative: cross identity discourse and rhetoric in winnifred eaton s me
Full text linkIn this thesis, I analyze the contradictory and complicated use of various discourses in Winnifred Eaton�s memoir, Me: A Book of Remembrance, by applying Gloria Anzaldu_a�s idea of the borderland as a theoretical lens. The purpose of this study is to read Eaton�s life narrative as a type of borderland text where racist ideology is simultaneously upheld and broken down through the complex shifting of discourses. My study follows the movement on a spectrum of identity that moves between the dominant white discourses into the marginal nonwhite discourses. First, I analyze Eaton�s construction of white discourse through the absence of racial markers in language that allow her white audience to perceive the narrator as white. This dominant white discourse is complicated when Eaton characterizes her beauty as one that is suspicious to the white men around her. This suspicion prompts some men to treat her as a possible fiance_, and others to treat her as a concubine. Eaton�s text then moves toward a discourse of nonwhiteness through the rhetoric of silence. The absence of words combined with the visible interruptions of speech on the page allows Eaton to highlight the racial tensions she and her sisters experienced. Finally, I claim that through shifts in genre the borderland identity manifests itself within the structural format of her text. As a result of the mix in discourse and genre, I conclude that the borderland text is defined by its ability to transcend contradiction and tension within the body of the life narrative.Includes bibliographical references
The borderland narrative: cross identity _x000D_discourse and rhetoric in _x000D_winnifred eaton s me / by Miriam Lizette Fernandez_x000D_
No full textIn this thesis, I analyze the contradictory and complicated use of various discourses in Winnifred Eaton??s memoir, Me: A Book of Remembrance, by applying Gloria Anzaldu_a??s idea of the borderland as a theoretical lens. The purpose of this study is to read Eaton??s life narrative as a type of borderland text where racist ideology is simultaneously upheld and broken down through the complex shifting of discourses. My study follows the movement on a spectrum of identity that moves between the dominant white discourses into the marginal nonwhite discourses. First, I analyze Eaton??s construction of white discourse through the absence of racial markers in language that allow her white audience to perceive the narrator as white. This dominant white discourse is complicated when Eaton characterizes her beauty as one that is suspicious to the white men around her. This suspicion prompts some men to treat her as a possible fiance_, and others to treat her as a concubine. Eaton??s text then moves toward a discourse of nonwhiteness through the rhetoric of silence. The absence of words combined with the visible interruptions of speech on the page allows Eaton to highlight the racial tensions she and her sisters experienced. Finally, I claim that through shifts in genre the borderland identity manifests itself within the structural format of her text. As a result of the mix in discourse and genre, I conclude that the borderland text is defined by its ability to transcend contradiction and tension within the body of the life narrative
Is ASEAN powerful? Neorealist versus Constructivist Approaches to Power in Southeast Asia
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