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Intersectionality is what gets lost in translation: from Saving Face (2004) to The Half of It (2020).
No full textIn Mainland China homosexuality is still a relatively sensitive topic that has effectively been banned from mainstream media. The impact of this censorship on Chinese queer culture is prominent: it has not only discouraged domestic media production, but stimulated Chinese queer fans to seek resources internationally, including relevant resources on major international streaming platforms such as Netflix and Hulu that are banned in mainland China. Fans have found alternative ways to translate, consume and disseminate these films outside of commercial streaming platforms to circumvent censorship. Among the wide range of queer media texts translated, films that involve queer characters of Chinese ethnicity or Chinese setting have been particularly welcomed and widely discussed within Chinese LGBTQ+ communities, given the shared cultural affinity as well as international scope that these films address. These discussions raise interesting questions on the transcultural links in global queer cinema as well as the fan-driven economy of queer media in China. Through a case study of Alice Wu’s two films Saving Face (2004) and The Half Of It (2020), both of which feature queer Chinese American protagonists, this chapter examines how the transcultural interpretations of homosexuality has deeply intertwined with the rising of transnational queer diaspora enabled by international immigrant flows and digital media and how the representations of racial and ethnic identity in the Global North can be dislocated 1 and reappropriated by local audiences in the Global South. It argues that the emotional and cultural belongingness, constructed among fans via translation and sharing these films support and enrich the development of local queer culture. However, issues such as class and race, both of which are highlighted and intertwined in the queer representations of the films, are rendered less visible and insignificant for Chinese audience. As such, the complexity is reduced, rendering the translations more utopian than the originals, and opening up a question of the limits of translation in a queer context
Introduction: translating sexualities in the Sinophone world
No full textThis Introduction positions the volume in relation to queer translation, queer globalisations and sexuality in China. It begins by discussing how the volume furthers ongoing debates in these fields by analysing them through the lens of global queer popular media, before offering a brief review of the literature in each of these areas. It argues that the collected chapters in the volume made a significant contribution across these areas through their analysis of popular media and through their examination of the agency of translators and viewers in the circulation of queer texts. It then gives an overview of the book, including a discussion of the organization of the chapters, before concluding with the overall contribution of the book
FIGURE 3 in Leucoagaricus purpurascens, a new species from eastern China based on morphological characteristics and molecular evidence
No full textFIGURE 3. Microscopic characteristics of Leucaoagricus purpurascens (HKAS 123023, holotype). a. Basidia; b. Basidiospores; c. Pileipellis.Published as part of Guo, Ting, Ma, Yun-Rui, Yang, Rui-Heng, Ge, Zai-Wei & Bao, Da-Peng, 2023, Leucoagaricus purpurascens, a new species from eastern China based on morphological characteristics and molecular evidence, pp. 197-206 in Phytotaxa 584 (3) on page 203, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.584.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/764563
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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