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Letter from Frank Chin
No full textA letter from Frank Chin arguing that their should be a day name after Japanese American activist James Omura, and describing the kind of celebration that should take place in his honor. The day Chin proposes in November 27th, Omura's birthday.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Letter from [Frank] Chin to Paul [Tsuneishi], December 23, 1997
No full textA letter to Paul [Tsuneishi] from [Frank] Chin about planning the speakers and the media outreach for "Michi Day," the event to celebrate author Michi Weglyn and her book "Years of Infamy."These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Letter from [Frank] Chin to David
No full textA letter from [Frank] Chin to David about buying space for a classified ad in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, that will mention the tribute to Michi Weglyn in February of 1998. The purpose of the ad is to solicit "photos and artifacts depicting the different phases of Michi's life." Chin writes that the materials will be used in"Yosh Kurimoya's Michi Show" at the event.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Letter from Frank Chin to Dale [Minami], December 7, 1997
No full textA letter from Frank Chin to Dale [Minami] thanking him for sending a VHS clip for "Michi Day." Chin devotes the bulk of the letter to a proposal for creating a bell, that would be made of pieces of metal from incarceration camps, to celebrate Japanese American redress.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Cymbiodyta lishizheni Jia & Lin, sp. nov.
No full textCymbiodyta lishizheni Jia & Lin sp. nov. (Figs. 1 –11, 15, 18) Type material: Holotype ♂ (SYSU), CHINA: Jiangxi Province, Jing’an County, Guanyinyan, 20.vii. 2014, 29.04 °N, 115.14 °E, 690 m, Ren-Chao Lin lgt. (Labeled in both Chinese and English). Paratypes (49): 41 specs. (SYSU, SEMC, NMPC) same data as holotype; 8 specs., CHINA: Jiangxi Province, Jing’an County, Sanzhaolun town, Baishuidong (translation: labeled in Chinese), 22.vii. 2014, 29.04 °N, 115.11 °E, 660 m, Ren-Chao Lin lgt. Diagnosis. The species is easily distinguished from C. marginella (Fabricius), the only Old World known species outside of China, bythe coarsely punctate striae on the elytra (Figs. 1, 2, 6). It can be separated from the other known Chinese species of the genus, C. orientalis Jia & Short, 2010, by (1) its smaller size (3.2–3.3 mm), (2) its broader and more extensive paler elytral margins (Figs. 1–2), (3) the more extensive femoral pubescence, and (4) the aedeagus with median lobe bottle-shaped, more strongly narrowed towards apex (Fig. 15); in C. orientalis Jia & Short, the median lobe is not so strongly narrowed towards the apex (Figs. 16–17). Description. Body length 3.2–3.3 mm, body width 2.3 mm. Dorsum blackish brown, with margins of pronotum and elytra broadly paler (Figs. 1–2), occasionally dark brown; anterior margin of pronotum usually with narrow paler band (Fig. 2), sometimes without such paler band (Fig. 5); posterior quarter of elytra paler (Figs. 1–2) or dark brown (Fig. 6). Body oval, convex. Head black with narrow reddish yellow clypeal spots in front of eyes (Fig. 2) or completely black. Maxillary palpomeres reddish yellow, not darkened apically (Fig. 4). Ventral surface generally light brown to dark brown to brown; legs light brown to rufous, tarsi light brown to rufotestaceous. Head. Labrum with fine punctures, slightly emarginate anteriorly. Clypeus subtruncate anteriorly, frontoclypeal suture clearly detectable, punctures on posterior part somewhat stronger than those on anterior part. Eyes separated by ca. 4.5 x the width of one eye. Maxillary palps ca. 3 / 4 x as long as width of head, second palpomere slightly swollen, apical palpomere almost symmetrical, apical palpomere shorter than penultimate (Fig. 4). Mentum depressed anteriorly, with strong scattered punctures. Thorax. Pronotum ca. 3.5 x as wide as long, rather strongly narrowed in front, posterior corner broadly round (Fig. 2); anterior margin smooth, with a very fine transverse groove, posterior margin without such groove; size and density of ground punctation similar to that of the head, lateral punctures a little finer than on disc, surface between punctures smooth, without microsculpture; systematic punctures present but indistinct. Elytra with ground punctation denser than on pronotum; sutural stria present in posterior half, continuing anteriorly as a row of punctures to the base of elytra (Figs. 1, 6); with nine punctate striae, which become gradually more impressed posteriorly; strial punctures becoming coarser laterally, the outer ones very coarse; distinct scutellar stria between sutural and first stria consisting of only 5 to 7 strong punctures (Fig. 6), systematic punctures on 3, 5, 7, 9 intervals present but indistinct, only slightly larger than surrounding ground punctation. Prosternum weakly convex, not carinate. Mesoventrite with a low transverse ridge medially, which does not bear an elevated tooth or projection (Fig. 7). Metaventrite with somewhat raised, more convex middle portion, which does not project anteriorly between mesocoxae; with hydrofuge pubescence except for a posteromedian glabrous area on raised middle portion.Profemora pubescent on basal two-thirds, hairline somewhat oblique (Fig. 9); meso- and metafemora with hairline not oblique, pubescent on basal third-fourths (Figs. 10–11) Abdomen. Abdomen with five exposed ventrites, covered in dense uniform pubescence; first abdominal ventrite without carina, fifth ventrite arcuate, not emarginate apically (Fig. 8). Aedeagus. Total length of aedeagus 0.45–0.48 mm. Length of parameres/length of phallobase 0.66–0.67 mm. Median lobe bottle-shaped, strongly narrowed towards apex, broader and shorter than parameres. Parameres much narrower basally, slightly bent externally (Fig. 15). Etymology. Named after Shizhen Li, a biologist and pharmaceutical scientist during the Ming Dynasty, 430 years ago, in honor of his contribution to the Chinese biological taxonomy. Habitat. This species occurs on wet rock seepages, similar to the habitat of C. orientalis Jia & Short (Jia, 2014). At the same locality, a few specimens of Oocyclus fikaceki Short & Jia were also collected. Distribution. Known only from the type locality. Remarks. When C. orientalis Jia & Short was described, only six females were known from a small temporary pool with some grass, fallen leaves and decomposed grass and branches (Jia & Short 2010). This temporary pool was formed by water flowing from a cliff not far away from the pool. From 2010 to 2013, many specimens of C. orientalis Jia & Short were collected on the wet cliff. It seems likely that the type specimens were washed down from the cliff and arrived at the temporary pond with water flow. Most New World species of the genus for which we have ecological information are known to occur in water (both lentic and lotic), wet leaf litter, at the edge of water and debris etc. and this is also true of the Palaearctic C. marginella (Fabricius) (Smetana 1974). The habitats of the two species occurring in China, C. orientalis Jia & Short and C. lishizheni sp. nov., are apparently wet rock, with specimens occasionally moved to running or stagnant water. Populations of the two species were rather dense on the wet rock, but specimens are only rarely collected in stagnant and running water. The following key adapted from Jia & Short (2010) that allows identification of all species of genus Cymbiodyta occurring in Old World. 1. Elytra with 10 rows of punctate striae (e.g. Figs. 1–2). Southern China...................................................................... 2 - Elytra without rows of punctate striae (except sutural stria). Palearctic species ........................ marginella (Fabricius) 2. Size 3.2–3.3 mm. Elytra with very broad pale lateral margin and posterior third paler in color. Anterior femora pubescent on basal two-thirds, hairline oblique; meso- and metafemora with hairline not oblique and pubescent on basal third-fourths. Aedeagus with median lobe more strongly narrowed towards apex (Fig. 15)................................ ......................................................................................................................................................... lishizheni Jia & Lin - Size 3.4–3.7 mm. Elytra with narrow pale lateral and posterior margins. Anterior femora with slightly rounded hairline, pubescence extending to just over basal half, mesofemora moderately oblique, pubescent on basal two-thirds along anterior margin and only the basal half along the posterior margin; metafemora hairline strongly oblique, with almost basal two-thirds pubescent on anterior margin and only basal third on posterior margin. Aedeagus with median lobe not so narrowed towards apex as above (Fig. 16–17) ............................................. orientalis Jia & ShortPublished as part of Jia, Fenglong & Lin, Renchao, 2015, Cymbiodyta lishizheni sp. nov., the second species of the genus from China, pp. 446-450 in Zootaxa 3985 (3) on pages 446-447, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3985.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/24166
Letter from [Frank Chin] to Momo and Lawson, January 21, 1998
No full textA letter to Momo and Lawson, possibly from Frank Chin, about a performance of the story Kaguya Hime, princess of the moon in Japanese folklore. The purpose of the performance is to drum up interest for the children's storytelling event that would be part of the tribute to Michi Weglyn on February 21, 1998.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Joint Blind Multipath Diversity Combining and PN Code Timing Recovery for Direct-Sequence Spread-Spectrum Systems
No full textTruth After cinema: The explosion of facts in the documentary films of Jia Zhangke
Full text linkThis is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2013 Intellect Books.This article identifies and elaborates on two models of resistance evident in JiaZhangke’s film corpus. The deployment of different cinematic strategies produces an experimental calling into question of the value of truth and of truth as value. In the films here analysed Jia moves from resistance through organic observation to a model of resistance structured around a series of fabulations. If the first regime addresses the truth of ideology, then the target of the second is the ideology of truth. It is in this passage that Jia enters political cinema, collapsing the distinction between factual and fictional and opening up a space that belongs to no collectivity
FIGURES 1–8. Cymbiodyta lishizheni Jia & Lin. 1 in Cymbiodyta lishizheni sp. nov., the second species of the genus from China
No full textFIGURES 1–8. Cymbiodyta lishizheni Jia & Lin. 1. dorsal habitus; 2. lateral habitus; 3. ventral habituts; 4. head; 5. pronotum; 6. posterior portion of elytra; 7. meso- and metaventrite; 8. abdomen.Published as part of Jia, Fenglong & Lin, Renchao, 2015, Cymbiodyta lishizheni sp. nov., the second species of the genus from China, pp. 446-450 in Zootaxa 3985 (3) on page 448, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3985.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/24166
Letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin
No full textA letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin about another letter written by Lilian Baker, a conservative author who denied that Japanese American incarceration had taken place during World War II.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
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