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over no things : a film by Yen-Chao Lin
No full text"When did you start to forget? Is it possible not to start to forget? over no things is a poetic visual approach to the passage of time and the melancholic nostalgia of aging. With meditative contemplation, the experience of cinematic time is decelerated and romanticized through slow moving frames and minimalist still tableaux. An emotive piece which communicates through absence." -- DVD's back cover
Making a Transnational Design History in East Asia: Yen Shuilong’s Craft-Design Movement
Full text linkYen Shuilong (1903-97) was born in Taiwan within the ‘Japanese Empire’ but his live is dominated by what we would now call transnational activities. During the fifteen years since his death, there have been a number of retrospective exhibitions on him, and these have served to anchor his status in Taiwanese history of art and design. From last year through to this year the Taipei Fine Arts Museum organised an exhibition ‘The Public Spirit, Beauty in the Making： Shui-Long Yen’. (Fig. 2) On the other hand in Japan, even though Yen was Japanese until 1945, he hasn’t been well recognized, and it appears as though he may have been intentionally forgotten with the history of Japanese colonization
LIN, Jean Yen-Chun. 2023. A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-class Communities. New York: Columbia University Press.
Full text linkI thoroughly enjoyed A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-class Communities by Jean Yen-Chun Lin. Drawing on data collected through online and offline research, the book offers a fluent and vivid account of associational life among the emerging middle class in Beijing. Despite numerous studies on environmental protests in China, Lin contributes significantly to the current literature by systematically tracing the processes and consequences of protests staged..
The political role of the people's liberation army 1949-1973
Full text linkThis thesis is to study the political role of the People's Liberation Army from the approach of structure and function. The framework of the thesis consists of three major parts, first, the influence of Chinese traditional political culture on, and the formation of, the political role of the PL A; second, the influence of domestic political struggles and external military conflicts on the development of the political role of the PLA; and the third, the analysis of the transition of the PLA's political role from the structure and personnel arrangements of the CCPCC Within the above-mentioned three scopes, this thesis make a thorough discussion on the following: (1) The relationship between the structure of the PRC and the formation of the PLA's political role; (2) How has ideology influenced the army's political role; (3) What is Mao's viewpoint and his influence on the development of the army's political role; (4) What is the link between the army and the party, and how has this developed; (6) What accounts for the expansion of the PLA's political functions; (7) What is the influence of political factional struggles on the PLA's political role; (8) Is it political institution or military institution that controls the recruitment of the military elite; (9) What are the disparities between the military elite in handling international conflicts and what are their political considerations; (10) What is the Party's position in the army; (11) How have the Party’s important meetings and personnel arrangements influenced the rise and fall of the PLA's political role
CHUN-LIN HU & JIN-HUA DING (2014) A new species of Neobelocera Ding & Yang (Hemiptera Delphacidae: Delphacinae: Tropidocephalini) from China, with a key to species of the genus. Zootaxa,
No full textHu, Chun-Lin, Ding, Jin-Hua (2014): CHUN-LIN HU & JIN-HUA DING (2014) A new species of Neobelocera Ding & Yang (Hemiptera Delphacidae: Delphacinae: Tropidocephalini) from China, with a key to species of the genus. Zootaxa,. Zootaxa 3790 (3): 500-500, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3790.3.
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