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Constructing Cantonese-nesses: Relocations and Remediations of Chao Shao-an’s Paintings across the Asia-Pacific, c. 1950s- 2010s
No full textThis thesis defines and deconstructs what the author calls the “Chao Shao-an Phenomenon”, and analyses how Chao’s paintings have been disseminated and represented by himself and his followers in different regions in the Asia-Pacific since the mid-20th century. It argues that these different representations of Chao’s paintings have been effectively constructing different forms of Cantonese identities for different Cantonese communities in relation to the various local cultural politics. Readers can expect five chapters, each of which focuses on one representation of Chao’s paintings in one region in the making of one form of Cantonese identity. These representations encompass a wide range, including but not limited to reproduction and publication, art-history writing, imitation, exhibition sites, and the collecting of Chao’s works, respectively, in Hong Kong, Taiwan, San Francisco, Guangzhou, and Singapore. Breaking through the overwhelming, standard biographical narrative of Chao, as well as the general visual analysis of his works that is limited to descriptions of his major painting techniques, this research aims to open new directions in the fields of art history and social history in three ways. Firstly, with its cross-regional scope, it puts forward a more local-global mapping and perspective in narrating the biography of Chao’s oeuvres beyond their general labels of “Chinese art” and the “Lingnan School”. Secondly, by examining the intermediality between painting and the series of forms of popular media listed above, it urges a closer visual and sociological investigation of the very process of how an artwork can access to and generate meanings to a wider public. Thirdly, more broadly, it hopes to demonstrate the ways how diaspora studies — which often marginalises visual materials and analysis — can be bridged with art history to enrich and complicate the existing scholarship on the making of Cantonese and Chinese identities in the 20th century
Chinese diasporic identities in transformation: The collecting and exhibiting of the Lingnan school of painting in 20th-century Singapore
No full textThe history of collecting and exhibiting art has become a subject as important as history of artwork per se in the field of Chinese art history. Notwithstanding the trend of cross-cultural study, much scholarly attention has been paid to the representation and conceptualization of Chinese art in East Asia and EuroAmerica but less in Southeast Asia.
This presentation thus examines how local people in Singapore collected and displayed paintings of the so-called Lingnan School , one of the most popular schools in Southern China, Hong Kong, and a few overseas Cantonese communities in the century. The presenter will focus on the art by Chao Shaoan (1905-1998), a famous Lingnan painter based in Hong Kong, and investigate how various agents in Singapore, including Chinese clan associations, individual collectors, universities, and the Singapore government, collected and displayed Chao\u27s art in various sites, including the associations\u27 buildings, domestic homes, university museums, and national museums since the 1950s. In specific, I will analyse what artworks were collected, on what occasions they were collected, and in what ways they were exhibited in terms of the visual and narrative relationships between the collection and the site, as well as between Chao\u27s art and other artworks categorised as Chinese and Asian exhibited in the same space.
With the study, the research project aims at exploring how the ways of collecting and exhibiting of Lingnan art in Singapore have been transformed; and more critically, with an integration of methodologies of Diaspora Studies, how this transformation has been responding to and shaping the multiple and changing understandings of a Chinese/ Guangdong diasporas in relation to the cultural politics in Singapore
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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