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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
Wang Shuo and the commercialisation of contemporary Chinese culture
Full text linkThis thesis examines the commercialisation of Chinese culture that has taken place over the past twenty years in mainland China. It explores the contribution of Wang Shuo, a cultural figure who straddles different fields of culture, moving from literature to the ultimate mass culture medium of television, this study plots Wang Shuo' s development from educational failure, to business failure, to fiction writer, film & TV editor, film director and cultural critic and analyst. His stories, films, TV series and articles have caused shock-waves throughout national cultural circles as he has transformed the terms of the debate from academic discourse to a validation of the role of the market in the culture field. Although Wang Shuo has not been labelled as a dissident, his approach to the culture market has had a more subversive effect on official ideology that those overt dissidents who have had to live in exile or have been imprisoned. He has utilised the language of official ideology to satirise the authorities, turning the ideology and its supporters into figures of fun. Yet his own goals have been strictly personal and economic ones. The authorities recognize the value of Wang Shuo's work in the cultural market but at the same time distrust his works and place him under strict censorship. Examining the way Wang Shuo and people surround him have succeeded in different fields of cultural achievement is a mirror to understanding the process of the transformation of contemporary Chinese culture from a socialist state-controlled culture to a market-oriented mass culture industry
Inhibition of cyclooxygenase activity, platelet aggregation and thromboxane B₂ production by two environmental toxicants: m- and o-cresol
No full textChiu-Po Chan, Ho Yuan-Soon, Ying-Jen Wang, Wan-Hong Land, Lin-I Chen, Yi-Jane Chen, Bor-Ru Lin, Mei-Chi Chang, Jiiang-Huei Jen
Wang Meng and contemporary Chinese literature: the vicissitudes of a committed writer
Full text linkThis thesis examines the way Wang Meng has developed as a writer from the 1950s to the 1990s in the context of New China's political and literary background. It looks at the compromises he was forced to make between his political beliefs in the Communist Party and his chosen role as a professional writer. After his disastrous early foray into what was deemed to be unacceptable political criticism with The Young Newcomer in the Organisation Department in the 1950s, when the opportunity came to start publishing again in the late 1970s he was boldly innovative in style, helping to transform New Period literature, but conservative in content, sticking to politically acceptable topics. It was only with Hard Porridge in 1989 that he ventured again, and very successfully, into political comment. There is no outstanding leading writer in contemporary China, but Wang Meng is a leading contender for the title
The politics of fashion: perceptions of power in female clothing and ornamentation as reflected in the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei
Full text linkThis thesis examines issues of female power and influence in sixteenth-century China focusing on how women and their roles were perceived in the changing social environment of the mid-late Ming dynasty. Using aspects of a New Historicist approach, information from contemporary literary and historical sources are analysed alongside each other. With its emphasis on the lives of women and preoccupation with the description of material objects, the late Ming novel Jin Ping Mei forms an important element in the thesis. China in the sixteenth century saw expanding urbanisation, the emergence of a new wealthy merchant class, increasing visibility of women and a questioning of traditional morality. Fashion consciousness, as one of the most conspicuous aspects of the new material culture, is a possible indicator of these trends. Traditional Western theories contend that fashion began in the particular context of Renaissance Europe. However, this study argues that a similar fashion awareness existed in China too, and was manifested in a competitive striving for social status, in this case specifically among women. In contrast to previous studies which downplayed the impact women had on defining traditional Chinese culture, this thesis demonstrates how women and their sartorial choices began to redefine the boundaries of material culture, influencing literati discourse which, in turn, re- influenced female behaviour
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Book Review: The Prince and the Dressmaker, Jen Wang
No full textBook Review: The Prince and the Dressmaker / Written and illustrated by Jen Wang / First Second, 2018, 288 pp. / ISBN: 9781626723634This material published in WOW Review is made available by the Worlds of Words: Center of Global Literacies and Literatures, College of Education at the University of Arizona, and the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact [email protected], (520) 621-9340
Cylindroeme shii Wang, Xie & Wang 2022
No full textCylindroeme shii Wang, Xie & Wang, 2022 石氏åfihk牛 Cylindroeme shii Wang, Xie & Wang, 2022: 130, figs. 3–8, 10–11, 13–24. TL: China: Qinghai. TD: YU. Distribution China: Qinghai. Remarks. This species is distinguished from other two congeners by the upper eye lobes widely separated.Published as part of Lin, Mei-Ying & Li, Kai-Qin, 2022, A new species, Cylindroeme yunnanensis sp. nov. from China (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae), pp. 294-300 in Zootaxa 5159 (2) on page 300, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5159.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/677733
MEI-S332 localizes to centromeres and heterochromatin.
No full textA) MEI-S332 has enhanced recruitment to the pericentromeric regions in Pp1-87B RNAi oocytes and is decreased in Spc105R RNAi oocytes. Two images of Spc105R RNAi oocytes show MEI-S332 localization either abolished or greatly reduced. Confocal images are shown with centromeres (white), MEI-S332 (red), tubulin (green) and DNA (blue). Scale bar indicates as 5 μm. (B) Quantification of MEI-S332 volume. The number of oocytes for measuring are wild type (14), Pp1-87B RNAi oocytes (16) and Spc105R RNAi oocytes (16). Error bars indicate standard deviation, ** = p p <0.0001.</p
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