论黄哲伦在《蝴蝶君》中对东方主义的不完全解构

美籍华裔剧作家黄哲伦从其特殊的文化身份出发,创作了剧本《蝴蝶君》。该剧倒置了东方主义长期以来构建的东西方关系,颠覆了西方人眼中的东方女子刻板印象,讽刺了西方白人对东方女子不切实际的幻想,向西方文化霸权提出挑战。但作为自幼接受白人主流文化教育的第二代华裔移民作家,黄哲伦对东方主义的解构又是不完全的。这种不完全解构是作家所处的社会历史环境、个人经历及民族文化身份共同作用的结果。     

Mana Wahine and Washday at the Pā

Abstract

Washday at the Pā (‘pā’ is used colloquially by Pākehā to refer to a Māori settlement) is the title of an old schoolbook, a picture reading book for younger schoolchildren, which was produced in 1964 by the state education system in Aotearoa-New Zealand in 1964, written and photographed by Ans Westra, who later became one of the most famous photographers in the country. Washday at the Pā provoked a national debate when the Minister of Education acceded to protests by the Māori Womens Welfare League against its use in classrooms by withdrawing it completely, and the story of this controversy has remained alive in national consciousness ever since. This research brings Māori feminist philosophy to the Washday debate: I take up Mana Wahine theory as a useful lens on the controversy, understood as an event about, with and for women, in the history of Māori education. The purpose of this article is to reread, using Mana Wahine theory, existing arguments about the book’s withdrawal, and to propose an original resolution of the question at the centre of debate: should the book have been withdrawn from schools, or not?     

Incubator firm failure or graduation?: The role of university linkages

One of the theoretically important factors for incubator firm performance is the strength of their linkages to the research university sponsoring the technology incubator. Herein, we focus on two types of university linkages to the sponsoring institution: a license obtained from the university and a link to university faculty, while controlling for incubator firm linkages to non-sponsoring research universities, among other factors. We propose that a university link to the sponsoring institution reduces the probability of new venture failure and, at the same time, retards timely graduation. Further, we suggest that these effects are more pronounced the stronger the university link. Due to the difficulty of obtaining fine-grained longitudinal data, the incubation literature is characterized by a dearth of studies focusing on incubator firm differential performance. We attempt to take a first step towards closing this gap by testing these hypotheses through following 79 start-up firms incubated in the Advanced Technology Development Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology over the 6-year period between 1998 and 2003. We find broad support for the hypotheses advanced.     

Who contributes voluntarily to OSS? An investigation among German IT employees

Based on newly assembled survey data, we analyze which individual characteristics of IT employees are associated with the willingness to participate voluntarily in Open Source Software (OSS) projects. We find that, contrary to common expectations, formal educational attainment is not positively associated with the probability or level of OSS contributions. The group of university dropouts, however, does show a particularly high probability of working on such projects. Furthermore, we obtain the striking and novel finding that work-related OSS activities play an important role in determining voluntary OSS contributions during leisure time. Although one has to be cautious regarding the direction of causality, we interpret this as evidence of career-oriented motives in voluntary OSS contributors. The finding is also reinforced by our more specific analysis of the importance of such motives in determining the actual effort invested in OSS projects.     

Academic spin-off’s transfer speed—Analyzing the time from leaving university to venture

For academic spin-offs I analyze the length of the time period between the founder’s leaving of academia and the establishment of her firm. A duration analysis reveals that a longer time-lag is caused by the necessity of assembling complementary skills, either by acquisition by a single founder or by searching for suitable team members. Furthermore, new ventures are established faster if there has been high-level technology transfer, if the founders have access to university infrastructure, or if they receive informal support by former colleagues.     

城市基础设施经营的两极、多权利机制浅析

随着我国经济的发展和城市化进程的加快,对城市基础设施的需求日益增大,而传统的以政府投资经营的老路显然不能满足需要。首先指出了目前在城市基础设施投资及建设中的问题,深入分析了城市基础设施的内涵及特点,然后以藤田模型来说明城市基础设施经营中的两极、多权利机制,最后对其做出了简要的评价。     

从当代学者对布洛克（M．Bloch）史著的评介看布洛克的史学理论——兼论《欧洲中世纪的“发明”》

要想了解当代西方的史学,不能不了解《年鉴》学派,要想了解《年鉴》学派,就不能不了解布洛克,因此,该文将从当代学者对于布洛克几本重要专著的讨论中来认识布洛克的史学理论,同时笔者则以布洛克的论文——《欧洲中世纪的发明》,来论析其史学理论的特色。他的著述至今仍是深刻地影响当代史学,他所提出的理论和方法,对于从事古史研究的人来说,具有相当的实用性。他的“问题史学”打破了以时间顺序来叙事的传统;“比较史学”将在同一的命题下的各地类似的情形作一比较分析以突显出研究主体的特性;“回溯一复原法”尝试从现在去了解过去,以补足史料的不足;“科际整合”则将各种社会科学理论加以应用以作为解释史料、提供问题解答的第一步。这些理论均可应用于古史的研究。如何在有限而隐晦的史料中,找出历史的意义,布洛克的理论提出了很好的解答。     

浅析电力负荷管理系统的应用

随着市场经济的不断发展以及电力市场需求的不断扩大,简单的电力负荷控制系统已经不能满足供电公司的需要,根据电力营销和管理工作的发展要求,电力负荷管理系统的应用越来越广泛。主要介绍了230M和GPRS两种负荷管理系统的原理及其应用。