Intermarriage and imperial subject formation in colonial Taiwan: Shōji Sōichi's Chin-fujin

Abstract

In this article, I analyze the political significance of Shōji Sōichi's Chin-fujin (The wife of Mr. Chen), an intricate story of an interracial family in colonial Taiwan struggling to come to terms with their cultural identifications against the backdrop of political upheavals in the late 1910s to the mid-1930s. The novel was well received in wartime Japan and received a 1943 Greater East Asia Literary Prize. Contemporary critics praised it for depicting the perseverance of a Japanese woman married into a Taiwanese family and for representing a Han-Taiwanese intellectual realistically. Yet it was the political effect of the novel that was appreciated by those who selected it for the prize. Shōji demonstrated how the policy and political discourse of the Japanese empire could be acted out in a site of family life, the site that was regarded as critically important for colonial control. He depicted a Taiwanese elite man, his Japanese wife, and their mixed-blood daughter as trying to transcend the old categorical distinction between metropolitan Japanese and natives of Taiwan and seeking a new unified identity position based on colonial Taiwan. I want to show the repressive nature of the national subject formation outlined in this colonial fantasy.     

An interview with Marie-José Mondzain: what is an image?

ABSTRACT

Marie-Jose Mondzain is one of the major philosophers writing about image, iconography, and representation today. In this interview, she discusses a few of the central ideas in her approach to and thinking about the nature of image and image-making as they bear upon the emergence of subjectivity and visibility in general. According to Mondzain, images are not visual objects we may or may not see; rather they are the site where the visible and its invisibility crisscross each other in opening the field of presence. Images, as Mondzain says in the interview, are cracks or leaks in being. They are where lights first come in and where man and beings are born to each other in their being-in-the world, that is, in their truth. Moving beyond historical and theoretical reflections, Mondzain turns to discuss things and scenes of mass media of late, addressing issues of pleasure, anxiety, desire, and the like, wherein ideologies, power, and the lure of images can be seen to intersect with our everyday life that has become irrevocably one of passive mobility. To the point at every turn, her answers to questions in this interview provide a glimpse to her forceful thinking and insights.     

American Commentaries

ABSTRACT

Despite widespread assertions as to the ‘Americanization’ of British culture in the first half of the twentieth century, the true extent of this cultural transfer remains open to question. This article considers what the British people actually knew about ‘America’, its institutions, culture and way of life, in this period through an analysis of coverage of the USA in the British news media (press, newsreels and wireless) in the inter-war years. Specific attention is paid to the attempts of the BBC – in particular through the broadcasting work of Raymond Gram Swing and Alistair Cooke – to provide an understanding of contemporary America beyond the widely cited stereotypes of ‘Chicago gangsters and Hollywood blondes'.     

城市近郊统筹城乡改革的经验、困难与深化——重庆“陶家模式”和“海龙模式”的比较与启示

重庆市统筹城乡发展改革在九龙坡区陶家镇和海龙村的试点较为成功,其共同点在于注重以工促农、社会保障和土地集约,而在改革主导角色、农民身份转变和土地流转方式上各具特色。"陶家模式"和"海龙模式"的实践证明:中小企业是统筹城乡发展的纽带,农民增收是统筹城乡改革顺利推进的关键,土地政策是统筹城乡发展的核心问题,统筹城乡发展需要系统思考与政策创新。目前,两种模式的深化发展,面临土地政策供给不足、社会保障推力不够、城乡规划视野不宽、政策落实不到位、资源要素流通不畅、管理体制不顺等困难。应进一步探索土地集约利用的新机制,加快城乡一体的社会保障体系建设,充分保障农转城人员的利益,推进城乡科学规划,破除农村投资樊篱,并提升各级政府的统筹发展能力。     

企业异质性与贸易中介理论研究新进展

新新贸易理论诞生近十年来,贸易理论家围绕企业异质性假定进行了细致而富有成效的拓展研究。其中引人注目的是融入贸易中介的分析,打破了已有研究关于直接出口的局限,并分别基于异质性和企业内生边界视角,解释了中介技术和不完全合约对企业直接出口和中介出口等不同出口决策及福利分配的影响。本文梳理了国外最新文献中企业异质性与贸易中介理论的研究进展,解析了将贸易中介引入新新贸易理论的微观机理,并展望了其未来的发展方向。     

重庆市制造业的绿色经济增长核算:2001—2010

基于生产前沿理论的绿色经济增长核算模型,不仅将技术无效率和环境代价纳入了分析框架,而且还与"物质平衡思路"一致;该模型将绿色经济增长的源泉分解为环境约束下的技术进步、技术效率变化和资本深化3大部分。对重庆市27个制造行业的经验分析结论表明:经济增长中普遍存在着技术无效率现象,但50%以上行业的技术效率都得到了改善或维持不变;资本深化是经济增长的主要源泉,而技术进步主导的全要素生产率变动在其中的贡献相对较小;技术进步是引致全要素生产率增长的主要原因。为充分发挥重庆市制造业可持续发展潜力,后续发展中必须转变经济发展方式,在环境约束下走技术进步和技术效率改善的绿色全要素生产率增长之路。     

促进体育产业与科技融合的财政政策研究

中国经济进入新常态后,已进入必须依靠创新驱动发展的新阶段,科技创新成为培育新经济增长点的关键驱动力。体育产业发展必须借助于科技力量,而促进体育产业与科技的融合离不开政府财政政策的支持。文章首先明确了体育产业与科技融合的内涵,阐明财政政策促进体育产业与科技融合的必要性和作用机理,在分析我国体育产业与科技融合现状基础上,围绕管理体制、市场主体、资金保障、政策环境以及人才支撑等方面深入分析了其存在的问题,最后明确促进其发展的财政政策取向,提出近期财政政策着力点。     

适应体育概念辨析及应用的必要性

适应体育概念的形成与矫正治疗、运动康复、残疾人体育等有着深远的渊源,它是随着实践和理论研究的发展而不断丰富和发展的。长期以来中国适应体育实践领域相关概念的使用混乱并缺乏科学性。从概念的角度讲,与其它概念相比,"适应体育"是相对科学和准确的,能更准确和全面地反映出该体育现象的特征,具有较强的概括性。因此,无论在学科建设、理论研究方面,还是在实践活动领域,建议统一采用"适应体育"的概念。     

浅议2004～2005赛季的CBA总决赛

通过江苏队和广东队2004~2005赛季的技术统计和临场表现的分析,说明广东队获胜并非偶然,江苏队在实力上和比赛经验上与广东队相比都还有一定的差距。     

对体育科技期刊栏目设置的探讨

体育科技期刊栏目的设置是办好科技期刊的一项重要工作.查阅了我国13个体育科技期刊栏目的设置,并以<北京体育大学学报>的栏目设置作为研究对象,进行了学术性探讨,认为原设置的"体育社会科学"、"体育心理学"、和"运动人体科学"都是合适的,仍应保留;可否将"统计与体质"改为"体质调研与运动员选材"栏目,"体育教学"改为"学校体育与体育教学"栏目,"运动训练"改为"竞技体育(或奥林匹克)与运动训练"栏目;建议增设"专题论坛"和"群众体育(或社会体育)与体育锻炼"栏目;另外,有的新的学术研究领域论文或上述栏目中的热点课题,也可以集中放在科技期刊临时设置的栏目中.