‘The Redemption of the Rascals’: The Xinzheng Reforms and the Transformation of the Status of Lower-Level Central Administration Personnel

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 799-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Gabbiani
Keyword(s):  
Steady Increase ◽  
Central Administration ◽  
New Schools ◽  
Examination System ◽  
Administrative Personnel ◽  
The Status ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Military

Two of the main practical problems which confronted the Xinzheng reforms (1901–1911) were, on the one hand, financial issues, and on the other, personnel issues. In this paper, I will concentrate on the latter. When one thinks of the reforms in relation to administrative personnel, the main aspects generally brought up are centered upon innovations introduced at that time. Among other things, we could mention the new schools or, to be more general, the new educational system that was built up around the empire—mostly after 1900—to prepare a new generation of officials trained in specific fields of ‘modern’ knowledge. They, in turn, were expected to fill in the positions in the newly set up administrative institutions at the central and local levels. Their new training was to allow them to be in charge of the new responsibilities the reformed Qing bureaucratic apparatus had set out to perform in such fields as justice, fiscality and finances, the military and police, education or public health, to name but a few. To summarize, the search for talented men, a Chinese age-old principle for sound government, was trusted to that for new talents. The 1905 disbanding of the traditional examination system did much to reinforce this trend. During the first decade of the 20th century, the steady increase in the number of Chinese young men going abroad to study—especially to Japan—can serve as a testimony to this `new knowledge and new talent fever' of the late Qing. The fights against one another to which some of the central and provincial administrative offices resorted in order to secure for themselves the services of those deemed of talent are but another exemplary illustration of this aspect.

Samuel Smiles and the Woman Question in Early Victorian Britain

2000 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Tyrrell
Keyword(s):  
Woman Question ◽  
Prolific Author ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
The Status ◽  
Famous Book ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One ◽  
Feminist Movements

When Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) looked back over his career from the vantage point of old age he saw himself as one who had labored for “the emancipation and intellectual improvement of women.” His self-description will surprise those who know him, either through his famous book, Self-Help (1859), where women make fleeting appearances as maternal influences on the achievements of great men, or through the attempts that have been made during the Thatcher years to offer him as an exemplar of a highly selective code of “Victorian Values.” Nonetheless, there is much to be said for Smiles's interpretation: not only was he a prolific author on the condition of women, but his writings on this subject from the late 1830s to the early 1850s were radical in tone and content.By directing attention to these writings, this article makes three points about early Victorian gender relations, radicalism, and Smiles's own career. First, it challenges the lingering notion that this was a time when patriarchal values stifled debate on gender issues. For some historians who write about the women's movement, the early Victorian era has the status of something like a dark age in the history of the agitation for women's rights; this period is overshadowed on the one side by the great debates initiated by Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and on the other by the new feminist movements that developed after the 1850s. Barbara Caine, for example, has written recently that the exclusion of women from the public sphere was “absolute” in the mid-century years; few women had the financial resources necessary to set up a major journal even if they had been bold enough to do so, and the sort of man who wrote sympathetically about women was concerned primarily with his own needs.

scholarly journals Legal basis for the functioning of special services in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 196 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-307
Author(s):  
Marian Kopczewski ◽  
Zbigniew Ciekanowski ◽  
Anna Piotrowska
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Internal Security ◽  
Intelligence Agency ◽  
Special Services ◽  
Special Service ◽  
The Status ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Military ◽  
State Protection

The article presents the most important legal acts regulating the activities of special services in Poland in the years 1990-2018. As part of the political transformation, the Office of State Protection (Polish abbrev. UOP) was set up according to the Act of April 6, 1990. It replaced the previous civil intelligence and counterintelligence. In 2002, the Office was liquidated and replaced the Intelligence Agency (Polish abbrev. AW), and the Internal Security Agency (Polish abbrev. ABW) were established under the Act of May 24, 2002. The AW was created to protect the external security of the state, while the ABW was intended to protect the internal security of the state and its constitutional order. The mentioned Act divided the tasks between those services. Even though preventing and detecting crimes of corruption of public officers was one of the ABW’s tasks, the Act of June 9, 2006, established the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (Polish abbrev. CBA), giving it the status of a special service, although the CBA performs typical police tasks. On the other hand, the Act of June 9, 2006, on the Military Counterintelligence Service (Polish abbrev. SKW) and the Military Intelligence Service (Polish abbrev. SWW) constituted a legal basis for the operation of both services in place of the liquidated Military Information Services (Polish abbrev. WSI). The article focuses on the services currently operating. The legal regulations constituting the basis for their functioning were analyzed. These are mainly competence acts, to which many amendments were introduced. They resulted, among others, from the implementation of directives and regulations of European institutions, decisions of the Constitutional Tribunal, the introduction of new laws, concerning, e.g., the establishment of the State Protection Service (Polish abbrev. SOP) or changes in the Marshal’s Guard’s powers. Attention was drawn to numerous ordinances amending the statutes, particularly as regards the ABW, and thus reorganizing the structures of offices.

scholarly journals Preliminary analysis of ballistic requirements for LOVA propellants for new generation tank ammunition

2020 ◽  
pp. 144-157
Author(s):  
Bartosz Fikus ◽  
Zbigniew Leciejewski ◽  
Jakub Michalski ◽  
Zbigniew Surma ◽  
Radosław Trębiński
Keyword(s):  
Research Team ◽  
Closed Vessel ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Pressure Time ◽  
Ballistic Properties ◽  
Critical Components ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Military Institute ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Military

At the end of 2016, the Scientific-Industrial Consortium (Mesko S.A., Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa S.A., Warsaw University of Technology, Military University of Technology, Military Institute of Armament Technology) set up an R&D project to develop and manufacture a demonstrator of new generation critical components for a 120 mm Polish tank munition. The critical elements for the project included a combustible charge case, an insensitive propellant and tungsten rods for subcalibre projectiles. The task of the Military University of Technology was to develop the basic technology and fabricate insensitive LOVA propellants on a laboratory scale (research team of the Faculty of Advanced Technologies and Chemistry) and carry out the ballistic and simulation tests of a 120 mm tank gun using ammunition incorporating the developed LOVA propellant (research team of the Faculty of Mechatronics, Armamen and Aerospace). The article also includes an analysis of available literature on energy and ballistic properties of LOVA and JA-2 propellants. Closed-vessel tests of JA-2 propellant (manufactured by Nitrochemie AG, designation LO5460) were also carried out. The tests were carried out in a 200 cm3 closed vessel. Based on the propellant gas pressure/time records, the propellant force and co-volume, and dynamic vivacity curves were determined. A linear combustion rate coefficient was determined using the measured results of the propellant grain geometry. The authors’ own data enabled the carrying out of preliminary simulation tests of the 120 mm propellant system.

scholarly journals Digital Framework for the History of the Austrian Military Border in Transylvania

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-53
Author(s):  
Sandra Hirsch ◽  
Csaba Horváth ◽  
Angela Lumezeanu ◽  
Vlad Popovici
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Registration Data ◽  
Administrative Personnel ◽  
Vital Registration Data ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Databases ◽  
The One ◽  
The Military

"The study provides the documentation for the first public version of the database Digital Framework for the History of the Austrian Military Border in Transylvania by means of a detailed description and user manual. It includes: a short overview of the historical context of the establishment of the Austrian military border in this province, references to the international and Romanian state of the art, the detailing of primary sources issued by the military environment and starting from which the database was built and the main principles of construction and operation of the latter. The information in the database is extracted from the records of the military and administrative personnel of the Transylvanian border regiments between 1763 and 1850, including monthly staff records, information on salaries, enrollments, transfers, desertions, medical certificates, etc. The lists of conduct of the officers should also be mentioned, each of them including a detailed physical and psychological description of the respective person. The database serves two aims. On the one hand, to boost the use of and access to documents generated by the Austrian military and with this to bring the Romanian historical writing on the military border in Transylvania closer to the primary sources. On the other hand, to complement, for the territory of the former military border, the vital registration data provided by parish registers with social history data that can improve life course reconstruction and analysis. Keywords: Historical databases, Austrian Military Border, Transylvania, Habsburg Monarchy, Military history "

scholarly journals ESTADO DE LA POBLACIÓN Y VALORACIÓN DE ALGUNAS ESTRATEGIAS DE CONSERVACIÓN DEL RECURSO PIANGUA ANADARA TUBERCULOSA (SOWERBY) EN SECTORES DE BAZÁN Y NERETE, COSTA PACÍFICA NARIÑENSE DE COLOMBIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvana Espinosa G. ◽  
María Fernanda Delgado Hernández ◽  
Bernardo Orobio Riofrío ◽  
Luz Marina Mejía Ladino ◽  
Diego L. Gil Agudelo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Minimum Size ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Permanent Plots ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Status ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One ◽  
Positive Results

The objective of this investigation was to evaluate the status of piangua (Anadara tuberculosa, Sowerby) populations in two areas of the province of Nariño (Pacific coast of Colombia), and to assess the effect on natural communities of conservation strategies such as closed periods, rotation on extracting areas, and enforcement of the 5 cm minimum size declared by INPA (resolution 539, 2000). Permanent plots were set up and all piangua were collected using the traditional manual techniques. Morphometric measurements of gathered organisms were recorded. Subsequent samplings were performed at different times depending on the conservation strategy evaluated. A total of 10441 individuals of A. tuberculosa were collected, 61 % corresponding to Bazán and 39 % to Nerete. All conservation strategies assessed showed positive effects on the conservation and sustainable use of the resource, being closed periods of two months the one with better results (p= 0.027 for Bazán and p= 8.57E-06 for Nerete; Tukey: p< 0.05); in Bazán, this strategy was the only one showing positive results, while in Nerete the three strategies showed to be effective.

The One True religion in the Military

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Parco ◽  
Barry S. Fagin
Keyword(s):  
The One ◽  
The Military

Отцейхгаузадомузеяизисториивоенно-историческогомузеяартиллерии,инженерныхвойскивойсксвязи

2019 ◽  
pp. 134-197
Author(s):  
V.E. . Sergei
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Military History ◽  
Peter The Great ◽  
General Field ◽  
Signal Corps ◽  
History Of ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Military Engineering ◽  
The Military

The article is dedicated to the history of the Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineering and Signal Corps. The author examines the main stages of the museums formation, starting with the foundation of the Arsenal, established in St. Petersburg at the orders of Peter the Great on August 29th 1703 for the safekeeping and preservation of memory, for eternal glory of unique arms and military trophies. In 1756, on the base of the Arsenals collection, the General Inspector of Artillery Count P.I. created the Memorial Hall, set up at the Arsenal, on St. Petersburgs Liteyny Avenue. By the end of the 18th century the collection included over 6,000 exhibits. In 1868 the Memorial Hall was transferred to the New Arsenal, at the Crownwork of the Petropavlovsky Fortress, and renamed the Artillery Museum (since 1903 the Artillery Historical Museum). A large part of the credit for the development and popularization of the collection must be given to the historian N.E. Brandenburg, the man rightly considered the founder of Russias military museums, who was the chief curator from 1872 to 1903. During the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars a significant part of the museums holdings were evacuated to Yaroslavl and Novosibirsk. Thanks to the undying devotion of the museums staff, it not only survived, but increased its collection. In the 1960s over 100,000 exhibits were transferred from the holdings of the Central Historical Museum of Military Engineering and the Military Signal Corps Museum. In 1991 the collection also received the entire Museum of General Field Marshal M.I. Kutuzov, transferred from the Polish town of Bolesawjec. The Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineering and Signal Coprs is now one of the largest museums of military history in the world. It holds an invaluable collection of artillery and ammunition, of firearms and cold steel arms, military engineering and signal technology, military banners, uniforms, a rich collection of paintings and graphic works, orders and medals, as well as extensive archives, all dedicated to the history of Russian artillery and the feats of our nations defenders.Статья посвящена истории создания ВоенноИсторического музея артиллерии, инженерных войск и войск связи. Автор рассматривает основные этапы становления музея, начиная с основания Арсенала, созданного в СанктПетербурге по приказу Петра I 29 августа 1703 года для хранения и сохранения памяти, во имя вечной славы уникального оружия и военных трофеев. В 1756 году на базе коллекции Арсенала генеральный инспектор артиллерии граф П. И. создал мемориальный зал, установленный при Арсенале, на Литейном проспекте СанктПетербурга. К концу 18 века коллекция насчитывала более 6000 экспонатов. В 1868 году Мемориальный зал был перенесен в Новый Арсенал, на венец Петропавловской крепости, и переименован в Артиллерийский музей (с 1903 года Артиллерийский Исторический музей). Большая заслуга в развитии и популяризации коллекции принадлежит историку Н.Е. Бранденбургу, человеку, по праву считавшемуся основателем российских военных музеев, который был главным хранителем с 1872 по 1903 год. В годы Гражданской и Великой Отечественной войн значительная часть фондов музея была эвакуирована в Ярославль и Новосибирск. Благодаря неусыпной преданности сотрудников музея, он не только сохранился, но и пополнил свою коллекцию. В 1960х годах более 100 000 экспонатов были переданы из фондов Центрального исторического военноинженерного музея и Музея войск связи. В 1991 году коллекцию также получил весь музей генералфельдмаршала М. И. Кутузова, переданный из польского города Болеславец. Военноисторический музей артиллерии, инженерных войск и войск связи в настоящее время является одним из крупнейших музеев военной истории в мире. Здесь хранится бесценная коллекция артиллерии и боеприпасов, огнестрельного и холодного оружия, военной техники и сигнальной техники, военных знамен, обмундирования, богатая коллекция живописных и графических работ, орденов и медалей, а также обширные архивы, посвященные истории русской артиллерии и подвигам защитников нашего народа.

The Futurists. Experts in World Futures

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Other ◽  
Futures Studies ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Images Of The Future ◽  
The Way

Alvin Toffler’s writings encapsulated many of the tensions of futurism: the way that futurology and futures studies oscillated between forms of utopianism and technocracy with global ambitions, and between new forms of activism, on the one hand, and emerging forms of consultancy and paid advice on the other. Paradoxically, in their desire to create new images of the future capable of providing exits from the status quo of the Cold War world, futurists reinvented the technologies of prediction that they had initially rejected, and put them at the basis of a new activity of futures advice. Consultancy was central to the field of futures studies from its inception. For futurists, consultancy was a form of militancy—a potentially world altering expertise that could bypass politics and also escaped the boring halls of academia.

Hawks and Doves in the Education of Aboriginal Children

1982 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-55
Author(s):  
P. Degens
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Good Time ◽  
White Children ◽  
Aboriginal Population ◽  
Educational Issue ◽  
Special Programs ◽  
The One ◽  
The Military ◽  
Aboriginal Children

When I first moved to Coffs Harbour in 1972, I quickly became aware of the problems facing Aboriginal children in the school and community. Now, ten years later, seems a good time to review the position.Statistically there have been changes. The Aboriginal population in Coffs Harbour Shire is 1.6% of the total population, namely: males 200, females 194, total 394.The new Tyalla Primary which opened next to Orara High in 1978 has 29 Aboriginal pupils, while the Aboriginal population of Orara High itself has increased from 10 to 31 students (2 being in Year 11) in keeping with this school’s growth from only Years 7 – 9 in 1973, to a full secondary school by 1976.It appears that attitudes among teachers and white children have polarised. There are the ‘hawks’ and the ‘doves’. When these terms were invented during the Eisenhower years in the U.S.A., it was easy to tell a ‘hawk’ from a ‘dove’. The ‘hawks’ were those who favoured warlike measures and confrontation, while the ‘doves’ were those who wanted peace talks and mutual disarmament. These days it has become difficult to differentiate in the military aviary but in this educational issue there seems to be a marked line of division. On the one hand there are those who condemn as ‘racist’ any special programs of financial aid to assist Aboriginal children, ‘the hawks’, and on the other those who blame a white-dominated society for the problems Aboriginal children face, ‘the doves’.

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