“The Party Leads Everything”

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Rush Doshi
Keyword(s):  
Research Strategy ◽  
Grand Strategy ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
Nationalist Party ◽  
Rightful Place ◽  
Textual Research ◽  
Insight Into

Chapter 2 explores the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) role in China’s grand strategy. First, it focuses on the CCP as a nationalist party, one that emerged from the patriotic ferment of the late Qing period and has sought to restore the country to its rightful place. Second, it focuses on the CCP as a Leninist party, one that has built centralized institutions—blended with a ruthless amorality—to govern the country and achieve its nationalist mission. Together, it argues, the Party’s nationalist orientation helps set the ends of Chinese grand strategy, while Leninism provides an instrument for realizing them. Finally, the book focuses on the CCP as a producer of paper and a subject of research, noting how a careful study of the Party’s own voluminous publications can provide insight into its grand strategic concepts. It then outlines much of the textual research strategy employed in the rest of this book.

Strategy on the Upward Slope

2021 ◽  
pp. 456-473
Author(s):  
Joshua Shifrinson
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Grand Strategy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
Upward Slope ◽  
Grand Strategies ◽  
The Rise Of China ◽  
Substantial Interest ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
New Framework

When a great power rises, what strategies does it adopt and why? Despite substantial interest in these questions due to concerns surrounding the rise of China and concomitant decline of the United States, research on rising state grand strategy remains underdeveloped. Not only do analysts lack a consistent way of describing how risers’ grand strategies vary, but insight into the drivers of rising state strategy remains inchoate. Accordingly, this chapter analyzes existing research, highlights the problems rising states confront in crafting grand strategy, advances a new framework for discussing strategy, and suggests avenues for future research.

Inside the Cloister

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rex Galindo
Keyword(s):  
New Spain ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Daily Schedule ◽  
San Fernando ◽  
Insight Into

As David Rex Galindo shows in Chapter 5, by 1750 the College of San Fernando, which recruited Serra to New Spain and oversaw the missions of California, was an institution with a rich institutional life and a large contingent of Spanish friars. Rex Galindo’s careful study of the records of the college yields insight into Serra’s place atop the college hierarchy and the ways in which a regimented daily schedule was intended to impart among missionaries the discipline they needed for life in the field.

Oh Hi There History: An Adaptation of Historical Research and an Exploration of Fidelity Discourse through Practice

Adaptation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-160
Author(s):  
Lydia Nicholson
Keyword(s):  
Research Strategy ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Adaptation Theory ◽  
Adaptation Studies ◽  
Web Series ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Adaptation Practice ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Adaptation studies theorists have debated the value and scope of fidelity criticism for decades, but the application of fidelity discourse from an adaptation practitioner perspective is vastly under-researched. Using a practice-based research strategy, this article describes how a consideration of fidelity discourse during the development of the web-series, Oh Hi There History, supported the development of the series as an adapted text and raised new questions about adaptation theory and practice. Oh Hi There History is an adaptation of the Founders and Survivors project’s research into Tasmanian convict history. This article considers the binary of in/fidelity in a practitioner context, analyses how fidelity taxonomies might be applied to the development of an adapted text, and explores the possibilities of applying through practice theoretical approaches to fidelity discourse around intertextuality and history-as-adaptation. By applying these theories in a new context, this article argues that practice-based research can provide new insight into fidelity discourse and new ways of understanding the role of fidelity in adaptation practice.

Network analysis

2011 ◽  
Vol 73 (7) ◽  
pp. 630-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Löblich ◽  
Senta Pfaff-Rüdiger
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Communication Policy ◽  
Youth Protection ◽  
Insight Into

Structures of interest, influence and power in communication policy are shifting due to increasing digitization, economization and globalization. Against this background it is necessary to reflect more than before upon methods to study the relations between actors and their potential influences on regulation processes. The article explains qualitative network analysis as a research strategy for communication policy research and discusses qualitative interviews and network cards as research tools to put network analysis into practice. The theoretical basis consists of governance and network theory. The article focuses on an analysis of the German youth protection system, which provides practical insight into a qualitative network study.

scholarly journals On ‘lost’ indigenous etymological origins with the specific case of the name Ameiva

ZooKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 748 ◽  
pp. 151-159
Author(s):  
Nicole Frances Angeli
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Local People ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Modern Biology ◽  
Language Origin ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Dutch Brazil

Modern biology builds upon the historic exploration of the natural world. Recognizing the origin of a species’ name is one path to honor the historic exploration and description of the natural world and the indigenous peoples that lived closely with organisms prior to their description. While digitization of historic papers catalogued in databases such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) allows for searching of the first use and origin of names, the rapid pace of taxonomic publishing can occlude a thorough search for etymologies. The etymological origin of the genus name Ameiva is one such case; while unattributed in multiple recent works, it is of Tupí language origin. The first description was in the Historiae Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae by George Marcgrave (1648). Ameiva was the name used by Marcgrave’s Amerindian hosts in 17th century Dutch Brazil, where local people spoke the now extinct language Tupí. The Tupí origin was not lost, however, until as recently as the 2000s. Herein, the pre- and post-Linnaean use of the name Ameiva is traced and when the name is attributed to the Tupí language and to Marcgrave through time it is noted. The opportunity to discover and/or recover etymological origins, especially names from extinct and indigenous languages, provides insight into the early Western sciences. Careful study of etymology by naturalists is consistent with the idea that science is an evolving process with many predecessors to appreciate.

AMERICAN DIPLOMACY AND EXPORT-ORIENTED INDUSTRIALIZATION ON TAIWAN

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
James Lee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Grand Strategy ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
Nationalist Party ◽  
American Diplomacy

Abstract Scholars have pointed to the period 1958-1962 as the beginning of Taiwan's transition to export-oriented industrialization. Although the Nationalist Party (KMT) had traditionally supported state socialism, the KMT began to oversee economic reforms in the late 1950s, setting Taiwan on the course of export-led growth under a capitalist model. Using archival materials from both the United States and Taiwan, I argue that the reforms resulted from U.S. influence on how the KMT understood the role of economic development in its grand strategy. U.S. arguments succeeded in creating political support at the highest levels of the KMT leadership for a reform-oriented faction in the economic bureaucracy. This finding shows how an aid donor can promote economic reforms even when the recipient is strategically important for the donor: although threats to enforce conditionality may not be credible, the donor can influence the recipient through persuasion.

FABIUS AND MINUCIUS IN TACITUS: INTERTEXTUALITY AND ALLUSION IN ANNALS BOOK 15

2017 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 583-596
Author(s):  
Arthur J. Pomeroy
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Insight Into

Roman conflict with Parthia in the mid first century for control of Armenia and Domitius Corbulo's exploits in the East, culminating in the Parthian candidate for the throne, Tiridates, receiving his diadem from the hands of the Emperor Nero in Rome, have frequently been studied for what they reveal about military and diplomatic manoeuvres under the later Julio-Claudians. The historiographical investigation of our main source, Tacitus, particularly through comparison with the fragments of Cassius Dio, is also important for the light this sheds on the Roman senator's methods. The intention of this paper is to draw attention to the complexity of Tacitus’ account by indicating his use of multiple and sometimes contradictory viewpoints in his narration of Caesennius Paetus’ unsuccessful Armenian campaign of a.d. 62–63 (Ann. 15.1–17) and to highlight an unrecognized echoing of his predecessor Livy by the historian. The examination of a text that is as elusive as it is allusive will require a careful study of what must have been a debated incident, but, as I hope to show, will give a broader insight into the historian's methods and, perhaps, wider intentions. I begin with an outline of historical events and the sources available to the historian. Next, I present a narratological examination of the text to show how differing viewpoints are highlighted within a contested storyline. I then show how this confusion may appear to be dispelled by a strong plot-line that borrows heavily from Livy, wherein the actions of an older, experienced general are contrasted with those of his subordinate. However, aspects of this account suggest that the tensions within the narrative are not resolved and that this has wider implications for our understanding of the historian and his work.

scholarly journals On ‘lost’ indigenous etymological origins with the specific case of the name Ameiva

ZooKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 748 ◽  
pp. 151-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Frances Angeli
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Local People ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Modern Biology ◽  
Language Origin ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Dutch Brazil

Modern biology builds upon the historic exploration of the natural world. Recognizing the origin of a species’ name is one path to honor the historic exploration and description of the natural world and the indigenous peoples that lived closely with organisms prior to their description. While digitization of historic papers catalogued in databases such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) allows for searching of the first use and origin of names, the rapid pace of taxonomic publishing can occlude a thorough search for etymologies. The etymological origin of the genus name Ameiva is one such case; while unattributed in multiple recent works, it is of Tupí language origin. The first description was in the Historiae Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae by George Marcgrave (1648). Ameiva was the name used by Marcgrave’s Amerindian hosts in 17th century Dutch Brazil, where local people spoke the now extinct language Tupí. The Tupí origin was not lost, however, until as recently as the 2000s. Herein, the pre- and post-Linnaean use of the name Ameiva is traced and when the name is attributed to the Tupí language and to Marcgrave through time it is noted. The opportunity to discover and/or recover etymological origins, especially names from extinct and indigenous languages, provides insight into the early Western sciences. Careful study of etymology by naturalists is consistent with the idea that science is an evolving process with many predecessors to appreciate.

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of whole flower transcriptomes in the Zingiberales

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e5490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Maria R. Almeida ◽  
Alma Piñeyro-Nelson ◽  
Roxana B. Yockteng ◽  
Chelsea D. Specht
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Model Organisms ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Sequencing Technologies ◽  
Outgroup Species ◽  
Floral Diversification ◽  
Genomic Scale ◽  
Insight Into

The advancement of next generation sequencing technologies (NGS) has revolutionized our ability to generate large quantities of data at a genomic scale. Despite great challenges, these new sequencing technologies have empowered scientists to explore various relevant biological questions on non-model organisms, even in the absence of a complete sequenced reference genome. Here, we analyzed whole flower transcriptome libraries from exemplar species across the monocot order Zingiberales, using a comparative approach in order to gain insight into the evolution of the molecular mechanisms underlying flower development in the group. We identified 4,153 coding genes shared by all floral transcriptomes analyzed, and 1,748 genes that are only retrieved in the Zingiberales. We also identified 666 genes that are unique to the ginger lineage, and 2,001 that are only found in the banana group, while in the outgroup species Dichorisandra thyrsiflora J.C. Mikan (Commelinaceae) we retrieved 2,686 unique genes. It is possible that some of these genes underlie lineage-specific molecular mechanisms of floral diversification. We further discuss the nature of these lineage-specific datasets, emphasizing conserved and unique molecular processes with special emphasis in the Zingiberales. We also briefly discuss the strengths and shortcomings of de novo assembly for the study of developmental processes across divergent taxa from a particular order. Although this comparison is based exclusively on coding genes, with particular emphasis in transcription factors, we believe that the careful study of other regulatory mechanisms, such as non-coding RNAs, might reveal new levels of complexity, which were not explored in this work.

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