scholarly journals Positioning China Watching

China Report ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-136
Author(s):  
Chih-Yu Shih
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Chinese Civil War ◽  
The Subject

This article divides China watching by the two dimensions of position and purpose. By position, the article asks if a narrator looks at China from an external or an internal perspective. By purpose, it asks if the narrative is to critically provide an evaluative perspective, to objectively represent an authentic China, or to practically discuss a life and identity strategy of Chinese people. Specifically, the complex sensibilities towards China among Taiwanese migrant scholars reify the genuine and yet often-unnoticed agency required to proceed with writing on China. With initially both the Chinese Civil War and later pro-independence politics in Taiwan poisoning relationships with China, the politically divided Taiwanese scholars enter a different environment in Hong Kong, which urges neither total confrontation nor complete loyalty in approaching China. How the Hong Kong circumstances have impacted upon the choices of these Taiwanese intellectuals in their presentation of the subject matter of China, in comparison with their other colleagues in Hong Kong, is the primary goal of the following discussion.

The Spectrum of Frames and Disputes in the Umbrella Movement

2019 ◽  
pp. 74-99
Author(s):  
Wing Sang Law
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Democratic Reform ◽  
Direct Election ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common

This chapter highlights the importance of how the key campaign groups of the Umbrella Movement contested each other through their efforts of “framing” the movement in different ways so as to realize their competing visions of social mobilization. The Umbrella Movement was basically not a battleground between old and new conceptions of identity; rather, the subject matter was, throughout the process, democratic reform. Having said that, no one can take the Umbrella Movement out of the bigger context of ideological contestation happening over the years and how these contestations affected the prodemocracy cause. The Umbrella Movement was indeed overshadowed by an intense struggle for symbolic power, which might not help to organize the movement in a conventional sense. In other words, underneath the common quest for genuine direct election, a battle of anti-elitism was played out according to the populist logic that allowed its adherents to always play taboo breakers, going against political correctness. Disputes over framing and strategies went hand-in-hand with a subterranean campaign against the elites alleged to be gaining personal benefits by being part of the social movement industry or political establishment. The elites were reframed to be worse enemies than the regime in power instead of someone holding different judgments about tactics and action choices. Such an anti-elitist battle deepened the “culture of distrust” in Hong Kong.

Foreign Judgments Will Not Be Enforceable in the Uae, Even If They Are Final, If the Defendants Have a Domicile in the Uae

1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-356
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Foreign Bank ◽  
High Court ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Foreign Judgment

AbstractA foreign bank brought an action against three persons domiciled in the UAE, requesting the local court to enforce judgments which the bank had obtained against the three defendants in the Hong Kong High Court. The action was dismissed and the UAE court refused to enforce the foreign judgments on the ground that service of the summons was not properly effected on the defendants when the action was filed at the Hong Kong High Court. The court further held that as the defendants were domiciled in the UAE, the UAE courts had jurisdiction to hear the merits of the action and so the UAE courts should not enforce the foreign judgment. Whenever the UAE courts have jurisdiction on the subject matter, it will not be possible to enforce a foreign judgment. The only time foreign judgments will be enforceable in the UAE is if the UAE courts have no jurisdiction on the subject matter of the proceedings. Accordingly, the action was dismissed and the court refused to enforce the foreign judgment.

scholarly journals Structures lexico-syntaxiques fondées sur le verbe viser dans l’écrit scientifique. Analyse contrastive franco-polonaise

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Gabrysiak
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Scientific Text ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Stage Process ◽  
The Subject

The paper offers an analysis of lexical-syntactic structures based on the verb form viser typical of a scientific text, that is a text that follows quite a stable and rigid structure. A corpus-based analysis, achieved through the use of the Scientext corpora, runs across two dimensions. The first dimension is constituted by the subject matter of the text while the other dimension concerns the relation between the author of the text and the recipient. The analysis presented is a two-stage process. At the first stage, lexical-syntactic structures are singled out. The second stage is to assign those structures to the particular parts of the text, such as Introduction, Main body, Conclusion.

Political Change in Hong Kong

1993 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 840-863 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Hook
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Civil War ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Political Change ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Colonial Form ◽  
Chinese Civil War ◽  
Mass Influx

On 1 July 1997, Hong Kong, the only significant remaining part of the British Empire, will revert to China. In the same year India, once the jewel in that crown and whose emancipation marked the beginning of the end, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its independence. History will record that for the latter part of these five decades the economic development of Hong Kong was, compared to other former British territories, spectacular. Once Hong Kong had overcome the challenge of the mass influx of refugees following the Chinese civil war, which endured for almost two of the five decades, its subsequent development, measured in material terms, was exemplary. No matter what the challenge, the Hong Kong population rose to it. Yet, compared to India and other parts of the former empire, its government until the eve of the reversion remained, judged by recognized criteria, “undemocratic” and unrepresentative, executive-led, and based on a colonial form of constitution.

scholarly journals Językowy obraz Chrystusa w rosyjskich przekładach wybranych wierszy Jana Twardowskiego

2009 ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Beata Edyta Dworakowska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cultural Linguistics

Jan Twardowski’s poems translated into Russian language in comparison with original texts are the object of analysis. The subject matter of the works concentrates on the most important existential problems. The attitude toward sacrum is one of main feature of Twardowski’s poetry, independently of the subject matter of works. The designation the linguistic image of Christ” in the title of the article means that proposed analysis is situated in investigative model of cultural linguistics which links to cognitive paradigm. The linguistic image of Christ is investigated in two dimensions. The Christ’s attributes in JOS of Polish language were specified within the limits of monolingual analysis, whereas bilingual analysis showed what happens with the JOS when it is transfered to other language, in this case to Russian language.

Words

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1320-1327
Author(s):  
Colbert Searles
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The Subject

THE germ of that which follows came into being many years ago in the days of my youth as a university instructor and assistant professor. It was generated by the then quite outspoken attitude of colleagues in the “exact sciences”; the sciences of which the subject-matter can be exactly weighed and measured and the force of its movements mathematically demonstrated. They assured us that the study of languages and literature had little or nothing scientific about it because: “It had no domain of concrete fact in which to work.” Ergo, the scientific spirit was theirs by a stroke of “efficacious grace” as it were. Ours was at best only a kind of “sufficient grace,” pleasant and even necessary to have, but which could, by no means ensure a reception among the elected.

The Taxonomic Structuring of Medical Information and its Usefulness in this Form

1965 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
pp. 112-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Zinsser
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Central Core ◽  
Diagnostic Strategy ◽  
Programmed Instruction ◽  
Orderly Fashion ◽  
The Subject

An outline has been presented in historical fashion of the steps devised to organize the central core of medical information allowing the subject matter, the patient, to define the nature and the progression of the diseases from which he suffers, with and without therapy; and approaches have been made to organize this information in such fashion as to align the definitions in orderly fashion to teach both diagnostic strategy and the content of the diseases by programmed instruction.

العربية المقاربة المقاصديّة في ردّ ابن فودي على القادح في جلستهم الدعويّة

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alawiye Abdulmumin Abdurrazzaq ◽  
Ahmad Wifaq Mokhtar ◽  
Abdul Manan Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Analytical Methods ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Subject

This article is aimed to examine the extent of the application of Islamic legal objectives by Sheikh Abdullah bn Fudi in his rejoinder against one of their contemporary scholars who accused them of being over-liberal about the religion. He claimed that there has been a careless intermingling of men and women in the preaching and counselling gathering they used to hold, under the leadership of Sheikh Uthman bn Fudi (the Islamic reformer of the nineteenth century in Nigeria and West Africa). Thus, in this study, the researchers seek to answer the following interrogations: who was Abdullah bn Fudi? who was their critic? what was the subject matter of the criticism? How did the rebutter get equipped with some guidelines of higher objectives of Sharĩʻah in his rejoinder to the critic? To this end, this study had tackled the questions afore-stated by using inductive, descriptive and analytical methods to identify the personalities involved, define and analyze some concepts and matters considered as the hub of the study.

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