scholarly journals This Is, and Is Not, Shakespeare: A Japanese-Korean Transformation of Othello

2012 ◽  
pp. 179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emi Hamana
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Potential ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Special Concern ◽  
The One ◽  
Original Production

The purpose of this paper is to address the critical impact of local Shakespeare on global Shakespeare by examining a Japanese-Korean adaptation of Othello. Incorporating elements of Korean shamanistic ritual and elements from Japanese noh to create a new reading of Shakespeare’s play with its special concern with Desdemona’s soul, the two theatres interact powerfully with each other. Local Shakespeare functions as a cultural catalyst for the two nations vexed with historical problems. By translating and relocating Shakespeare’s Othello in East Asia, the adaptation succeeds in recreating Shakespeare’s play for contemporary local audiences. In considering the adaptation, this paper explores the vital importance of local Shakespeare and local knowledge for the sake of global Shakespeare as a critical potential. The adaptation might evoke a divided response among a non-local audience. While on the one hand, it attempts to create an ‘original’ production of the Shakespeare play through employing the two Asian cultures, on the other, it employs the Shakespeare play as a conduit for their cultural exchange. This is, and is not, Shakespeare. The paper finally suggests that for all this ambivalence, the adaptation shows some respectful, if unfamiliar, feelings that could be shared by many people around the globe.

Politics, Trade and Communications in East Asia: Thoughts on Anglo-Russian Relations, 1861–1907

1987 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 667-678
Author(s):  
Ian Nish
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
East Asia ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Total Trade ◽  
North East ◽  
Intelligence Operations ◽  
Political Stance ◽  
The One ◽  
Image Position

As Britain saw it, trade was not the prime motivating force for Russian expansion in east Asia or, put another way, the Russian frontiersmen were not driven by the actual amount of their trade there or its future potentialities. While Russia was primarily concerned with the tea trade over land frontiers, Britain was concerned with the seaborne commerce of China. The customs revenue paid to China in the year 1894 worked out as follows:Judging from the returns of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Organization, British ships carried 83.5% of China's total trade. But Britain's commercial dominance affected her political stance because she wanted to preserve China's stability for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. This was at the root of the political tensions between Britain and Russia which emerged in China after 1860 and especially those which derived from the spate of railway building which took place from 1890 onwards. It would be foolish to deny that intense rivalry did exist in the area from time to time or that detailed observations of the actions of the one were regularly conducted by the other—what we should now call ‘intelligence operations’. But what I shall suggest in this paper is that, despite all the admitted antagonism and suspicion between Britain and Russia in east Asia, Britain regularly made efforts to reach accommodations with Russia in north-east Asia.

scholarly journals Statistical experiments on the motion of electrons in gases

1928 ◽  
Vol 119 (782) ◽  
pp. 335-348 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Quantum Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Metastable States ◽  
Free Electrons ◽  
Critical Potential ◽  
Statistical Experiments ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

While the Quantum Theory is now almost universally accepted as the basis of discussion, when any question of energy-interchanges between molecules and free electrons is being considered, there is one collection of papers, of quite appreciable extent, that claims to treat part of the subject on totally different assumptions; these are the papers describing experiments performed in the laboratory of Prof. Townsend in Oxford. They do not claim to account for any of the results obtained by investigators elsewhere, but they do claim to have established phenomena which it is quite impossible to fit into the otherwise universally accepted views, and which necessitate, or at least justify, a number of different assumptions which Prof. Townsend formulates. The position can only be cleared up by reconciling the experiments of the one party with the theories of the other, and it is this task which will here be attempted. The experiments to be considered are of a quite different type from those which claimed to establish the existence of critical potentials; moreover, if the Quantum Theory statements are broadly correct, they are of a type unsuited to the problem. None the less, they would probably have led unaided, if not to the same conclusions, at least to the discovery of their own unsuitability, if it had not been for a somewhat unfortunate coincidence. This is, to put it briefly, the fact that the term-systems of the principal gases studied contain metastable states among their lowest excited levels. This fact is relatively unimportant in the critical potential work, but effects an enormous, and apparently quite unsuspected, disturbance when statistical high-pressure methods are employed, as is always the case in the work of Prof. Townsend.

scholarly journals Orang Lom: Masalah Sosial dan Ancaman Kearifan Lokal dalam Tinjauan Sosiologi

Society ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Jamilah Cholillah
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Other ◽  
The One

Social issues and local wisdom of Orang Lom People in Air Abik a contrasting duality. On the one side local knowledge continue to be maintained and preserved even exploited for the benefit of generations, but on the other side, the local wisdom, leaving only sadness being trapped on social issues such as local institutional stagnation and conflict prolonged tenure. The contrasting sides led to the existence of indigenous communities Lom People weakened and started moving towards industrialization resulted in waning social memory and the passage of the process of social exclusion.

Japanese Neo-Confucian Philosophy

2015 ◽  
pp. 272-290
Author(s):  
John A. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
The Other ◽  
Meiji Japan ◽  
Book Of Changes ◽  
Confucian Philosophy ◽  
The One ◽  
Subsequent Rise

This study explores Neo-Confucianism as a set of philosophical teachings that developed in distinctive ways in Japan. The study suggests that virtually all expressions of Confucian philosophy from Song times forward, in the wake of centuries of Buddhist domination of China and most of East Asia, were expressions of Neo-Confucianism. The study emphasizes differences between Japanese Neo-Confucianism and Chinese and Korean Neo-Confucianism by highlighting the distinctive relationships between Japanese Neo-Confucianism, Christianity, and Shinto, noting how, on the one hand, Japanese Neo-Confucians generally opposed Christianity as a foreign heterodoxy but, on the other, often embraced Shinto as a comparable expression of many of its own ideas, especially those found in the Book of Changes. The study also examines Neo-Confucian ideas in Meiji Japan, noting how they contributed to the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement of the mid-Meiji, but also to late-Meiji conservatism and the subsequent rise of nationalist ideological expressions.

scholarly journals A lexical account of Sorani Kurdish prepositions

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pollet Samvelian
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Non Local ◽  
The One

In Sorani Kurdish dialects, the complement of a preposition can generally be realized either as a syntactic item (NP, independent pronoun or PP) or a bound personal morpheme (clitic/affix). However, the affixal realization of the complement gives rise to a range of specific phenomena. First, some prepositions display two different phonological forms depending on the realization of their complement: the variant combining with a syntactic item is referred to as ˋsimple', while the variant combining with an affixal complement is called ˋabsolute'. Furthermore, unlike syntactic complements, which are always realized locally, the affixal complement of an absolute preposition can have a non-local realization, attaching to a host with which it has no morphosyntactic relations. In order to deal with these facts, this paper proposes a classification of Sorani prepositions along two lines: the affixal versus non-affixal realization of the complement on the one hand and its local versus non-local realization on the other hand. All cases of non-local realization receive a lexical account, either in terms of argument composition or in terms of linearization constraints on domain objects.

Quadratic forms ‘à la’ local theory

1967 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 579-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Fröhlich
Keyword(s):  
Quadratic Forms ◽  
The Other ◽  
Local Theory ◽  
Real Numbers ◽  
The Real ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Characteristic 2 ◽  
The One ◽  
Adic Case

In this note (cf. sections 3, 4) I shall give an axiomatization of those fields (of characteristic ≠ 2) which have a theory of quadratic forms like the -adic numbers or like the real numbers. This leads then, for instance, to a generalization of the well-known theorems on -adic forms to a wider class of fields, including non-local ones. The main purpose of the exercise is, however, to separate out the roles of the arithmetic in the underlying field, on the one hand, which solely enters into the verification of the axioms, and of the ordinary algebra of quadratic forms on the other hand. The resulting clarification of the structure of the theory is of interest even in the known -adic case.

The Ideology of Silence: Prejudice and Pragmatism on the Medieval Religious Frontier

1984 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 442-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles J. Halperin
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Great Frequency ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Determining Factor ◽  
The Middle Ages

Historians have long debated the importance of religion as a determining factor in relations between Christians and Muslims during the Middle Ages. On the one hand, each side consigned adherents of the enemy's religion to eternal damnation. Religious animosity provided the casus belli of crusade and jihad; Christian and Muslim met each other on the field of battle with great frequency. On the other hand, Christian-Muslim relations also included peaceful commerce, institutional borrowing, and even cultural exchange. Christians and Muslims spent more time fighting their coreligionists than making war on each other. Churches continued to exist in the lands of Islam, and mosques survived under Christian rule as well. Such evidence has led some historians to minimize the degree to which religious intolerance influenced Christian-Muslim contacts during the Middle Ages.

scholarly journals Learning from Other Places and Their Plans: Comparative Learning in and for Planning Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristof Van Assche ◽  
Raoul Beunen ◽  
Stefan Verweij
Keyword(s):  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
The Other ◽  
Planning Systems ◽  
Environmental Challenges ◽  
Learning Capacity ◽  
The One

In this thematic issue we pursue the idea that comparative studies of planning systems are utterly useful for gaining a deeper understanding of learning processes and learning capacity in spatial planning systems. In contemporary planning systems the pressures towards learning and continuous self-transformation are high. On the one hand more and more planning is needed in terms of integration of expertise, policy, local knowledge, and response to long term environmental challenges, while on the other hand the value of planning systems is increasingly questioned and many places witness an erosion of planning institutions. The issue brings together a diversity of contributions that explore different forms of comparative learning and their value for any attempt at reorganization, adaptation and improvement of planning systems.

From Neo-Republicanism to Critical Republicanism

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-46
Author(s):  
Dorothea Gädeke
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Potential ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Republican Theory

The aim of this chapter is to show how what I call critical republicanism can be developed by rethinking the neo-republican theory of domination on the basis of a more continental line of republicanism. On the one hand, I argue that with regard to all three of the most important elements of a theory of non-domination, its normative core, the conception of domination, and its institutional implications, Pettit’s neo-republicanism does contain a powerful critical potential, too easily dismissed by some of his critics. On the other hand, I show how this critical potential can be strengthened by reconceptualizing each of the elements of his theory of domination from a perspective inspired by the Kantian line of republican thought and contemporary critical theory.

Darkening Clouds over Istanbul: Turkish Theatre in a Changing Climate

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (56) ◽  
pp. 334-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Diamond
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Middle East ◽  
East Asia ◽  
The Other ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
Political Policy ◽  
The One ◽  
Changing Demographics ◽  
Kemal Ataturk

Modern Turkish theatre, benefiting from the support of the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustapha Kemal Ataturk, has had a secular bent throughout its history. However, after the elections of 1994 and 1995, when Refah (Welfare) Party candidates espousing a distinctly religious agenda swept into power, dramatists have found themselves in an uneasy position, caught between corrupt secular politicians and a censorship-inclined military on the one hand, and Islamists hostile to theatre both in principle and as an unnecessary luxury on the other. Besides swiftly changing demographics and competition from alternative entertainments, shifts in political policy in Istanbul are eroding the city's strong theatre tradition. Yet the theatre of this nation which straddles Europe and Asia maintains an impressive vitality and variety, with state and municipal companies mounting regular seasons of foreign and Turkish works, and experimental troupes challenging established theatre forms as well as daring to broach some of the sensitive ideological conflicts in Istanbul. Catherine Diamond, a dancer and drama professor in Taiwan, is author of Sringara Tales, a collection of short stories about dancers in South-East Asia and the Middle East.

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