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Russia's Wartime Economy: Measuring Regional Inequalities From Outer Space
Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study Russia's February 2022 full‐scale invasion of Ukraine as a natural experiment to determine how sudden disruptions to international market access reshape sub‐national economic inequalities. Using remotely‐sensed nighttime lights as a proxy for economic activity, we estimate the economic effects of the war at the national and regional ...
Irakli Barbakadze +3 more
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Obesity Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Regular exercise is a first‐line nonpharmacological strategy for managing metabolic syndrome (MetS), but varied exercise modalities and outcomes across studies have led to inconsistent findings that limit clinical guidance. Objective To synthesize up‐to‐date evidence on the efficacy of exercise‐based interventions in improving MetS ...
Eric Tsz‐Chun Poon +5 more
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Gong and fa in Chinese martial arts [PDF]
Martial Arts Studies, 2017 The distinction between gong (skill) and fa (technique) is ubiquitous in Chinese martial arts. Utilizing Maurice Merleau- Ponty’s notion of ‘embodied intentionality’, I examine this distinction. I draw specific examples of the kinds of skills under discussion from a particular style of taijiquan – Hong Chuan Chen Shi taijiquan (Master Hong Junsheng’s ...
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Manufacturing Martial Spirit: Ethos, Ideology and Identity in the Chinese Martial Arts [PDF]
Martial Arts Studies, 2020 ‘Martial spirit’ (shangwu jingshen) emerged as a discursive trope during the late nineteenth century as China faced the existential threat of internal rebellion, Western and Japanese imperialism and a moribund Manchu dynasty. China’s self-image as the ‘Central Kingdom’ gave way to the international reputation as the ‘Sick Man of Asia’. Within the space
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Arts nation: an overview of Australian arts - 2015 edition [PDF]
, 2015 This paper provides evidence as a catalyst for informed discussion about arts and culture in Australia. Executive summary Australians value the arts.
Australia Council for the Arts
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Intercultural Communication of Chinese Martial Arts in Africa [PDF]
, 2019 Intercultural communication is an interpretive context in which people from different cultures create and share meanings. It’s an adaptative process in which different cultures interact and co-develop.
Wen, Lei +2 more
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The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
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War, Trauma and Diasporic Identity in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Japan's involvement in the Second World War offers provocative narrative material for authors who write about the cultural politics of race under wartime conditions, such as the internment experience of Japanese Americans in the United States and the mass killings of Chinese (Operation Sook Ching), suspected of anti‐Japanese sentiments in ...
Walter S. H. Lim
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Flowing Power and Harmonious Grace: Tai Chi’s Eight Core Characteristics in Dialogue with Chinese Xiqu’s Aesthetic Spirit [PDF]
Jurnalul Artelor SpectacoluluiTai Chi Chuan, guided by Yin-Yang and dialectical thought, shares profound aesthetic connections with traditional Chinese Xiqu—both center on harmony, integration, and the complement of softness and strength. Focusing on the eight core characteristics of
Yue Wang
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