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German Coalition Politics: Between Pluralist Stagnation and Crisis‐Driven Welfare Retrenchment

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The current German coalition government of the centre‐right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the centre‐left Social Democrats (SPD) has spent its first year in office preparing for a major round of welfare state retrenchment. However, the coalition lacks a coherent political project.
Jörg Michael Dostal
wiley   +1 more source

Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

City Railway Train Control System Key Management Technology

open access: yesChengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu
[Objective] In response to the issues in city railway train control systems, such as the insufficient security, operational complexity, and low cross-domain running efficiency associated with the offline management of vehicle-wayside communication ...
WANG Lu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison and Analysis of Signaling System Testing and Commissioning Technologies for City Railway and Urban Rail Transit

open access: yesChengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu
[Objective] City railways adopt CTCS (China train control system), while urban rail transit employs CBTC (communication-based train control) system. Significant differences in technical architecture and functional logic between the two systems result in ...
MA Sinan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

Influence Analysis of Super-large Diameter Steel Pipe Pile Resonance-free Method Construction on Surrounding Soil Deformation

open access: yesChengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu
Objective The high-frequency resonance-free method is renowned for its high efficiency and low environmental impact. To further investigate the influence of constructing super-large diameter steel pipe pile with this method on the deformation and ...
HUANG Yaodong
doaj   +1 more source

Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
wiley   +1 more source

Operation Scheme for City Railway Train Considering Passenger Travel Time Value

open access: yesChengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu
[Objective] In view of the functional orientation of city railway and the inconsistency in passengers demand for travel convenience, ride comfort, and economy under the current economic and social development, it is necessary to study the train operation
Jin LUO   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
wiley   +1 more source

A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

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