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Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
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Complicated history with huge potential: Israeli-Japanese relations’ development

Японские исследования
From an analysis of Russian, Israeli, Japanese, and various English-language sources, the authors conclude that this paper is one of the few studies on the topic of Japanese-Israeli relations in the field of Oriental studies.
D. А. Maryasis, E. A. Iakimova
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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
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Intellectual Property Restitution

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
In Europe, open GLAM movements and cultural restitution reforms are overlooking a crucial aspect that should not be underestimated: what should happen to the archival materials, digital collections and intellectual property that are indelibly linked to cultural property.
Andrea Wallace, Mathilde Pavis
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Yakudoku: The Japanese Approach to Foreign Language Study [PDF]

, 1982
The teaching of English as a foreign language is often greatly influenced by the sociolinguistic environment of the country in which English is taught. In many countries, English is taught in accordance with indigenous educational traditions.
Hino, Nobuyuki
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Traditional Chinese Ritual Culture Transformed?: A TBC Approach to Joly’s and Hawkes’ Behaviour in Translating the Honorifics in Hong Lou Meng

Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación
This article compares the treatment of honorifics in English translations of Hong Lou Meng by Henry Bencraft Joly, a British diplomat and David Hawkes, a British sinologist, in light of Translator Behaviour Criticism (TBC).
Ying Luo
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「其實你不懂我的心！」檢視臺灣吸引國際學生策略與學生來臺經驗落差之研究 “You Don’t Know What Really Matters to Me!” Examining the Gaps Between Governmental Policies and Student Perspectives in International Student Recruitment Practices in Taiwan

Journal of Research in Education Sciences, 2016
在競爭激烈的全球化時代，對於招募全球人才的理念與實踐進行省思更為重要。本研究以臺灣為個案，以瞭解一個非英語系國家如何採取招募策略以吸引國際學生。臺灣政府相關政策傾向於以全英語授課環境與足夠的獎學金吸引國際學生來臺，且期待進一步與國際學生的母國建立或堅固與臺灣之間的政治與外交關係。然而，對國際學生而言，他們來臺灣求學主要是受到學習中文／文化、良好社會環境與未來工作機會等誘因所吸引。本研究透過政策分析、問卷調查、學生訪談等方式瞭解在政府政策與學生期待之間產生的落差內涵，並提出藉由重新定位政策 ...
王秀槐 Hsiou-Huai Wang, 張珍瑋 Chen-Wei Cha   +1 more
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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A Non-standard Approach to Standard English [PDF]

, 1988
This paper proposes a nonstandard approach to standard English as a second dialect (SESD). It rejects assimilationist ideology as a way of legitimizing the educational experience of language minority groups, advocating instead a pluralist position which ...
Sato, Charlene
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