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Selling the Bird : Richard Walton Tully´s the bird of paradise and the dynamics of theatrical commodification
The subject of this essay is a largely forgotten long-run play that had considerable impact on US culture in the first half of the twentieth century. Richard Walton Tully´s romantic drama "The Bird of Paradise" is a perfect example of a serious-minded, commercially successful play that has been erased from our disciplinary memory
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Preliminary results from a new study of transverse aeolian ridges (TARS) on Mars
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Hong Kong, la Chine et la démocratie
Analysant l’évolution politique de Hong Kong depuis la crise du SRAS, au printemps 2003, l’article montre que le territoire se situe au confluent de trois transitions majeures (démocratique, économique et culturelle, dans sa dimension de société postcoloniale) dont la conjonction nourrit une crise de la gouvernance. Cette situation facilite la diffusion d’une culture de la mobilisation politique. Inversement, les élections législatives de septembre 2004 ont révélé un réel désenchantement à l’égard des organisations politiques les plus instituées, notamment le Parti démocrate. Un tel sujet soulève celui, plus général, des perspectives de changements politiques dans le reste du continent chinois car, à la complexification de la culture politique locale, s’ajoutent des conflits croissants entre les modèles constitutionnels de Hong Kong et de Pékin. Ainsi, Hong Kong se trouve confronté au défi de devoir résister juridiquement et politiquement au modèle de centralisme démocratique de la Chine populaire sans apparaître comme antipatriote
Feasibility study for a post-manufacturing traceability system between the People’s Republic of China and the European Union:Report for the EU-China Trade Program
This feasibility study for a post-manufacturing traceability system of the quality, safety, authenticity, compliance of the products as well as the manufacturing process and, product ecology and the social involvement of the supply chain highlighted three main observations over which the following immediate needs and improvement actions were identified (...)
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Geological mapping of the Hokusai (H05) quadrangle of Mercury: Status update
[Introduction] MESSENGER data are being used to construct ~1:3M scale quadrangle geological maps of Mercury. Here, we present our progress mapping the Hokusai (H05) quadrangle
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Post-deposition (and ongoing?) modification of Caloris ejecta blocks
Mercury’s circum-Caloris region hosts numerous kilometer-scale knobs. If these land-forms, peculiar to Caloris, are its ejecta, then they can provide insight into the deep materials of the planet
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