Eileen Chang and cinema

The death of Eileen Chang on September 8, 1995 in Los Angeles made headlines in all the Chinese newspapers. In the Chinese-speaking areas of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China, a veritable cult of mystique has been built around her by both public media and the large number of her fans (who called themselves Chang-mi or Chang-fans”). However, in the last twenty-three years of her life Chang lived quietly and incognito in Los Angeles, shunning all social contact and escaping publicity by constantly changing her residences in numerous hotels, motels, and small apartment houses until her death in an obscure apartment building in the Westwood section of Los Angeles. This “mystery” of her last years adds only more glamour to her legend: she was like a retired movie star past her prime, like Greta Garbo

The relationship between tax evasion and tax revenue in Chang, Lai and Chang (1999)

Chang, Lai and Chang (1999) use a micro-founded short-term macroeconomic model, with an imperfectly competitive market, to analyze, among other issues, the relationship between tax evasion and tax revenue. They show that this relationship depends upon the market structure. In particular, when the market becomes perfectly competitive, this relationship can be non monotonic. Although CLC give an intuition of this result, based on the interaction of two opposite effects, they do not make explicit the form of this relationship. The goal of this note is precisely to show that, within the Chang, Lai and Chang (1999) model, one can completely characterize the shape of the relationship between tax evasion and tax revenue under perfect competition. Under some parametric conditions, the tax revenue decreases with tax evasion otherwise, their relationship takes the form of a `Laffer curve'.

On Such a Full Sea of Novels: An Interview with Chang-rae Lee

An interview with author Chang-rae Lee

Ante una nueva historia y filosofía de las ciencias: Hasok Chang y su propuesta de ciencia complementaria

El presente trabajo señalará los elementos críticos de Chang en este sentido y las ventajas de su modelo. Destacará cómo sería posible testear a través de él la solidez y adecuación de algunas propuestas epistemólogicas, a través del develamiento del proceso histórico de construcción de verdades científicas que penetraron el sentido común educado. Presentaré aquí el modo de concebir el desarrollo de la historia y la filosofía de las ciencias, propuesto por Hasok Chang. El alcance del texto es, entonces, modesto. Sin embargo, y dado que creo que además de nueva, su concepción es casi desconocida por estos lados valoro la tarea como útil. Trataré de esbozar los caracteres de su ciencia complementaria del modo más breve posible, allí mismo se observará la crítica implícita que al sistema científico Chang realiza y luego de determinadas estas dos cosas, pasaré a señalar por qué esta propuesta me parece valiosa

Compact uniform field electrode profiles

By modification of the conformal transformation used by Chang in determining uniform field electrode profiles, a large improvement can be achieved in the uniformity of the electric field strength distribution over the surface of the electrodes. When such electrodes are used in a TEA laser system, smaller electrodes can be used for the same gas discharge width

A Study of Question Words as Indefinite Pronouns in Zhu (1982)

This study explores sentences that include Question Words as Indefinite　Pronouns in Zhu（1982）. This paper uses propositional-logic, predicate-logic　and quantifier to analyze the meanings of sentences that include Question　Words as Indefinite Pronouns. (such as, shenme（什么）, shei（谁）, zenme（怎么）, na（哪））. For example,　(a) Ni ai chang shenme chang shenme.　You like sing whatever sing whatever―‘（You can） sing whatever you want to sing.’　This sentence can be analyzed in the following way,　(b) ∃ x[shenme’(x) ＆ ai’{ni,chang’(ni,x)}] → ∃ y[∀x{shenme’(x) ⇔ x=y}＆chang’(ni,y)]　This formula in (b) would be read as follows.　‘There is at least one x such that x is shenme and ni is ai of ‘ni chang x’ then there is at least one y such that it holds for every x that x is shenme if and only if x equal y and ni is chang of y.’　This paper also discusses ‘Question Words as Indefinite Pronouns that, when used for ‘universality,’ are stressed.研究ノー