Edward Said: Orientalism and Occidentalism

Twenty-five years after the appearance of Orientalism, Edward Said’s ideas still have great importance, both in relations between the West and the Middle East, and in settings that Said did not address directly. This paper looks at orientalism between Asian states, between Asia and the West, and within China.Vingt-cinq ans après la publication du livre L’Orientalisme, les propos qu’y tient Edward Said s’avèrent toujours d’une grande actualité pour comprendre les relations entre l’Occident et le Moyen-Orient, mais aussi pour expliquer des situations que l’auteur n’avait pas alors directement étudiées. L’article de Diana Lary analyse l’orientalisme tel qu’il s’observe entre les États asiatiques, entre l’Asie et l’Occident, et à l’intérieur même de la Chine

Swallows and Settlers

Between the 1890s and the Second World War, twenty-five million people traveled from the densely populated North China provinces of Shandong and Hebei to seek employment in the growing economy of China's three northeastern provinces, the area known as Manchuria. This was the greatest population movement in modern Chinese history and ranks among the largest migrations in the world. Swallows and Settlers is the first comprehensive study of that migration. Drawing methods from their respective fields of economics and history, the coauthors focus on both the broad quantitative outlines of the movement and on the decisions and experiences of individual migrants and their families. In readable narrative prose, the book lays out the historical relationship between North China and the Northeast (Manchuria) and concludes with an examination of ongoing population movement between these regions since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949

Swallows and Settlers

Between the 1890s and the Second World War, twenty-five million people traveled from the densely populated North China provinces of Shandong and Hebei to seek employment in the growing economy of China's three northeastern provinces, the area known as Manchuria. This was the greatest population movement in modern Chinese history and ranks among the largest migrations in the world. Swallows and Settlers is the first comprehensive study of that migration. Drawing methods from their respective fields of economics and history, the coauthors focus on both the broad quantitative outlines of the movement and on the decisions and experiences of individual migrants and their families. In readable narrative prose, the book lays out the historical relationship between North China and the Northeast (Manchuria) and concludes with an examination of ongoing population movement between these regions since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949

The Kwangsi Clique in Kuomintang politics, 1921-1936.

This thesis examines the question of regional independence in China under the Kuomintang rule and takes as a case study the Kwangsi Clique, which ruled the province of Kwangsi from 1925 to 1949, and whose leaders periodically played important roles in Kuomintang politics. The Introduction describes the development of regionalism and militarism in the late 19th century and their further growth in the early years of the Republic. Chapter I gives a historical account of the province of Kwangsi gind sets out the career of Lu Yung-t'ing, who ruled the province from 1911 to 1921. Chapter II deals with the background, education and early careers of the men who were to lead the Kwangsi Clique. Chapter III describes the rise of these men within Kwangsi during the long period of civil war which racked the province after 1921 and ended with the alliance of Kwangsi with the Kwangtung of the Kuomintang in 1926. Chapter IV is an account of the activities of the Kwangsi leaders in 1926 and 1927 and of the evolution of the Kwangsi Clique as a force in Kuomintang politics. Chapter V describes events within Kwangsi between 1926 and 1929, when a strong regional base was consolidated for the Clique. Chapter VI examines the role of the Clique in national politics in 1928 and 1929, when its great regional power holding threatened the authority of the Kuomintang government at Nanking, and relates the Clique's defeat by the National Government in 1929. Chapter VII gives an account of the Clique's reduced independence, within one province, between 1930 and 1936 and of its Reconstruction Movement, which attempted to develop an alternative form of government to that practised from Nanking. The Conclusion attempts to assess the effect of independent regional power holding on the fortunes of the Kuomintang; it also gives a brief description of the careers of the leaders of the Kwangsi Cliuqe after 1936, when its autonomy was finally shattered

C1-2 transarticular screw fixation combined with Gallie technique in atloaxial dislocation

Introducción: existen múltiples técnicas quirúrgicas para tratar la inestabilidad del complejo atlantoaxial. La fijación con tornillos transarticulares C1-2 (técnica de Magerl) ha mostrado altos índices de fusión, y puede ser combinada con los sistemas de alambrado descritos inicialmente, para garantizar mayor estabilidad al constructo.Presentación de caso: masculino, 62 años, que luego de una caída de dos metros, es traído a la institución con dolor cervical y con imposibilidad para mover las extremidades. Al examen neurológico, presentaba un grado B en la American Spinal Injury Classiffication Scale. Se diagnostica fractura odontoidea conminuta y luxación atloaxoidea. Se le aplica tracción cervical con lo que se logra la alineación vertebral. Se planifica tratamiento quirúrgico mediante técnica de Magerl. Ante trayectoria subóptima del tornillo inicial, se combina con fusión atloaxoidea posterior, mediante técnica de Gallie. Se mantuvo inmovilización externa durante dos semanas. Al egreso hospitalario, el paciente logra la deambulación, aunque con disparesia braquial con predominio distal. En estudios radiológicos evolutivos, no se observa fallo del sistema de instrumentación.Conclusiones: en este caso la utilización de la técnica de Gallie, ante la malposición de uno de los tornillos transarticulares C1-2, permitió conservar la estabilidad del constructo. Introduction: Multiple surgical techniques exist to treat instability of the atlantoaxial complex. Transarticular C1-2 screw fixation (Magerl's technique) has shown high fusion rates, and can be combined with the initially described wiring systems to guarantee greater stability to the construct.Case presentation: male, 62 years old, who after a two-meter fall, was brought to the institution reporting cervical pain and inability to move the limbs. On neurological examination, he had a grade B on the American Spinal Injury Classiffication Scale. A comminuted odontoid fracture and atloaxial dislocation were diagnosed. Cervical traction was applied and vertebral alignment was achieved. Surgical treatment was planned using Magerl's technique. Given the suboptimal trajectory of the initial screw, it was combined with posterior atloaxoid fusion, using Gallie technique. External immobilization was maintained for two weeks. At hospital discharge, the patient achieved ambulation, maintaining brachial dysparesis with distal predominance. In evolutionary radiological studies, no failure of the instrumentation system was observed.Conclusions: In our case, the use of the Gallie technique, in view of the malposition of one of the C1-2 transarticular screws, allowed preserving the stability of the construct

Pursuing China : Memoir of a Beaver Liaison Officer : [book review]

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