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Overseas Communication and Acceptance of Hou Hsiao-Hsienâs Films-Centering on Franch Cahiers Du CinĂ©ma
The criticism on Hou Hsiao-Hsienâs films of the French magazine Cahiers du CinĂ©ma is an important landscape for oversea propagation of Chinese cinemas. The attention to Hou Hsiao-Hsien lies mainly in his naturalism lens style and realistic poetic characteristics. The present article tries to restore the Cahiers du CinĂ©maâs critical standpoint, scale and reason on Hou Hsiao-Hsien film, and also answer the three questions: In what ways do the French critics pay attention to the Chinese films? What is their focus? And, why do they keep such a watchful eye on Chinese cinema? The logic and angle as well as the ways of criticism behind their attention can provide many inspirations for Chinese-language cinemas studies.
Keywords: Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Cahiers du Cinéma, overseas communicatio
Sentience, Rationality, and Moral Status: A Further Reply to Hsiao
Timothy Hsiao argues that animals lack moral status because they lack the capacity for the sort of higher-level rationality required for membership in the moral community. Stijn Bruers and LĂĄszlĂł ErdĆs have already raised a number of objections to this argument, to which Hsiao has replied with some success. But I think a stronger critique can be made. Here I raise further objections to three aspects of Hsiao's view: his conception of the moral community, his idea of root capacities grounded in one's nature, and his explanation of why cruelty is wrong. I also argue that sentience is a more plausible candidate for the morally salient capacity than rationality
Using backward means to eliminate individual effects from dynamic panels
The within-groups estimator is inconsistent in dynamic panels with fixed T since the
sample mean used to eliminate the individual effects from the lagged dependent variable is
correlated with the error term. This paper suggests to eliminate individual effects from an
AR(1) panel using backward means as an alternative to sample means. Using orthogonal
deviations of the lagged dependent variable from its backward mean yields an estimator that
is still inconsistent for fixed T but the inconsistency is shown to be negligibly small. A Monte
Carlo simulation shows that this alternative estimator has superior small sample properties
compared to conventional fixed effects, bias-corrected fixed effects and GMM estimators.
Interestingly, it is also consistent for fixed T in the specific cases where (i) T = 2, (ii) the AR
parameter is 0 or 1, (iii) the variance of the individual effects is zero
Dust in the Wind: A Definitive Hou/New Cinema Work
Book Summary: For younger critics and audiences, Taiwanese cinema enjoys a special status, comparable with that of Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave for earlier generations, a cinema that was and is in the midst of introducing an innovative sensibility and a fresh perspective. Hou Hsiao-hsien is the most important Taiwanese filmmaker working today, and his sensuous, richly nuanced films reflect everything that is vigorous and genuine in contemporary film culture. By combining multiple forms of tradition with a uniquely cinematic approach to space and time, Hou has created a body of work that, through its stylistic originality and historical gravity, opens up new possibilities for the medium.
Chapter Summary: This chapter is part of the latest anthology devoted to Taiwan\u27s most famous director, Hou Hsiao-hsien. It argues that the lesser known Dust in the Wind is a definitive work for both Hou and the New Cinema movement that made him famous
No Man an Island: The Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien
Hou Hsiao-hsien is arguably the most celebrated Chinese-language film director in the international film festival realm. However, this is not due to an inert cultural tradition so much as to numerous historical/contextual factors â most of all his being from Taiwan -- which together explain the accomplishments of Hou.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1051/thumbnail.jp
The US Dollar-Euro exchange rate and US-EMU bond yield differentials: A Causality Analysis
This paper test for causality between the US Dollar-Euro exchange rate and US-EMU bond yield differentials. To that end, we apply Hsiao (1981)âs sequential procedure to daily data covering the 1999-2011 period. Our results suggest the existence of statistically significant Granger causality running one-way from bond yield differentials to the exchange rate, but not the other way around.Causality, Exchange rate, Long-term interest rates, Rolling regression
On a Failed Defense of Factory Farming
Timothy Hsiao attempts to defend industrial animal farming by arguing that it is not inherently cruel. We raise three main objections to his defense. First, his argument rests on a misunderstanding of the nature of cruelty. Second, his conclusion, though technically true, is so weak as to be of virtually no moral significance or interest. Third, his contention that animals lack moral standing, and thus that mistreating them is wrong only insofar as it makes one more disposed to mistreat other humans, is untenable on both philosophical and biological grounds
Collapsed 2-Dimensional Polymers on a Cylinder
Single partially confined collapsed polymers are studied in two dimensions.
They are described by self-avoiding random walks with nearest-neighbour
attractions below the -point, on the surface of an infinitely long
cylinder. For the simulations we employ the pruned-enriched-Rosenbluth method
(PERM). The same model had previously been studied for free polymers (infinite
lattice, no boundaries) and for polymers on finite lattices with periodic
boundary conditions. We verify the previous estimates of bulk densities, bulk
free energies, and surface tensions. We find that the free energy of a polymer
with fixed length has, for , a minimum at a finite cylinder
radius which diverges as . Furthermore, the surface
tension vanishes roughly as for with
. The density in the interior of a globule scales as
with .Comment: 4 pages, 8 figure
Tribute to T. W. Anderson
Professor T.W. Anderson passed away on September 17, 2016 at the age of 98 years after an astonishing career that spanned more than seven decades. Standing at the nexus of the statistics and economics professions, Ted Anderson made enormous contributions to both disciplines, playing a signiïŹcant role in the birth of modern econometrics with his work on structural estimation and testing in the Cowles Commission during the 1940s, and educating successive generations through his brilliant textbook expositions of time series and multivariate analysis. This article is a tribute to his many accomplishments
Confucius Institute at Universitas Al Azhar, Jakarta the Unseen Power of China
China's soft power is a difficult concept to measure if the Confucius Institute is the only source relied on. Joseph Nye's concept of soft power puts a strong emphasis on âthe power of attractionâ as a tool to persuade or âto shape the preferences of othersâ in the worlds of business and politics. To understand how this soft power - or the Confucius Institute - works, we have to determine the âobservableâ power of the âintangibleâ attraction embedded in it. This observable but intangible attraction is assumed to be âembeddedâin the language and culture offered by the Institute, namely so-called âshared valuesâ. However, without having attended its classes, it is difficult to see which values are being shared with the local students. Despite this handicap, it is very apparent that the image of China itself has acted as an attraction. An attraction to China was visible already, even before the Confucius Institute was established. For Indonesians, China is a big country which has exerted its power there for a long time through its diaspora and/or exports. Therefore, the Confucius Institute is just one of the many forms of Chinese-ness within their purview. Certainly, the Confucius Institute might have assisted in adjusting negative impressions and expelling some of the reservations the Indonesians have about China. Nevertheless, its influence extends to only a limited number of people who are closely engaged with the Institute
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