Mencius and Early Chinese Thought, by Kwong-Loi Shun (Book Review)

Although ethics does not appear in the title, Kwong-Loi Shun\u27s Mencius and Early Chinese Thought is an analysis of ethics in the Mencius. Shun\u27s goal is to further our understanding of the Confucian perspective on the ethical life (p. 8). His painstakingly careful presentation of passages of Mencian ethics certainly achieves this aim

Appraising the Digital Past and Future

Archivists, and others working in the digital realm, need to reconsider archival appraisal approaches and concepts as a means of exercising rational and strategic control over what they select for digitization and select from the digital documentary universe. Control has been a defining aspect of the contemporary Information Age, and it is not something archivists and digital curators should shun. This paper briefly discusses the notion of archival appraisal and several contributions it might make to the digital curation schema

Uniqueness of equivariant singular Bott-Chern classes

In this paper, we shall discuss possible theories of defining equivariant singular Bott-Chern classes and corresponding uniqueness property. By adding a natural axiomatic characterization to the usual ones of equivariant Bott-Chern secondary characteristic classes, we will see that the construction of Bismut's equivariant Bott-Chern singular currents provides a unique way to define a theory of equivariant singular Bott-Chern classes. This generalizes J. I. Burgos Gil and R. Li\c{t}canu's discussion to the equivariant case. As a byproduct of this study, we shall prove a concentration formula which can be used to prove an arithmetic concentration theorem in Arakelov geometry.Comment: 39 page