In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Shanghai Under Japanese Occupation

Book review by Thomas D. Curran. Henriot, Christian and Wen-hsin Yeh, eds. In the Shadow of the Rising Sim: Shanghai under Japanese Occupation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Female Gender Stereotypes and Inequality within Ursula Vernon’s Jackalope Wives and David K. Yeh’s Cottage Country

Historically, fairy tales attempt to bring forth issues of femininity, typically surrounding domestic violence, oppression, as well as unequal gender relations. This paper attempts to utilize Ursula Vernon’s Jackalope Wives, as well as David K. Yeh’s Cottage Country to exemplify the ways in which modern fairy tales conform and reject previous notions of what it means to be a woman within fantasy. Furthermore, through analyzing content presented within both texts, this paper acknowledges their differing, yet failed attempts to abolish gendered stereotypes within literature, raising concern as to whether such social issues are so easily overcome

Decoherence of multimode thermal squeezed coherent states

It is well known that any multimode positive definite quadratic Hamiltonian can be transformed into a Hamiltonian of uncoupled harmonic oscillators. Based on this theorem, the multimode thermal squeezed coherent states are constructed in terms of density operators. Decoherence of multimode thermal squeezed coherent states is investigated via the characteristic function and it is shown that the decohered (reduced) states are still thermal squeezed coherent states in general