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The Rise of the Neoliberal Chinese Female Subject in Go Lala Go
Built upon feminist critique of neoliberalism, this paper will examine a prominent medium through which neoliberal feminist ideology is disseminated: Go Lala Go. By analyzing the film, I will show how it co-opts the discourse of neoliberalism, and reworks it to construct neoliberal female subjects. First, I will explore what kind of role neoliberalism has enacted in the formation of an emergent type of female subject in China. Then, I will demonstrate how the contentious process of neoliberal feminism affects young career women’s identities. More than career guides promoting different techniques for making women more successful at their workplaces, the film communicates to women by engaging neoliberal rhetoric in a connotative manner to cultivate a compelling female identity. It offers self-help advice and tactics to work around discrimination without directly confronting it. Instead of fighting for structural reforms, the film advocates strategies for pay raise, promotion and negotiations as updated, professionally themed etiquette lessons. In particular, I will compare how the director adopts similar and different neoliberal rhetoric in Chinese cultural contexts and conditions. China offers a challenging case study on the intersections of gender discourse and neoliberalism in transnational context. This study on contemporary Chinese women will create interesting parallels with recent U.S. analyses on the emergence of neoliberal feminism and expose its contradictory logic. The Chinese experience in turn would add complexity and depth to the critical engagement with neoliberal feminism
Electronic and Structural Properties of C Molecule
The extended SSH model and Bogoliubov-de Gennes(BdeG) formalism are applied
to investigate the electronic properties and stable lattice configurations of
C. We focus the problem on the molecule's unusual symmetry. The
electronic part of the Hamiltonian without Coulomb interaction is solved
analytically. We find that the gap between HOMO and LUMO is small due to the
long distance hopping between the 2nd and 5th layers. The charge densities of
HOMO and LUMO are mainly distributed in the two layers, that causes a large
splitting between the spin triplet and singlet excitons. The differences of
bond lengths, angles and charge densities among the molecule and polarons are
discussed.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures, 4 Table
A combined analysis of PandaX, LUX, and XENON1T experiments within the framework of dark matter effective theory
Weakly interacting massive particles are a widely well-probed dark matter
candidate by the dark matter direct detection experiments. Theoretically, there
are a large number of ultraviolet completed models that consist of a weakly
interacting massive particle dark matter. The variety of models makes the
comparison with the direct detection data complicated and often non-trivial. To
overcome this, in the non-relativistic limit, the effective theory was
developed in the literature which works very well to significantly reduce the
complexity of dark matter-nucleon interactions and to better study the nuclear
response functions. In the effective theory framework for a spin-1/2 dark
matter, we combine three independent likelihood functions from the latest
PandaX, LUX, and XENON1T data, and give a joint limit on each effective
coupling. The astrophysical uncertainties of the dark matter distribution are
also included in the likelihood. We further discuss the isospin violating cases
of the interactions. Finally, for both dimension-five and dimension-six
effective theories above the electroweak scale, we give updated limits of the
new physics mass scales.Comment: 33 pages, 11 figures, PandaX run10 data included and version accepted
in JHEP, "code is available at the LikeDM website,
https://likedm.hepforge.org/
Photon-assisted Fano Resonance and Corresponding Shot-Noise in a Quantum Dot
We have studied the Fano resonance in photon-assisted transport in a quantum
dot and calculated both the coherent current and spectral density of shot
noise. It is predicted, for the first time, that the shape of Fano profile will
also appear in satellite peaks. It is found that the variations of Fano
profiles with the strengths of nonresonant transmissions are not synchronous in
absorption and emission sidebands. The effect of interference on
photon-assisted pumped current has been also investigated. We further predict
the current and spectral density of shot noise as a function of the phase,
which exhibits an intrinsic property of resonant and nonresonant channels in
the structures.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
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