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Sky Lee is one of ethnic writers who dare to challenge the long-run silence of marginalized group, by the means of writing in English about historical experience of her community. Her book, Disappearing Moon Café which was published in Vancouver in 1990, immediately caught the public attention and won the City of Vancouver Book Award while being nominated the Governor General's Literary Award. Lee, as a female writer, cares very much about females' struggle for identity from one generation to the next. With the influence of postcolonialism and women's movements, identity became more and more concerned by the minority groups. Postcolonialists hold that women from the Third World countries are under the dual oppressions. On the one hand, they are subjected to racial and cultural discrimination under Euro-American dominated society; on the other hand, they suffer from gender prejudice in both white hegemony and patriarchal doctrines. For more than one century of racial discrimination and segregation, Chinese Canadians have been on the brink of mainstream society. Whereas the females have a crueler condition as they are the victims of being marginalized from racism and gender prejudice simultaneously. In Disappearing Moon Cafe, all female characters have suffered self-loss to some extent. Therefore, how to construct its own identity becomes an urgent problem that needs to be solved. This thesis will introduce the living conditions of Chinese Canadian women and the identity crisis they encounter by the means of rereading the novel Disappearing Moon Cafe. Based on the theories of postcolonialism, feminism and other identity theories, this thesis will conduct a multi-dimensional study on the self-identification of Chinese Canadian women through the in-depth analysis and study of the novel Disappearing Moon Cafe. Mainly divided into two parts, it focuses on how Chinese Canadian women form their own identities in terms of cultural and gender perspectives. First of all, being aware of the conditions they are in, Chinese Canadians have to trace back to their origin and gain power from their own profound traditional culture while challenging and resisting the cultural hegemony in Canadian society. They should rediscover the silent history of its own ethnic culture and aware the great contribution the ancestors made to the development of Canada. Canadian born ethnic Chinese are easy to get confused for self-identity as they are not accepted by white race on account of physical appearance while being considered as not pure Chinese at the same time. Thus, they have to find a comfort in the marginalized state and establish the unique hybrid culture. Secondly, the prejudice toward females demands for a solution. This thesis summarizes three necessary approaches for the establishment of female identity by analyzing the image of women in Disappearing Moon Café: gaining for political, vocational and educative rights while awakening of female consciousness as well as breaking silence through female discourse. Nowadays, equality between races and sexuality is becoming increasingly important. While marginalized groups are receiving more attention in literature field, it is of great historical and practical significance to study the Chinese Canadian women's experiences in the mainstream culture of Canada while to explore their identity formation in both cultural and sexual perspective.

Il saggio è un omaggio alla storiografia di E.P. Thompson e a N. Recupero uno dei suoi maggiori interpreti italiani. Qui di parla del rapporto che unisce cultura alta e cultura bassa durante un lungo periodo rivoluzionario che abbraccio tutto un "lungo risorgimento siciliano". Come fare la rivoluzione e come uscirne sono i due problemi che gli attori sociali per quasi mezzo secolo sono chiamati ad affrontare. Una sfida che non è solo locale, ma nazionale ed europea.

Globalization pushes more and more companies to seek for opportunities out of national boundaries. Many authors have studied this phenomenon, trying to characterizing the process by providing different theories and frameworks. Among those, the Porter's diamond model and the Uppsala internationalization stage theory, are considered the most successful and realistic contribution to the internationalization debate. From a corporate perspective, to develop a proper internationalization strategy is the key for success in this dynamic business environment. In this work we analyze the process of internationalization of Azimut-Benetti in the emerging Chinese yacht industry. The incredible growth of the Chinese GDP in the last thirty years, as well as the shift from an exporting driven to a consumption driven economy with a strong appetite for luxury, transformed China in one of the most preferred destination of FDI. In particular, thanks to the government support and investments in infrastructure the Chinese yacht industry is expected to emerge as one of the most important market for the future. While the western economies are yet to recover from the global downturn China represents an important opportunity for shipyards to develop. In this scenario, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the Chinese emerging yacht industry, with a specific focus on the Chinese customer preferences. Then, we critically compare the steps taken by the company to entry the market and develop its strategy in the foreign market with the literature's contributions on internationalization strategies.

Dignitatis humanae, the declaration of Vatican ii on religious freedom, represents an important step in the Church's presentation of human freedom as expressed also in the political arena. By enshrining conscience and religious freedom as supreme, Dignitatis humanae completes the reflection of Gaudium et spes on the Church in the modern world. It establishes Christianity as a religion of the Logos and so of dialogue and free inquiry. In today's era of globalization and ever more multiethnic societies, Dignitatis humanae contributes to renewing the role of religions in the public sphere and to elaborating the broader notions of religion in relation with secularity. ; La declaración sobre la libertad religiosa, Dignitatis humanae, representa un paso importante tanto en la presentación de la libertad humana dentro de la Iglesia como en el campo político. Al consagrar la conciencia y la libertad religiosa como un bien supremo, Dignitatis humanae completa la reflexión de Gaudium et spes sobre la Iglesia en el mundo moderno. Se establece el cristianismo como una religión del Logos, del diálogo y de la búsqueda. En la actual era de la globalización y de sociedades cada vez más multiétnicas, Dignitatis humanae contribuye a renovar el papel de las religiones en la esfera pública y a elaborar conceptos más amplios de la religión en relación a la laicidad.

The Russian revolutions of 1905 & 1917, & the troubles which afflicted the popular democracies in 1953 & 1956 have many characteristics in common. Recent studies of revolutionary phenomena indicate that these fall into 2 categories: (1) the revolution `from below' which, involving a violent class struggle, gradually developed from a movement of the masses, & (2) the revolution `from above' which comes about through a brutal seizure of power by a revolutionary elite. The revolutions of 1905 & 1917 were mass movements which a catalytic element set off. In both instances an econ strike became a poi'al strike. Thus the popular movements of East Berlin, Vorkuta, Poznan & Budapest were similarly marked by strikes, which contributed to the creation of a pre- revolutionary situation, of which another indication was the defection of the intellectuals. However, the crisis of the socialist world has not reached the stage of maturity where a fatal repetition of the model of 1917 will occur. Tr by J. A. Broussard from IPSA.

The green revolution and its related agricultural politics entailed a food production increasing worldwide. Nevertheless, those politics enhanced the biological resources extinction and the depletion of natural areas, creating a deep devastation in the local natural habitats, such as in the Iraqi Mesopotamian area; the indigenous population, the marsh Arabs, violently suffered the effects of these uncontrolled agricultural politics. The environmental depletion, related to ethnic strife motivations generated a progressive exodus from this area: 100.000 of environmental refugees.