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History and Nationalist Legitimacy in Contemporary China -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- History and Nationalism -- Aggressive Nationalism -- Yuanmingyuan -- Japanese Imperialism -- Consensual Nationalism -- The Second Sino-Japanese War -- The Republican Era -- The Double-Edged Sword -- Participants in the Debate -- What Is Nationalism? -- Chinese Nationalism -- Assessing the Literature -- Chapter Outline -- References -- Chapter 2 Turning to Nationalism: Another Crisis of Regime Legitimacy for the CCP -- The Erosion of Economic Legitimacy -- Manufacturing Marxism -- Socialist Commodity Economy -- Primary Stage of Socialism -- The Patriotic Education Campaign -- The Human Rights Campaign -- Reinforcing Patriotism -- The Initial Public Response -- The First Signs of Dissent -- References -- Chapter 3 Aggressive Nationalism: Utilising the Yuanmingyuan Incident -- The Tragedy of Yuanmingyuan -- Neglect of the Site Under Mao -- Constructing a Historical Legacy -- The Nationalist Rationale -- The Debate Over Restoration -- Leave Alone -- Restore -- Returning the Booty -- Public Discord -- Fabricating History -- Blaming China -- Why Remember Yuanmingyuan? -- Time to Stand up -- Picking Over the Ashes -- References -- Chapter 4 Aggressive Nationalism: The Legacy of Japanese Imperialism -- Japanese Imperialism in China -- The CCP's Contradictory Position on Japan -- Contemporary Flashpoints -- Diaoyu Islands -- 1996 Lighthouse Incident -- 2010 Trawler Incident -- 2012 Nationalisation Incident -- History Textbooks, Comfort Women and Other Issues -- Selective Nationalism -- Dissenting Voices -- Weak on National Issues -- Broader CCP Failings -- CCP Double Standards -- From Aggression to Consensus -- References -- Chapter 5 Consensual Nationalism: The KMT and the Second Sino-Japanese War -- Towards a Consensual Party Line

Both the emergency rescue effort that saved lives in the aftermath of the Wenchuan earthquake and the reconstruction campaign that took place afterward on the ruins were systematic and highly complex projects that were swiftly implemented. They required close and well-coordinated attention to myriad issues, including agenda setting, capacity building, resource mobilization, and policy implementation. Further, the examples of past responses to such large-scale disasters have taught us that such projects cannot rely merely on the capacity and wisdom of the government; the private sector, volunteers, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) also have an important role to play. ; PR ; IFPRI1; CRP2 ; DSGD; PIM ; CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)

With easy-to-be-disposed architecture and premium navigation performances, polar-coordinate navigationsystem (PCNS) is still widely utilized by modern military navigation systems. Unfortunately, PCNS has very poor electronic counter-counter measures (ECCM) performances, due to the lack of electronic warfare (EW) considerations during its initial system design. To solve this problem, an improved PCNS (Imp-PCNS) is proposed in this paper to introduce ECCM capabilities to PCNS. The low probability of intercept (LPI) waveforms are utilized instead of regular pulses to reduce the probability of hostile interception. Both the bandwidth and the transmitted power of LPI are designed to generate the signals submerged under the thermal noises at the front ends of enemy receivers. Finally, a kinematic bearing method is proposed to dramatically reduce the possibility of intercept. The principle of kinematic bearing is analyzed in detail. An undistorted observed geometric position (OGP), which is independent ofthe deviation of observing angle, is achieved by controlling the rotation of the antenna array of PCNS beacon.Defence Science Journal, 2013, 63(1), pp.114-118, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.63.2519

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Many rural youths in China receive a poor-quality, strict and exam-oriented education. In everyday and professional discourses, incorporating live-streaming technologies in rural schooling is tied to promises of improved educational quality and a narrowed urban‒rural education gap. Reflecting a dystopian ideology of meritocracy, this article investigates how live-streaming technologies transmit suzhi (human quality) education and downplay the exam-oriented education with which rural students and teachers are familiar. The authors argue that the two educational vehicles for meritocracy work together to channel students to a seemingly meritocratic pathway of social mobility but funnel rural students to an inferior educational track according to their rural registration and lower-class backgrounds. The online version of suzhi education complicates and even exacerbates the already fierce educational competition that rural students face. Rural students' low aspirations and their teachers' apathy towards live-streaming classes challenge the purportedly transformative effects of live-streaming technologies in China's rural schooling.

In this paper, we study the Bühlmann credibility model with constant interest rate and equal dependence structure over risks and time under balanced loss function. By means of orthogonal projection, the inhomogeneous and homogeneous credibility premium estimators are derived, which extend those for the existing models to slightly more general versions. Finally, we investigate the estimation of the structure parameters and present a numerical example to show the effectiveness of the inhomogeneous estimator.

The subject of Islam and the Muslim is an important agenda under the volatile international situation, which drawing increasing attention worldwide with the impact of media report. Moreover, in-depth studies of Islam and the Muslim are blossoming to critically unravel the way Islam and the Muslim is represented in western discourse. This article presents a literature review of those studies of Islam and the Muslim, aiming to conclude respectively previous studies of representations of Islam and the Muslims and then to clarify the factors behind the misrepresentation, including historical factors, cultural factors, political factors and religious factors.

This article examines the emergence of an increasingly vociferous public debate in China over the true contribution made by the KMT in the war against Japan. Following years of rigid adherence to the traditional Maoist line that the CCP won the war almost single-handedly, the party has finally moved towards a more realistic and honest assessment that recognises the pivotal role played by the KMT in defeating the Japanese. The rationale for conceding this point is ultimately linked to the question of nationalist legitimacy. At a time of increasing socio-economic uncertainty and in an effort to fill the ideological void left by the demise of Chinese Marxism, the party is trying hard to bolster its nationalist credentials. One way that it is doing this is by presenting a united patriotic front on the war against Japan, with itself at the helm. However, things have not materialised in the way the party had anticipated. Along with strong expressions of national pride in China's war effort, some members of the public have responded with sympathy towards the KMT veterans who fought the Japanese. With this sympathy has come antipathy towards the CCP who are accused of persecuting KMT soldiers after 1949, of re-writing the history of the war for its own propaganda purposes and of betraying the nation by, amongst other things, avoiding armed conflict with Japan and leaving the KMT to fight the war on its own. In light of this growing (although not necessarily majority) public reaction, we argue that instead of fortifying the party's nationalist legitimacy, the official reappraisal of the KMT's role in the war runs the risk of eroding that legitimacy. (Pac Rev/GIGA)