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Disasters As Contingent Events: Volcanic Eruptions, State Advisories, And Public Participation In The Twentieth-Century Philippines, Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr Jan 2016

Disasters As Contingent Events: Volcanic Eruptions, State Advisories, And Public Participation In The Twentieth-Century Philippines, Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr

History Department Faculty Publications

By revisiting the eruptions of Taal in 1911, Hibok-Hibok in 1951, and Pinatubo in 1991, this article interrogates Greg Bankoff’s argument that “cultures of disaster” in the Philippines produce “coping mechanisms” manifested in public apathy and the state’s failure at mitigation. It argues for historical contingency as illustrated by the relative success at disaster mitigation in Pinatubo’s case, despite extreme challenges. It highlights the warning system in which the Aeta who lived on Mount Pinatubo, along with volcanologists and other key actors, played crucial roles. The Aeta’s nonscientific perspective was not an obstacle to understanding risks and taking defensive action.

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Mulan And Filial Piety: Lesson Plan, Kitty Lam Jan 2016

Mulan And Filial Piety: Lesson Plan, Kitty Lam

Religion and Philosophy in the Ancient World

In this lesson, students will examine the relationship between gender roles and Confucian principles in pre-modern China by considering the extent to which the Mulan legend is compatible with the Confucian concept of filial piety. Students will read and discuss texts on filial piety by Confucian scholars, as well as three different works of Chinese literature based on the Mulan legend from three distinct time periods.

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Diary Of Joe And Josephine Nomad Assignment, Kitty Lam Jan 2016

Diary Of Joe And Josephine Nomad Assignment, Kitty Lam

History of Cultural Contact

The Eurasian nomads did not leave behind an abundance of written sources. Because these were primarily non-literate societies, many of the written sources on these people were created by people from settled civilizations. If the nomads could tell us about their encounters with the settled civilizations, how would they tell that story? What evidence would they leave behind? This assessment encourages students to showcase their creativity while demonstrating their understanding of the relationship between nomadic and sedentary civilizations in Eurasia.

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Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family, And Gender In China (Review), Wenqing Kang Jan 2016

Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family, And Gender In China (Review), Wenqing Kang

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Faith In War: The American Roots Of Global Conflict, Gregory A. Daddis Jan 2016

Faith In War: The American Roots Of Global Conflict, Gregory A. Daddis

History Faculty Articles and Research

War has become a form of secular religion for many Americans in the modern era. Much of our deployment of military power during the last 50 years has rested on a set of absolute beliefs about the overall utility of war. In the process, policymakers and citizens alike maintain an enduring faith that the United States, via its military forces, has the power to transform societies abroad.

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Women, Gender And Family In Chinese History, Kitty Lam Jan 2016

Women, Gender And Family In Chinese History, Kitty Lam

Religion and Philosophy in the Ancient World

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02_展翼百年, 賽馬會香港歷史學習計劃 Jan 2016

02_展翼百年, 賽馬會香港歷史學習計劃

專題展覽

1911年，香港的天空上正式有飛機飛行。至1929年，政府完成啟德地區工程以停泊空軍飛機；及至啟德機場民航設施相繼落成，英國帝國航空公司自1936年起，每星期提供一班來往檳城與香港的航班。踏入1950年代，啟德機場不斷擴建以配合航空運輸的發展，至1973年民航處為香港的未來航空交通系統作評估後，指出機場面臨飽和。1989年，港督衞奕信正式宣布興建新機場。香港機場核心計劃在1990 年開始動工，涉及十項核心工程，至1998年落成。機場落成至今，大小工程仍然發展不斷，與時並進。

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05_殖民建築, 賽馬會香港歷史學習計劃 Jan 2016

05_殖民建築, 賽馬會香港歷史學習計劃

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1841年香港成為殖民地後，在英國管治下開啟了東西交融的歷史。隨著政治、軍事、經濟等需要的發展，大批歐式建築亦隨即在香港出現。然而，因香港屬於亞熱帶氣候，其地質條件亦和歐洲地區大有分別，故建築師也需要因地制宜，在設計和建造過程中不斷作出調整，務求適應本地環境。加上，建築師各有不同文化和藝術追求，令融合東西方風格和設計的建築百花齊放，構成了香港獨特的殖民地建築風格。

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Romancing Tropicality: Ilustrado Portraits Of The Climate In The Late Nineteenth Century, Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr Jan 2016

Romancing Tropicality: Ilustrado Portraits Of The Climate In The Late Nineteenth Century, Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr

History Department Faculty Publications

In contrast to the literature’s dominant focus on Western constructions of tropicality, this article explores representations of the tropics by the colonized, specifically the climatological conditions of the Philippines as portrayed in the late nineteenth century by the Europe-based native intellectuals known as ilustrados. Their anticolonial sentiment was intertwined with visceral estrangement from Spain and idealized views of the tropics, which reversed the colonizers’ racial-geographic prejudice and asserted an identity as a civilizable tropical people capable of genius. Rizal’s return visit to the homeland in 1887, however, made him agree with the Spanish premise about the climate in order to …

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Art And Politics: The Cultural Revolution In The Eyes Of An Art Soldier, Shaomin Li Jan 2016

Art And Politics: The Cultural Revolution In The Eyes Of An Art Soldier, Shaomin Li

Management Faculty Publications

2016 marks the 50th anniversary of China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). When the revolution started in 1996, I was 9. The ten years of the Cultural Revolution was the most important period for my education. I love painting and drawing. So during the ten years of the Cultural Revolution, I devoted all my time to study art except for the time I was forced to study communist ideology and to do hard labor. According to the communist theory, art is politicalized and is a tool to serve the communist revolutionary goal. During the Cultural Revolution, the politicalization of art …

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04_早期華人, 賽馬會香港歷史學習計劃 Jan 2016

04_早期華人, 賽馬會香港歷史學習計劃

專題展覽

香港在開埠後被英國開放為自由港，吸引了世界各地的人士到港謀生， 當中亦包括由中國或其他國家到來的華人，而這些變化對原本居住在香港的華人社會帶來不少衝擊與改變。是次展覽將會介紹香港華人在開埠前後的日常生活，並透過介紹一些富有代表性，能反映出當時香港社會和經濟傾向的華人領袖以加深對當時社會的認識。這些人士包括受過西式或中式教育的專業人士，買辦、商人等，而他們對香港華人的生活影響深遠。

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Race, Immigration, And A Change Of Heart: A History Of The San Francisco Chinatown, Sarah Littman Jan 2016

Race, Immigration, And A Change Of Heart: A History Of The San Francisco Chinatown, Sarah Littman

All Master's Theses

This thesis examines how the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fire affected the local Chinatown and Chinese immigration as a whole. It focuses on communities from the Pearl River Delta of southern China, their motivations for emigration, the industries they found employment in, and the racially charged legislation they had to contend with. By 1902 the Chinese Exclusion Act forbid Chinese immigration indefinitely, but the fire of 1906 destroyed the local City Hall which housed all of the city’s immigration records. Chinese immigrants exploited the opportunity, applying for more documentation than they needed and distributing the extras to those …

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03_規劃我城, 賽馬會香港歷史學習計劃 Jan 2016

03_規劃我城, 賽馬會香港歷史學習計劃

專題展覽

為什麼重要的政府機關都集中在香港島？為什麼中環是香港的商業中心？為什麼新市鎮都位於新界？原來這一切都能夠從香港城市規劃的歷史中找到答案。1842年，英國政府接管香港之時，香港只是一個荒涼的小島，當時英政府選定了中環一帶作為發展商埠的據點，在中環、上環、灣仔設立政府機構，並劃出了英人專用的「維多利亞城」，在城內發展商業活動。後來人口持續上升，香港島已經不敷應用，於是政府著手開發九龍半島及新界。戰後，政府積極開發新市鎮，將市區人口分散至新界，以改善市民的生活環境。經過170多年的移山填海，香港終發展成今天的繁華都會。

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Gettysburg Historical Journal 2016 Jan 2016

Gettysburg Historical Journal 2016

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Desperate Rebels Of Shimabara: The Economic And Political Persecutions And The Tradition Of Peasant Revolt, Jake A. Farias Jan 2016

The Desperate Rebels Of Shimabara: The Economic And Political Persecutions And The Tradition Of Peasant Revolt, Jake A. Farias

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

The Shimabara Rebellion has been studied throughout history by historians of East Asia. Originally conceived by both Japanese and Western scholars as a religious revolt against the anti-Christian Tokugawa government, later scholars contended that the Rebellion was a demonstration by the mistreated and impoverished and only tacitly related to Christian influences. This paper sets out to build on that narrative and to show the connection between the Christian resistance to the Tokugawa government and the movement of impoverished and desperate peasants, pushed to the brink of existence. Furthermore, this paper hopes to explore the goals of the Rebellion and establish …

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The Modern Administrative State: Why We Have ‘Big Government’ And How To Run And Reform Bureaucratic Organizations, Sean Y. Sakaguchi Jan 2016

The Modern Administrative State: Why We Have ‘Big Government’ And How To Run And Reform Bureaucratic Organizations, Sean Y. Sakaguchi

CMC Senior Theses

This work asserts that bureaucratic organization is not only an inevitable part of the modern administrative state, but that a high quality bureaucracy within a strongly empowered executive branch is an ideal mechanism for running government in the modern era. Beginning with a philosophical inquiry into the purpose of American government as we understand it today, this paper responds to criticisms of the role of expanded government and develops a framework for evaluating the quality of differing government structures. Following an evaluation of the current debate surrounding bureaucracies (from both proponents and critics), this thesis outlines the lessons and principles …

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