bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
“Queering” the Nation?
Authors: Chen Jasmine Yu-Hsing 
Published: June 2021

AbstractThis article explores how gendered Chineseness is represented, circulated, and received in Huangmei musical films for audiences in martial-law Taiwan. Focusing on Love Eterne (1963), the analysis examines how theatrical impersonations in the film provided a “queer” social commentary on aspects of Chinese nationalism that conflicted with the Kuomintang's military masculinities. Love Eterne features dual layers of male impersonations: diegetically, the female character Zhu Yingtai masquerades as a man to attend school with other men; nondiegetically, the actress Ling Po performs the male character Liang Shanbo, Zhu's lover. In addition to the “queer” imagination generated by Ling's cross-dressing performance, the author considers how the feminine tone of Love Eterne allowed the Taiwanese audience to escape from masculine war preparations. Although the Kuomintang promoted Ling as a model patriotic actress, it was her background, similar to many Taiwanese adopted daughters, that attracted the most attention from female audiences. This female empathy and the queer subjectivity arguably disturbed the Kuomintang's political propaganda. Hence, this study adds to the breadth of queerness in studies on the cinematic performance of same-sex subjectivities and invites new understandings of queer performance in Love Eterne as a vehicle that can inspire alternative imaginings of gendered selfhoods and nations.
The Male Dan at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Authors: Guo Jie 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
Reading the Taiwanese author Wu Jiwen's 1996 novel Fin-de-siècle Boylove Reader (Shijimo shaonian’ai duben), this essay considers the age-old figure of the male dan and the critical role it played in the emerging gay scene in the Sinophone world at the turn of the twenty-first century. Based on the Qing author Chen Sen's novel Precious Mirror for the Appreciation of Flowers (Pinhua baojian), Wu's version resorts to the figure of the male dan, often referred to as xianggong, to explore male same-sex intimacies, which were gaining increasing visibility in the 1990s Sinophone world. While scholars generally agree that the male dan in Wu's novel bears considerable resemblance to the figure of the contemporary gay man, some read the ending of Wu's novel, where the two protagonists, Mei Ziyu and Du Qinyan, part ways, as representing a compromise. I contend that this “unhappy ending” points to Wu's most radical departure from Chen's novel. The original novel's ending, where Ziyu lives happily ever after with both his wife and Qinyan, reaffirms the centrality of the “polygamous” patron-patronized relationship in the late imperial imagination of male-male relations. In contrast, the failed relationship between Ziyu and Qinyan in Wu's version points to the obsoleteness of the xiangong system, as well as the polygamous mode in the 1990s, which required new modes, categories, and symbols for the imagination of male same-sex relationships. Arguing that in this novel forces past and present, local and global converge, the author uses it to explore the larger question of how to approach the queer Sinophone.
Breaking the Circle
Authors: Men Bozhou 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
First appearing in 1892 as a serialized novel, Han Bangqing's Haishanghua liezhuan 海上花列傳 (The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai) demonstrates the problematic of an “atypical” novel and the challenges it poses to the notion of the Chinese literary “modern.” This article examines Haishanghua's departure from the traditional circular narrative in terms of its narrative perspective, narrative time, and narrative structure and further notes that this circle-breaking pattern on the technical levels is repeated on the more profound semantic/thematic level of the novel as well. By exploring the sociohistorical context that gives rise to such modern narratives, this article draws links between Han's pioneering experimentations with Haishanghua and the rise of literary naturalism in the West. In this way, the author sheds light on the significance of this atypical novel in the periodization of the Chinese literary modern.
Acoustically Embodied
Authors: Chen Hazel Shu 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
In 1950s and early 1960s Hong Kong, radio permeated in everyday life as a major source of entertainment and information. It subsequently gave rise to a peculiar genre in Cantonese cinema, film adaptations of “airwave novels” (tiankong xiaoshuo dianying 天空小說電影), which flourished in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. According to the records of the Hong Kong Film Archive, from 1949 to 1968 there were ninety-three film adaptations of radio novels and dramas. Besides drawing the historical contours of the radio-film network in the postwar colonial city, this article studies two exemplary radio stories-turned-films, Niehai chihun 孽海痴魂 (A Devoted Soul; 1949) and Cimu lei 慈母淚 (A Mother's Tears; 1953), and scrutinizes their transmedial/transnational adaptation trajectories to shed light on intermedia aesthetic criticisms. This article describes how film technology reconstituted the oral and spoken in audiovisual space, in particular the embodiment and representation of the radio acoustic. The voice-over, indicative of the radio unconscious in the film, registers the existence of a consciousness already programmed by radio sounds that reconfigures the economy of filmic diegesis. This article further investigates how such medium self-reflexivity in the form of voice-overs destabilized the Manichean structure of melodrama as an established genre in Cantonese cinema, thus making space for forms of female agency amidst contending ideologies in early Cold War.
What Does Tang Poetry Mean to Contemporary Chinese Writers?
Authors: Klein Lucas 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
Examining how contemporary poets raised in China are looking at classical Chinese poetry from the Tang—in particular, the poetry and the figure of Li Bai 李白 (701–762)—this article questions the epistemological divide, common to scholarship, between premodern and modern Chinese poetry. The texts come from Shenqing shi 深情史 (Histories of Affection) by Liu Liduo 劉麗朵 (1979–); The Banished Immortal, Chinese-American poet and novelist Ha Jin's 哈金 (1956–) biography of Li Bai; the book-length poem-sequence Tang 唐, by Yi Sha 伊沙 (1966–); and poet Xi Chuan's 西川 (1963–) scholarly book Tang shi de dufa 唐詩的讀法 (Reading Tang Poetry). The author contends not only that these writers' dealings with Tang poetry make it part of a still-living tradition but also that such engagement offers a way to understand the dynamic, rather than static, canonicity of Tang poetry.
The Geopolitical Aesthetics
Authors: Hui Calvin 
Published: June 2021

AbstractThis article focuses on contemporary Chinese film director Jia Zhangke 賈樟柯 (b. 1970–) and his engagement with what critical/cultural theorist Fredric Jameson (b. 1934- ) calls geopolitical aesthetics or cognitive mapping. Through the county-level city (xiancheng 縣城) perspective, the block (bankuai 板塊) structure, the interplay of real and fictional, and the intertextual and transmedial references, Jia explores the possibilities of representational forms and aspires to map and scan the otherwise unrepresentable totality that is global capitalism in China. In this essay, the author engages with Jia's film Shijie 世界 (The World; 2004) and examines the portrayal of the migrant workers and their performances in the World Park in Beijing, China. Focusing on political economy and social class, he suggests that The World renders visible the dialectic of mobility and immobility of the migrant workers within the context of global capitalism in China. Shifting gears to gender, he explains how the female migrant workers, dressed in lavish and extravagant costumes and performing exotic dances for the tourists in the World Park, can be regarded as a productive site for deciphering the otherwise imperceptible contradictions of globalizing China. In particular, the author analyzes the film's opening sequence to show that the world featured on-screen is located at the disjuncture between reality and fantasy.
Life outside the Dome
Authors: Chang Chia-Ju 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
This article uses a non-Western, scientific, and ecocritical perspective to explore the nature-cultural phenomenon of “smog life,” that is, outdoor activities taking place on a smog day, such as hiking, enjoying the fog, or practicing taiji. It presents a sharp contrast with environmentally focused, avant-garde smog art. Although avant-garde smog art is in line with today's scientific correctness by virtue of its strong commitment to activism, I believe that everyday smog life, which is viewed either as “ecoambiguous” or as “smog Ah-Q,” is in effect more subversive than its avant-garde smog art counterpart. What has undergirded smog life is a collective ecological unconsciousness—the premodern “mist” consciousness—that is suppressed in “smog modernity,” of which scientific discourse pertaining to topics such as toxic smog (mai) has become the predominant way of conceptualizing air. The author reads this suppressed mist (wu) or qi consciousness as a form of resistance against the current scientific-corrective discourse and scientism. If we situate smog life in the context of how traditional Chinese culture has been systematically marginalized in the imperialization of technological modernity, today's air-pollution-induced smog life is in actuality an invitation to explore other cognitive possibilities for air beyond the scientific. The hidden ecological consciousness and its discourse help subvert the cyberization of life and the legitimacy of an exclusive scientific epistemology as the only means of knowing.
Between the World Ship and the Spaceship
Authors: Wang Zhuoyi 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
Planetarianism, proposed by Masao Miyoshi for literature and literary studies, calls for a new sense and organization of human totality truly inclusive of all and against neoliberal division, exclusion, repression, and egocentric consumption. Ironically, it is also the global neoliberal economy that lays the only realistic foundation for such a totality, albeit under negative circumstances. This economy has caused a rapid environmental deterioration that involves everyone on the planet, regardless of identity. Human beings are left with just two choices: either collectively forge new relationships among ourselves and with the planet or perish in the environmental devastation wrought by our continuous consumption, exploitation, division, and conflict. Imagining a totalizing environmental disaster and a global unity fighting for the survival of humanity and Earth, the 2019 Chinese sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth is an important case for illustrating what complex forms the idea of planetarianism may take in a concrete ideological and creative context. The author argues that the film's future imagination bears laudable potential to promote a turn from exclusionist individualism, represented by the Hollywood science fiction model, to inclusive planetarianism. However, the film's persuasiveness is significantly limited by the double-layered restraint imposed on it by the state and the market. This article traces the turn and the restraint to their historical sources, closely analyzes where the film succeeds and fails in moving beyond the Hollywood vision of the planet's future, and thereby enriches our understanding of the cinematic imagination of planetarianism.
The Analogy of Race and Species in Animal Studies
Authors: Ahuja Neel 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
The emerging field of animal studies builds on ethical insights from the animal rights philosophies that involve an analogy between racism and speciesism, or discrimination based on species. Analyzing recent works addressing human-animal relationships in Black studies, this essay contends that it has been necessary for emerging scholarship on race to transcend this analogy in order to confront the persistence of anti-Black racism and contemporary environmental crisis.
Unnatural Causes
Authors: Douglass Patrice D. 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
This essay approaches Blackness as a social contagion to examine the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and police violence. By placing the COVID-19 deaths of Black people who are refused hospital treatment in critical conversation with police murders during the pandemic, this essay argues that a focus on social violence helps clarify how the same racial taxonomies are at play in producing these deadly outcomes. As such, the essay concludes with a broadening of the concept of police power to illustrate how, outside of the private and public political spheres, the amorphous nature of the social drives the demand for collective health and safety through the excision of Blackness as a contagion or coercive element.
COVID Cough and Fukushima Novels
Authors: Long Margherita 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
This essay introduces three works of post-Fukushima Japanese literature, by Hayashi Kyoko (1930–2017), Kimura Yusuke (1970–) and Kobayashi Erika (1978–), to offer an environmental humanities alternative to Giorgio Agamben's response to COVID-19. Politically, Hayashi is probably closest to Agamben in that her work has been embraced by antinuclear activists in Japan and upheld as evidence of the injustice of the state of exception into which victims of both Fukushima and Hiroshima/Nagasaki were thrust. The author focuses instead on how these three authors acknowledge the cruelties of biopolitics but nevertheless celebrate the fact that “life” is never bare. For them, ionizing radiation acts like the COVID cough did for many of us: not as an invitation to critique the state but as a material intrusion that forces an awareness of what Rocco Ronchi, in his response to Agamben, called “the destiny of the community of man with nature.” What are the material forces immanent to that destiny? What does it do to our mental health to engage them directly? The three works analyzed answer these questions in creative, powerful ways.
Synthesis and Characterization of a Series of Diarylgermylenes and Dihalodigermenes Having Fused-Ring Bulky “Rind” Groups
Authors: Ohno Ryoma , Numata Yasuyuki , Konaka Shigeaki , Yagura Shogo , Kuroda Airi , Harada Mao , Fujita Naoko , Hayakawa Naoki , Nakai Hidetaka , Rosas-Sánchez Alfredo , Hashizume Daisuke , Matsuo Tsukasa 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
A series of diarylgermylenes, (Rind)2Ge: (1) [Rind = EMind (a), Eind (b), and MPind (c)], bearing the fused-ring bulky 1,1,3,3,5,5,7,7-octa-R-s-hydrindacen-4-yl (Rind) groups has been obtained as purple to blue crystals by the reaction of GeCl2·dioxane with 2 equiv. of (Rind)Li. A similar reaction using 1 equiv. of (Rind)Li affords the 1,2-dibromodigermenes, (Rind)BrGe=GeBr(Rind) (2) [Rind = Eind (b) and MPind (c)], as yellow to orange crystals. The ligand redistribution reaction between 1 and GeCl2·dioxane in toluene leads to the formation of the 1,2-dichlorodigermenes, (Rind)ClGe=GeCl(Rind) (3) [Rind = EMind (a), Eind (b), and MPind (c)]. The molecular structures of 1a, 1c, 2c, and 3c have been newly determined by X-ray crystallographic analysis. The 1,2-dihalodigermenes, (Rind)XGe=GeX(Rind) [X = Br (2) and Cl (3)], show a dimeric form with a Ge=Ge double bond in the solid state, but exist as a monomeric halogermylene, (Rind)XGe: [X = Br (4) and Cl (5)], in solution. The electronic properties of the Rind-based diarylgermylenes, dihalodigermenes, and halogermylenes have been experimentally and theoretically investigated.
Ein altsteinzeitliches Geröllartefakt aus Riehen
Authors: Jagher Reto , Rentzel Philippe , Schwarz Peter-Andrew , Hilgers Alexandra , Radtke Ulrich 
Published: June 2021

Im Jahre 1999 wurde aus dem Aushub einer Baugrube in der Flur Gehrhalde in Riehen (BS) ein knapp 13 Zentimeter langer, aus alpinem Metaquarzit gefertigter Chopper geborgen.
Zusammenfassend ist festzuhalten, dass die geologisch-pedologischen Untersuchungen sowie die naturwissenschaftlichen Altersbestimmungen nicht alle Imponderabilien, welche mit der Datierung des Choppers aus Riehen in das Altpaläolithikum verknüpft sind, ausräumen konnten. Dies ist unter anderem darauf zurückzuführen, dass der Chopper nicht in situ gefunden wurde und nicht mit anderen Funden vergesellschaftet war.
Disk-loaded silicon micro-ring resonator for high-Q resonance
Authors: Zarebidaki Homa , Fathipour Morteza , Shahabadi Mahmoud , Bogaerts Wim 
Published: June 2021

By adding two disks to a standard silicon micro-ring resonator, a very high-quality factor (Q) asymmetric resonance with Q values as high as 7.773 × 105 and slope rates in excess of 880 dB/nm can be achieved. A circuit model has been proposed for this device based on which an analysis has been carried out that can predict the effect of reflections in the coupling components. Depending on the coupling coefficient between the disks and the micro-ring resonator (MRR), it is possible to use this design in three regimes, with different spectral features. Moreover, it is shown that the disks introduce a discontinuity in the transmission spectrum and the relative positioning of the disks in the ring provides a new degree of freedom in the design step. The proposed device features a high extinction ratio (ER) around 1550 nm and could be fabricated in any standard silicon photonics technology without requiring any extra materials or processing steps. The proposed resonator has a high sensitivity of Δλ
Res
(nm)/Δn > 299 nm/RIU, which makes it suitable for sensing applications and efficient modulators.
The association of transcription factor Prox1 with the proliferation, migration, and invasion of lung cancer
Authors: Hao Xinxin , Luo Wenting , Qiu Xueshan 
Published: June 2021

Abstract

Background
The current study investigates the effect of transcription factor Prox1 on the proliferation, migration, and invasion ability of lung cancer.

Methods
Lung cancer cell lines (A549 and H446 cells) were transfected with Prox1NAD and siRNA, respectively. Thus, the A549 and H446 cells overexpressed Prox1 after transfection of Prox1NAD plasmids, and A549 and H446 cells have low expression of Prox1 after transfection with siRNA. Reverse transcriptase quantitative PCR and western blot analyses were used to detect Prox1 mRNA and protein expression in cells. Plate clone formation experiments and MTT experiments were used to detect cell proliferation. Western blot was used to detect the expression of Rho family-related proteins in cells.

Results
Compared to untransfected wild-type A549 and H446 that served as blank controls, the expression level of Prox1mRNA and protein in A549 and H446 cells overexpressing Prox1 after plasmid transfection was high, while the expression level of Prox1mRNA and protein in A549 and H446 cells with low expression of Prox1 after siRNA transfection was low. With the increase of Prox1 expression, the expression of RhoA and RhoC increased, while the expression of RhoB decreased.

Conclusion
The finding of this study may provide a new approach for the treatment of lung cancer using targeted gene therapy.
An effect of positional isomerism of benzoic acid derivatives on antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli
Authors: Synowiec Alicja , Żyła Kinga , Gniewosz Małgorzata , Kieliszek Marek 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
This study demonstrated the effect of positional isomerism of benzoic acid derivatives against E. coli ATCC 700728 with the serotype O157. The addition of hydroxyl and methoxyl substituents weakened the effect of acids against E. coli with respect to benzoic acid (except 2-hydroxybenzoic). The connection of the hydroxyl group at the second carbon atom in the benzoic ring reduced the time needed to kill bacterial cells. Phenolic acids with methoxyl substitutes limited the biofilm formation by E. coli to a greater extent than hydroxyl derivatives. The most significant influence on the antibacterial activity of phenolic acids has the type of substituent attached to the benzoic ring, their number, and finally the number of carbon atoms at which the functional group is located.
Study of pre-operative neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio in urothelial carcinoma
Authors: Sahu Kausalya Kumari , Ramineni Madhurya , Suresh Pooja K. , Kini Jyoti R. , Lobo Flora D. 
Published: June 2021

Abstract

Objectives
Neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio (NLR), as an indicator of heightened systemic inflammatory response, predicts increased disease burden and poor oncological outcomes in urothelial carcinoma (UC). The study was undertaken with an aim to evaluate the association of NLR with clinicopathological variables and survival outcomes.

Methods
A total of 80 patients of UC were enrolled in the current retrospective study. Pre-operative NLR (within one month prior to the procedure), patient age, sex, tumour grade, pathological stage, recurrence free survival (RFS), progression free survival (PFS) and cancer specific survival (CSS) were recorded. We chose a cut-off value of 2.7 for NLR and patients were divide into two groups (NLR <2.7 and ≥2.7).

Results
NLR ≥2.7 was significantly associated with advanced tumour stage (p=0.001), but not with tumour grade (p=0.116). Progression (p=0.032) and death rates (p=0.026) were high in patients with NLR ≥2.7. Mean RFS (p=0.03), PFS (p=0.04) and CSS (p=0.04) were reduced in patients with NLR ≥2.7. On univariate analysis, NLR ≥2.7 predicted worse RFS (HR=2.928, p=0.007), PFS (HR=3.180, p=0.006) and CSS (HR=3.109, p=0.016). However, it was not an independent predictor of outcomes on multivariate analysis.

Conclusions
Tumour stage and grade are the only independent predictors of RFS, PFS and CSS. High NLR at a cut-off value of ≥2.7 is associated with advanced pathological stage, but does not have an independent predictive value for RFS, PFS and CSS.
Diseño de sostenimiento dinámico para mitigar los estallidos de rocas
Authors: Valencia Chávez Elvis William , Guadalupe Gómez Enrique 
Published: June 2021

En más de 100 años de explotación subterránea, se ha profundizado la mina, haciendo aberturas cada vez más grandes por la mecanización, cambiando las condiciones naturales del macizo rocoso, creando problemas de liberación de energía conocidos como estallido de rocas.
La metodología de investigación es cuantitativo, descriptivo y explicativo. Aplicando técnicas de observación se vio la deformación de rocas, se hizo clasificación y pruebas de laboratorio de mecánica de rocas, comportamiento de las ondas sísmicas y otros, determinando las propiedades dinámicas de las rocas. Los resultados indican que la probabilidad de estallidos de roca es de débil a moderado, la resistencia de la roca intacta está en el rango de 92.5 a 163.7 MPa, el Squeezing (apretamiento) será de ligero a moderado y otros. El sostenimiento en la mayoría de minas es de tipo estático. El sostenimiento estático alcanza una deformación de hasta 16% por cada 200.0 mm de longitud con máxima absorción de energía de 3 KN/m2, mientras que el sostenimiento dinámico posee una deformación mayor a 600 mm con una absorción de energía de hasta 40 KN/m2, por ello, se demuestra que esta es la mejor alternativa de sostenimiento para la minería.
Prospective directions and problems of ensuring Radiation Safety in Radiation Medicine
Authors: Chipiga Larisa A. 
Published: June 2021

The development of Radiation Medicine in the Russian Federation has resulted in the necessity to improve the regulatory and methodological support for ensuring Radiation Safety. Following the introduction of new diagnostics and therapy methods into practice, as well as the use of new radiopharmaceuticals, the actualization of radiation monitoring methods and the provision of radiological protection for patients, personnel and the public have become the most urgent tasks.
Radionuclide therapy with new radiopharmaceuticals, which can be used in the day patient departments, is one of the promising directions in the development of Russian Radiation Medicine. The main tasks of ensuring Radiation Safety in the departments of radionuclide therapy are the regulation of radioactive waste management, the development of discharge criteria after the administration of radiopharmaceuticals and methods for Internal Dosimetry.