Painted Beauties-East and West

"Chinese painting, specifically painting with ink or watercolors, has a different perspective from the way Western artists create images,"said my     

The English Tower of Babel

English is clearly the lingua franca of today's modern world. This lan- guage began international service in science and research, civil aviation and postal services after the end of World War II. Today, via the information superhighway powered by the Internet and other communication technologies, English impacts everyone on the planet China is no exception.     

Yummy Yunnan

People everywhere remember food that was made for them by loved ones, a friend once told."Often the meal is simple, served with-out pretense. I discovered this café one day     

Taxation Threat, Motivational Postures, and Responsive Regulation

The central proposition of motivational posturing theory is that regulatees place social distance between themselves and authority, communicating the nature of that distance through a narrative that protects the self from negative appraisal by the authority. One of the key components of posturing is the coping sensibility that individuals adopt to manage the threat of authority. At a baseline level, authorities make demands on citizens and as such threaten individual freedom. At the highest level, authorities threaten through punishment for non-compliance. Data collected from 3,253 randomly selected Australian taxpayers and a special group of 2,292 taxpayers in conflict with the tax authority are used to show that in both groups, three coping sensibilities contribute to posturing ("thinking morally,""feeling oppressed," and "taking control"), and that all three sensibilities are significantly heightened in the group experiencing conflict with the authority. The article argues that the most effective regulatory outcome is achieved when the regulatory process can dampen the "taking control" and "feeling oppressed" sensibilities, and strengthen the "thinking morally" sensibility. Responsive regulation is an approach that encourages tax authorities to read motivational postures, understand the sensibilities that shape them, and tailor a regulatory intervention accordingly.     

The Tao for Now

Georgie Wang is a man who can accept everything,good and bad,which is thrown his way.His imperturbability impresses me.Yesterday I asked my friend if he was a Taoist or a Confucian scholar.     

The World of Rice

Pilafs, risottos, soups, snacks, paellas,stuffing, vinegars, wines and des-serts—rice is used all over the worldin myriad ways as food and drink.     

AN ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARD THE INSANITY DEFENSE*

Results from a public opinion survey of knowledge, attitudes, and support for the insanity defense indicate that people dislike the insanity defense for both retributive and utilitarian reasons: they want insane lawbreakers punished, and they believe that insanity defense procedures fail to protect the public. However, people vastly overestimate the use and success of the insanity plea. Several attitudinal and demographic variables that other researchers have found to be associated with people's support for the death penalty and perceptions of criminal sentencing are also related to support for the insanity defense. Implications for public policy are discussed.     

Games of Engagement: Postures Within the Regulatory Community*

This paper seeks to advance understanding of compliance through identifying the constituent elements of four empirically derived postures of regulatees: resistance and disengagement (associated with non-compliance), and managerial accommodation and capture (associated with compliance) (V. Braith-waite et al. 1994). The nature of these postures is investigated through two theoretical frameworks, Meidinger's (1987) notion of regulatory culture (and the construct of social bonds) and Merton's (1968) modes of adaptation (and the construct of commitments to institutional goals and means). Social bonds and commitments to goals and means are important for explaining resistance, disengagement and managerial accommodation. In the case of capture of the regulatees, social bonds are more important than commitments to goals and means. The findings counsel regulatory agencies to establish trust and respect in the regulatee-regulator relationship.     

Peachy Keen

<正>"Did you know that my hometown, Shanghai, is famous for peaches," Tingting asked. "Peaches?" I replied. "I thought Shanghai was a legendary seaport," I said.