Mother-Adolescent Language Proficiency and Adolescent Academic and Emotional Adjustment Among Chinese American Families

This study examined the role of adolescents’ and mothers’ self-reports of English and heritage language proficiency in youth’s academic and emotional adjustment among 444 Chinese American families. Adolescents who were proficient in English tended to exhibit higher reading achievement scores, math achievement scores, and overall GPA. Mothers who were English proficient tended to have children with higher academic achievement and fewer depressive symptoms. Results also indicated that adolescents’ heritage language maintenance was associated with positive adjustment, particularly amongst foreign-born youth and for youth whose parents were highly proficient in the heritage language. Mother-adolescent match in heritage language proficiency was related to higher math achievement scores and overall GPA. Additionally, higher heritage language proficiency was associated with fewer depressive symptoms for foreign-born but not U.S.-born youth. Overall, the findings suggest that proficiency in both the English and heritage language may confer advantages to Chinese American youth.

‘It’s what Emmeline Pankhurst would have wanted’: Celebrity Big Brother: Year of the Woman (2018, UK) and negotiations of popular feminism(s)

Feminist scholarship has invested attention in popular culture as a terrain upon which understandings of feminism are circulated, contested and explored. This is particularly so in the contemporary moment in which feminism appears to have achieved a new ascendency. But whilst popular culture and feminism are recognised as inextricably enmeshed, there remains the implicit or explicit assumption in feminist scholarship that popular media culture could do ‘better’, and that there is a more ‘authentic’ form of feminism waiting to find representation. In response to this context, this article undertakes an analysis of Twitter responses to Celebrity Big Brother: Year of the Woman (2018) in order to explore the ways in which a popular media text provides an arena for the negotiation of popular feminism. Rather than positioning reality TV and celebrity culture as a site of ‘ideological ruin’ for feminism, this article explores how CBB is discussed in relation to feminism as popular television, and the ways in which this may offer affordances and limitations. The article concludes that feminist media scholars need to give due attention to the complexities of popular feminism as articulated by popular media culture.     

浅议深入推进职工董事、职工监事制度建设的有效措施

深入推进职工董事、职工监事制度建设是完善企业法人治理结构的重要组成部分。当前在推进职工董事、职工监事制度中还存在较大难度,职工董事、职工监事运作缺乏规范,职工董事、职工监事不能充分发挥作用。必须大力宣传,引导和督促各类企业依法建立职工董事、职工监事制度;依法指导和规范职工董事、职工监事制度的运作;完善制度措施,为职工董事、职工监事发挥作用创造条件。     

"马拉巴尔-2007"五国军演的背后

2007年9月4日至9日,美国、印度、日本、澳大利亚、新加坡五国海军在孟加拉湾举行了超大规模的联合军事演习.美国派出了包括核动力航母"尼米兹"号、常规动力航母"小鹰"号、"芝加哥"号核潜艇等主力战舰在内的13艘舰船;印度派出了由"维拉特"号航母领衔的7艘军舰;日本与新加坡也分别派出了两艘驱逐舰和1艘护卫舰;澳大利亚则派出了1艘护卫舰外加1艘油轮.     

日本"慰安妇"问题再掀波澜

"慰安妇"制度是日本在二战期间所实施的军队性奴隶制度,"河野谈话"标志日本政府对该问题的反省.近来,美国众议院议员提出了有关"慰安妇"问题的决议,敦促日本政府就二战"慰安妇"问题以一种清晰的、毫不含糊的方式正式予以承认、道歉,并承担历史责任.日本首相安倍先是矢口否认"慰安妇"问题,随后面对确凿的证据和国际媒体的口诛笔伐,不得不低头道歉."慰安妇"问题的解决依然任重而道远.     

论公司人格否认制度在民事执行阶段的适用

在司法实践中已有的执行阶段适用公司人格否认制度的做法,引起很大争议。但在民事执行阶段中适用公司人格否认制度是必要的,这有利于解决“执行难”的社会问题,有利于维护社会经济的运行,有利于维护公平正义。现行立法存在着立法的空白,立法机关应当对此进行立法完善,在执行过程中适用公司人格否认,不但要起到保护公司的债权人利益的作用,也应考虑直接责任人的利益,要在两者之间寻求适当的平衡点。公司人格否认制度在执行阶段适用时,在程序上应坚持依法适用,要引入公开听证程序、赋予相关责任人要求复议的权利。