Precarity,Cognitive (Non-)Resistance and the Conservative Working Class in China

ABSTRACT

Workers’ resistance is crucial to understanding how the working class respond to the growing labour precarity in post-socialist China. The labour studies literature posits that inequality and volatile capital movements increase workers’ precarity and lead to stronger labour resistance, such as strikes. However, workers’ cognition as an integral part of resistance has been rarely studied. This article examines cognitive resistance by Chinese workers from different tier cities by looking at their social trust, class identity, understanding of policies and class solidarity. Despite capital movements and precarity causing more labour unrest, it does not necessarily lead to a stronger cognitive resistance. While inequality and precarity are greater in the more developed megacities with a shifting capital favourability, workers in megacities display a more conservative cognitive resistance than those from the lower-tier cities. This study of workers’ cognitive resistance provides insight into the future of the Chinese labour movement. It argues that the working class’s current cognitive non-resistance suggests that even if a window of opportunity were to appear in the wall of state oppression, workers are not cognitively prepared to coalesce into a coherent social movement that would bring about transformative changes.     

The Fragility of Law: Anti-Jewish Decrees,Constitutional Patriotism,and Collaboration Belgium 1940–1944

In October and November 1940, the German Military Command which ruled conquered Belgium, introduced a series of measures aimed at the identification and exclusion of the Jews of that country. The Belgian government of the day refused to allow the measures to be incorporated into Belgian law, but did permit, under their reading of the Hague Convention, government departments and local administrations to assist in implementing the German anti-Jewish Decrees. The Brussels Bar, Prosecutors and Court of Cassation refused to accept the authority of the Occupier to violate basic rights guaranteed under the Belgian Constitution. Officials in Antwerp, on the other hand, struck all lawyers identified as "Jews" from the Roll. This article examines these instances of "constitutional patriotism" and "constitutional betrayal" by these actors in the Belgian legal system, and offers some preliminary discussion of important questions about our historical and current understandings of legality, legitimacy and citizenship in light of this part of the Belgian experience of law under Nazi occupation. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

益气养阴活血中药改善2型糖尿病胰岛素抵抗研究

目的:探讨益气养阴活血中药改善气阴两虚血瘀型2型糖尿病患者胰岛素抵抗的机制.方法:将70例2型糖尿病胰岛素抵抗患者随机分为对照组和治疗组各35例.基础治疗均为口服格列吡嗪或达美康,治疗组在此基础上加用益气养阴活血中药.3个月为1个疗程.观察两组患者治疗前后空腹血糖(fasting blood glucose, FBG)、餐后2 h血糖(postprandial 2 hours blood glucose, P2BG)、空腹血胰岛素(fasting insulin, FINS)、糖化血红蛋白(glycosylated hemoglobin A1c, GHbA1c)、血脂、凝血功能等指标的变化,并计算稳态模型评估胰岛素抵抗(homeostasis model assessment insulin resistance,Homa-IR)指数.结果:两组患者治疗3个月后,FBG、P2BG、FINS、GHbAlc、Homa-IR及血脂、凝血指标均显著改善(P＜0.05,P＜0.01),治疗组改善程度显著优于对照组(P＜0.05,P＜0.01).治疗组降糖疗效和中医证候疗效显著优于对照组(P＜0.01).结论:益气养阴活血中药在防治和改善2型糖尿病患者的胰岛素抵抗及血脂紊乱、血液高凝状态方面具有一定的疗效.     

现代城市高层建筑防火设计的思考

高层建筑防火设计是现代城市规划管理的重要内容。文章分析了现代城市高层建筑火灾特点 ,针对性提出高层建筑防火设计应遵循的原则     

猪链球菌耐药性的检测

采用药敏纸片扩散法、微量稀释法及双纸片扩散法对分离自长春地区的 2 2株猪链球菌进行了耐药性测定。结果表明 ,82 %～ 10 0 %的菌株对大环内酯 林克酰胺 链阳菌素B(MLSB)类、四环素类、氟喹诺酮类、氯霉素类、氨基糖苷类耐药 ,但对青霉素和氨苄青霉素不耐药 ,对利福平的耐药率为 5 % ;82 %的菌株为多重耐药 (MDR) ;91%的菌株为MLSB 型耐药 ,其中构成型耐药占95 %。除青霉素外 ,其他 5种抗生素的MIC50 和MIC90 高度集中 (≥ 12 8μg/mL)。     

徐悲鸿在桂林(上)

从上世纪三十年代中期起到抗日战争期间,徐悲鸿曾经六次来到桂林,前后流寓两年左右.在此期间,他以极大的爱国热情和杰出的艺术才华,描绘秀美无比的桂林山水,投身桂林抗战文化城的各种美术和救亡活动,留下许多佳话.     

新闻犯罪的预防与抗制

新闻犯罪是伴随信息社会的到来所必然出现的社会问题,它的产生是由新闻工作者新闻法制观念的淡薄、新闻媒介和新闻记者地位的错位、正确价值观念的沦丧三方面所致.新闻犯罪具有主体特征、主观特征、客体特征及客观特征,打击并有效控制此类犯罪的必要途径是完善刑事立法、发挥刑法威慑作用并辅以法律、职业道德培训.     

Postmortem changes in resistivity of the anterior abdominal wall during the early postmortem period in rats

An accurate and reproducible technique was employed for the determination of the resistivity of excised portions of the anterior abdominal wall of rats. Resistivity decreased linearly (r = −0.93; P < 0.001) from 1438 ± 131 Ω · cm, immediately following death, to 360 ± 144 Ω · cm at a postmortem interval of 36 h. These changes are believed to reflect the morphological and/or chemical changes which occur at the cellular level during the early postmortem period.     

中国警政近代化过程中的文化阻力--兼论落后教育的影响

作为宪政运动组成部分的中国警察近代化是以移植西方警察制度为基本路径的,但近代中国等级特权观念依旧牢固,个人主义依然发达,"官本位"观念仍极浓厚,教育水平也很落后,国民文化素质普遍不高,致使曾成为社会进步表征的中国近代警察很难有所作为.     

Ambiguous activists. Estonia's model of cultural autonomy as interpreted by two of its founders: Werner Hasselblatt and Ewald Ammende

Abstract

Baltic Germans who were active on behalf of especially German minorities throughout Europe during the 1920s have already found some recognition in especially German-language studies. Now they are receiving a wider coverage. Two of these men, Werner Hasselblatt and Ewald Ammende, came from Estonia and played a part in the development of the cultural autonomy legislation enacted in 1925. Traditionally this has been counted a positive contribution to the management of Europe's minorities during the inter-war period. During the 1930s at the latest, however, both Hasselblatt and Ammende drifted towards German National Socialism. Through an investigation of the ideas of these men, this paper attempts to interpret lives which helped to create apparently progressive legislation in the 1920s, but which compromised with a dreadful political movement soon afterwards. What were the motives behind their actions?