Colonial Existence,Home and Nationalism in the Narratives of British Cameroons’ Exiles in the United States

This article explores the personal meanings and public expressions of colonial existence, home and nationalism among exiles of British Cameroons from the standpoints of 11 biographies of British Southern Cameroons’ first-generation exiles living in the United States. Examining their narratives reveals why the exiles actively resist a public categorisation as being Cameroonians. This article provides a new type of research regarding British Cameroons’ exiles and their vision of the restoration of the statehood of British Cameroons, a former United Nations trust territory deserving its separate sovereignty and independence in accordance with the UN Trusteeship Agreement (1946) and UN Resolution 1514 of 1960 on the independence of colonial people. Significant about this study of the narratives of British Cameroons’ exiles is its focus on biography for portraying particular facets of nationalist resistance, including questions relating to the processes that surround the right to define the community one calls home.     

From Resistance to Accommodation: Taiwanese Working Class in the Early Postwar Era (1945–55)

This article explores Taiwan’s worker activism in the early postwar era (1945–55) in the attempt to revise the received perception of labour quiescence under high authoritarianism. Rather than a passive victim of state repression, workers mounted two rounds of resistance, first in the form of factory-defending worker-militias during the February 28 Incident of 1947 and later in the subsequent clandestine communist movement. With the case of sugar industry workers, it is argued the postwar ethnic domination was the triggering factor for worker resistance, which was severely repressed. Their consecutive failures as well as the lure of the privileged status of state-owned enterprise employees eventually persuaded them to accept a subordinate role.     

电针结合饮食和运动疗法治疗胃肠实热型单纯性肥胖症临床研究

目的 观察电针结合饮食和运动疗法对胃肠实热型单纯性肥胖症的临床疗效,并探索其作用机制.方法 采用随机对照的方法,分别设立针灸饮食运动组(治疗组)35例和饮食运动组(对照组)37例.观察两组临床疗效、主要症状疗效,治疗前后观察两组体质量、体质量指数(body mass index,BMI)、腰围的变化,检测治疗组治疗前后及健康对照者的空腹血糖(fasting blood sugar,FBS)、餐后2 h血糖(postprandial two lours plasma glucose,2hPG)、空腹胰岛素(fasting insulin,FINS)和餐后2 h空腹胰岛素(postprandial two bours fasting insulin,2hFlNS)水平.结果 治疗组临床总有效率显著高于对照组(P<0.01),多食易饥、畏热多汗、口千舌燥和大便秘结的总有效率显著高于对照组(P<0.05,或P<0.01);治疗组体质量、BMI及腰围下降值显著高于对照纽(P<0.01);治疗组FINS及2hFINS水平较治疗前显著下降(P<0.01).结论 电针结合饮食运动疗法治疗胃肠实热型单纯性肥胖症疗效显著,并可同时改善其胰岛素抵抗状况.     

我国政府改革的特性分析

与西方发达国家的政府改革相比,我国政府改革有其特殊性。从历史背景看,我国长期封建专制政府的行政文化影响深远;从社会背景看,政府改革的直接对象是计划经济基础上的全能政府;从政治体制看,政府改革应处理好特定的党政关系问题;从内部矛盾看,政府既是改革最强大的推动力,又是改革最难于克服的阻力。认清这些特性,从我国具体的国情出发,采取符合实际的改革措施,才能推进改革深入发展。     

Resistance to Chronic Violence in Informal Workplaces: The Strategies of Domestic Workers in Brazil (2003–2018)

This article analyses the repertoire of individual strategies utilised by domestic workers to resist routinised workplace violence in the cities of São Paulo and Ilhéus, Brazil. Findings suggest that domestic workers favour two strategies of resistance: exit (quitting work without prior notice) and voice (negotiating workplace conditions). The latter strategy is divided into two subtypes: voice-pleading (appealing to decency) and voice-confrontation (warning and rights-claiming). Voice strategies appear more effective than exit in ameliorating patterns of chronic workplace violence, particularly when they incorporate labour rights claims and when emotional ties exist between workers and employers.