Regimes of truth: Australian combat photography in the Second World War

This paper examines the policies and directions framing the professional practice of Australian combat photographers in the Second World War. It argues that while their endeavours to offer an account of the nation at war were constrained by predictable considerations of politics and censorship, their commitment to truth was also framed and constricted by an array of cultural considerations. The nation’s ongoing engagement with the history of the First World War, the contrasting organisational cultures of the bureaucracies that the photographers served, and Australian culture’s visual inarticulacy concerning death on the battlefield played key roles both individually and collectively in shaping the photographers’ practices and outputs. The paper will trace the operations of these influences and contend that, as a result, the photographers’ visual record of the Second World War, particularly as it related to the death of Australian servicemen, served to conceal rather than reveal the ultimate truth about the Australian experience of the war.     

Western Media Exposure and Chinese Immigrants’ Political Perceptions

Using evidence from an original survey experiment among 3,032 Chinese student immigrants in the United States, I examine how exposure to Western media changes their evaluations of the Chinese government’s performance and their trust in official discourse. My findings suggest that reading Western reports on China shifts immigrants’ perceptions of government performance in different directions, depending on how similar reports are censored in Chinese media. On issues that are strictly censored, immigrants exposed to Western reports became more critical of their home government’s performance and decreased their trust in official discourse. Conversely, on issues that are relatively open to independent reporting, immigrants did not become more critical of government performance, and their trust in official discourse maintained after being exposed to Western information.     

The Genealogy of Colonial Plunder and Erasure – Israel's Control over Palestinian Archives

The essay discusses one characteristic of colonial archives – how the ruling state plunders/loots the colonized’ archives and treasures and controls them in its colonial archives - erasing them from the public sphere by repressive means, censors and restricts their exposure and use, alters their original identity, regulates their contents and subjugates them to colonizer’s laws, rules and terminology. It focuses on two archives plundered by Israel in Beirut in 1980s: the Palestine Research Center and archive of Palestinian films. The essay continues my earlier research on Palestinian visual (and other) archives taken as booty or looted by pre-state Jewish military organizations and soldiers or civilians in the first half of the twentieth century, especially during the Nakba (the Palestinian catastrophe, 1948), and later by Israel’s military bodies. It analyzes the plunder itself while focusing on the power relations reflected toward the hybrid gazes of the colonizer and the colonized and discusses colonial features of military archives holding and controlling seized materials. While colonial museums have been largely discussed, and also archives holding colonial history, this is one of the first essays to discuss features of colonial archives holding plundered archives/material.     

论健全企业兼并的知识产权审查制度

当前,企业基于知识产权战略而进行兼并呈现增多的趋势,兼并中的知识产权问题日益引起了企业和政府的关注。这反映了知识产权已成为当今社会发展的基础性战略资源,兼并不再仅仅是企业外延式增长的基本方式,基于企业知识产权战略而进行的兼并将成为知识经济社会企业内涵式增长的主要途径之一,甚至关乎国家安全和社会公共利益,对于增强企业核心竞争力具有重要意义。然而,我国企业兼并审查制度中的知识产权审查尚不够规范。政府应健全企业兼并知识产权审查制度,完善相关法规,明确审查的目的、依据和原则,赋予兼并审查机构对重大兼并活动进行知识产权审查的职权,明确审查的内容和程序,充分发挥知识产权在优化经济结构、转变经济发展方式中的作用,提升企业和国家的自主创新能力。     

中日刑事羁押制度比较研究

羁押是限制犯罪嫌疑人和被告人人身自由,保证侦查和审判顺利进行的重要手段,同时羁押也是最严厉的一种强制措施.保障人身自由权是保障一切人权的基础,应当借鉴日本羁押法律制度的成功经验,完善我国的羁押法律制度:设立羁押司法审查制度,充分保障犯罪嫌疑人和被告人辩护权,缩短羁押的期限,建立我国犯罪嫌疑人被逮捕的救济制度.     

从配套制度层面谈违法药品广告的法律规制

随着药品广告业的迅猛发展,违法药品广告的现象也日益暴露。目前,我国的药品广告市场秩序不容乐观,违法药品广告屡禁不止。立法层面和执法层面的问题使本身设计良好的药品广告事先审查制度被架空,该制度的良性运作有赖于药品广告立法和执法的进一步规范。药品广告审查员制度从制度设计和运行方面都有待改进。违法药品广告公告制度应进一步扩大公开的普遍性,增加公开的透明度和动态性。违法药品广告公众举报制度可引进利益激励机制,从而构筑起打击违法药品广告行为的铜墙铁壁。     

商事登记中行政权力定位的理论思考

随着《行政许可法》的颁布和《公司登记管理条例》的修改，我国的商事登记制度，特别是商事登记审查制度发生了很大的变化。《行政许可法》将商事登记规定为可以设定行政许可的事项，《行政许可法》和《公司登记管理条例》又规定企业（公司）的设立采取以形式审查为主、实质审查为辅的折衷审查制，问题随之产生：将商事登记作为可以设定行政许可的事项表明，在商事登记领域国家行政权力的运用带有较强的行政权力介入色彩，但形式审查制又代表国家行政权力在登记审查方面的消极态度，是商事登记领域行政权力弱化的表现，这种并不是很和谐的权力定位一方面彰显了传统的行政权力无限膨胀的习惯，另一方面又对私权的保护提出了更高的要求。     

公诉审查制度改革之我见——比较法视野下的制度选择

从“目的论”出发,“符合立法初衷的制度应该是合适的制度”为判断标准。通过比较两大法系的典型代表——德美对公诉审查制度的规定,发现其立法目的并不适合我国的司法环境（且其本身亦有缺陷）。我国应坚持1996年修法时改革此制度的初衷——克服“庭前预断”、实现庭审实质化,效仿日本实行彻底的“起诉状一本主义”,并辅以庭前在形式上对争点的确立程序。     

‘The Rape Joke’: censorship,affective activisms,and feeling subjects

Abstract

This paper follows the affective impact of a story on rape culture in a school magazine in a US high school. Immediately following its publication, the school administrative enacted a policy of prior review on all future publications. The event made waves in US national news and online media and was denounced as an act of censorship and infringement on students’ freedom of expression. In concert with other students and faculty at the school, the author of the piece engaged in various forms of protest and on- and off-line activism. This piece tracks the multiple political affects and effects activated by the article through a notion of affectivisms. This case study further explores notions of ‘positive’ school climate and the increasingly imbricated textures of schooling experiences with online media.