In the aftermath of the cataclysmic Maoist period, three Tibetan
Buddhist scholars living and working in the People's Republic of
China became intellectual heroes. Renowned as the "Three
Polymaths," ...Tséten Zhabdrung (1910-1985), Mugé Samten (1914-1993),
and Dungkar Lozang Trinlé (1927-1997) earned this symbolic title
for their efforts to keep the lamp of the Dharma lit even in the
darkest hour of Tibetan history. Lineages of the Literary
reveals how the Three Polymaths negotiated the political tides of
the twentieth century, shedding new light on Sino-Tibetan relations
and Buddhism during this turbulent era. Nicole Willock explores
their contributions to reviving Tibetan Buddhism, expanding Tibetan
literary arts, and pioneering Tibetan studies as an academic
discipline. Her sophisticated reading of Tibetan-language sources
vivifies the capacious literary world of the Three Polymaths,
including autobiography, Buddhist philosophy, poetic theory, and
historiography. Whereas prevailing state-centric accounts place
Tibetan religious figures in China in one of two roles,
collaborator or resistance fighter, Willock shows how the Three
Polymaths offer an alternative model of agency. She illuminates how
they by turns safeguarded, taught, and celebrated Tibetan Buddhist
knowledge, practices, and institutions after their near destruction
during the Cultural Revolution. An interdisciplinary work spanning
religious studies, history, literary studies, and social theory,
Lineages of the Literary offers new insight into the
categories of religion and the secular, the role of Tibetan
Buddhist leaders in modern China, and the contested ground of
Tibet.
Buena conocedora de la prensa sevillana, a la que ha dedicado otros trabajos, la investigadora Rosario Sevilla ha recopilado y analizado, en este nuevo libro, las noticias aparecidas en los ...periódicos hispalenses entre 1910 y 1920 sobre la revolución mexicana. Aunque se voceaban en la capital hispalense una decena de periódicos, muchas de las tiradas eran simbólicas, por lo que la autora se centra en tres rotativos: El Liberal, independiente, El Noticiero Sevillano y El Correo de Andalucía, a...
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Climate surfaces are digital representations of climatic variables from a region in the planet estimated via geographical interpolation techniques. Climate surfaces have multiple ...applications in research planning, experimental design, and technology transfer. Although high‐resolution climatologies have been developed worldwide, Mexico is one of the few countries that have developed several climatic surfaces. Here, we present an updated high‐resolution (30 arc sec) climatic surfaces for Mexico for the average monthly climate period 1910–2009, corresponding to monthly values of precipitation, daily maximum, and minimum temperature, as well as 19 bioclimatic variables derived from the monthly precipitation and temperature values. To produce these surfaces we applied the thin‐plate smoothing spline interpolation algorithm implemented in the ANUSPLIN software to nearly 5000 climate weather stations countrywide. As an additional product and unlike the previous efforts, we generated monthly standard error surfaces for the three climate parameters, which can be used for error assessment when using these climate surfaces. Our climate surface predicted slightly drier and cooler conditions than the previous ones. ANUSPLIN diagnostic statistics indicated that model fit was adequate. We implemented a more recent error assessment, a set of withheld stations to perform an independent evaluation of the model surfaces. We estimate the mean absolute error and mean error, with the withheld data and all the available data. Average RTGCV for monthly temperatures was of 1.26–1.12 °C and 24.67% for monthly precipitation, and a RTMSE of 0.48–0.56 °C and 11.11%. The main advantage of the surfaces presented here regarding the other three developed for the country is that ours cover practically the entire 20th century and almost the entire first decade of the 21st century. It is the most up to date high‐resolution climatology for the country.
This paper examines, in the first place, the relationship between the circus versions of Gutiérrez’s Juan Moreira (1879-1880) and the arrival of cinema to Argentina, considered as shows that ...represent the entrance to modernity as a leap. Based on this configuration, secondly, we argue that every appearance of Moreira on screen is founded on: a use of violence as a legitimate medium, a state of the cinematographic technique, and an idea of celebration. Finally, taking the adaptation released during the 1910 Centennial as a case study, we affirm that, being a public success but a failed attempt to turn Moreira into a patriotic gaucho, the film makes visible the cracks in a project of nationalization of the masses that was moving along elusive paths, not entirely controlled by the modernizing elites.
Este artículo aborda, en primer lugar, la relación entre las versiones circenses del Juan Moreira (1879-1880) de Gutiérrez y la llegada del cine a la Argentina, en tanto espectáculos que figuran la entrada en la modernidad como un salto. A partir de tal configuración, se postula que cada aparición de Moreira en el cine se articula sobre: un uso de la violencia como medio legítimo, un estado de la técnica cinematográfica y una idea de fiesta. Finalmente, tomando como estudio de caso la versión entrenada en el Centenario de 1910, se plantea que, al ser un éxito de público pero un intento fallido de hacer de Moreira un gaucho patriota, la película visibiliza las fisuras de un proyecto de nacionalización de masas que avanzaba por vías escurridizas, no controlables por las élites modernizadoras.
Between 1876 and 1945, thousands of Japanese civilians—merchants, traders, prostitutes, journalists, teachers, and adventurers—left their homeland for a new life on the Korean peninsula. Although ...most migrants were guided primarily by personal profit and only secondarily by national interest, their mundane lives and the state’s ambitions were inextricably entwined in the rise of imperial Japan. Despite having formed one of the largest colonial communities in the twentieth century, these settlers and their empire-building activities have all but vanished from the public memory of Japan’s presence in Korea. Drawing on previously unused materials in multi-language archives, Jun Uchida looks behind the official organs of state and military control to focus on the obscured history of these settlers, especially the first generation of “pioneers" between the 1910s and 1930s who actively mediated the colonial management of Korea as its grassroots movers and shakers. By uncovering the downplayed but dynamic role played by settler leaders who operated among multiple parties—between the settler community and the Government-General, between Japanese colonizer and Korean colonized, between colony and metropole—this study examines how these “brokers of empire" advanced their commercial and political interests while contributing to the expansionist project of imperial Japan.
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