Albion College

About: Albion College is a education organization based out in Albion, Michigan, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Higher education. The organization has 485 authors who have published 754 publications receiving 20907 citations.

Giving Care, Writing Self: A "New" Ethnography

Abstract: that the book led to conclusions with greater explanatory power, but the author seems drawn more to the origins and development of R.O.C. practices and the period when Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek reigned. He writes of the elaborate campaign of cultural propaganda aimed at the vast community of "overseas Chinese." How exactly this serves the interests of the state is not fully addressed, but one suspects that it has had the same marginal effect as the government-sponsored program for overseas Chinese youth—the "love boat"— who were invited back to Taiwan to experience R.O.C. hospitality and indoctrination. One is left wondering about the content of these exercises and to sort out for oneself what they "buy" for the R.O.C. In his fourth chapter, Rawnsley takes up Taiwan's international media and diplomacy, dealing principally with the 1990s. He explains how efforts are made to shape opinions overseas, but neglects the one enterprise about which readers of this journal may be particularly curious. That is, Rawnsley does not consider informal diplomacy directed by representatives of the R.O.C. at scholars of China and Taiwan. While he does deal with efforts to influence individuals in government, media, and business, there is no discussion of the generous grants from R.O.C. sources that fall into the hands of academics for conferences, publications, and research trips. Nor does Rawnsley mention the contentious disputes that arose in the past decade over pledges made—and withdrawn—by the R.O.C. to American universities. Rawnsley's concluding remarks do not address as squarely as they might the most intriguing conceptual questions he poses. Moreover, nowhere in his four chapters is there much that justifies the management consulting advice Rawnsley provides to the R.O.C. government about consolidation of its far-flung propaganda enterprise and the desirability of training its cadre of propagandists because "In the modern media environment it is inexcusable for diplomats not to know how to work with the media." In short, Rawnsley can be commended for illuminating a much-neglected corner of Taiwan's international predicament, although one wishes he had done so with even greater perspicacity.

Author Correction: Global status and conservation potential of reef sharks

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The Historical Process

Abstract: Temple’s interpretation of history begins with an examination of the historical process itself, of the task which confronts the historian in his attempt to understand this process, and of the human forces which operate within history. The historical order, however, can only be understood in terms of its relation to the eternal order; hence, the meaning of eternity and the mutual effect of eternity and time on each other must be explored. A final question is posed and a tentative answer suggested regarding the possibility of individual personality surviving both death and the end of history.