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12 December 2018. On the 11th, an official banquet was held to celebrate the opening of Anxi’s new temple annex immediately below Fan Wujiu and Xie Bian’s graves. Joining me at the banquet table were Hu Jingzi, Chen Qixin and Anxi Chenghuangmiao’s new manager, Chen Yiqun; local politicians; Dato Yong Mun Tong, the director of the Malaysian charity the ‘Sin Hock Min Foundation’; and Ah Boon and his wife. Of the fifteen remaining tables, two catered exclusively for members of Yinfu Tan who had come to attend the opening of the new Underworld altar room, where
Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles – a chivalric romp in Spenser's cod medieval style. The poem shadows recent English history, and the major military and political events of the Thirty Years War. But the Supplement is also an ambitiously intertextual poem, weaving together materials from mythic, literary, historical, scientific, theological, and many other kinds of written sources. Its encyclopaedic ambitions combine with Knevet's historical focus to produce an allegorical epic poem of considerable interest and power.
This new edition of Knevet's Supplement, the first scholarly text of the poem ever published, situates it in its literary, historical, biographical, and intellectual contexts. An extensive introduction and copious critical commentary, positioned at the back of the book, will enable students and scholars alike to access Knevet's complicated and enigmatic meanings, structures, and allusions.
for Government , whereas only 60 per cent of the policy pledges included in the Conservative Party manifesto had (Yong, 2012a : 2). This interpretation seemed to justify Conservative backbench resentment that the Liberal Democrats had indeed ‘punched above their weight’ in the coalition negotiations (Dale, 2012: 50). However, if we examine the comparisons between manifesto
Over more than thirty years of reform and opening, the Chinese Communist Party has pursued the gradual marketization of China’s economy alongside the preservation of a resiliently authoritarian political system, defying long-standing predictions that ‘transition’ to a market economy would catalyse deeper political transformation. In an era of deepening synergy between authoritarian politics and finance capitalism, Communists constructing capitalism offers a novel and important perspective on this central dilemma of contemporary Chinese development. This book challenges existing state–market paradigms of political economy and reveals the Eurocentric assumptions of liberal scepticism towards Chinese authoritarian resilience. It works with an alternative conceptual vocabulary for analysing the political economy of financial development as both the management and exploitation of socio-economic uncertainty. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and over sixty interviews with policymakers, bankers, and former party and state officials, the book delves into the role of China’s state-owned banking system since 1989. It shows how political control over capital has been central to China’s experience of capitalist development, enabling both rapid economic growth whilst preserving macroeconomic and political stability. Communists constructing capitalism will be of academic interest to scholars and graduate students in the fields of Chinese studies, social studies of finance, and international and comparative political economy. Beyond academia, it will be essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of Chinese capitalism and its implications for an increasingly central issue in contemporary global politics: the financial foundations of illiberal capitalism.
: Singapore University Press, 1991), p. 288. 9 Bayly and Harper, Forgotten Wars , p. xxvii. 10 Bayly and Harper, Forgotten Wars , p. 53; C. F. Yong, The Origins of Malayan Communism (Singapore: South Seas Society, 1997), pp
This book analyses Anna of Denmark’s material and visual patronage at the Stuart courts, examining her engagement with a wide array of expressive media including architecture, garden design, painting, music, dress, and jewellery. Encompassing Anna’s time in Denmark, England, and Scotland, it establishes patterns of interest and influence in her agency, while furthering our knowledge of Baltic-British transfer in the early modern period. Substantial archival work has facilitated a formative re-conceptualisation of James and Anna’s relationship, extended our knowledge of the constituents of consortship in the period, and has uncovered evidence to challenge the view that Anna followed the cultural accomplishments of her son, Prince Henry. This book reclaims Anna of Denmark as the influential and culturally active royal woman that her contemporaries knew. Combining politics, culture, and religion across the courts of Denmark, Scotland, and England, it enriches our understanding of royal women’s roles in early modern patriarchal societies and their impact on the development of cultural modes and fashions. This book will be of interest to upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses on early modern Europe in the disciplines of Art and Architectural History, English Literature, Theatre Studies, History, and Gender Studies. It will also attract a wide range of academics working on early modern material and visual culture, and female patronage, while members of the public who enjoy the history of courts and the British royals will also find it distinctively appealing.
fundamental to advancing the scientific method, to ‘weaponise’ science against itself, using data generated from poor-quality studies to undermine scientific credibility and consensus with a view to discrediting and defunding science programmes not to their ideological liking (see Yong, 2017). Another concern has arisen in response to calls during the early days of the Trump administration to close the border to citizens from a handful of Muslim-majority nations in the Middle East and North Africa. The White House has cited concerns about national security in its
(Houndmills: Macmillan, 1996 ), p. 33; Jonathon Spence, The Search for Modern China (New York: Norton, 1999 ), p. 268; C. F. Yong, The Origins of Malayan Communism (Singapore: South Seas Society, 1997), p. 68. 62 Yong, The Origins of Malayan Communism , pp. 68–70; Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper, Forgotten
Japan this trend was most fully expressed in the period horror films of Nobuo Nakagawa (1905–85), and in South Korea in the more contemporary domestic gothic films of directors such as Kim Ki-young (1922–98) and Lee Yong-min (1916–). The return to a repressed history in the case of Japan (films set in premodern times having been banned by the Occupation) is mirrored by the haunted modernity of South
Authority, 1984), p. xi; C. F. Yong, The New Gold Mountain: The Chinese in Australia, 1901–1921 (Richmond: Raphael Arts, 1977), p. 142. 102 Butcher, British in Malaya , p. 114; Turnbull, History of Singapore , p. 329. 103 ‘Registration of Servants