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Philip A. Kuhn

Chinese Among Others

2008

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Chapter 2. Early Colonial Empires and Chinese Migrant Communities S. 55-106

„… throne and set the stage for the powerful Siamese monarchy of modern times. His suc- cessor, Rama I, the …” „… through trade has been a longstanding practice since ancient times.Those who acquire wealth should have …” „… emigrants. When traders ventured abroad, they might expect that their stay would be temporary (enough time …”

Chapter 1. Maritime Expansion and Chinese Migration S. 7-54

„… colonialists in what proved to be a crucial step toward the modern world market. Europeans set sail on the …” „… . Early Modern China and the World Economy During the two centuries after 1400, imperial policies and mer …” „… great Ming expeditions can be seen as precursors of China's modern emigration history. But facing Mongol …”

Preface

„… Times By Philip A . Kuhn Chinese Among Others Emigration in Modern Times Philip A. Kuhn ROWMAN …” „… Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern By Prasenjit Duara A Chinese Economic Revolution: Rural …” „… , and the Modern Chinese State By Elizabeth J. Perry Of Camel Kings and Other Things: Rural Rebels …”

References Cited S. 399-420

„… Times (London), May 26, 10. Baker, Hugh D. R. 1994. "Branches all over: The Hong Kong Chinese in the …” „… by Tong Chee Kiong and Chan Kwok Bun. Singapore: Times Academic Press, 107-36. Batto, Patricia. 2006 …” „… . "The diaolou of Kaiping (1842-1937): Buildings for danger- ous times." China Perspectives, no. 66, 2-17 …”

Introduction S. 1-6

„… - cess in which migrants played a significant role and sometimes a decisive one. The "modern times …” „… touring Louis XIV's palace at Versailles. Ejected promptly at the 4:00 closing time into the dark deserted …” „… certain characteristic environments and historical periods. The axes of variation include time as well as …”

Chapter 6. Revolution and "National Salvation" S. 239-282

„… Revolution Once the old polities of Japan and China began remolding them- selves into modern nation-states …” „… do business at any time without fear of being harassed when they r e t ~ r n . " ~ Chinese emigrants …” „… the times. . . . "The nature of people is to be loval to whoever can give them a peaceful life …”

Chapter 7. Chinese Communities in Postcolonial Southeast Asia S. 283-320

„… modern times (equivalent to bumiputra, "sons of the soil," in Malaysia) have glared rancorously at their …” „… military raw materials, lay behind Japan's blitzkrieg of 1942, at a time when Germany's invasion of Europe …” „… contributed to a collective self-esteem that sustained the minority in an anxious time of transition. How …”

Chapter 4. Communities in the Age of Mass Migration: I. Southeast Asia S. 153-196

„… corridors attained their modern form: new technologies of transport and communication made travel in both …” „… social organism that extended the emigrant community more durably in space and time. A t times, adverse …” „… was credited to him as "modern colonial administration" in the Indies, though the full effects of his …”

Chapter 5. Communities in the Age of Mass Migration: 11. Exclusion From, and In, the Settler Societies S. 197-238

„… . Writing in The Times of London in 1888, Sir George Baden-Powell warned that Chinese meant trouble …” „… wealthier cities of the Pearl River delta, were already doing business in San Francisco by the time the …” „… communities only limited protection. Nevertheless, a modest merchant bridgehead had been planted: by late 1849 …”

Chapter 8. The New Migration S. 321-386

„… left to ad- minister the existing policy as it saw fit.7 Government addressed race for the first time …” „… time, repatriation was designed to palliate a source of ir- ritation for Southeast Asian regimes and to …” „… analogue of the physical walls that surrounded administrative cities in imperial times. Regulations in 1958 …”

Chapter 3. Imperialism and Mass Emigration S. 107-152

„… mechanisms were imposed by the industrializing world outside. For Chinese of that time, the well-ingrained …” „… , and as times grew harder, local intervillage feuding inflicted widespread chaos and displace- ment …” „… emigration can be seen as an extension of this time- honored business.2" Chinese migrating abroad usually did …”

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James W. Cortada - Birth of Modern Facts

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James W. Cortada

Birth of Modern Facts

2023

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1 Defining Information in Modern Times S. 1-26

„… would agree that perhaps Chapter 1Defining Information in Modern Times2 Chapter 1today they live in the …” „… waded into discussions about how much Defining Information in Modern Times 3information existed in …” „… these subjects were part of “a chain that binds them together” Defining Information in Modern Times 5 …”

Endnotes S. 309-394

„… /do-birds-have-language?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosscience&stream=science (accessed February 16, 2022).1. DEFINING INFORMATION IN MODERN TIMES 1. For examples, Horace …” „… : Financial Times/PTR, 2001), How Societies Embrace Information Technology: Lessons for Man-agement and the …” „… his article, “Changes in the LIS Research Front: Time-Sliced Cocita-tion Analyses of LIS Journal …”

For Further Reading S. 395-426

„… : Managing and Working in the New Digital Economy (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Financial Times/Prentice Hall …” „… States (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publish-ers, 1995); Toni Weller, Information History in the Modern …” „… , Information and the Modern Corporation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011). On the eco-nomics of information, the …”

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„… forms and how it transformed in modern times.Chapter 1 can be seen as a pre-history of our modern …” „… Defining Information in Modern Times 1 2 Second Industrial Revolution Encounters Information 27 3 How …” „… Birth of Modern FactsROWMAN & LITTLEFIELDLanham • Boulder • New York • LondonBirth of Modern …”

6 Scientists and Medical Experts Shape Information S. 153-182

„… estimating techniques, Bayesian statistics, predictive and discrete time-series analysis, and pattern …” „… category of science. Rightfully so, that new collection of knowledge made possible a modern society with …” „… time”; the persistence of, in his word, “attitudes” toward knowl-edge creation.1 His insight applies as …”

7 New Business and Government Information Ecosystems S. 183-212

„… innova-tions, although not in all industries at all times.First, patents were extended beyond the original …” „… track their changes over time, thanks to the telegraph and then the tele-phone, to implement new …” „… , especially in challenging times such as during the two world wars, the Great Depression, Cold War, and the …”

Index S. 427-444

„… , 79 – 80, 195, 223, 271; society in, 53; statistics in, 156; technology in, 25Modern Times (movie), 14 …” „… Berners-Lee, Tim, 115, 342n92Bernier, Charles L., 167Bernouvilli Urn Model, 201Bertalanffy, Ludwig von, 296 …” „… New York Times (NYT), 98 – 99Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell), 127, 207Nixon, Richard, 263NLM. See …”

9 Contributions of Political Scientists and Historians to Modern Information S. 249-276

„… Political Scientists and Historians to Modern Information250 Chapter 9associations, books, certification …” „… engaged in such activities at roughly the same time as the scientists, engineers, and economists …” „… to Modern Information 251that required focus and specialization. With political science and history …”

8 What Information Economists Created S. 213-248

„… contributions to the shaping of information in modern times lay in their extensive application of new economic …” „… range and diversity of modern economic life,” as “each chooses to frame whatever is the chosen question …” „… scientific principles to decisions that in earlier times would have been made based on prior poorly …”

10 How Information Evolved S. 277-308

„… obvious patterns as an assist in understanding the role of information in modern times. Then I dis-cuss …” „… modern society as the Internet, artificial intelligence (AI), and the oldest of these technologies …” „… propose that we treat as tentative any conclusions drawn on modern experience with information, except for …”

2 Second Industrial Revolution Encounters Information S. 27-56

„… modern industrial economies, when large information-dependent organi-zations were first created. American …” „… of the age in the United States, which in time led grudgingly to the emergence of many reforms …” „… harnessing the power of steam to energize new modes of manufacturing and transportation in the first half of …”

5 Mathematicians and Statisticians Create New Tools S. 129-152

„… human languages to become a lingua franca of modern times. To avoid getting ahead of ourselves, 152 …” „… very hard to imagine a time when people did not think in our terms.Michael Atiyah, 20021Exchange …” „… between a modern Socrates and his follower: “How many birds are there in a flock?” “I cannot say.” “How …”

3 How Librarians Organized Information S. 57-88

„… earlier times someone could walk into the library, ask for a book, and he typically knew where it was …” „… time when their earlier initiatives waned in the face of new classes of information experts ensconced …” „… behemoths as Facebook, Google, and Twitter, among others, in the 2010s.From the beginning of the modern …”

4 Early Encounters by Computer Builders S. 89-128

„… foundations of modern information. Their role was the most influential in the transformation of information in …” „… are identified and eliminated, and response times improved are among these activities. It is here …” „… United States now only has some 300,000 full-time programmers; because program-ming has so evolved that …”

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Thomas Hickmann, Markus Lederer - Leidenschaft und Augenmaß

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Leidenschaft und Augenmaß

2020

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Werner Jann The Modern State and Administrative Reform – The Times They Are a-Changin’ S. 59-72

„… The Modern State and Administrative Reform – The Times They Are a-Changin’ Werner Jann, University …” „… . The Modern State and Administrative Reform – The Times They Are a-Changin’ 61 The Active State …” „… influence the developmental agenda, The Modern State and Administrative Reform – The Times They Are …”

Hartmut Elsenhans Green Growth or the New Frontier of Capitalism: A Kaleckian Approach S. 155-168

„… government spending should be used as an instrument to create demand and stimulate employment in times of …” „… , there is a reduction of labor time engaged in case of technical innovation, but not so in case of rising …” „… L-goods to the environment increases over time, so that the compensatory production of E-goods increases …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-10

„… Analyse institutioneller Reformeffekte 39 Werner Jann The Modern State and Administrative Reform – The …” „… Times They Are a- Changin’ 59 Heribert Dieter Germany as a Leading Power: A Pipe Dream 73 Wolfgang …”

Sebastian Wienges, Hendrikje Reich, Sven Egbers, Ursula Stiegler Transformational Change – A Necessity, No Conditionality! S. 235-244

„… transformational change to achieve climate goals Climate change is often called the defining issue of our times …” „… ), Fuhr/Lederer (2008; 2009). 3 Emerging Modes of Governance and Climate Protection in Newly Industrializing …” „… transport, or the access to modern energy through renewable energies in remote areas or where renewable …”

Dieter Wagner, Ibrahin Amhed León Tellez Knowledge and Technology-Transfer-Networks: Examples in the Nutrition, Food and Agricultural Sector in Germany and Cuba S. 285-298

„… time, strategic networks may be innovative and potentially constituent for a modern socialist system …” „… same time. Last but not least alliances may be a strategic tool to gain resources from other partners …” „… impacts on management and production improvement. For a long time, the University of Granma has been the …”

Guillermo A. Navarro, Alonso Villalobos-Jiménez, Víctor Milla Trade-offs for Consolidating a Green Transformation: A Case Study of the Land Use Sector in Costa Rica S. 129-140

„… , but at the same time, it fails to offset the loss in competitiveness associated with overregulation of …” „… characteristics to cope with climate differences; ii) research to modify the planting time and new plant and …” „… some negative effects in terms of the current agro-export mode. The cost of the agricultural production …”

Tanja A. Börzel, Thomas Risse Environmental Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood S. 109-128

„… . At the same time, we also find a number of countries whose statehood is not too limited but which …” „… state governs hierarchically all the time, states at least possess the ability to authoritatively make …” „… order to reap the profit from lower standards and exploit natural resources. At the same time, MNCs are …”

Sabine Kuhlmann Bessere Verwaltung durch Dezentralisierung? Eine ländervergleichende Analyse institutioneller Reformeffekte S. 39-58

„… . Campbell, Tim/Fuhr, Harald (2004): Context of Change – Decentralization and State Reform. In: Campbell, Tim …” „… ./ Raadschelders, Jos C. N./ Lehrke, Jesse Paul (Hrsg.): Public Administration and the Modern State: Assessing …”

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Sara Binay, Stefan Leder - Translating the Bible into Arabic: historical, text-critical and literary aspects

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Translating the Bible into Arabic: historical, text-critical and literary aspects

Series: Beiruter Texte und Studien (BTS)

Volume 131 2012

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Carsten Walbiner Melkite (Greek Orthodox) approaches to the Bible at the time of the community’s cultural reawakening in the early modern period(17th–early 18th centuries) S. 53-62

„… support. 1 On the cultural and literary activities of the Maronites in early modern times see Gemayel …” „… in early modern times7 and with the beginning of the 17th century the Greek Orthodox Meletius Karmah …” „… be regarded as the most prolific Arab Orthodox writer in early modern times, focused in his work on …”

Hilary Kilpatrick Meletius Karmah’s Specimen Translation of Genesis 1–5 S. 63-74

„… , whose baptismal name was ʿAbd al-Karīm, was born in Hama around 1572. After spending some time at St …” „… was vacant at the time, and the community proposed him to fill it. He was consecrated in 1612 and …” „… each have lacunae and additions and are not in agreement with one another.7 To a modern reader, and …”

Sara Binay Introduction S. 11-18

„… of Arabic biblical texts which show the importance of translations over time, and the demands for and …” „… different lexemes which might have certain theological connotations. At the same time, the syntactical …” „… compete with the modern translation methods of the Beirut editions. One of the most interesting Bible …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-6

„… Carsten Walbiner Melkite (Greek Orthodox) approaches to the Bible at the time of the community’s …” „… cultural reawakening in the early modern period (17th–early 18th centuries …”

Ronny Vollandt The Arabic Pentateuch of the Paris Polyglot: Saadiah Gaon’s advent to the republic of letters S. 19-36

„… modern Europe. The purpose of this paper is, therefore, multiple. I shall start by summarising our …” „… one point of time, they were to a certain degree provoked by a strong disapproval of Arabic Bibles …” „… of Judaeo-Arabic culture of his time. His impact included ground-breaking advances in scholarly …”

Bibliography S. 129-148

„… ., (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 152), Leuven: Peeters, 2006, 37–97. Moreh, Shmuel, Modern Arabic Poetry …” „… Christianus 71 (1987), 156–181. Newby, G.D., A History of the Jews of Arabia. From ancient Times to their …” „… , Philadelphia (Pennsylvania): The Sunday School Times Company, 1906. Sarrazin, Bernard, Le rire et le sacret …”

Paul Féghali The Holy Books in Arabic: The example of the Propaganda Fide Edition S. 37-52

„… otherwise would have been, a fact much criticized at the time of publication.6 The two other members were …” „… disregarded. Instead, the work was based on a Latin version that was very polemical in its time. I was even …” „… produced prose rhymed texts such as that of ʿAbdishūʾ; and the modern epoch, characterised by a return to …”

About the authors S. 149-213

„… Vorbereitung. 115. DENIS HERMANN, SABRINA MERVIN, eds.: Shiʽi Trends and Dynamics in Modern Times. Courants …” „… About the authors He d i Ay a d i , Professor of Modern Arabic Literature at Tunis University …” „… independent scholar living in Lausanne. She has published on Modern and Classical Arabic Literature. Her …”

Walid A. Saleh, Kevin Casey An Islamic Diatessaron: Al-Biqāʿī’s Harmony of the Four Gospels S. 85-116

„… Gospels while rejecting Christian theology. This mode of argument is thus more in the manner of biblical …” „… modern European harmonies that would be done in the wake of the Reformation and the printing revolution …” „… "for a long time". 403 21:34–22:14 128 404 14:16b–21 and 23–24 128 Lk's version 405 …”

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Jeffrey Andrew Barash, Christophe Bouton, Servanne Jollivet - Die Vergangenheit im Begriff

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Die Vergangenheit im Begriff

2021

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Gennaro Imbriano The temporality of history. S. 221-238

„… time is produced. The historical timesof the pre-modern age can be defined as such only improperly …” „… , brings about new resolutions and through this gener-ates historical time.«4With the arrival of the modern …” „… andhistorical time, as it is only with the advent of the modern age that, asalready seen, a truly historical …”

Lisa Regazzoni The impossible monument of experience: a story that never ends S. 100-124

„… changes in modern times and their inner-worldly function becomes an end in itself, whereby »[t]he …” „… Koselleck: »One time Gertrud, and eleven timesKarl Jaspers«, India ink. (reproduced with the kind permission …” „… , Fischer, Frankfurt a.M., 2000, p. 230.of the concept of »sediments of time« (Zeitschichten) that …”

Daniel Brauer The Structure and Evolution of Koselleck’s Theory of Historical Experience S. 21-34

„… 1970s, have revolved around two main themes that are somehowopposed and, at the same time …” „… , march 2007, pp. 363sq.3 Reinhard Koselleck, Futures Past. On the Semantics of Historical Time …” „… overcome at the same time the aporias of relativism.5One of the central themes in this project that …”

Zusammenfassungen S. 243-260

„… in eine völ-lig neue Perspektive ein.Jeffrey Barash, »Reflections on historical time, collective …” „… conception of historical time over the course of the 20th cen-tury, exemplified especially by Reinhart …” „… the new attention to historical time to the intense contempor-ary concern with the phenomenon of …”

Jeffrey Andrew Barash, Christophe Bouton, Servanne Jollivet Vorwort S. 11-18

„… Zeitschichten10 von Sean Franzel undStefan-Ludwig Hoffmann unter dem Titel Sediments of Time, dieeine …” „… Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time,Translated by Keith Tribe, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1985, p …” „… , »Introduction: Translating Kosel-leck«, in Sediments of Time, On Possible Histories, Stanford, Stanford …”

Christophe Bouton Die Beschleunigung der Geschichte bei Koselleck. S. 76-99

„… Entschleunigung von Geschichte«.47 P. Conrad, Modern times and modern places. How life and art were transformed …” „… geschichtlichen Zeiten, und Theorie der Neuzeit/Moder-ne4. Sie bietet daher eine hervorragende Fallstudie, um …” „… Christophe Bouton20 Vgl. E. P. Thompson, »Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism«, Past &Present …”

Carsten Dutt Kosellecks Wende zur Pragmatik S. 127-154

„… approach to history is of particularinterest to the historian of modern times.43Koselleck seinerseits hat …” „… , Paris, Editions EHESS, 22016; historia/Historia, Madrid, Trotta, 2016; Sedi-ments of Time. On Possible …” „… Autoren vollzogen: Das Junk-tim von Sozial- und Begriffshistorie reicht vielmehr bis in …”

Jeffrey Andrew Barash Überlegungen über Historische Zeit, kollektives Gedächtnis und die Endlichkeit des historischen Verstehens im Ausgang von Reinhart Koselleck S. 35-53

„… erseine Rede mit der Feststellung begann, dass »die sogenannte Moder-ne eben auch kein einheitliches oder …” „… , »Hartog’s Account ofHistorical Times and the Rise of Presentism«, History. The Journal of the …”

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