Quick hits

My workmates probably hate me! Such an annoying folk!

I guess, understandably, my workmates might be very curious about and, to a certain extent, irritated by my too frequent passing by in front of their partition and use of the photocopier (I am sorry about that).

I love browsing journals and reading interesting articles. Of course, I prefer to print it out to enjoy (reading the screen is no joy at all). Paper in need is paper indeed. These are what I have been reading:

1. Paul Young, "The cooking animal: economic man at the Great Exhibition," Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2008), pp. 569-586.

2. Julie E. Fromer, "'Deeply indebited to the tea-plant': representations of English national identity in Victorian histories of tea," Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2008), pp. 531-547.

3. Thomas Prasch, "Eating the world: London in 1851," Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2008), pp. 587-602.

4.Suzanne Daly and Ross G. Forman, "Introduction: cooking culture: situating food and drink in the Nineteenth Century," Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2008), pp. 363-373.

5. Bridget Byrne, "England -  whose England? narratives of nostalgia, emptiness and evasion in imaginations of national identity," The Sociological Review, Vol. 55, Iss. 3 (2007), pp. 509-530.

6. 李鑑慧：〈十九世紀英國動物保護運動與基督教傳統〉，《新史學》，第20卷第1期（2009年3月），頁125-179。

7. Peter Stansky, "E.M. Forster (1879-1970)," in Susan Pedersen and Peter Mandler (eds.), After the Victorians : private conscience and public duty in modern Britain : essays in memory of John Clive (London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 127-146.

8. Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth, "Bipartisan politics and practical knowledge: advertising of public science in two London newspaper, 1695-1720," The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 41, Iss. 4 (Dec. 2008), pp. 517-540.

9. Andrew R. Holmes, "Presbyterians and science in the north of Ireland before 1874," The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 41, Iss. 4 (Dec. 2008), pp. 541-565.

10. Sebastian Conrad, "Globalization effects: mobility and nation in Imperial Germany, 1880-1914," Journal of Global History, 2008, vol. 3, iss. 3 (2008), pp. 43-66.

11. Bhaswati Bhattacharya, "Armenian European relationship in India, 1500-1800: no Armenian foundation for European empire?" Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 38, No. 2 (2005), pp. 277-322.

12. Harriet T. Zurndorfer, "The orientation of JESHO's Orient and the problem of 'Orientalism': some reflections on the occasion of JESHO's fiftieth Anniversary," Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient,Vol. 51, Iss. 1 (Mar., 2008), pp. 2-30.

13. OTSUKI Nami and HATANO Keiko, "Japanese perceptions of trafficking in persons: an analysis of the 'demand' for sexual services and politices for dealing with trafficking survivors," Social Science Japan Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2009), pp. 45-70. (trans. from the Japanese by Lili Selden)