Recent readings IX

黃俊傑：〈作為區域史的東亞文化交流史－－問題意識與研究主題〉，《臺大歷史學報》，第43期（2009年6月），頁187-218。

兩項新問題意識：（1）東亞文化交流史中「自我」與「他者」的互動；（2）東亞文化交流與權力結構的互動。三個研究主題：（1）人物的交流；「媒介人物」及其對「他者」的觀察；（2）物品（尤其是書籍）的交流；（3）思想的交流。

黃文樹：〈陽明後學與利瑪竇的交往及其涵義〉，《漢學研究》，第27卷，第3期（2009年9月），頁127-158。

Kit-Ling Lau, "Grade Differences in Reading Motivation among Hong Kong primary and secondary students," British Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 79 (2009), pp. 713-733. Seriously, we face the same problem about reading. Why read? Too much to read.

Sivanes Phillipson, "Context of Academic Achievement: Lessons from Hong Kong," Educational Psychology, Vol. 29, No. 4 (July 2009), pp. 447-468. It confirms the conventional wisdom that "parents, and especially parental expectations, play an important role in children's academic achievement," particularly in girls' success.

Stephen Evans, "The Medium of Instruction in Hong Kong Revisited: Policy and Practice in the Reformed Chinese and English Streams," Research Papers in Education, Vol. 24, Issue 3 (Sept. 2009), pp. 287-309. It finds that teachers in both the Chinese and English streams felt it difficult to fully implement the new language policy of medium of instruction in classroom practice.

Nikolas Gisborne, "Aspects of the Morphosyntactic Typology of Hong Kong English," English World-Wide, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2009), pp. 149-169. Another paper to establish Hong Kong English as a new English variety.

Matthew Rubery, "Play It Again, Sam Weller: New Digital Audiobooks and Old Ways of Reading," Journal of Victorian Culture, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring 2008, pp. 58-79. How about Chinese audiobooks, like The Story of the Stone alas Dream of the Red Chamber?

John Hoberman, "Medical Racism and the Rhetoric of Exculpation: How Do Physicians Think about Race?" New Literary History, Vol. 38, No. 3 2007, pp. 505-525. "medical liberal responses to the findings of health disparities research frequently use the issue of motivation to effectively exculpate physicians from bearing responsibility for racially motivated diagnoses and treatments. This argument is based on the distinction between conscious (or 'overt') behaviors and other behaviors that are supposed to result from unconscious motives." (p. 512-3) "False assumptions about physicians' immunity to racially motivated thinking help to account for the limitations of the instructional programs in 'cultural competence'..." (p. 513-4)