Recent readings XXIII

Romain Garcier's "The Placing of Matter: Industrial Water Pollution and the Construction of Social Order in Nineteenth-Century France," Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 36, 2010, pp. 132-42. "'Pollution' brought together various strands of water research (especially water analysis, bacteriology and hydrology) but also served as the foundation of a discourse on industrial responsibility...The co-production of pollution science and nineteenth-century industrial order explains why industrial water pollution was allowed to go unabated...water pollution was regulated informally and industrialists were able to claim rivers as legitimate places for industrial matter against challenges brought up by other social actors.

Min Zeng (曾敏) & David Watkins's "Adaptation of Mainland postgraduate students to Hong Kong's universities," CERC [Crossing Borders in East Asian Higher Education] Studies in Comparative Education, Vol. 27, 2011, pp. 343-373. The topic is not new, neither its findings. "As students from a Confucian heritage culture, the informants respected their supervisors as knowledgeable authorities and tried to avoid challenging or questioning their authority." (emphasis mine)

Michael H. Lee, "Internationalizing universities: comparing China's Hong Kong and Singapore (1996-2006), CERC [Crossing Borders in East Asian Higher Education] Studies in Comparative Education, Vol. 27, 2011, pp. 283-315. By the end of 2005, Singapore's universities had 50,000 international enrollments and it has anticipated that at least 100,000 more non-local full fee-paying students would be studying in Singapore by 2012. Hong Kong is lagging well behind!

橫田文彥：〈1950年代～1980年代香港新聞廣告文に含まれる廣東語表現〉，《中國文學研究》，2006年12月，第32期，頁60-76。《華僑日報》、《星島日報》、《明報》；醫藥及飲食廣告。抽離歷史脈絡，無異於資料排比而已。

千野拓政：〈香港の夢はどこに？──張愛玲、映畫、アイデンティティー──〉，《中國文學研究》，2006年12月，頁46-58。

洪濤：〈英國漢學家與《楚辭．九歌》的歧解和流傳〉，《漳州師範學院學報(哲社版)》，2008年第1期(總第67期)，頁57-67。

顏榴：〈民國時期印象派概念的流傳和書籍的傳播〉，《中国美術館》，2008年第8期，頁81-88。