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Getting ahead of harm before it happens: A guide about proactive analysis for improving surgical care safety
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n healthcare, when patients are harmed or nearly harmed, reactive investigations are conducted. While these are important, they usually focus only on one patient, although occasionally the care of a group of patients may be reviewed. In a way, these investigations are too late- some patients...
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2023-09-01
Can the goji 枸杞, a Chinese heritage plant, co-exist in the community ecology of Edmonton? This question was first raised when I gathered goji branches at Grandma Lau’s house to memorialize Edmonton’s abandoned Chinatown Harbin Gate in 2019 before the start of my MFA studies. During the next years...
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2005-01-01
This is a review of the translation of Mo Yan's epic novel Fengru Feitun by Howard Goldblatt as Big Breasts and Wide Breasts. Lupke examines both the structure and theme of the novel as well as the quality of Goldblatt's translation. He also compares Mo Yan's writing to that of James Joyce,...
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2007-12-01
This is a review of June Yip's book Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary. The book is theoretically informed and focuses mainly in the works of two very important Taiwanese intellectuals: the filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien and the short story writer Huang...
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Lingzhen Wang, Personal Matters: Women's Autobiographical Practice in Twentieth-Century China
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This is a review of Lingzhen Wang's book Personal Matters: Women's Autobiographical Practice in Twentieth-century China, an expansive analysis of both the practice of women writing autobiography and the narrative depictions of mother-daughter relationships. Wang's work considers many overlooked...
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2007-10-01
This is a review of Lloyd Haft's pithy book-length treatment of the poetry of Taiwan-based poet Zhou Mengdie. Zhou was a loner and a bit of an itinerant, having been forced to flee mainland China for Taiwan and having to leave his family behind. His poetry includes much loneliness and sorry but...
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Margaret Hillenbrand, Literature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance: Japanese and Taiwanese Fiction, 1960-1990.
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This is a review of Margaret Hillenbrand's pathbreaking comparative study of contemporary Japanese and Taiwanese fiction. It examines the postwar literary scenes as part of a larger phenomenon, a sort of Neo-Colonial framework she calls Pax Americana, under the hegemonic umbrella of the United...
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National Myth and Global Aesthetics: Reading Yeats alongside Chinese Poetic Modernism, pp. 210-234.
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One of the conundrums of modern Chinese literary studies is how to navigate the tortuous road between the particular cultural heritage from which it arises, the global phenomena of such trends as modernism, and the individual creative voice. Some adopt the strategy that indigenous cultures and...