American Missionaries in Revolutionary Russia

US-American Protestant Missionaries and Translation in China 1894-1911

In her article "US-American Protestant Missionaries and Translation in China 1894-1911" Mingyu Lu discusses impact of and surrounding atmosphere between Protestant missionaries and Chinese intellectuals in translating Western texts. During the national crisis in 1894-1911, Protestant missionaries and Chinese intellectuals co-translated a large number of Western texts and adjusted their translat...

Homosexual desire in revolutionary Russia: the regulation of sexual and gender dissent

philosopher, David Cooper, on the "Frankensteinian" nature of biotechnology. Other "technologies" are apparent herefinancial, managerial, professional, and legal, among them-but these are not implied in the opening statement, nor do they come within the analytical scope of the volume. Rather, as the subtitle has it, the theme is 'From paternalism to autonomy?'-the question mark signifying an ef...

Imagining the Cosmos : Utopians , Mystics , and the Popular Culture of Spacefl ight in Revolutionary Russia

This essay investigates the explosive Soviet interest in space travel during the New Economic Policy (NEP) era of the 1920s, as expressed through amateur societies, the press, literature, painting, fi lm, and other popular culture. In recovering an obscured history of the roots of Russian cosmonautics, it shows how the cause of space exploration in early twentieth-century Russia originally stem...

Missionaries and Cannibals in the Causal Calculator

A knowledge representation formalism is \elaboration tolerant" to the extent that it is convenient to modify a set of facts expressed in the formalism to take into account new phenomena or changed circumstances. John McCarthy illustrated this idea by deening 19 elaborations of the Missionaries and Cannibals Problem. We argue that, to a certain degree, the goal of elaboration tolerance is met by...

Muslims, Missionaries and Warlords in Northwestern China