The Nanyang Chinese National Salvation Movement, 1937-1941

The Canadian birth control movement on trial, 1936-1937.

A birth control movement emerged in Canada in the 1930s with the formation of several clinics and agencies devoted to the dissemination of information on birth control. The arrest of Dorothea Palmer, a social worker employed by one of these agencies, the Parents' Information Bureau, resulted in a precedent-setting trial during which the new movement argued for the benefits of birth control. In ...

Explaining the paradox of market reform in communist China: the uneven and combined development of the Chinese Revolution and the search for ‘national salvation’

This thesis addresses the paradox of capitalist market reform being introduced by a politically undefeated communist state in China. It does so by developing an historical account of the Chinese polity’s relationship with the modern world. Chapter one offers a critique of existing explanations; these tend to focus narrowly on the immediate circumstances surrounding the decision to reform and th...

.Social salvation

“ Students here are basically apat­ hetic," Dean o f Students James Roemer commented to a less than capacity crowd at last n igh t’s security seminar in LaFortune Stu­ dent Center. Eight students were in attendance. The seminar was jo in tly con­ ducted by Roemer, Assistant D irec­ to r o f Security Rex Rakow, and investigator Ann Schelllnger. It focused on the security needs o f women at the U...

Salvation by registration.

Salvation for Bricoleurs

In a previous presentation at this workshop (Ben-Ari, 1999), the second author described an experiment in which (even) science educators studying for advanced degrees displayed abysmal performance on non-routine tasks using a word processor. The performance was described as bricolage, a term first used by anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss to describe the primitive science of a ‘savage’, and ap...