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The Introductory Essay: Richard Wright's Covert Challenging of Jim Crowism and Uncle Tomism

Richard Wright’s introductory essay to his collection of short stories Uncle Tom's Children describes hidden forms of resistance against Jim Crowism and Uncle Tomism. The essay entitled The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch relates Wright’s daily confrontations with Jim Crowism with a particular emphasis on his evasive actions, and his covert activities, such as silence, pla...

The Crepant Resolution Conjecture

For orbifolds admitting a crepant resolution and satisfying a hard Lefschetz condition, we formulate a conjectural equivalence between the GromovWitten theories of the orbifold and the resolution. We prove the conjecture for the equivariant Gromov-Witten theories of Sym n C2 and Hilbn C2 .

Narration in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim: A Postcolonial Reading

This study is an attempt at a colonial and postcolonial reading of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim. It is specifically focused on the narrative strategies used in the novel. In other words, it investigates the connection between the narrative strategy and a possible tone of imperialism in Conrad’s novel. For the introduction, a brief review of Conrad’s manner of writing and his peculiar ambiguity is p...

The Enumerative Geometry of K3 Surfaces and Modular Forms Jim Bryan and Naichung Conan Leung

A framework for macro stress testing the credit risk of banks in Hong Kong

The results show that even for the Value-at-Risk at the confidence level of 90%, banks would continue to make a profit in most of the stressed scenarios, suggesting that the current credit risk of the banking sector is moderate. In extreme cases of the VaR at the confidence level of 99%, some banks could incur material losses. However, the probability of such events is extremely low. by Jim Won...