exploration of China's reproductive past, and should be read by anyone who seeks to understand the controversy over human rights in China today. Madame du Coudray was one of those "lost" heroines, neglected by historians in spite of several decades of feminist scholarship. She has been rediscovered by Nina Gelbart who has written a fascinating account of the career of this leading eighteenth-ce...

The Abbé de Choisy was one of the most intriguing figures in Louis XIII’s entourage and, most notably, Louis XIV’s court. A prolific author, he composed the Sun King’s memoirs, his own personal memoirs, and in his old age wrote an ambitious twelve volume-work entitled Histoire de l’Eglise. Although he led a ecclesiastic career, his writing and intellectual interests reached well beyond the Chur...

A key challenge in molecular breeding of orchids is the creation of efficient and reproducible gene transformation systems. In this study, we report a new transformation method utilizing L-methionine sulfoximine (MSO) as a novel agent for selection of transgenic Dendrobium hybrids D. Madame Thong-In and D. Chao Praya Smile with the bialaphos resistance (bar) gene as a selectable marker. Gene tr...