...Fan-sen Wang This article discusses various aspects of the current status of the humanities in Taiwan. First, the “indicator frenzy” that has prevailed in East Asia over the past twenty years has caused a major problem in humanities in Taiwan's academia. Second, in the past twenty years...

... administrators vie to adopt global corporate models based on competition and comparison and measure education and research with the same rules and criteria as any company on the global market. He observes that East Asia as a whole has succumbed to the frenzy over performance indicators and obsession with global...

... political scene has fourth phase. It must be noted that these phases are led many to assume that it possessed a clear-cut not water-tight compartments and do not indicate ideology and charted out a well thought out strat- basic shifts in the BJP’s character and outlook. The egy of growth which...

... at Ayodhya. Its tates of going by the rules of parliamentary success lies in injecting a strong element of frenzy democracy, in which each party must learn to be- as the mode of political mobilization, where previ- have both as the party of government and as a party ously “rational” debates...

... .” Scroll.in , July 17 , 2015 . scroll.in/article/738955/the-dongria-kondhs-of-odisha-now-face-a-more-formidableenemy-than-vedanta . Rajshekar M. “Hydelgate: Dam Frenzy Fails to Notice Environmental Concerns.” Economic Times (India) , May 5 , 2013 . economictimes.indiatimes.com...

... of the UNP were competing with the provinces indicates that large mobs of ‘patriotic’ youth each other to secure the JVP’s endorsement of their respec- are being deployed to storm the houses of ‘traitors’ and to tive Presidential candidates. Such an endorsement, if not kill them so as to give...

..., if not a lasting solution, from the proposals ema- taking to their heels in a frenzied attempt to run away from nating from the political conference. To them, the with- the scene. The second phase resulted in a severe backlash of drawal of the proposals and hardening of attitudes on both mass...

... of the government’s daily state- main vocation of the town is handicraft, producing ments created an increasing tempo of communal extraordinarily beautiful textured sarees and silk frenzy. The whisper campaigns launched by Sangh material for the Indian market. It is, even at the Parivar volunteers added...

... on more widely spoken “dialects,” being used for the future indicative, and the Gilchrist, along with his colleague William preterite indicative being formed by “done”; thus Carey at the College at Fort William in Calcutta, I telling = “I will tell”; I done...

... Aratis. The evidence clearly indicates In fact the post-mortem reports showed that out of that Maha Aratis were one of the main causes for 250 deaths, 192 died in police firing and out of building up of tension leading to a riot, as happened those more than 95 percent had sustained...

..., antiauthoritar- of legal rights, which indicated to the new ruler ian organizations within civil society and hast-   Comparative the tenacity of the opposition forces in stand- ening their own elimination. The exception was Asia...

... extreme sports, real- a frenzy of compulsion, repetition, and retribu- ity shows, etc., which both embody and displace tion, the obscene and self-righteous desire to this insatiable passion du réel). Such configura- raise the threshold of the desert beyond any tions of the passion for the real...

...- zadegi) is a complex and contradictory concept man philosophy. In the preface to Westoxifica- that cannot be simply reduced to an anti-Western tion he indicates his intellectual debt to Ernst polemic or variation on religious dogma. His re- Jünger, whose work he translated into Persian turn seems...

... the late 1930s there was an on-again off-again tegration of the regional economy into the local trade in mangrove bark. For the most part this was economy is indicative of the degree to which this re- compatible with the pole trade, since the bark had to gional economy affected life in East Africa...

... in the conversation. The idea of buried treasure, too, is Valley of the Kings, professed “bewilderment” at the one that appeals to most of us. Whatever the rea- public frenzy his discovery had spawned in Britain son, or combination of reasons, it is quite certain and the United States. He insisted in his 1923...

... 10 percent of the Jewish community in Iraq. Moreover, the state confiscated Jewish properties and dismissed Jews from government jobs. The frenzy against Iraqi Jews reached its peak in 1969, when forty Jews were hanged publicly or tortured to death. 18 The relentless persecution of Jews...

... out, Mr. Shourie, as But is it Mandal who institutionalized caste or caste the lead conductor of this frenzied anti-Mandal institutionalization that gave rise to Mandal? They orchestra, has been spitting incessant obscenities at the argue that the Supreme Court maintains that lower...

... of betting on the monsoon (25). After the arrests, the chief presidency magis- trate of Bombay had actually acquitted Thavarmal Governmentalization, Speculation, and Translation: and his associate Dady Mehta, an indication that Emperor v...

... indicated Journal.15 In 1935, the aggregated expenditures on control, spiritual refinement, breeding: the un- the most promoted items (meaning advertising costs clean were vulgar, coarse, animalistic. A dirty per- of $20,000 or more) in thirty-five “leading maga- son evoked one of the most powerful...

...). The heroine’s discovery of her beloved’s falling for another mparative Stu woman drives her into a short frenzy, and she fi nds herself once again entangled with daily routines and in love with the city and her...