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Roadrunner, I was reading the article on Peak Oil - which is excellent and followed the link to global warming and was very surprised that that article did not refer to peak oil even in passing.
I've added a section with some basic facts effectively inviting readers of global warming to visit peak oil to find out more. I don't know why some of the global warming evangelists are being so upetty about it, but they are giving me hassle. I noticed you were a contributor to the peak oil article, and I am leaving this to ask for some support 88.110.38.52 22:22, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
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I found it useful and I cannt persuade myself to remove these stuffs as NPC.-- Ksyrie 02:54, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
See my reply to your question. Responsive? Helpful? Boundlessly 01:54, 20 March 2007 (UTC).
hey, I don't have Hsiau's article at hand. Am gonna revert; if you are actually quoting Hsiau we can restore your edit another day. Thanks! Ling.Nut 03:40, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
(undent) Thanks for your contribs. I reworded them slightly, have a look. Sorry if I was abit protective of the page — given the history of various well-known editors in the area of Taiwanese politics, I was really expecting an edit–spree–POV–battle to break out between factions. I have been pleasantly surpised so far.. the vandalism is all kids who wanna say "you're gay" or whatever... thanks! Ling.Nut
Are you saying this (from an ancient version of the article):
Supporters of Taiwanese independence see the interest in aboriginal affairs gradual move towards nation building and the creation of an alternative to a Chinese identity. For their part, supporters of Chinese reunification do not in generally object to the interest in aboriginal affairs and argue that this illustrates the broadness and diversity of the Chinese identity and point out that this interest in indigenous peoples parallels a similar interest in Mainland China as part of the Xungen movement.
Thanks Ling.Nut 17:31, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Roadrunner,
I am going to have to revert the references to the coloniality of the various cultural projects in Taiwan. That is exactly what the sources claim and support. I realize Chinese nationalism is threatened by assertions that Qing era expansion was colonial, but the authors demonstrate VERY explicitly and clearly that the process fits securely within the definitions of coloniality. Maybe you could go on Amazon and peek inside the books to see exactly what the author says. Your message to Ling.Nut also shows you are coming from a Chinese Nationalist or Nationalist apologist POV "splittist"? We are trying to avoid bogging down in nationalisms on this page. The Chinese nationalist model includes many ethnicities as "Chinese" minorities, buy they are viewed by a sense of "denial of co-evalness", which is one mark of coloniality, where a dominant culture determines another culture to be subordinate and backward, lacking the modernity of the colonizing culture. This can be shown on Taiwan and in China when ethnic "minorities" are often asked to "be ethnic" by dressing in the traditional costumes their ancestors wore at first contact, frozen in time, where the Han wear "western" style suits as a symbol of their own "advancement" and their ability to use nationalism to "advance" the "backward peoples" toward madernity. This type of cultural chauvinism is very well documented. We designed this page to put the dirt out on the table so the topic could be discussed as we are not Aborigines. We need to discuss the coloniality of Taiwan's indigenous people, so we can expose how most of our knowledge and definitions are not from the indigenes themselves but rather they were defined by an ethnic "other"...another mark of coloniality. i highly reccomend, before continuing on this page, to read: Steven Harrell's Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers, Prasenjit Duara's Rescuing History from The Nation, Emma Teng's Taiwan's Imagined Geography, Charles F. Keyes Ethnic Change, Edward Said's Orientalism, Susan Blum and Lionael Jenson's China Off Center, Peter Perdue's China Marches West to name a few. We are very serious about sources and are trying to avoid original research. There are many things I would like to change based on my own research and "gut" feelings, but I will stick to the references...no matter where my bias lies. Maowang 05:27, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
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... can you take a couple hours and find all the key passages in all the key books that you believe are central to this debate, and scan them to .pdf or an image? Scanning to text is no good; it could be tampered with. I will try to find someone to help... I have a friend who may be a good informal arbitrator...
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/journal_of_colonialism_and_colonial_history/v006/6.1taylor.html
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Try reading David Wu's essay on Hua Qiao communities in China Off Center. In a discussion with one of the scholars I cite, we discussed the concept of the common Trans-Chinese and it seems language may be the only uniting factor... like "English Speakers". Maowang 02:34, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
I am also of the Anderson/Hobsbawm constructionist understanding of nationalism. It wasn't so much spoken language, but more written... understanding the characters. Even after the advent of the Republican period, these was an ambiguity as to whether China would be Han or made of the "five races". Sun Yat Sen supported both. Many of the peripheral peoples viewed the end of the Qing as an oportunity for independence and in the case of Mongilia, it was actualised. I think you are going to find that in places where Chinese nationalism was not promoted, the Han acculturated and assimilated... there was no great signifier.
I have harrell; what part d you dispute? And should I order other articles too? Ling.Nut 03:52, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
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It was put in force although the US Senate never ratified it. Just check anywhere on line. You can find the book by Arevalo on line - but to see the whole thing you have to pay. Try your library or interlibrary loan. In addition, Arevalo says the treaty was presented to the Nicaraguan assembly in English, though they spoke Spanish, and there were several thousand US marines in the country to make sure that they signed. Here is a current or recent reference: [1]. Arevalo also mentioned that the treaty gave Brown Brothers and Harriman (of Maine) the right to appoint the treasurer of Nicaragua and collect all its customs revenues, as is corroborated by the just-cited reference. Also see [2] Carrionluggage ( talk) 00:42, 27 January 2008 (UTC) Sorry - rechecked - the US got to appoint the treasurer of Nicaragua and collect its customs revenues - not Brown Brothers Harriman. The latter did get possession of the railroads of Nicaragua, which became part of the State of Maine. Carrionluggage ( talk) 08:32, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
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I am a native English speaker and opponent of the Pan-Greens, so don't think what I'm about to say springs from ignorance or is about politics, respectively.
I rarely hear anyone say "on Taiwan" when referring to social phenomena that takes place here, and yet you seem to use it exclusively so as to not imply Taiwan is a sovereign state (which it isn't). Consider Hainan. No one disputes its political status, but "in" is generally preferred in its wikipedia article when referring to a variety of topics. "In Beijing", "In Japan", "In Hawaii", "In Gansu Province", etc.
Please try to use "in Taiwan" or "in the ROC" or "in the Republic of China". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.168.237.36 ( talk) 20:10, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
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The article Omnichannel retail strategy has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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