#LIU-Class of 1990

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s elevation to the national stage as running mate for Vice President Kamala Harris has suddenly put him in the spotlight. Walz had a low national profile until a successful behind-the-scenes strategy led him to be considered for Democrats’ suddenly vacant second spot.

One of the striking elements of Walz’s biography is his unusually deep connections to China. Walz first visited the country in 1989, just months after the Tiananmen Square protests, and returned to the country some 30 times afterward. As an educator and then a small business owner, he facilitated student groups’ trips to China. As a legislator, he served on the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, which monitors human rights and the rule of law in the country, and co-sponsored resolutions urging the release of democratic activist Liu Xiaobo and remembering the Tiananmen Square victims.

Not all the attention to Walz’s China record has been positive. Republican and conservative figures have sought to portray Walz’s China ties as dangerous. On X, for example, Sen. Marco Rubio accused Walz of being a Chinese asset—“an example of how Beijing patiently grooms future American leaders”—who would “allow China to steal our jobs & factories & flood America with drugs.”

But Rubio’s attack has it precisely backward. Walz’s record is that of a measured critic of the Chinese Communist Party—prone neither to exaggeration nor accommodation. Nor is this a pose cooked up by spin doctors in the past few weeks. Small-town Nebraska newspaper articles—published well before Walz had any political ambitions—demonstrate that his professed affection for the Chinese people and culture has been matched by a longstanding criticism of the country’s rulers.

Back in the 1980s and ’90s, it didn’t take a lot to make the local papers. Walz, for instance, was once photographed for the Alliance Times-Herald—“Box Butte County’s Only Family-Owned Newspaper”—for a National Guard project: painting and repairing trash cans in the town center. (The photograph is about as exciting as the description suggests.)

The regular stuff of small-town news reporting—council meetings, 4-H club events, church announcements—was occasionally enlivened by stories about exceptional events. One such, it turned out, was Walz’s decision to teach in China as part of a program run by WorldTeach, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit. (Many news accounts, at the time and later, describe WorldTeach as a Harvard-run program, but it’s more accurate to say it was founded by Harvard students.)

“I’ve always had a real interest in travel, and feel this is a golden opportunity to see a culture that’s 3,000 years old,” Walz, then a senior at Chadron State College, told the Chadron Record in an article announcing his selection in 1989.

Walz would be going under less than glamorous conditions. It was the first year that WorldTeach would make placements in China, the Record reported, and that meant participants had to be resourceful: “They said we’ll basically have to solve our own problems,” Walz said. He said he had to raise $2,500 for his transportation, health insurance, and orientation costs—and, once in China, he would only earn $100 per month in salary (although that was, the Record noted, “about twice the amount generally paid [to] Chinese teachers”).

Although the crackdown on protesters in June 1989 led Walz to wonder whether the trip would go on, the program remained in place. After orientation in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China, he traveled to his teaching site: a senior middle school in Foshan, a then-rapidly growing city in central Guangdong Province in southern China. There, he taught U.S. history and culture and English to classes of 65 students each from December 1989 to December 1990, according to a 1990 article in the Chadron Record. (Walz’s Midwestern-accentuated U.S. English was a change for the students, whose previous instructor was British, according to a 1994 article in the Scottsbluff Star-Herald.)

His trip was big enough news that the Record printed excerpts from a letter Walz wrote to a Chadron State faculty member while he was abroad. Walz wrote that he was “being treated like a king.” He was, he wrote, “totally responsible for my curriculum. But I’m managing.”

After he returned, Walz was invited to speak about his time at his alma mater, Chadron State. At about the same time, an interview about his year in China ran in local papers. His enthusiasm was obvious: “No matter how long I live, I’ll never be treated that well again,” Walz told the Record in 1990. “They gave me more gifts than I could bring home. It was an excellent experience.” (In 2024, the New York Post twisted this line as evidence that Walz had “fawned over Communist China.”)

Yet in context, it’s clear that Walz was no dupe. During his teaching year, he visited Beijing (a 40-hour trip by rail) and saw Tiananmen Square, according to the Record. As much as Walz loved China and the Chinese people, his attitude toward the Chinese Communist Party was bluntly critical. Tiananmen Square, he told the Record, “will always have a lot of bitter memories for the people.” (Walz later chose June 6 as his wedding date so he could “have a date he’ll always remember,” according to his wife.)

The problem with China, Walz observed, wasn’t its people but the government. “If they had the proper leadership, there are no limits on what [Chinese people] could accomplish,” he told the Record. “They are such kind, generous, capable people. They just gave and gave and gave to me. Going there was one of the best things I have ever done.”

Walz viewed China’s population as eager to leave its Communist-run society. “Many of the students want to come to America to study,” he told the Record. “They don’t feel there is much opportunity for them in China.” He mentioned that during one of his trips to nearby Macau, then still a Portuguese colony, the government granted amnesty to Chinese immigrants living in the colony illegally, triggering a stampede by tens of thousands of Chinese who wanted residency in the West.

The trip shaped Walz’s career as an educator. Within a few months of his return, Walz had found a job as a social studies teacher in Alliance, Nebraska, a town whose population was then just under 10,000 people. He created a pen-pal program linking his students to Chinese middle-school students at his old teaching placement, where a friend of his worked. The program was reported on the front page of the Alliance Times-Herald in 1991.

Walz, who must have been a dynamic teacher, used the exchange of letters to not only bridge cultural gaps but also demonstrate the stakes of then-acrimonious U.S.-China government relations to his students. Walz pointedly described the politics of the countries’ then-seemingly large trade imbalance (a fraction of what it is now) to the Times-Herald: “The Chinese government wants us to buy what they sell, but won’t buy what we sell.”

Soon, Walz was leading groups of students to China. The first visit was in July 1993, when he took 25 Alliance High School students on a trip partly funded by the Chinese government, although the students and sponsors, including Walz, had to cover costs of $1,580 each, according to an article in the Scottsbluff Star-Herald; Walz helped by raising funds from local businesses. (In a rare criticism of an aspect of Chinese culture, rather than the Chinese Communist Party, Walz responded to one student’s interest in hearing Chinese opera by saying he’d “rather eat glass” than see another Chinese opera.) Walz’s honeymoon with his wife, a fellow teacher, the next year involved two student trips to China, according to the Star-Herald. Later, he and his wife would start a business to promote similar exchanges.

For all his fondness toward China, Walz’s descriptions of its people at times reflected the prevailing stereotypes of the time. “The students are almost too well behaved,” he wrote in his letter from China that was excerpted in the Record in 1989. In a 1994 profile ahead of his honeymoon in China, Walz told the Star-Herald that it had been hard to memorize names and tell his students apart (although he also noted that Chinese students thought all Americans looked alike.) To the Times-Herald in 1993, he described his students as not overly creative but industrious: “[T]here was never even any unfinished homework,” he recalled. And, for Walz, mostly used to small-town life, the sheer scale of China was astonishing: “The people were the best part, and the worst part was the number of people.”

The contemporaneous (and surprisingly extensive) record of how Walz’s time in China influenced him clearly rejects the idea that Walz was groomed or otherwise misled by his time in the country. He was an earnest, young observer of a society and government radically unlike his own. After repeated exposure, however, China became increasingly familiar to him. His opinions about the Chinese people and their government derived from firsthand observations, filtered through his own background and reading.

Neither a hawk nor a dove, Walz approached China as a student and a teacher—an owl, to steal a metaphor. Throughout these early interviews, his insistence on the separation between a people and their government—and his repeated criticism of the Chinese government—was plain. So was his emphasis on the importance of democracy and recognizing where the United States fell short.

People change, and seeking clues to how a potential Vice President Walz would act based on how high school teacher Walz approached his lessons is clearly perilous. Still, it seems clear that Walz values facts, and in particular experience, rather than theory or ideology; that he has deeply held core beliefs about China’s people and government set in the era of Tiananmen; and that his commitment to promoting human rights—and U.S. economic interests in trade negotiations—is longstanding.

With that background, leavened by subsequent experience on China issues as a member of Congress, it seems more likely than not that Walz would be neither inflexibly hostile nor naïve about relations with Beijing.

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Private University to Merge with National Tsing Hua University Amid Enrollment Decline

Introduction: Declining Enrollment Leads to Merger In a significant development, Chung Hua University (CHU) has announced that it will merge with National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) due to ongoing challenges related to declining enrollment. The merger, which will see CHU cease to enroll new students starting in 2025, marks a major shift for the private institution, founded in 1990. The two universities, located in Hsinchu City, have reached a preliminary agreement, though official procedures are still pending. Details of the Merger and Impact on Students During a press conference on Friday, CHU President Victor W. Liu (劉維琪) confirmed the merger agreement, highlighting the declining enrollment at CHU as the main catalyst for the decision. In the 2023 academic year, CHU enrolled 3,898 students, a significant decrease from 6,722 students in 2017. This merger follows a larger trend of private universities in Taiwan facing financial difficulties, with several institutions closing their doors in recent years, including TransWorld University, Tatung Institute of Technology, and Mingdao University in July 2024. Under the terms of the merger, CHU will prioritize the interests of its current students and faculty. Students will be allowed to complete their courses on the CHU campus, with new classes offered by NTHU. Faculty members will have the opportunity to continue their work at CHU for the next six years, after which they will plan for their future careers. NTHU’s Role and Plans for the Future National Tsing Hua University, a leading public university in Taiwan, confirmed the merger on Friday. NTHU President Weiyuan John Kao (高為元) said that the university plans to take over the CHU campus and resources after current CHU students graduate. This arrangement mirrors the merger between National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) and Hwa Hsia University of Technology that took place last year. In the short term, NTHU intends to establish its College of Semiconductor Research on the CHU campus, leveraging its proximity to the Hsinchu Science Park, a major hub for Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. Kao also mentioned that NTHU would consider other departments and research initiatives in the future, which are yet to be finalized. A Closer Look at the Merger’s Impact The merger raises several important questions about the future of private universities in Taiwan, the rights of students and faculty, and the role of the semiconductor industry in higher education. With NTHU’s extensive research capabilities, the CHU campus is expected to play a key role in the development of Taiwan’s high-tech sector. Table: Key Details of the CHU and NTHU Merger AspectDetailsUniversity InvolvedChung Hua University (CHU) and National Tsing Hua University (NTHU)Merger AnnouncementFriday, after reaching a preliminary consensus between both universitiesCHU Enrollment (2023)3,898 students (down from 6,722 in 2017)Merger TimelineCHU to stop enrolling students by 2025, current students graduate under CHUNTHU’s Plans for CHUEstablish a semiconductor research hub and Tsing Hua Square Technology Park on CHU campusCampus DonationCHU donates its campus and assets to NTHU for the continuation of higher education initiativesFaculty PlansFaculty will continue at CHU for six years before planning for future opportunities FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions 1. Why is Chung Hua University merging with National Tsing Hua University? Chung Hua University is facing declining enrollment numbers and has been unable to sustain its operations in the face of reduced student numbers. The merger with NTHU provides a way for the institution to continue serving its academic community while contributing to the development of Taiwan’s high-tech industries. 2. What will happen to current students at Chung Hua University? Current students will be allowed to finish their courses at CHU and will receive diplomas from CHU. NTHU will begin offering courses at the CHU campus, and students will continue their education as usual until graduation. 3. How will faculty members be affected by the merger? Faculty members will be allowed to continue working at CHU for six years, with the university following a model used in the NTUST and Hwa Hsia University of Technology merger. After this period, faculty will be supported in planning their career paths. 4. What role does the semiconductor industry play in the merger? NTHU plans to leverage the proximity of the CHU campus to the Hsinchu Science Park, a global semiconductor hub, to establish a College of Semiconductor Research and develop the Tsing Hua Square Technology Park. 5. How is the Ministry of Education involved in this merger? The Ministry of Education has yet to receive an official merger plan but has stated that it will ensure the rights of students and faculty are protected and will assist in the process once the plan is submitted. Conclusion: A New Era for CHU and NTHU The merger between Chung Hua University and National Tsing Hua University marks a significant step in Taiwan’s educational landscape, particularly in the context of the challenges faced by private universities. As the merger moves forward, the focus will be on maintaining educational standards while also fostering innovation and research, particularly in the burgeoning semiconductor industry. Read the full article

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WINIFRED PEARCE

☆ FULL NAME: Winifred “Winnie” Eliza Pearce ☆ GENDER: Ciswoman ☆ PRONOUNS: She/Her ☆ AGE: 33 (December 14th, 1990) ☆ TYPE: Half sibling; solo (open to twin) ☆ HOMETOWN: New York City, New York ☆ JOB: Owner and designer for Pretty and Pearce Boutique ☆ SCHOOL: PSU Alumni ☆ SEXUALITY: Lesbian ☆ FACECLAIM: Natasha Liu Bordizzo

ABOUT WINIFRED

Despite Winnie’s outgoing personality and her mother’s hopes that her children would follow in her theatrical footsteps, it was obvious early on that she would never be stagebound. She had two left feet, couldn’t carry a tune to save her life, and the most extravagant acting she’s ever done is faking period cramps to get out of gym class. That didn’t stop her from having an appreciation for her mom’s line of work - Winnie was a Pearce after all, she was practically weaned on the performing arts. Still, while she would happily listen to her mother rehearse for hours on end, Winnie instead found a passion for her dad’s field. She grew up captivated by how the right costuming could completely change her mother’s performance, acting as the final lynchpin before the house lights dimmed and the curtains parted for the show to begin.

Her father taught Winnie how to hem a neckline by age 5, and gifted her her first sewing machine for her 8th birthday. From there, Winnie’s fascination grew into a love for fashion in general. Her parents encouraged her at every turn, even when embracing Winnie’s creativity resulted in a few too many fashion faux pas immortalized in grainy MySpace mirror photos. But hey, you live and you learn. Her homecoming and prom dresses in high school were hand stitched with love and the best embroidery thread money could buy. At 18, Winnie was fully prepared to use her dad’s connections to help get her foot in the door for something bigger, but her parents insisted she get an education before anything else. PSU was the only option she considered, and their fashion design program became her home for the next four years.

It helps to come from money. It helps even more when you’ve spent your entire childhood rubbing elbows with the right people. With her parents’ help, Winnie opened Pretty and Pearce boutique not long after getting her bachelor’s degree. The focus was on local designers, Winnie included, committed to one day going neck-and-neck with the fashion industry. The store was and still is Winnie’s pride and joy. She loves the sense of community it gives her towards returning clients and the neighborhood in general. That was what made it so difficult when she received a call from her father, inviting her back home to assist him in the costume department for a new show off-broadway he’d been hired on.

It took weeks of deliberation but finally, Winnie packed her bags and made her way back to New York. She left the store in the trusted hands of her staff, though her control issues had her calling for updates on a daily basis, and she still sent over the pieces she made in between deadlines. It was anything but glamorous, and Winnie loved every second of it. The show, a fictionalized musical retelling of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory disaster, called for designs outside of anything she’d done before, and it was the exact kind of chaos Winnie thrived in. Plus she got to work with her dad, and be closer to her childhood home. It was a win-win.

Winnie stayed with the team once the show transferred to Broadway, and then for another year until the show closed shortly after missing out on all four of the Tony awards it had been nominated for. It was a crushing blow but Winnie grew up in the business. She had her mother’s tenacity to know that that was simply the way things went. She considered staying in the city to get her name out there more, separate from her dad, but ultimately Winnie knew that she was needed elsewhere. Pretty and Pearce had continued to do well for itself back in LA, and despite the re-adjustment process, Winnie settled back into her old position quickly enough.

She’s not completely given up on one day earning awards for her role in bringing a stage production to life. Theatre is her family’s entire schtick, after all. However Winnie also knows that she can only guarantee her own happiness in life and for now, happiness is seeing customers light up with excitement when they find a piece that makes them feel like themselves. That’s what made her fall in love with fashion to begin with: finding something that finally makes you feel like you belong in your own skin. Outside of work, Winnie’s hobbies include other fiber arts, most notably crochet, and binge-watching terrible reality TV shows from the early 2000s. She had a stubborn streak a mile wide, and unless she is focused on creating, it is easy for her to lose her head in the clouds. For Winnie, every choice she has ever made has been in the pursuit of sharing her passion with the world, no matter how fleeting the opportunity may be.

FAMILY BACKGROUND

Ophelia Pearce is a veteran musical theatre actress, who has starred in multiple shows both on Broadway and the West End, in addition to minor guest starring roles in film and TV. Her accolades include two Tonys, three Drama Desk awards, and an Olivier. While Ophelia was making a name for herself on the stage, Jeremy was creating a flourish behind the scenes. His career is in costume design, oftentimes being brought on to the same shows his wife is starring in. The pair is heralded as something of a power couple, if you ignore the gossip surrounding the fact that some of Ophelia’s kids don’t look like they could be Jeremy’s. The Pearces have gone on the record multiple times to clear up the cheating rumors. Ophelia doesn’t sneak around behind her husband’s back; he is fully aware and supportive every time she lays down with someone else, as she is of him. In addition to both being budding legends in musical theatre history, they are also incredibly vocal about their open relationship status. Not all of their children were born of a unity between them, but Ophelia and Jeremy have instilled a sense of family regardless of biological status. 

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Questions for Dina Meyer

Let's go back to your decision to attend LIU Brookville. What was the reason you choose this particular school?

Wikipedia says you were from Forrest Hills. Did you commute from Queens to Nassau County? Did you live on campus-if so, where?

Records indicate you were a Business Major. Why did you pick that?

I went searching for you in the campus newspaper-The Pioneer; now called The Tide. I was really looking to see if you were in any school productions. (Ideally if you got one of those bad first reviews.) Unfortunately, the archives don't go back that far. So. I have to ask if you did any school plays or work with the TV/Radio production program?

Since this is a Facebook site for all the colleges and campuses for my year, to keep people from feeling left out did you ever go to LIU-Brooklyn or Southampton College campuses?

You studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York for threes (1990-1993). Your 1st credit seems to be in Forest Whitaker's HBO film Strapped. Your character was called Delivery Person and frankly, I had to dig way down on IMDb.com to find that. Just how important was that work for your mindset?

Not long after Strapped finished shooting in Brooklyn, you were in L.A. working on Beverly Hills, 90210 as a recurring character for 12 episodes; In 1995 you worked opposite Keanu Reeves and Dolph Lundgren in Johnny Mnemonic. When did you know you had made it?

Have to ask you about your new movie Katie's Mom-described as "The Graduate as told from Mrs. Robinson's (your character) point of view." It won Awards at 4 different film festivals in the past 12 months. Yet, at the date of this interview it has not gotten distribution. When and where will we be able to see it?

Class reunions. I've been to a few and it seems it is middle of the Bell Curve kind of stuff. Both the CEOs and the indigent stay away. How about you?

You'll note I left this one for last. A classmate of yours, who will remain unnamed, told me he saw you swimming in the pool on campus and within a few minutes all the boys came out to watch you. (Now, he could tell a tall tale but I figure why not.) Any recollections here?

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February is Black History Month

Dolly King was a multi-sport star at Long Island University during the late 1930s, playing basketball, baseball, and football. 

After college, King played several seasons of professional basketball with the all-black New York Renaissance 

“The Rens” were the first all black team, that was also black owned. Founded in 1923, they predated the Harlem Globetrotters (1926) by three years.

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LIU Class of 1990 Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1440945796095966

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Two Reasons That Europe Would Be Forced To Decouple From The US

— Jan Oberg | January 05, 2023

Illustration: Liu Rui/Global Times

Several years ago, I wrote in a Danish book about foreign and security politics that Denmark and other European countries would be wise to begin to walk on two legs: One for The West, and one for The Rest. One leg would be friendly, correct and necessary cooperation with the United States, the EU and others ultimately belonging to the West, and allowing friendly criticism too. The other leg would consist of taking into account the emerging world order change and seek cooperation with the Rest - China, the Belt and Road Initiative, and at least some of the non-Western regional organizations. As expected, there was no reaction.

In the fields of foreign and security policy, Denmark and quite a few other European countries have put all their eggs in one basket, where earlier they maintained some freedom of navigation. EU countries Finland and Sweden joining NATO speaks volumes: The dominant psychology is that the West must stand united against - not with - the Rest. The NATO-Russia conflict playing out so tragically on Ukrainian soul is just one example. Many European countries might just as well close down their Ministries of Foreign Affairs and become US State Department divisions.

Now, what do we mean by the West? Politically and militarily, mostly the US + NATO + EU. Culturally, more the Christian world, which has been created through Western colonialism, imperialism and militarism - coming with a Bible and, if that wasn't enough, the Sword. In terms of civilization, deeper values or ways of thinking, it means the individual over the collective, Man over Nature, Man over Woman, one God over Man (and monotheism), either/or thinking over both/and thinking, linear over circular time, the psychical/mechanical over social/organic, the body over the soul and spirit, the idea of one center guiding peripheries benevolently or by violence - that is, the West's civilizing mission on the Rest, the White man's burden.

The old Cold War that ended around 1990 was between two versions of that West which actually had a lot in common, namely deep Westernness. The Eastern West lead by the socialist Soviet Union with its vassals in the Warsaw Pact and Comecon; it built upon a mechanical social philosophy by a German mind, Karl Marx, embodying everything Western/Occidental. The Western West on the other hand, grew out of Enlightenment, free spirit, industrialization and even revolutions but that too built on a stale center-periphery thinking with the US, God's own country, as its center and the Rest as 2nd- and 3rd-class peripheries. Its center is NATO, not the EU, because the EU has been manifestly unable to get its act together.

This system's philosopher was Adam Smith, originally a moral philosopher but ultimately twisted into a father of the capitalist market economy with its God-like invisible hand. It's main - false - assumption was that individual utility and profit maximization would benefit all society. Alas, it led, instead, to perverse and unstoppable inequality and global militarist dominance for its maintenance. Around this market, revolves a parliamentary democracy. But it's based on 2-3 percent of the people who are members of a party - compared to about 7 percent in China - who make up the lists of candidates the citizens can vote for. Western democracy is about voting, but not selecting; it's representative but direct rule of, for and by the people. The Eastern West fell apart in the late 1980s. Predictably, the Western West is now in rampant decline and bound to fall, mostly because of its unwise, triumphalist response to its "brother's" demise. It falls also because of a) militarism beyond any rationality, b) lack of self-criticism and innovation and c) lack of a vision beyond the four-year election periods.

For the above reasons, my prediction is that the Western West will cling to the US as its leader. United in decline, it needs the image of an external image, narratives and a negative vision: Everybody and everything non-West is a threat to us! Win/lose is the message, instead of win/win. Confrontation instead of cooperation. The EU Lisbon Treaty states that the EU shall serve peace, speak with one voice in foreign policy and that it shall build efficient supra-national structures. It has succeeded in none of them. It lacks true democracy, its top leadership not voted into office. Its security is mostly NATO/US-based with no vision of an alternative common civil-military security.

The EU failed miserably to build peace with Russia, handle the refugee crisis in 2015 and the COVID-19 crisis, and now it blindly follows the US' response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and becomes a victim of it. However, there could be two reasons that Europe would be forced to decouple from the US. One, if the post-Biden US becomes extremely isolationist or disintegrates into a civil war-like situation. Two, if the effects of the US sanctions, cancellation of everything Russia, the destruction of Nord Stream 2 and the US selling liquefied gas at four times the price in the US cause stronger anti-US sentiment throughout Europe.

When the West falls, the Rest will be wise to mitigate and help the West - non triumphally, but also without compromising its own development philosophy and momentum. It won't be easy, but that will be the task the next few years. Everything must be done to avoid a new Occident-Orient Cold War because even a cold war will prevent us from solving humanity's urgent problems.

— The Author is Director of Sweden-based Think Tank Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research.

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China did this to themselves

Ming Ming, a boisterous six-year-old, longs to have a playmate, but his mother is adamant that she will not have another child.

“No way! One is quite enough,” Li Hong gasps. “Childcare, after-school activities, tutoring … you want them to have a good education but it costs money. We’re just ordinary working folks, not the super rich. The cost of bringing up two kids would kill us!” says the 43-year-old supermarket cashier from the southern province of Guangdong.

Li herself was born just before the one-child policy began in 1980. As an only child, she says the cost of bringing up her son on top of caring for her elderly parents and those of her husband were her main concerns.

The Covid pandemic has not helped. It began when her son was starting kindergarten, but the regular class suspensions meant she could not work full-time. Looking after a toddler all day in a small flat left her constantly exhausted. “I simply don’t have the energy for two,” she said.

Women are ‘invisible’

For three-and-a-half decades, the one-child policy that was meant to control the population exacted a huge social and human cost on Chinese society. Forced abortions, sterilisations, the use of intrauterine contraceptive devices as well as hefty financial penalties left physical and emotional scars on millions of women and traumatised families.

Thirty-five years after the one-child policy’s implementation, China is left with one of the lowest birthrates in the world.

Fearing the adverse social effects of an ageing population and a looming shortage of working-age people, the Chinese government has tried to boost the birthrate by partially lifting the one-child policy in 2013 and allowing couples to have two children if one of the spouses was an only child. In late 2015, the authorities announced all married couples could legally have two children.

But these measures failed to trigger a baby boom: In 2016, China reported 18.46 million births – just 1.4 million higher than the average number of births in the previous five years. The figure was well below the increase in births that the government had projected, which was between 2.3 and 4.3 million a year. Annual births continued to drop thereafter: from 17.23 million in 2017 to 15.23 million in 2018, 14.65 million in 2019, 12 million in 2020, then to 10.62 million in 2021. The authorities further eased the birth limit in 2021, raising it to three children per couple.

“The declining birthrates seem to be irreversible, but the government does not have a gameplan,” Dr Ye Liu, a senior lecturer in international development at King’s College London says. “It’s all about the power of men over women and utilisation of women’s bodies as economic means. In short, men make policies for women. In the recent party congress, there were many promises made but none for women. Women are ‘invisible’.”

Chinese scholars campaigned to scrap the one-child policy for more than a decade, on the grounds that the country’s total fertility rate was worryingly behind the replacement rate. In the 1970s, the total fertility rate (births per woman) fell from 5.8 in 1970 to 2.75 in 1979. In the 1980s, the rate hovered above the replacement level of 2.1 that would allow the population to replace itself, but since the 1990s, it has declined to below the replacement level. The 2010 and 2020 censuses yielded total fertility rates of 1.18 and 1.30 respectively. This further fell to an alarming 1.15 in 2021, according to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics.

More sticks than carrots

Key factors behind the low fertility rate include the rising costs of bringing up children amid rapid economic development in the past three decades, as well as the lack of social welfare provisions for families such as free or low-cost childcare, academic studies have found.

Fewer young Chinese people are getting married, and those who do are having children at a much older age, or not at all. When asked why, they routinely cite the rising cost of living, stagnating professional mobility, and the pressure of traditional gender roles on women.

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Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath – Official Reveal Trailer. The Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath expansion will launch on May 26, 2020. 

The Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath expansion includes a new cinematic story, three new characters (Fujin, Sheeva, and guest character RoboCop), and three new skins for $39.99. A Mortal Kombat: Aftermath Kollection including the base game, “Kombat Pack” downloadable content, and Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath expansion will also be available digitally at launch and physically in June only in the Americas for $59.99.

The expansion will arrive alongside a free update, which adds new stages “Klassic Dead Pool” and “Soul Chamber,” new stage Fatalities, and and the popular “Friendships” feature.

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Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath is a new expansion for the hit videogame, Mortal Kombat 11, the best-selling title in franchise history that was named Fighting Game of the Year at the 2019 D.I.C.E. Awards. Developed by award-winning NetherRealm Studios, Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath expands the critically acclaimed story campaign with an all-new, cinematic narrative centered around trust and deceit, while also adding new playable characters in returning Mortal Kombat fighters, Fujin and Sheeva, and guest character, RoboCop, who is making his series debut.

Key Features

Franchise-First Story Expansion – The critically acclaimed story campaign continues with an all-new cinematic narrative that picks up directly where Mortal Kombat 11 left off. Fire God Liu Kang, the new keeper of time and protector of Earthrealm, must now enlist the help of unlikely allies and familiar foes to forge a new history as the fate of two worlds hang in the balance.

Exciting New Characters Join the Roster – New playable characters join the fight with the triumphant return of Fujin, the God of Wind who serves as Earthrealm’s protector alongside his brother Raiden, and Sheeva, the fourarmed, half-human and half-dragon queen of the ancient Shokan race. RoboCop, the iconic, highly advanced cybernetic police officer, makes his first appearance in the franchise, continuing the pedigree of popular Mortal Kombat guest fighters. RoboCop in Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath features the voice and likeness of actor Peter Weller, who portrayed the popular character in both the original RoboCop (1987) film and RoboCop 2 (1990) sequel. Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath will also include three new character skin packs to be released over time.

Fan-Favorite Stages, Stage Fatalities & Friendships Return – In conjunction with the Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath release, all Mortal Kombat 11 owners will have access to a free content update featuring new Stages, including the return of the Klassic Dead Pool and Soul Chamber arenas; Stage Fatalities, the fan-favorite finishing moves that use the environment to destroy opponents; and the popular Friendships feature, allowing players to take down their adversaries with a hint of kindness.

New Players Can Join the Fight with Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath Kollection – Offers the perfect opportunity for new players to join the fight, featuring all characters, story content, game modes and pre-order bonuses in one ultimate package. This compilation includes Mortal Kombat 11 along with all content from Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath and the previously released Mortal Kombat 11 Kombat Pack, containing six playable characters—Shang Tsung, Nightwolf, Sindel, Terminator T-800, The Joker and Spawn – plus 25 additional character skins. The Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath Kollection can be pre-ordered for $59.99 (SRP) with digital pre-orders offering immediate access to Mortal Kombat 11 and the Kombat Pack upon purchase. The physical version will be available this June in the Americas only.

Upgrade Options for Current Mortal Kombat 11 Owners – Those who have already purchased Mortal Kombat 11 can pre-order the Mortal Kombat 11 Aftermath expansion for $39.99 (SRP) or the Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath + Kombat Pack Bundle for $49.99 (SRP).

Pre-order for Exclusive Content – All preorders* receive the Eternal Klash Skin Pack at launch, featuring three new character skin variants – “Unbound Rage” Scorpion inspired by Mortal Kombat (2011), “Son of Arctika” Sub-Zero inspired by Mortal Kombat: Deception and “Kori Power” Frost, a Klassic version of the Lin Kuie warrior.

Best-In-Class, Brutal Kombat – Mortal Kombat 11 is the latest installment in the critically acclaimed franchise, providing a deeper and more personalized experience than ever before. The best-selling title is packed to the brim with multiple features and modes for all players, including the Story mode, Custom Character Variation System, Towers of Time, Kombat League, The Krypt and the signature roster returning and franchise-first fighters, all equipped with powerful Krushing Blows and unique Fatalities that display devastatingly brutal cinematic visuals.

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(via How Lucy Liu became comfortable with the human body through her artwork | Datebook)

It can be an unsettling experience for any art student, particularly one who’s innately demure about nudity, to sketch the human figure from a naked model for the first time. Of course you’re there to look closely at the body, but is it really OK to stare? And how awkward is it if you happen to make eye contact?

“I think I was honestly in shock the first time,” says Lucy Liu, laughing as she recalls her bashfulness at her first life drawing class at the New York Studio School more than two decades ago. “Here was this person displayed and actually comfortable, and everyone’s just looking like it’s nothing, like it’s a wine bottle or bowl of grapes. But I was like, wait a minute! Where’d the real bowl of grapes go?”

The actress who is perhaps best known for playing a sword-slashing yakuza assassin in Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill,” a sexy PI in “Charlie’s Angels” and, most recently, a socialite on the dark comedy “Why Women Kill,” visited the Napa Valley Museum in Yountville on a recent afternoon. Her first U.S. museum exhibition, “Lucy Liu: One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others,” is on view there through April 26.

Few of Liu’s legion of fans have been aware that during her time as an actress she’s had a parallel career as an artist, even though she’s started talking to the press more openly about her art in recent years.

Ever since she was a teenager growing up with her two older siblings and Chinese immigrant parents in Queens, N.Y., Liu has been steadily working in a wide variety of media — broad-stroked figurative paintings, abstract silkscreens, wooden sculpture and meticulous found-object assemblage.

Throughout her acting career, which took off back in 1997 when Liu landed the role of the fierce diva lawyer Ling Woo on the hit series “Ally McBeal,” her art-making practice has been an important, creatively sustaining part of her life.

“I feel an exuberance, and an extraordinary strength when I’m in the studio, working freely and not on a timeline, unlike when you’re on a set and every minute is accounted for,” Liu said. “In the studio, you can suddenly realize 16 hours have gone by and you’ve been in this extended magical moment.”

Liu has exhibited her work in galleries since the mid-1990s, yet she used her Chinese name, Yu Ling, until 2011. “I didn’t use my own name at first because I wanted people to come in with an open mind, a blank slate,” Liu said, noting that she did not want her art to be judged as that of a celebrity hobbyist. “I think (because of some of her hard-edged roles) people expect me to be this hard-ass and my work to be tough.”

Instead, visitors to the Napa exhibition will find that much of Liu’s work, particularly her figurative paintings inspired by Japanese shunga (erotic art popularized in the 17th century), is full of feeling and deeply personal, inspired by her own struggle to come to terms with an upbringing in which any frank discussion of sexuality was taboo.

In a high-necked, billowing white dress, high heels, red lipstick and an above-the-shoulder bob haircut, Liu, 51, sat in a quiet corner of the high-ceilinged main gallery surrounded by her recent large-scale paintings — anonymous, fleshy nudes and faceless family portraits (including a nostalgic one, re-created from a family photo, showing Liu as a toddler in a lavender coat during an outing to Flushing Meadows). A massive riff on Willem de Kooning’s 1950s “Women” series fills the back wall, and Liu’s meticulously crafted “Totem” series of small hand-embroidered spinal columns hangs in an adjacent gallery.

Earlier in the afternoon, Liu was the keynote speaker at the Wine Country museum’s Phenomenal Women fundraising luncheon. She used the opportunity to discuss with the majority-female audience her art-making practice and the themes that run through her work: displacement, a search for belonging and self-discovery, acceptance of oneself as a sexual being, and using art to overcome powerful familial and cultural inhibitions.

She spoke openly about forging a career in the arts that has baffled her parents (her father died in 2017) and how, through her art, she has struggled to overcome her deeply ingrained, and distinctly un-Hollywood, modesty.

“I didn’t know anything about the male body, I didn’t even know about the female body” as a young woman, Liu said. “Growing up, we spoke to each other in Chinese at home, and we didn’t talk about bodies, ever. We didn’t expose ourselves or look at each other. I’d never seen my parents nude. When I got my period, I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ I was so clueless about everything. I think that through the painting of these large bodies and the genitalia, I was able to start to understand that it’s OK. It’s not taboo. It’s not a dirty thing to be a woman and look at a female body or a male body and be curious about it.

“When I started in this business as an actress, people would make fun of me when I was doing a costume fitting because they would have to build a special section for me so that I could change in there. Working on ‘Ally McBeal,’ unlike everyone else who would just take off their clothes no matter who was there, they were like, ‘Let’s bring in the screen, it’s Lucy’s fitting.’ Oh my God, it was so disruptive for them because I had to go behind the screen every time I even wanted to change my shirt.”

Liu first started experimenting with collage as a young teenager “using just magazines, newspapers and glue stick,” she said. “That was my first discovery of art. I didn’t have brushes or paint, and we never went to museums. I didn’t even know what I was doing at first, but I knew I had to express myself.”

The actress and artist, who has never married, moved back to New York from Los Angeles 10 years ago. She paints regularly in a studio in Jersey City.

“As I progressed in the business in the past 20 years, I’ve become so much more comfortable with myself,” Liu said. “I have a  4½-year-old son now, and I let him run around naked, I let him see me naked. I don’t want him to feel uncomfortable with the human body.

She glanced around the room at her painting of two women kissing, another of an undressed woman, reclining with her arms above her head, seemingly utterly relaxed. “We’re all just a part of nature.”

“Lucy Liu: One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others”: Art exhibit. On view through April 26. Open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesdays through Sundays. The Napa Valley Museum Yountville, 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. 707-944-0500. www.napavalleymuseum.org

[mariacallous]

It’s been nothing but grim news for the Chinese economy this year. A hoped-for COVID-19 recovery never materialized after years of repression left the public wary of spending, giving it a case of what economist Adam Posen dubbed “economic long COVID.” (Hear him discussing that idea on FP Live.) Real estate giants have been on the brink of collapse all year. Even the Communist Party has reluctantly acknowledged the scale of the problems it faces, although officials claim that things can only get better. And Chinese dictator Xi Jinping needs someone to blame for everything going wrong.

The sharp slowdown has hit hard in a country that has experienced three decades of uninterrupted high growth. (It would have been four, if not for the interruption of the protests and killings of 1989.) Like the European “30 glorious years” of the postwar era, the notion that each year would be better than the next came to be taken for granted; those days are over.

Here are five perspectives on the Chinese economic crisis—and the impact that it’s left on the public.

1. The Chinese Communist Party Wants the Property Bubble Back

By Robert Foyle Hunwick, Jan. 10

The Chinese growth story has been about property and construction—especially for an urban middle class that was given its homes by the state in the 1990s and watched their value rocket. For years, the government tried to deflate the property bubble, but now it’s desperate to reinflate it. “With unreliable and government-fiddled stock markets, 70 percent of Chinese wealth is held in real estate,” writes British author Robert Foyle Hunwick, an expert on crime in China, “while land sales remain the main source of income for those same corrupt provincial administrators.”

Corruption helped fuel the real estate market as officials bought up valuable property, but it was also a massive source of corruption itself. Real estate deals were greased by bribery, and local leaders grew fat off the proceeds. Everyone else got sucked in, too, and may be left holding the bag. When it comes to presales, for instance, which are the mortgages that most Chinese homebuyers take out on as yet unbuilt apartments, “there’s a local legal twist to it that has caused further headaches: In China, the lender can go after the borrower, as well as developers, if they wish to reclaim any unpaid debt.”

2. How China’s Education System Trapped a Generation

By Helen Gao, June 22

China’s youth unemployment has reached such high levels this year that the government stopped publishing the statistics. For a generation of college graduates raised in cutthroat educational competition against their peers, the discovery that promised rewards have vanished has been traumatic. As Gao, a writer and reporter in her 30s, describes it, “When I read news about state crackdowns on the private sector, I feel a sense of déjà vu. The industries under assault—private tutoring, property, tech, and finance—employed the country’s best and brightest.”

Young Chinese have turned instead to “lying flat”—giving up on the rat race and working the minimum that they can in order to survive. As Gao says, she was taught to sneer at the slackers among her peers, but now she thinks they had the right idea all along. “As my generation’s once-bright prospects fade, the truth comes out: We thought we had left school behind when we graduated. It turns out school has followed us into adulthood and makes us its pupils still.”

3. Xi’s Policies Have Shortened the Fuse on China’s Economic Time Bombs

By Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Sept. 6

China’s economic problems run deep, writes political economist Zongyuan Zoe Liu, from sluggish consumption to a demographic crisis to a housing bubble. But Xi’s policies have taken existing fault lines and deepened them. “Economically, Xi has been a bull in a china shop. His economic policies have often shifted focus but always emphasize the party’s overarching control across nearly all dimensions of China’s economic and financial activity.”

Xi’s obsession with top-down control has wrecked the chances of thoughtful reform. While there was once room for policy experimentation at a local level that could be scaled up later, today the pressure to appeal to the man in charge is stronger than ever. “Chinese policy thinkers attempted to compensate for the absence of prudent economic strategy under Xi by ceaselessly leaping from one grand idea to the next under the banner of national rejuvenation,” Liu writes.

4. China Prefers Guns to Butter

By Jacqueline N. Deal and Michael Mort, Sept. 7

As the economic crisis bites and cities struggle to pay pensions or welfare, there’s one institution that rarely goes short in Xi’s China: the military. Defense spending has kept soaring upward in the hope of winning a confrontation with the United States—or out of fear that Washington might strike first.

“Of course, the history of PLA [People’s Liberation Army] entanglement in China’s domestic economy makes it difficult to discriminate between defense investment for military purposes and internally oriented stimulus spending (i.e., make-work),” Deal and Mort, who run a Washington, D.C., consultancy, note, but “in the event that China continues to fail to transition to sustainable consumption-based growth, Beijing will be left with one of the biggest hammers in the world, and recalcitrant parties abroad may all look like nails.”

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a temporary slowdown in spending—but the economic crisis hasn’t. “PLA investment stalled during the height of COVID on the mainland in 2020 as Chinese shipyards switched from building PLA Navy vessels, a traditional cost center, to building commercial ships—potentially because constructing warships requires tighter working conditions than constructing bulk carriers, and health concerns were paramount. But the spending increases appear to have resumed by last year and to be outstripping GDP growth once more,” they write.

5. Maybe China’s Economy Isn’t So Doomed

By Bob Davis, Oct. 17

Amid all the bad news, some analysts remained bearish on China’s long-term prospects, pointing to the way the country had successfully ridden out previous crises, such as the global crash of 2008 or the peer-to-peer lending scandals of 2015-2018. Veteran China economy reporter Bob Davis took a long look at the optimists. “The optimists’ case relies on a close examination of Chinese economic data but also reflects the view that while President Xi Jinping and the rest of the Chinese leadership are hard-liners politically, they are economic pragmatists who want to follow in the tradition of Deng Xiaoping, who led China’s opening to the West,” Davis writes.

There’s certainly been a tendency to read any downturn in China as doom for the Chinese Communist Party—and it’s worth remembering that states survive recessions, or even depressions, all the time. “Every time the Chinese economy stumbles, there is a tendency to say that finally the end is near,” Cornell University economist Eswar Prasad told Davis. “The optimists’ view might be too optimistic, but it provides some grounding, so we don’t get too carried away every time the Chinese economy stumbles.”

[limeiisabunny]

Li Mei Headcanon for my AU

Li Mei is a passionate and badass Rebel.

She has a good sense of humor. This mostly comes from Bo rai cho. She also snorts when she laughs.

She’s cool and calm leader and would lay down her life for her people and friends.

She’s 100 years old. In Earthrealm years she is 20.

Nicknames: Little rabbit (Bo rai cho), Magenta Rebel (Mostly everyone), Rebel of Sun Do (Shao Kahn)

She is anti establishment. Hates the corrupt upper class. (Which is mostly Edenians)

She dreams of a free Outworld, where the poor didn’t suffer because of Kahns.

Li Mei is a talented cook. If she wasn’t a warrior she would most likely be a chef.

She also taught Kung Jin in archery. And was Kai’s teacher as well.

Li Mei was born in a small but tight knit village called Sun Do. The people of Sun Do were poor serfs, tied to the land and under the control of Edenian lords.

(A serf is similar to a slave. The main difference is that you cannot buy a serf.)

They were made to do back breaking labor for many hours and paid little for it. The little they earned was mostly taken by the Kollector, came twice a month to take “tribute”.

Anyone who refused to pay was beaten severely. One day, Li Mei’s father tried to stand up to the Kollector. She watched as the Kollector beat her father to death.

Li Mei swore vengeance on the Kollector and Shao Kahn. When she was 10 she left her village to find the legendary Bo rai cho.

(At this time Bo rai cho was younger and a drifting warrior. He was wanted at the time for treason. He’s also more cold and less wise.)

She found him half drunk in a bar in the middle of no where. She demanded that he teach her everything he knew about Kombat.

Bo rai cho was impressed by the little girl’s fierceness but he declined her, telling her to return home. She refused to take no as an answer though. She followed him out of the bar.

That’s when a group of bandits was going to mug Bo rai cho. Li Mei stood up for him, punching one of the thugs in the balls when the thug punched her back Bo rai cho stepped in and easily beat the thugs into running away.

After that, Bo rai cho was so impressed with her fighting spirit, he decided to make her his protege. While they traveled Earthrealm, he trained her to be an amazing fighter. Their relationship developed into a father and daughter relationship. 

Side note, they often would get into bar fights together and would defeat any bounty hunter that came for Bo rai cho. 

When she was a young adult, Raiden came to Bo rai cho and asked him to help him train earthrealm warriors to defeat Shao Kahn. Bo rai cho agreed to it and asked Li Mei to go with him, but she declined. 

She said she still had to avenge her father and that the poor of Sun Do and Outworld need her. With that he hugged her, wished her luck and left.

Li Mei spent the next 50 years as traveling vigilante rebel. During this time she met a Naknadan named the Inventor (An OC of mine. He is the good brother of The Kollector and the Kollector betrayed him.) Both wanted revenge on the Kollector.

She then came across a pair of Saurian twins Khameleon and Chameleon. 

She also befriended a pacifist and poet Shokan named Zenkaro. (He’s based on a Shokan from the 1990s mk cartoon who goes by the same name. Except i re-imagine him as a general turned poet, who wishes only for peace.) 

The five of them formed a rebel group named The Outliers. They were like a group of robin hoods. They stole from the corrupt upper class and gave to the poor, they attacked Shao Kahn soldiers and overall became a thorn in Shao Kahn’s side. 

Li Mei soon became revered amongst the poor and downtrodden and they nicknamed her the “Magenta Rebel”

But one day Shang Tsung and his forces found their camp and took all of them prisoner. He saw Li Mei’s value as a fighter and decided to strike a deal with her.

If she fought in the Mortal Kombat tournament for him, he would free her friends. But if she didn’t he would kill her friends and enslave Sun Do for eternity. Li Mei had no choice but to accept.

She won many matches in Shao Kahn’s name but refused to kill. Raiden quickly recognized her. When he spoke with her she told him she was here against her will.

Shang Tsung had her fight against a cocky Kung Lao, he won against her but did say that she put up a good fight. (Sorry but in my AU Kung Lao doesn’t take so many Ls)

Raiden sent Fujin and Bo rai cho to save the Outliers and Jax. Once they were safe, Li Mei quickly defected to Earthrealm’s side.

After Liu Kang defeated Goro and Shang Tsung, the Outliers helped evacuate the people of Sun Do from Outworld so they could escape enslavement.

During this she finally got her vengeance against the Kollector and killed him.

Bo rai cho convinced her to stay in Earthrealm for awhile to help her people settle in and join the White Lotus. She promised the Outliner she’d return to help end Shao Kahn.

The Outliers went on to join Kitana’s resistance.

During this time she started to become very fond of Kung Lao. She actually found his cocky attitude cute and he found her rebelliousness very attractive.

Kung Lao took a bullet for her during a battle with the Black Dragon. She started to understand the Kung Lao’s pain of having to live in Liu Kang and The Great Kung Lao’s shadows. Their bond was strengthened because of this.

She returned to Outworld to join in the final fight against Shao Kahn and after they won, she married Kung Lao and had a daughter.

[hurtworld]

mesaj attım ama cevap vermedin dostum. PCR ve qPCR teknikleriyle alakalı kaynak olarak yardımcı olabilir misin?

mendeley kullanıyor musun bilmiyorum ama ben APA şeklinde buraya atayım kaynakları sen seç beğen al dostum.

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Online reputation management Strategies

Online reputation management refers to the influencing and also controlling of an individual's or team's online reputation. Initially a public relationships term, the development of the internet and also social networks, together with reputation administration firms, have made search engine result a core component of an individual's or group's online reputation. Online reputation management, in some cases abbreviated as ORM, concentrates on the management of product as well as service search website outcomes.

online reputation management focuses on the monitoring of product and solution search engine result within the digital space. A range of digital markets and also on the internet areas like e-Bay, Amazon and also Alibaba have ORM systems constructed in, as well as making use of reliable control nodes these can minimize the danger as well as shield systems from possible misuses and also misuses by destructive nodes in decentralized overlay networks.

The most popular controls for off-line credibility administration consist of social duty, media exposure, news release in print media as well as sponsorship among relevant devices. Track record is a social construct based upon the point of view other individuals hold about an individual or point. Before the internet was established, consumers wishing to find out about a business had few choices.

A firm's online reputation relied on personal experience. [] A business expanded and broadened based on the market's assumption of the brand. Public connections was created to manage the picture and build the credibility of a company or person. [] The concept was initially produced to broaden public connections beyond media connections.

Originally, public relations included published media, events and also networking campaigns. In 1998, Google was started. The appeal of the net presented brand-new advertising and marketing and also branding chances. Where when reporters were the main resource of media web content, blog sites, review sites as well as social networks offered a voice to customers despite credentials.

ORM consists of standard reputation techniques of public relations however likewise concentrates on developing a lasting credibility technique that corresponds across all web-based channels and systems. ORM includes search engine reputation management which is developed to counter adverse search results and also boost positive material. Some services have actually adopted dishonest ways to wrongly boost their track records.

Online Reputation Management - Sayles ...

Reputation administration (sometimes referred to as rep administration or ORM) is the practice of trying to shape public assumption of a person or organization by influencing info concerning that entity, primarily online. What demands this shaping of understandings being the role of consumers in any organisation as well as the cognisance of just how much if disregarded these assumptions may damage a company's performance any time of the year, a threat no entrepreneur or business exec can manage.

A significant part of reputation administration entails reducing unfavorable search outcomes, while highlighting positive ones. For organisations, online reputation monitoring usually includes an attempt to bridge the space in between just how a firm regards itself and also just how others watch it. A fast-growing self-control and corporate need, credibility administration is extensively recognized as an important intangible possession which can be among one of the most essential resources of one-upmanship in a fiercely competitive market, and with firms continuously under boosted examination from business neighborhood, regulatory authorities, and also company governance guard dogs great reputation monitoring methods remain to aid companies deal with this scrutiny.

Excellent track record management practices are likewise vital in assisting any type of entity manage personnel confidence as a control device on public understandings which if weakened and also overlooked can be costly, which in the future may cripple employee confidence, a threat no company would certainly attempt check out as staff morale is one of one of the most crucial motorists of firm efficiency.

Online Reputation Management Company ...

A class activity lawsuit was submitted by the law office Beasley Allen against Taco Bell. The suit was willingly withdrawn with Beasley Allen mentioning that "From the beginning of this situation, we specified that if Taco Bell would make sure adjustments pertaining to disclosure as well as marketing of its 'seasoned beef' item, the instance could be dismissed." Taco Bell reacted to the instance being taken out by releasing a track record administration project entitled "Would certainly it eliminate you to claim you're sorry?" that ran ads in different information outlets in print and online, which tried to accentuate the volunteer withdrawal of the instance.

Some of the methods used by track record administration companies consist of: Improving the tagging and also seo of company-published products, such as white papers and favorable consumer endorsements in order to push down adverse content. Publishing original, positive sites and also social media accounts, with the objective of exceeding negative results in a search.

Submitting lawful take-down demands if someone believes they have been reviled. Obtaining states of business or person on third-party sites that rate highly on Google. Creating fake, positive reviews of the private or service to counteract negative ones. Using spambots and denial-of-service strikes to compel websites with damaging web content off the internet totally. [] Astroturfing third-party websites by creating confidential accounts that produce positive evaluations or lash out versus negative ones.

Eliminating on the internet cup shots. Proactively reacting to public criticism originating from current modifications. Eliminating or subduing images that are embarrassing or break copyright. Speaking to Wikipedia editors to get rid of supposedly wrong information from the Wikipedia pages of companies they stand for. The technique of track record monitoring increases numerous moral concerns. It is widely disagreed upon where the line for disclosure, astroturfing, and also censorship ought to be attracted.

The direct exposure of underhanded online reputation monitoring can itself be risky to the credibility of a firm that tries it. Some companies technique moral kinds of track record monitoring. Google considers there to be nothing naturally wrong with reputation management, and also also introduced a toolset in 2011 for users to check their on-line identification and request the removal of undesirable content.

For instance, they might avoid individuals that dedicated violent criminal offenses who are wanting to push information regarding their criminal offenses lower on search engine result. In 2010 a research study showed that Naymz, one of the first Internet 2.0 solutions to provide energies for Online Reputation Management (ORM), had actually created a method to examine the online track record of its participants (RepScore) that was instead very easy to deceive.

Since December 2017, Naymz was closed down. In 2015, the online merchant Amazon.com taken legal action against 1,114 people who were paid to publish fake luxury testimonials for products. These reviews were created utilizing an internet site for Macrotasking, Fiverr. com. Several various other business use phony Yelp and also Facebook evaluations, and one journalist collected first-class testimonials for an organisation that does not exist, from social media sites accounts that have likewise provided extremely positive testimonials to "a chiropractor in Arizona, a beauty parlor in London, a limousine firm in North Carolina, a real estate agent in Texas, as well as a locksmith professional in Florida, among other distant organisations".

The lawsuit had comparable language and also the defendant accepted the injunction by the plaintiff, which enabled the reputation monitoring firm to issue takedown notices to Google, Yelp, Leagle, Ripoff Report, different news sites, and other internet sites. " 9 Online Reputation Management Services Business owners can Attain on their own". Fetched 11 May 2016.

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Fetched 2013-09-05. Lieb, Rebecca (July 10, 2012). " Just How Your Content Method Is Essential For Track Record Management". MarketingLand. Obtained June 12, 2012. "MT Masterclass - Online reputation monitoring". Monitoring Today. May 1, 2007. Weigelt, K., as well as C. Camerer (1988 ). "Online reputation and also company method: An evaluation of recent concept and applications." Strategic Management Journal 9: 443-454.

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Retrieved 2016-06-13. " With Legal action Over, Taco Bell's Mystery Meat Is An Enigma No More". NPR.org. Retrieved 2016-06-13. Macedo, Diane (2011-04-26). " Taco Bell Still Has Beef With Company That Went Down Legal Action Fox Information". Fox Information. Retrieved 2016-06-13. Resnick, Paul; Zeckhause, Richard (May 2, 2001). "Count on among complete strangers in internet deals: Empirical evaluation of ebay.com's credibility system".

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Fetched July 12, 2012. Krazit, Tom (January 11, 2011). " A guide on online reputation management". CNET. Obtained July 13, 2012. Thompson, Nicholas (June 23, 2003). " More Companies Pay Noted to Their 'Word of Mouse' Reputation". The New York City Times. Recovered July 13, 2012. " Published mug shots: A constant tip of one man's past".

Obtained 27 September 2015. Giovinco, Steven W. " Photo Online Reputation Administration: What It Is, And Why You Must Treatment". Medium.com. Medium. Gotten 9 May 2015. Holiday, Ryan (August 28, 2012). " Just how to fix your Wikipedia issue". Lot of money. Recovered November 30, 2015. Farmer, Yanick (2018-01-02). " Honest Decision Making and also Track Record Monitoring in Public Relations" (PDF).

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Online Reputation Management (ORM ...

There are a great deal of misunderstandings regarding online reputation management. Some people assume it's just social networks surveillance, while others believe it has something to do with public connections, and also still others essentially have no suggestion just how it can impact company and sales. In this overview, I'm mosting likely to describe the role of online reputation management in today's business and media landscape.

Simply a couple of years earlier, the web was very various. Business were not appealing customers but just marketing to a passive target market; people can not reveal their voice in a powerful means, and the total interaction landscape was really "leading down." The situation has significantly altered. Today, web sites are no more fixed brochures.

And regular communications on socials media are vital to any kind of company success. Regardless of the size of your company, they (prospects, clients, clientsanyone as well as, possibly, everyone) are speaking about you. They are tweeting regarding your most recent item, leaving a discuss your blog site, publishing a Facebook update concerning their client experience, as well as a lot more.

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X-Men: Children of the Atom class reunion (Famitsu interview)

I’m taking a break from the usual Konami-related interview translations to translate this interview from Famitsu.com by a so-called “Nishikawa-kun” with Capcom veterans Akira Yasuda (Akiman), Akira Nishitani and Takeshi Tezuka. This is technically a promotional interview for Blade Smash, an action game released for Android and iOS devices on September 2018, but the trio mostly end up talking about their past works with Capcom, with emphasis on their Marvel fighting games.

Source: https://www.famitsu.com/news/201809/28164931.html

I have no plans to translate the other parts of the interview, but I do have plans to translate other interviews related to Capcom and other companies in addition to all the Konami stuff.

A Capcom Class Reunion

Famitsu: Before we begin, can you tell us about your careers in the game industry up to this point?

Tezuka: I’ve joined Capcom in 1990, where I made nothing but arcade games. When Docomo started their i-Mode service in 1999 (an online service that provide video games and manga to feature phones), I began making games for them. Since then, I been working on nothing but mobile games as the head of their mobile games division. I went back to Capcom in 2014 and has since a started a new company called Mugen Combo.

Akiman: I’ve joined Capcom in 1985, where I mainly did artwork. After I quit Capcom in 2003, I began working as a freelance artist. I’ve worked as a designer and illustrators on many games since then, but it was during my time at Capcom when I did artwork for development purposes too. Final Fight and Street Fighter II: The World Warrior both have a special place in my heart.

Nishitani: I joined in 1986. I was recruited by Mr. Yoshiki Okamoto (Capcom’s head of development at the time) and was assigned on projects such as Street Fighter II and Final Fight. We (Nishitani, Akiman and Okamoto) look like three disconnected people, but we worked together quite a few many times. Because that, I was able to train Tezuka-kun.

Tezuka: That’s right. From now on, I will call myself “Mr. Nishitani’s disciple.”

Akiman: This is the first time I’ve seen someone admit that they were educated for real. (laughs)

Nishitani: I worked together with Akiman-sensei on many projects such as Forgotten Worlds, Final Fight and Street Fighter II. He used to draw anything I would ask him out of my own self-indulgence. I made him redo quite a few stuff a lot, so I was truly sorry for him back then.

Akiman: That’s alright.

Nishitani: I’ve never seen the process of someone actually drawing until I’ve joined Capcom. When I saw Akiman’s work, I thought “so this is how you draw”. At the time I was what you would call “pure” and didn’t know the difficulty of actually illustrating. I would have opinions like “since this is for a game, not doing this would be a bad idea“, without considering factors such as time and skill, and Akiman-sensei would do it all. In retrospect, I was pretty selfish back then.

Akiman: At the time I thought Nishitani-san was truly a genius. He joined Capcom as soon as he graduated high school at the age of 18. If Okamoto-san was like Emperor Liu Bei (TL’s note: a historical character from China’s three kingdoms period), then Nishitani-san is like Zhuge Liang, a person who quickly rose to the ranks of game development. I was 21 at the time and I was taking orders from a newcomer who was three years younger than me. (laughs) But because he was pleasant to work with, I never really felt offended taking orders from him. Among all the developers within Capcom, he’s the one who could be said was the first person who actually knew anything about video games.

Tezuka: As soon as I’ve joined Capcom, Okamoto-san told me “Nishitani knows all the answers to game development, so ask him if you’re ever in doubt”.

Akiman: That’s because he’s a genius. He’s a God. Personally I think Okamoto-san was the one brought the logic of videogames to Capcom, but it was Nishitani-san who perfected it. It’s true. Whenever we had doubts, he always answered all of our questions. He would always come up with an answer as soon as you would ask him.

Tezuka: I though Nishitani-san’s planning document for Street Fighter II was truly amazing. After development ended, everything came out exactly as it was documented on the plan.

Nishitani: I’m too embarrassed to just retired. (laughs) That’s why I formed my current company, Arika after leaving Capcom.

The Development Environment At The Time

Famitsu: When did Tezuka-san and Nishitani-san started working together?

Nishitani: It was during Marvel Super Heroes. Although it was developed a bit later, we started planning it around the same time we were working on X-Men: Children of the Atom. Although the development team was different, working with Tezuka-kun almost identical to working with the X-Men COTA team.

Tezuka: Before that I met Nishitani-san right after joining the company, just before he started working on Street Fighter II. Since Nishitani-san is a genius, he often listens to other people’s stories. At the time he was making Street Fighter II, I was working on another game titled 3 Wonders on the same floor. Since Nishitani-san’s desk was next to mine, I would often overhear him talking with the other staff members. I thought “that was amazing”, I could just ask them for advice. I would immediately evaluate the advice from the staff members and simply reply it with a “that’s ok”. It created the impression that people who wanted games to be interesting were somehow greedy.

Nishitani: Do you remember the discussions we had about the buttons in Street Fighter II?

Tezuka: I remember. It was shortly after I’ve joined the company. During the development of Street Fighter II, I saw it wasn’t using the same punching pads that the first Street Fighter uses. I told Nishitani-san “why aren’t you using punching pads like in SF1? I really liked those.” (laughs) In retrospect, Street Fighter II wouldn’t had been possible with such punching pads, but at the time Nishitani-san would have still consider such a viewpoint from a foolish newcomer.

Famitsu: Changing the subject to Marvel Super Heroes, Marvel characters are pretty popular now thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but back then most of their characters were still relatively obscure. Who was it that came up with the idea of making a Marvel fighting game?

Nishitani: Indeed, who was it?

Akiman: I think it was Akitomo-kun.

Tezuka: It was Akitomo-kun’s fault.

Nishitani: Ah, Akitomo-kun...

Famitsu: Who is Akitomo-kun?

Nishita: He was an employee at the time, Katsuya Akitomo. He now works as a translator and a writer for model kits.

Akiman: He is an expert in American comic books and is pretty fluent in English. I think he actually translates comic books now. Prior to making X-Men COTA, Capcom made an arcade game based on The Punisher, another Marvel property. Around that period, Akitomo-kun began proselytizing to the development team about how the X-Men were interesting.

Tezuka: We’ve even assembled a study group on the subject of the X-Men.

Akiman: Because of that, there was feeling in the air at Capcom that we needed to make an X-Men game.

Famitsu: I see. Akiman-san, what is the most impressive memories of working together with Tezuka-san?

Akiman: The dancing during karaoke.

Nishitani: The karaoke was pretty impressive.

Akiman: That was the most impressive thing outside work. (laughs)

Tezuka: Ah! There was that time when the three of us shaved our heads.

Akiman: Yeah. Did something bad happened to us back then?

Tezuka: Not really. I was talking to Nishitani-san and he told me that he was in the mood for shaving his head for once in his life, and you (Akiman-san) were there working on your day off, so we decided to shave our heads together.

Akiman: Now I remember. (laughs)

Nishitani: I was pretty angry at the time. I just shaved my head and suddenly I had to do many interviews for Street Fighter II.

Tezuka: I was also angry that I got Nishitani-san involved with the whole head-shaving business. But you were indifferent to it.

Famitsu: That was pretty embarrassing. Nishitani-san, what was your biggest memory of working with Tezuka-san?

Nishitani: Since I’ve joined Capcom at the age of 18, everyone who joined afterwards was older than me at first. But it was the year when Tezuka-kun joined the company that I was able to handle the other staff members in a frank matter. My seniors became scared of me because of that. (wry smile)

Secret Stories Behind the Development of Capcom/Marvel Games

Famitsu: The three of you have been involved in making fighting games for a long time. What is the most important point to keep in mind when making a game?

Nishitani: I’ve talked a lot about this with Tezuka-kun, but I’m more on a theoretical side. I think about making games starting with a theory. While that’s important, l also think that factors such as a sense of excitement, coolness and fun are also important when it comes to arcade games. I’m the type who completely ignores those sort of things. Akiman-san would often say “I want to play as this kind of character because he seems cool” and I did not understand why at first. Strength is more important than coolness. I come from a place where appearance was of secondary importance, so I thought it wasn’t important to take that into consideration.

Akiman: Zangief’s design for example, was initially a lot more slimmer.

Nishitani: That’s right. Since I wanted to emphasize his strength, I thought Zangief should be a lot harder and more musclebound. So I asked Akiman-san to make him bigger.

Tezuka: With the Juggernaut, he was ridiculously big.

Nishitani: He really was big. We overdid it and the people at Marvel got mad at us.

Akiman: Even I thought we overdid it back then.

Nishitani: Originally the Juggernaut was just like how he appeared in the comics, but then we thought he needed to be bigger! (laughs)

Famitsu: Akiman-san, did you ever have any issues and such with your own work?

Akiman: I used to be a fan of martial arts manga such as Fist of the North Star or Karate Baka Ichidai. I was designing under the mentality of bringing such characters to a video game. Of course, if you simply copy them, you only end up with a shallow imitation. So I was incorporating my favorite essences from all sorts of manga bit by bit and then I would emphasize the freshness. Older games were, to be honest, not very refreshing. You could have a sensible premise, but it’s not really refreshing if all you’re doing is simply attacking the bad guys here and there. Wouldn’t it be more fun to fully obliterate the enemies instead? I was thinking more about how to bring out a sense of exhilaration when moving rather than simply thinking about the gameplay. In other words, I wonder if I caused any trouble in that regard.

Nishitani: It’s the same story for me. Players might be looking for cool graphics, but there won’t be any exhilaration if the gameplay is bad.

Akiman: Now I remember. There was something I wanted to put in a game and at the time I consulted Nishitani-san, asking him “I made something like this, but I wonder how the gameplay will turn out”, and he replied “there’s nothing I cannot modify in some form.”

Nishitani: Perhaps I exaggerated a bit at the time. Tezuka-kun said earlier that I would often listen to other people’s opinions, but I really listened to everything. In an environment where anything can be asked, designers like Akiman-san can hone their skills and the game will improve tremendously. Otherwise, all the bad aspects of gameplay and such will come to me.

Tezuka: When it comes to adjustments, Nishitani-san was truly a risk-taker. He would say “it’s alright, I could adjust any game.”

Akiman: That’s why he’s amazing. When it comes to game development, it is no exaggeration to say that working with Nishitani-san was something else.

Famitsu: What about you, Tezuka-san?

Tezuka: Unlike the other two, I’m not very skilled at videogames. Because of that, I wanted to make games with the concept that even unskilled players can enjoy. A Marvel fighting game like X-Men COTA isn’t about coming up with an elaborate strategy like a typical Street Fighter, but it’s more about having that feeling of exhilaration. If you only make a game about challenging an opponent in a rather stoic matter, I think it will gradually have less people playing. Our continuing conviction is to make a game that is fun to touch and play.

Famitsu: By the way, how was the character roster was determined in those Marvel games at the time?

Nishitani: Basically we had discussions with Marvel. If there was someone we wanted to use, we would negotiate with them for their approval.

Tezuka: The rest was trying to fit the characters into the play mechanics we wanted to create. But because Marvel was one of the largest comic book company, we naturally wanted to use their most recognizable characters. However, if you can’t tell a character’s nature from their appearance, then you wouldn’t know what kind of technique they would use if you put them into a game. Therefore, the appearance of a character is pretty important.

Akiman: Back then I was in charge of drawing the standing poses and animation, but since the number of animation frames we were capable of outputting increased during that period, rivalries broke out within the company.

Famitsu: What do you mean?

Akiman: We began competing over how many frames we could use for a character’s standing animation. (laughs). There was a character created by a certain staff member whose standing pose was so amazingly animated, even his fingers moved. When everyone saw that, everyone, including myself, increased the number of frames in the standing poses they were working on so they wouldn’t lose to this particular staff member. (laughs)

Tezuka: The presentation also became flashier and flashier. Since it’s a game about a battle between superpowered beings, we had no choice but to make it flashy.

Akiman: For us, X-Men and its sequels felt like they were the legitimate successors of Street Fighter II.

Tezuka: Didn’t Nishitani-san originally said that he had to decide between working Street Fighter III or X-Men?

Nishitani: I really didn’t had any desire to make a Street Fighter III. I think the game would’ve been too similar to II if I was the one who ended up making it. But with a fighting game starring superbeings like the ones in X-Men, you can expand your frame of ideas and I think anything can be possible. Ultimately, Ryu and Ken ended up fighting like superbeings themselves in the Marvel vs. Capcom series, but I don’t think a battle like the ones in X-Men would’ve been possible with the mentality of those days.

Tezuka: I was pretty shocked when I saw the supermoves for the first time. Since the screen was full of projectiles, I thought it was impossible to avoid them. (laughs)

Blade Smash: A Game For Action Novices

Famitsu: The plan for interview was derived from Blade Smash, a smartphone game developed by Tezuka-san. Since you played Blade Smash in advance, can you give us your honest impressions?

Nishitani: The controls were pretty easy to use. When I was looking at the game at first, I thought the tempo could’ve been improved, but I no longer felt that after actually playing it. It felt pretty good to move such energetic characters. You could play a match without having to worry about unnecessary things like special move commands.

Tezuka: Thanks! Since Blade Smash is a smartphone game, I designed it so that people who aren’t skilled at action games could enjoy it. There are plans to add more technical-focused characters in the future, so I think the more skilled players can sense the response if they used those.

Akiman: The movement and effects are pretty good. It’s a good game that you play competitively in a very straightfoward sense.

Famitsu: One of the characters appearing Blade Smash named Kiwame was designed by Akiman-san. I wonder what was the process of coming up with her design.

Tezuka: I simply asked Akiman-san directly and he complied with my request.

Akiman: Since it was a request from Tezuka-kun, I felt like I had to listen to him.

Tezuka: Even during the days of Power Stone, you would always do my requests.

Akiman: It felt good to have a job. (laughs) Every time I talked to Tezuka-kun about the past, flowers blossoming comes to my mind and when we’re done talking, it gives me the urge to work again and say “I might do it.”

Famitsu: What kind of character did you intend Kiwame to be when you were coming up with her design?

Akiman: Since he requested for a karate girl, I imagined someone who would be the daughter of Mas Oyama, wearing a karate gi. Didn’t Mas Oyama used to seclude himself in the mountains to train in karate. If he secluded himself in a mountain, then his hair must’ve been very unkempt. Therefore, I decided that Kiwame-chan must also have unkempt hair. However, because she was originally a beautiful girl, she has sparkling eyes.

Tezuka: Since Akiman-san was the person who came up with Chun-Li, I thought he would make another Chinese kung-fu girl at first, but then we decided for a karate girl instead for something different.

Famitsu: I see. I would like to ask more details about the making of Blade Smash. How long did the game took to be made since development started.

Tezuka: Around three years ago. We’re still undergoing development.

Famitsu: The vs. genre has been spreading on smartphones lately, but there weren’t that many games in that genre for smartphone three years ago, wasn’t there?

Tezuka: That’s right Back then there many games that were simply about touching the screen, but I thought games that would require skill would end up being more prevalent. I wanted to create a fun game that is easy to control, but when it comes to serious competitive fighting games are not very compatible with smartphones. Therefore, the development of the game started under the idea of lowering the threshold of fighting games.

Famitsu: Are there any aspects that gave you trouble during development.

Tezuka: Definitely the communication portion of the circuity. Since this is a game primarily developed for wireless multiplayer, we had to adjust it accordingly in order to reduce lag as much as possible. It was pretty difficulty to make it work with all the different smartphone model.

Famitsu: What was the reason for releasing this game on smartphones?

Tezuka: As someone who used to make arcade games, old arcade games were pretty easy to try out. You could just go to the arcade, insert the coin and play the game a bit to try it out. The environment has since changed. Now it’s easy to just download a game for free on a smartphone and try it out for yourself, isn’t it? Therefore, the smartphone platform has created an environment which makes it easy to create casual games.

Nishitani: The mobile and arcade markets really resemble each other. For starters, if you don’t think a game looks interesting, you’re unlikely to try it out. And let’s say you do try it out. If the game doesn’t hold your attention after your first play, chances are you wouldn’t bother with it again. If it’s an app, you would likely delete it. However, Tezuka-kun has the technology and know-how that makes him come up with something interesting.

Akiman:  The match I’ve played was pretty fun, so I think I might download it once it’s released.

Nishitani: Indeed. Once the game is released, I wish everyone will try it out . You will feel something that will make you think “ah!”.

Famitsu: Nishitani-san, Akiman-san! Please tell us what you thought of today’s discussion?

Nishitani: It was fun to had this reunion after such a long time. (laughs)

Akiman: I thought it was good to talk about the past. Since I’m not the type who goes outside very often, I thought it was fun to talk with everyone after not seeing them for such a while.

Tezuka:Everyone has since drifted apart, so I rarely get any chance to meet up with them. I want to gather the other staff members and do an X-Men reunion.

Nishitani: By all mean, we should meet more often in the future. (laughs)

Famitsu: Thanks!

From left to right: Akira “Akiman” Yasuda, Takeshi Tezuka and Akira Nishitani.

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English in North of China

Introduction

There is no doubt that the English language plays an important role in China. Tory have said that with the development of the global economy, China is a developing country in the world trade. It requires Chinese people to study and communicate from western countries. Therefore, China will be an international country in the future. The basic requirement of it is to be good at communication.

The Role of English in the North of China

English, as a world language, has become popular everywhere. If China wants to achieve better development, it will be a must to learn English well. Language, as an important tool to communicate, always changes with the development of society. Nowadays, the English language has the greatest influence among more than four thousand languages worldwide. It has been used widely in the world and increasingly becomes the multi-national, multi-cultural, multi-functional international language.

The background of Mandarin Chinese in the North of China

China is a multi-ethnic, multi-language, multi-population word power. Dan Zhang said: “It is a significant base to use Mandarin in China. The definition of Mandarin Chinese is the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing (the capital of China, located in the north of China) and adopted as the official language for all of China.” Therefore, Mandarin Chinese is based on the northern dialect. Why? It can be said that it has certain historical and realistic inevitability. Facing historical reality, we cannot deny the fact that from ancient times to the present, the development of China's politics has always been rooted in the northern economy. As a result, northern dialects cover the broadest areas and are used by the most populous situations. Its vocabulary is very popular across the country. Of course, it is based only on the dialect of the northern dialects. Not all northern dialects discard some narrower words. Meanwhile, Mandarin Chinese will continue to be absorbed by other dialects and loanwords, creating a vocabulary system that enriches the language.

According to Xianxian Liao netizen said: “Mandarin, as a traditional language, can be traced back to Zhou dynasty (1046-256 BCE). "Ya Yan" is the earliest lingua franca in China.”  It is equivalent to the current Mandarin in the general sense. Later generations called the ancient phonology of the ancient times "Ya Yan". The sound system is the ancient phonology, and the ancient Chinese people attached great importance to the unification of local dialects, so there appeared "Ya Yan". It was considered the origin and the earliest form of manifestation of Mandarin n China. There are two reasons behind the broadcast of "YanYan". First, the frequent contact with envoys required the use of "Ya Yan". Second, there were many followers of Confucius, which was an excellent thinker and educator in China, coming from different religions. Confucius used "Ya Yan" to teach them. After learning knowledge, these followers went back to their religions and promoted the common "Ya Yan" at that time.

Until the Han dynasty, the official was called "Tong Yu". The "Ya Yan" of the Zhou dynasty and the "Tong Yu" of the Han dynasty were inherited and generally the same. After the Han dynasty, society increasingly became stable in Suitang dynasty. The language was called "Zheng Yin" at that time. In Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty, the language has revolved to "Guan Hua". "Guan Hua" already had some similarities with Mandarin nowadays.

The Origin of English in China

The origin of English China can be divided into five different periods. First, before the Opium war, the open port of Guangzhou, China, produced the first batch of merchants and general agents who engaged in trade activities with foreigners in simple English. The unique language used by Chinese and Westerners in Guangzhou to conduct business transactions and media was called Pigeon English, the homonym of business English. Second, after the second Opium War, it was late of Qing dynasty. The number of negotiations between the Qing court and the powers increased, marking the beginning of English education. Under the influence of the Jingshi Tongwen Library, the Shanghai Guangfang Dialect and the Guangzhou Tongwenguan were established one after another, and English education became important. Third, the period of the Republic of China was a period of complexity and change, and the development of English in China was very unstable. The Revolution of 1911 overthrew the feudal monarchy, and the Republic of China was proclaimed in 1912. The new government began to reform political, economic, and cultural education. English education has developed faster than the previous two periods in history. Fourth, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, due to the influence of the "Cultural Revolution", Russian has made great progress in China, but the development of English has been difficult. Therefore, the development of English is minimal at that time. Fifth, after the reform and opening up, China has become more and more connected with the world. As a tool for communication with the world, English has gradually been recognized and accepted by people and has begun to spread throughout the country. Almost all colleges and universities offer English classes. China has become the country with the largest number of English learners. In recent years, the number of people has often remained above 60 million, surpassing the United States.

The Role of English in Education in China

In China, it is obligatory for students to learn English from elementary school to university. During the process of the whole study, all students are required to learn English. From Weiji Baidu material, in 1978, especially after 1983, English was used as a compulsory subject in the college entrance examination. Beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the English language proficiency test was implemented in full-time colleges and universities as a requirement for the first foreign language compulsory course and linked to the degree. In the subsequent education reform, English has always had to start from elementary school and continue to learn from the university. English is a very practical subject. It should allow children to achieve the input and output of language information in the "second mother tongue" atmosphere through the body interaction of watching, listening, speaking, reading, writing, singing and jumping.

It is obvious that English is helpful in business, government and education. A netizen Youth Happy said: “With the development of global economy, English has become a tool to communicate with Westerners. English is a world language usually used among governors.” Therefore, English is indeed very important. Inspirational students summed up the points that are very concise. “First of all, in China's so many years of college entrance examination, English is one of the three major subjects, and then is the master's degree, the doctoral examination, in addition to the professional class is English, the importance of English is visible; Secondly, the world is developing rapidly, and the more The smaller the change, the more you have to develop a new market if you want to develop yourself. English as a universal language must be learned. In the end, you can speak fluent English if you can find the most basic job. I believe that no matter where you go, there must be a variety of units rushing to ask you. Approaches to Improve English Study in China”

As the “The Influence of Economic Development on English Education and Countermeasures” article and another author Yong Liu mention that instead of only focusing on reading and writing of English, Chinese students should pay more attention to listening and speaking. To change the approaches of only memorizing words, we need to create an English atmosphere for students. Students must cultivate English thought, instead of translating Chinese thoughts to English messages. Learning activities in a relaxed and fun atmosphere, combined with real life to improve understanding and memory.

  Work cited

Dan Zhang, “The Importance of Chinese Characters to the Unification of the Chinese Nation”

       https://wenku.baidu.com/view/a06d5ca9284ac850ad0242b7.html

Inspirational students, “For most Chinese, is English a waste skill?”

       https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1628342548834087011&wfr=spider&for=pc

Happy Youth “Do you know the importance of English to contemporary college students?”

https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1591818597466798765&wfr=spider&for=pc

Liaoliao Xian “Chinese Mandarin, Minimal History”

https://www.xuehua.us/2018/07/27/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E6%99%AE %E9%80%9A%E8%AF%9D%E6%9E%81%E7%AE%80%E5%8F%B2/

Troy “Is learning English still a trend now?”

https://www.zhihu.com/question/35855401

Weiji Baidu English

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AF%AD

Yong Liu “Cultivation of Language Learning Strategies in English Teaching”

http://www.ecp.com.cn/cc/dxyy/yufa/20160505092106.htm

 “The Influence of Economic Development on English Education and Countermeasures”

https://www.xzbu.com/9/view-891297.htm