Happy Land Research Articles

19世紀 初 對淸使行과 燕行圖 : 《李信園寫生帖》을 중심으로

Yi Sinwon Sasaeng-cheop is typical for the paintings of Joseon Envoys to Qing in the 19th century. The album was painted by professional painter Yi Uiyang in the spring of 1812. But the historical background of paintings was the regular diplomatic mission to Qing in 1809. That is based on the appearance of Thai Envoy and swing performance of the countries bordering on western China on the album. When the Joseon Envoys sent to Beijing, Qing Dynasty oppressed the catholic Christians and stationed the government army in Gwangdong to confront Western powers in the early of 19th century. Yi Sinwon Sasaeng-cheop differs from the albums of 18th century, including paintings of Fenghuang Mountain, the White stupa in Liaoning province, the sunrise at Tashan region, Weiyuan watchtower, numen shrine of the north position, Banshan Mountain, Wuning County, the Land of Happiness, and Yonghe Temple. For instance, A Thai Envoy, a delegate of Moslem land and swing performance are full out a genre subject on the album. Also it has variety of styles of paintings such as real landscape paintings, pictorial maps and architectural drawing. It was painted by a Chinese painting style of the Southern School. Yi Sinwon Sasaeng-cheop is an important material to research the painting style of Yi Uiyang, because his works very rare. It provides information on the itinerary and experience of Joseon Envoys to Qing in the early of 19th century.

But will it take off? Peronist Utopias, mythical pasts and crashes in Pulqui, un instante en la patria de la felicidad (Alejandro Fernández Mouján, 2007)

Abstract In his documentary Pulqui, un instante en la patria de la felicidad/Pulqui: An Instant in the Land of Happiness (2007a), Alejandro Fernández Mouján follows Argentine plastic artist Daniel Santoro’s attempt to recreate a plane prototype from the Peronist era, the Pulqui II. Santoro’s goal is to build a machine that not only looks the part but that can also fly, however briefly. This article pays attention to the way in which the film – parallel to this rather simple plot – sheds light upon the fascinating phenomenon of Peronism in Argentina. The notion of the archive is central to the film, both as something existing in oral and visual form – quoted at length and freely by Fernández Mouján – and as something that can be reproduced and brought back to life through the actual model of the plane. Through these uses of the archive, the film offers a critique of the socio-economic situation of Argentina post 2001 that might also be read as a criticism of the first Peronist project. In apparently innocuous ways Pulqui … is a critical tool that might allow an attentive viewer to think through some of the key events in contemporary Argentine history.

The Languages of Pyidawtha and the Burmese Approach to National Development

Burma's first well known welfare plan was entitled Pyidawtha or Happy Land, and it was launched in 1952. In vernacular terms, the literal meaning of Pyidawtha is ‘Prosperous Royal Country’. The government's attempt to sustain tradition and culture and to instil modern aspirations in its citizens was reflected in its choice of the word Pyidawtha. The Plan failed and its implications still overshadow the development framework of Burma. This paper discusses how the country's major decisions, including whether or not to join the Commonwealth, have been influenced by language; how the term and concept of ‘development’ were conceived; how the Burmese translation was coined to attract public support; and how the detailed planning was presented to the masses by the government. The paper also discusses the concerns and anxieties of the democratic government led by U Nu in introducing Burma's first major development plan to a war-torn and bitterly divided country, and why it eventually failed.

From the Mast-Head

From the Mast-Head John Bryant Leviathan has reached another significant milestone in its fifteen-year development. With the publication of this issue, we welcome Johns Hopkins University Press as our publisher. JHUP will produce and circulate hardcopy issues to members, three times a year. Online access to our journal will be made available to individuals and institutions through Project Muse. Our journal's happy landing in the arms of this prestigious academic duo comes, for me, at the end of twenty-five years of service to the Melville Society. At the end of this year, I will be stepping down as editor-in-chief and hope to be of continued service in some consultatory fashion. But before descending from this mast-head perch, let me reflect on where we are and how Leviathan got this far. As seasoned members of the Melville Society will recall—and as our newer subscribers might like to know—this Journal of Melville Studies grew out of—budded from, you might say—Melville Society Extracts, a scholarly periodical of significant repute published as a quarterly, in newsletter format, for over thirty years, from 1969 to 2005. Past editors Hennig Cohen—whose name adorns our annual prize for first-time publishers on Melville—and Donald Yannella—who died last year (see our recognition of him in Leviathan 14.3)—brought Extracts through two earlier milestones: the regularizing of its periodicity and the converting from a loose-leaf, stapled mailing to a computer-formatted publication. Both editors established high standards for excellence in scholarship and writing, and from its early days onward Extracts was routinely indexed in the profession's most reliable bibliographies, in particular the MLA International. Still, Melville Society Extracts suffered because its length was not conducive to more fully-developed essays and argumentation; its title was sometimes mistaken for "Abstracts," which projected the notion of its being a "go elsewhere" reference tool, and its newsletter format posed problems for librarians to acquire, bind, and shelve the periodical. In 1990, following directly in Yannella's footsteps, I spent my time as Editor of the Melville Society learning how to edit Extracts. Like Redburn, I was a "boy" on board this craft. Having published Greenwood's Companion to Melville Studies, I had some bona fides in the process of critiquing and copy-editing submissions, but I was a greenhorn in the scheduling of a periodical, the marshaling of readers, the selection of articles, the assigning of book reviews, the laying out of each issue in something [End Page 1] called Adobe PageMaker, the placement of text, photos, and line-drawings, the delivery of camera-ready copy to a printer (on the Hofstra University campus), and the arrangement for each copy to be stuffed in an envelop, labeled, and mailed. These were the many ropes I found myself in need of learning, and I vividly recall re-doing my first issue of Extracts—Issue No. 80, I believe it was—three times before I felt it was ready for the press. If you think of The Honor and Glory of Editing, you might conceive of yourself skippering a numerous editorial staff: but think again. Better to imagine one man rowing: much exertion facing backward, going forward only through repeated glances over the shoulder in order to correct the course, all on a mission to deliver good writing and good thinking safely into port. I rather like sharing the pain and indirection of editing, so much so that I early on resolved to ensnare more people into the process. Thus, the first milestone in the long journey to Johns Hopkins University Press was the creation of an Assistant Editor in charge of book reviews, a role first ably performed by Sheila Post-Lauria beginning in 1994, and then in 1996 by Wyn Kelley, a vibrant Melville scholar with great ideas, Job-like patience, and an eagle-eye for typos, who would assume more editorial responsibilities, learn the perilous protocols of PageMaker, and eventually rise to the position of Associate Editor. Throughout the 1990s, Extracts grew, in part because the Society began to grow and because no other journal was so centrally positioned to provide a forum for...

This One Time with Julia (review)

Reviewed by: This One Time with Julia Karen Coats Lampson, David . This One Time with Julia. Razorbill, 2012. [256p]. Paper ed. ISBN 978-1-59514-340-2 $9.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 9-12. Since his twin brother, Alvin, fell in love and left to live with Julia in Tennessee, eighteen-year-old Joe has lived alone with his testy brother Marcus. As a result, Joe hasn't had much schooling, and he doesn't know how to read, which bothers Marcus, but suits Alvin just fine, since he likes Joe just the way he is—sweet and simple-minded, as easily controlled as he is easygoing. After returning unexpectedly, Alvin disappears even more unexpectedly. Julia comes looking for Alvin but finds Joe instead, and the two return to Tennessee, where Joe gets a job, falls in love with Julia, and makes his first real friend, only to have his entire world turned upside down when he learns the ugly, decidedly gothic truths about Julia's wealthy Southern family. Joe is a truly dear character in the tradition of Forrest Gump, while his brothers are both despicable in their own ways; their strangely formal diction makes them sound arch and blithely unethical in their interactions with Joe, whom they treat as their foil and plaything. Julia and her brother seem at first to offer a safe harbor and happy landing for the hapless Joe, giving him the attention and education he needs and appreciating him for who he is, until their own secrets are revealed as more creepy than eccentric. Quirks abound in all of the characters, however, from Julia's strange nocturnal confessions to Joe's ongoing sightings of and conversations with his absent brother. The ending is quite shocking, mostly for its nonchalance; readers open to something a little puzzling, a little bittersweet, a little sinister, and a lot weird will enjoy this offbeat offering. Copyright © 2012 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Britain Finds Andy Hardy: British Cinema Audiences and The American Way of Life in The Second World War

The years 1942 and 1943 saw great concern, on both sides of the Atlantic, about Anglo-American understanding. Almost one million American servicemen were to arrive on British shores by the end of 1...

Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development

Anderson, Warwick; and Pols, Hans. 2012. Scientific Patriotism: Medical Science and National SelfFashioning in Southeast Asia. Comparative Studies in Society and History 54(1): 93–113. Moon, Suzanne. 2007. Technology and Ethical Idealism. A History of Development in the Netherlands East Indies. Leiden: CNWS Publications. Mrazek, Rudolf. 2002. Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pols, Hans. 2009. European Physicians and Botanists, Indigenous Herbal Medicine in the Dutch East Indies, and Colonial Networks of Mediation. EASTS 2009 3(2–3): 173–208.

Media Review: The Happy Land Companion: Music from the World of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Happy Land Companion: Music from the World of Laura Ingalls Wilder. CD. Edited by Dale Cockrell. NDX Press, 2005. $14. Laura Ingalls Wilder books have provided insight into the lives of nineteenth-century American frontier peoples. All of her books refer to the music of the day, (e.g., Pa played on his fiddle), yet the written word does not allow the reader to hear the music, leaving the reader to imagine the sounds. Happy Land Companion: Music from the World of Laura Ingalls Wilder adds a new dimension to the stories, as the reader can now enjoy the songs loved by Laura and her family. Most of the songs were recorded by contemporary artists between 2002 and 2005. However, two of the tracks feature fiddler Jasper Jep Bisbee and his 1923 recordings. result is a collection of music representing the nineteenth-century that appeals to the twenty-first-century listener. While the more contemporary artists used scores published in the nineteenth-century, they shaped and changed the music so that necessarily became expressive of contemporary musical sensibilities; it was informed by the idioms of an earlier time. (1) Many of the songs are representative of nineteenth-century social occasions. first and second tracks are recordings of The Girl I Left Behind Me. first track, by Jep Bisbee, was a contemporary of Pa and who, like the Ingalls family, moved west. This is the most authentic recording on the disc, and therefore a good introduction for the songs that follow. second track of The Girl I Left Behind Me includes vocals and a more contemporary approach. These two versions provide an example of changing performance practice in American folk song repertoire. vocals for the second version originate from a collection by folklorist John Lomax and tell the story of a cowboy on the trail. This is the same vocal version mentioned in the Wilder book, On the Banks of Plum Creek. Fiddle music was often used for nineteenth-century social occasions and dances. Track eight includes the two fiddle tunes, The Arkansas Traveler and The Devil's Dream. Another version of The Devil's Dream is included as a bonus track and once again features the fiddle playing of Jep Bisbee, presenting another look at authentic fiddle tune performance style. CD liner contains short program notes for each song and refers to the Wilder book(s) wherein the song is mentioned. notes also include a brief synopsis of the events in the book that lead to Wilder's song reference. notes enhance the listening experience, referring to the social condition surrounding the song's time period, its historical context, and reception. These references make the CD a useful supplement for courses focusing on American music or nineteenth-century American history. …

Boven Digoel and Terezín: Camps at the Time of Triumphant Technology

This is not a comparison between the colonial isolation camp for the Indonesian Communists and Nationalists at Boven Digoel, New Guinea, and the Nazi concentration camp for the European (including Dutch) Jews in Terezín, Bohemia. It is an effort to place both camps, as two working apparatuses, on the scale of development and refinement of modern technologies of belonging (and destruction); thus, the scale may be more clearly understood. Subchapters—on body and clothing, on hearing, on seeing, and on the urban—suggest that this is an epilogue never written for my 2002 book Engineers of Happy Land: technology and nationalism in a colony.

Boven Digoel and Terezín: Camps at the Time of Triumphant Technology

This is not a comparison between the colonial isolation camp for the Indonesian Communists and Nationalists at Boven Digoel, New Guinea, and the Nazi concentration camp for the European (including Dutch) Jews in Terezin, Bohemia. It is an effort to place both camps, as two working apparatuses, on the scale of development and refinement of modern technologies of belonging (and destruction); thus, the scale may be more clearly understood. Subchapters—on body and clothing, on hearing, on seeing, and on the urban—suggest that this is an epilogue never written for my 2002 book Engineers of Happy Land: technology and nationalism in a colony.

Is Brazil the Land of Happiness? A Comparative Study Using a Sample with Economics Students from UFPE and Purdue

In this article we study the level of happiness using a sample of American and Brazilian college students. We applied about 187 questionnaires among economics students at Purdue University and also at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). We found that American college students have a higher probability of self-reporting as happier than Brazilian students. We also found interesting differences: (i) women are happier than men at Purdue, but men are happier than women at UFPE; (ii) family background does not seem to have a clear impact on happiness among Purdue students, but it certainly has a direct impact on happiness among UFPE students; (iii) “extra money” is an important factor for happiness in the two groups, but it is definitely more important for male students at UFPE; (iv) leisure is the key factor for happiness among Purdue students; and (v) policy towards improvements in public safety would have a stronger effect on happiness among economics UFPE students than among those who attend the Purdue University

‘Life in Happy Land’: using virtual space and doing motherhood in Hong Kong

This paper examines how a group of Hong Kong working mothers use the internet in performing and realizing their paid work and domestic role identities. The internet is a technology-enabled space and also what Michel de Certeau calls a ‘practiced place’, where its nature and functions are necessarily determined by the actions and practices of agents. Through participant observation and the analysis of a sample of chatroom and forum messages from a user-driven Hong Kong-based parenting website called Happy Land, I examine the relationship between this virtual space and its users. I find that the website has developed beyond its technology-mediated nature into a community of face-to-face friendships and social and emotional support. In effect, this virtual space plays a role in the social reproduction of the contemporary dual-earner family by enabling working mothers who use the website to perform roles in production and reproduction respectively.

Happy Land: Musical Tributes to Laura Ingalls Wilder. Pa's Fiddle PF01, 2005. - The Arkansas Traveler: Music from Little House on the Prairie. Pa's Fiddle PFA01, 2006.

Happy Land: Musical Tributes to Laura Ingalls Wilder. Pa's Fiddle PF01, 2005. - The Arkansas Traveler: Music from Little House on the Prairie. Pa's Fiddle PFA01, 2006.

Happy landing

It is 25 years since the conflict in the Falkland Islands and during that time health provision has changed dramatically, with nurses at the forefront

図形科学的手法による浄土寺浄土堂内の光環境の分析

Jyodoji-Jyododo is one of the religious architectures that express the nobility of the Land of Happiness making use of daylight. The mechanism how the daylight reaches a statue of Amitabha-Tathagata in Jyodoji-Jyododo, it has peculiar luminous environment that no other historic architectures have, has not proved yet. Then, for the purpose of proving the mechanism of daylight that influence a statue of Amitabha-Tathagata, we conducted following 3 simulations; 1) Inter-reflection simulation with Jyodoji-Jyododo architectural model and simplified Amitabha-Tathagata model to obtain distribution of illuminance. 2) Specular reflection simulation for identifying the parts of the architecture which principally contribute to glitter of the statue. 3) Simulation of changing the angle of ceiling to make clear the relationship of the phenomenon and the architecture. From the results, we found that the daylight from the back of a statue of Amitabha-Tathagata repeats diffuse reflection, and a statue of Amitabha-Tathagata is shined by the daylight gathered at the ceiling. And the reason of a steeply slanting roof is infered that the daylight is took in a statue of Amitabha-Tathagata.

Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony

Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in. Colony. Rudolph Mrázek. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. 368 pp.

Reviews of Books:Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony Rudolf Mrazek

Reviews of Books:Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony Rudolf Mrazek

Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony (review)

Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony (review)

The Happy Land Homicides: 87 Deaths Due to Smoke Inhalation

We reviewed all 87 deaths from the Happy Land Social Club fire. All deaths were due to smoke inhalation. The carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) concentrations ranged from 37 to 93% with a mean of 76.5%. The vast majority (97%) of the decedents had a COHb concentration over 50%. Cyanide blood concentrations ranged from 0 to 5.5 mg/L with a mean of 2.2 mg/L. Nine decedents had no cyanide detected, and seven had cyanide concentrations of less than 1 mg/L. Fewer than one third of the decedents had thermal injuries, and most were partial thickness burns involving less than 20% body surface area. Ethanol was detected in 72% of decedents with a range of 0.01 to 0.29 g% and a mean blood concentration of 0.11 g%. Cocaine or cannabinoid use was identified in 9% of the decedents. All decedents were visually identified, and all had soot in the airway extending to the major bronchi. Carboxyhemoglobin concentrations corresponded well with deaths from smoke inhalation. Cyanide concentrations did not correspond with the extent of smoke inhalation, and the role of cyanide in contributing to these deaths is doubtful. Hydrogen chloride inhalation, as evidenced by comparison of the pH of tracheal mucosa to controls, was not a factor.

Rudolf Mrazek, Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony

Rudolf Mrazek, Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony