Writing war: autobiography, modernity and wartime narrative in nationalist China, 1937-1946
The Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45 was perhaps the single most destructive event in twentieth-century Chinese history. However, there has been relatively little attention paid to how war was experienced in the Nationalist-controlled area ('Free China') under Chiang Kaishek. Two autobiographical texts ...
Picturing victory: the visual imaginary of the War of Resistance, 1937-1947
The Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 has not been sufficiently understood as a narrative in its own right, but rather, as a transitional conflict between Nationalist and Communist rule. The examination of the visual imagery of warfare disseminated through newsprint and books is one way to reinterpret ...
Change of the heterogametic sex from male to female in the frog.
Two different types of sex chromosomes, XX/XY and ZZ/ZW, exist in the Japanese frog Rana rugosa. They are separated in two local forms that share a common origin in hybridization between the other two forms (West Japan and Kanto) with male heterogametic sex determination and homomorphic sex chromoso...
Antimicrobial activity of human seminal plasma and seminal plasma proteins
Seminal plasma is semen without the spermatozoa. Human seminal plasma is a complex mixture of secretions from the sex accessory glands, mainly the seminal vesicles and the prostate. Seminal plasma has high protein content and it also contains ions, sugars and low molecular weight components. Immedia...