The primary objective of mastoid obliteration is the eradication of the disease and prevention of its recurrence. We intend to evaluate the impact of mastoid obliteration using autologous materials on the achievement of a dry mastoid bowl and frequency of maintenance care and hearing outcome of the operated ear. This was a hospital-based, non - randomized, prospective study. The study was performed over a period of 2 years. The study was performed in the Department of ENT of a tertiary care teaching hospital. Patients of chronic otitis media - squamosal type underwent canal wall down mastoidectomy and patients were divided into 2 groups of obliterated and non-obliterated. The canal wall obliterated patients were further compared in 3 groups based on the technique of mastoid obliteration used - bone dust, musculo-periosteal flap and cartilage graft. 6 months post-operative mastoid cavity epithelisation based on oto-microscopy and hearing outcome based on pure tone audiometry findings were compared. Majority of patients at 6-months follow-up found that epithelization was most common status of mastoid cavity with musculoperiosteal flap and discharge was commonest with cartilage graft. Mastoid obliteration with autologous materials is a safe and effective method to achieve a dry, safe and useful ear. In this study, musculo-periosteal flap being significantly better in terms of a well epithelized cavity and hearing outcome.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1353/tcc.2023.a905563
Lin Li
Despite the rich scholarship on socialist Chinese cinema, few scholars have examined it through a feminist lens. Through an in-depth study of four female directors and their films, Revisiting Women’s Cinema critically fills this lacuna by examining the shifting Chinese feminist and mainstream cultural practices during two periods: the Mao era (1949–1976) and the post-Mao era. The broader political and intellectual contexts that Revisiting Women’s Cinema engages with are China’s rapid integration into the world economy since the late 1970s, the dismissal of socialist feminism, and the global ascendence of Western liberal feminism. Influenced by liberal feminism’s emphasis on individualism and essential sexual difference, post-Mao Chinese feminism has long dismissed socialist women’s liberation as “imposed or bestowed from above by the party-state and men” (126) and works by female directors in Maoist China as mere propaganda. Arguing against the “global repudiation of socialist practice” (3), Revisiting Women’s Cinema reveals “the critical relevance of socialist institutionalized feminism and mainstream women’s cinema to contemporary feminist media practice” (4). Two concepts central to Lingzhen Wang’s analysis are “socialist feminism” (社会主义女性主义 shehuizhuyi nüxingzhuyi) and “mainstream culture” (主流文化 zhuliu wenhua). According to Wang, women’s liberation can only be achieved when other political-economic and sociocultural issues are taken seriously—an argument at the core of socialist feminism. Moreover, refuting post-Mao feminists’ dismissal of mainstream culture as “intrinsically conservative and patriarchal” (10), Wang holds that mainstream culture in Maoist China “played the most critical role in combatting traditional conservative ideas and bourgeois ideology and promoting socialist visions and ethics” (14). Together, these two terms constitute the main theoretical framework through which Wang examines Chinese women’s cinema. Organized chronologically, Revisiting Women’s Cinema consists of seven chapters. The first three chapters focus on the period of the 1950s and the 1960s, while the last four chapters examine the period from 1978 through the 1980s. Beyond its chronological ordering, Revisiting Women’s Cinema can be divided into two thematic sections: whereas chapters 1, 4, and 5 explain the changes in Chinese socialist mainstream culture in response to China’s political and economic transformations, chapters 2, 3, 6, and 7 each provide a detailed analysis of one Chinese female director and her films, revealing Chinese women’s crucial role in producing and diversifying mainstream culture. Chapter 1 provides a “revisionist history of Chinese socialist feminism” (17). Wang traces the widespread negative attitude toward Chinese socialist feminism to scholarship published in the United States in the 1980s. Using Judith Stacey’s Patriarchy and Socialist Revolution in China1 as an example, Wang offers a thorough critique of Stacey’s interpretatio
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1353/tcc.2023.a905567
Xi He
Abstract:The Ping-Liu-Li (Pingxiang, Liuyang, and Liling) uprising of 1906 is often said to have been led by revolutionaries, to have been supported by secret societies, and to have drawn support from two provinces (Hunan and Jiangxi) and three counties. This article argues that the events of the uprising have to be read in the light of disunified local gangs who had turf to protect, their interest in obtaining arms from the revolutionaries, and a very tense political situation that might indeed have evolved out of contact between revolutionaries and the gangs. However, the significance of the incident was magnified because of the proximity of the location to the high-profile Pingxiang Coal Mine in Jiangxi. The importance of the mine drew strong reactions from the court and the most senior provincial officials. In the process, guns, the telegraph, the railroad, and the newspapers all came into play in pushing the event to national prominence.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1353/tcc.2023.a905565
Shaofan An
Abstract:Class division represented arguably the most crucial stage of the land reform campaigns mounted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as it not only divided the land but also the political power of rural Chinese society. Based on newly available local archives, this case study of class division during land reform in the suburbs of Beijing argues that the making of "evil tyrant landlords"—and the struggle against them—played a decisive role in conceptualizing the "landlord" as both a figure of Marxist economic exploitation and the morally stigmatized rural elite during land reform and the building of the party-state. After the collapse of the existing rural ruling class, the "struggle against tyrants" movement immediately turned toward enacting formal class division. As a consequence, the discourse of class struggle based on a clear-cut landlord-peasantry dichotomy was, unsurprisingly, allowed by the CCP to infiltrate rural China's post-1949 political culture.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1353/tcc.2023.a905566
Benno Weiner
Abstract:Through the 1950s, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) considered nationality disunity to be a product of "great Han chauvinism." But what happens when history's bad guys are not Han? In parts of China's Northwest, the party identified Hui Muslim elites as the main agents of nationality exploitation and Tibetans as their principal targets. It therefore declared Tibetans of all classes to be victims of nationality exploitation and ordered that "good" Muslims be distinguished from "bad," a task made more urgent by a string of uprisings that engulfed several Muslim-majority areas of the Qinghai-Gansu Highlands from 1949 to 1953. While echoes can be found in the late Qing state's response to Muslim rebellion, this article argues that the CCP's approach to the "Hui question" must be viewed as part of a particular practice of minoritization and a framework for conceptualizing the new socialist nation-state that would leave Muslims and other non-Han communities susceptible to majoritarian-state violence.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1353/tcc.2023.a905568
Jennifer Bond
Abstract:This article explores how missionary-educated Chinese schoolgirls applied childhood pedagogy that they learned at school to what they perceived to be the pressing demands of Chinese nationalism in the early twentieth century. Although there have been many studies of Christian schools in China from the missionary perspective, we know much less about how Chinese women themselves made sense of the education they received at missionary schools. Based on a study of two elite mission schools for girls in Republican-era East China, this article explores how girls applied child-rearing practices, hygiene, and domestic education to the children whom they taught in the vicinities of their schools. Like their missionary educators before them, they carved out new roles for themselves by claiming authority to speak for a downtrodden "other": Chinese children. In doing so, missionary schoolgirls created new knowledge about Chinese childhood in the early twentieth century.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1353/tcc.2023.a905562
Judd C. Kinzley
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Abstract:This article investigates a selection of post-1980 life writings—autobiographies, memoirs and remembrances—by and about Chinese women and their experiences as underground operatives for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) between 1945 and 1949. It aims to uncover what women’s wartime stories were, as well as why and how they were constructed, considering the broader context in which these narratives were made. A premise of this article is that these published life writings were used as an ideological tool for the men and women who narrated them and for their acquaintances who were fellow underground operatives. It argues that the success of female underground operatives in both the pre-1949 and post-Mao periods depended to a considerable extent on how effective they were in mobilizing dominant, normative female roles, attributes, and norms. This article adds to our understanding regarding pre-1949 CCP clandestine activities and the nuanced relationship between the CCP and Chinese women.
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Abstract:The growing scholarship on consumption has offered provocative new ways of using consumer goods as a lens to understand social relations, political subjectivity, and economic institutions in Mao’s China. However, the prevailing social-centered paradigm often views consumer goods as an abstract category rather than as materials with differing qualities. The literature has rarely considered the properties of materials, such as weight and durability, in connection with the nature of the Maoist system. By looking at materials in their own right, this article focuses on the material properties of a consumer product prominent in the Mao era and afterward: the Minguang brand of floral-patterned bedsheets, affectionately known as China’s “national bedsheet.” My research reveals that as a material embodiment of key differences between the Maoist system and other political-economic systems, the Minguang bedsheet’s material form was the result of understudied yet defining characteristics of the Maoist system, such as economic autarky, socialist realist industrial design, opposition to planned obsolescence, and an obsession with cotton fibers.
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