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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. South of the Mountains: The Political Economy of the Pearl River Delta -- 2. The Organization of Rice Supplies in Canton: The Formation of the Cantonese Provisioning Networks for Consumer Satisfaction -- 3. Strengthening the Canton-Hong Kong Ties: Rice Relief and the Development of the Transnational Rice Business -- 4. Politicizing the Enterprise: The Nationalist Revolution and the Cantonese Rice Business -- 5. Taste in Numbers: Science and the Chinese Food Problem -- 6. Taxes and Strikes: The Foreign-Rice Tax and Its Social Repercussions -- 7. Inventing "National Rice": The National Goods Movement and the Issue of Rice Quality -- 8. Granary of the Empire, Laboratory of the Nation: The Canton-Hankow Railway and the Hunan Rice Sales Project in Canton -- 9. Provincial Politics and National Rice: The Canton Famine of 1936-1937 and the South China Rice Trading Corporation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

AbstractThis article explores how workers' diets and meal services at factory canteens became the nucleus of labour politics in Republican Shanghai, China's industrial heartland. At the heart of Chinese labour politics was a demand for the improvement of workers' diets, particularly for adequate meal service, which was to be provided by management at a reasonable price—if not for free—at the workplace. The purpose of this article is not only to draw attention to a lacuna in Chinese labour history, but also to shed new light on the agency of workers in their labour disputes from the perspective of food history. No other issue provided a better opportunity to unite workers, labour activists, and so-called scabs than the issue of food. In the wake of labour disputes, industrialists changed their perception of the relation between industrial health and work efficiency. With the promotion of factory canteens, the Guomidang Nationalists also began to exert unsparing efforts to garner the growing political potential of the labour force. Therefore, factory canteens evolved into a contested space in which workers, management, and the state offered different visions of workers' diets and industrial productivity.

AbstractThis article explores how nutrition science became a significant part of the nation-building project in both Republican China and the early People's Republic of China within the context of burgeoning popular concerns over bodily health and an increasing sense of urgency. Insofar as nutrition science offered a new type of expertise about what to eat and what not to eat in daily life, it entailed harnessing the state's potential persuasive power to garner willing compliance, if not tacit obedience, from the population. Unlike previous scholarship, which takes the viewpoint of government authorities and the medical elite, this article argues that popular concerns about bodily health and culinary curiosity that were prevalent in major Chinese cities helped to popularize state-led dietary reform campaigns that culminated during the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and continued even after the revolutionary regime change in the 1950s.

Highly efficient deep-blue fluorescent materials based on phenylquinoline-carbazole derivatives (PhQ-CVz, MeO-PhQ-CVz, and CN-PhQ-CVz) are synthesized for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The materials form high-quality amorphous thin films by thermal evaporation and the energy levels can be easily adjusted by the introduction of different electron-donating and electron-withdrawing groups on carbazoylphenylquinoline. Non-doped deep-blue OLEDs that use PhQ-CVz as the emitter show bright emission (Commission Internationale de L'Éclairage (CIE) coordinates, x = 0.156, y = 0.093) with an external quantum efficiency of 2.45%. Furthermore, the material works as an excellent host material for 4,4-bis(9-ethyl-3-carbazovinylene)-1,1-biphenyl dopant to get high-performance OLEDs with excellent deep-blue CIE coordinates (x = 0.155, y = 0.157), high power efficiency (5.98 lm W-1), and high external quantum efficiency (5.22%). ; This research was supported by a Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. M10600000157-06J0000-15710) and the University IT Research Center (ITRC) Project of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy.