Bibliographic record
Abstract
The following excerpts are from The Gray Earth , the second in Galsan Tschinag's trilogy of autobiographical novels that began with The Blue Sky , translated by Katharina Rout and published simultaneously by Oolichan Books (Canada) and Milkweed Editions ( U.S. ) in 2006. As the novel opens, the narrator, Dshurukuwaa (Fur Baby), is eight years old and is taken from his rural nomadic life on the Mongolian steppes in the high Altai region to the district center to begin his schooling. Even though his older brother, Dshokonaj, is the school's principal, and his older siblings, Torlaa and Galkaan, already attend the school, the transition is traumatic for the boy. He is unused to seeing a cluster of wooden buildings—the "square world" of houses instead of yurts—and also speaks Tuvan, a minority language that is officially banned in the classroom. He must learn to write and speak Mongolian, and though he is also a budding shaman, such "superstitions" are suppressed. The Gray Earth is set in 1951 and 1952. After the Qing dynasty fell in 1911, Mongolian nationalists, with encouragement from tsarist Russia, declared independence from Chinese dominance. The recently established Republic of China refused to recognize Mongolia's independence, and in the ensuing years Mongolia's neighbors fought for dominance in the region. Eventually, in 1921, the Mongolian People's Republic, bolstered by Soviet troops, was created, and in effect, Mongolia became a client-state of the Soviet Union. Though considerable factional turmoil followed, by the 1950s Stalinist-style collectivism and ideology were firmly in place. The Mongolian head of state, Marshal Khorloogiin Choibalsan, emulated Stalin's policies, fostering his own personality cult, confiscating land, and purging all so-called enemies of the State. Choibalsan died in January 1952, an event that is woven into Tschinag's novel. But the young narrator of The Gray Earth knows nothing of such things; he can only react to their effects on his daily life and those of his classmates, teachers, and family.—Editor
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.064 | 0.026 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".