Bibliographic record
Abstract
Chinatown has often been discussed in the discourse of race and gender in Asian North American writers. Denise Chong`s The Concubine`s Children, focusing on the Chinatowns in Vancouver and Nanaimo in Canada, exams how a female Chinese immigrant May-ying is commercialized as gendered and racialized otherness in the process of placing her as a concubine of Chan Sam, her husband in Canada. Though being relocated as a victim of anti-Chinese Immigration law, May-ying`s subjectivity was more problematically erased by her own husband`s economic desire for being `a father` by supporting his original family in China and tea house owner who is deeply engaged in inviting May-ying as a concubine for his prostitute business. While resisting being a victim of anti-immigration law and commercialization of gendered other forced by Chan Sam, May-ying ironically fails to escape the fetter of Confucian disciplines deeply inscribed in her mind by allowing them to be values and standards of her life in Canada. Her strong sense of Confucian disciplines also negatively affects her Canadian-born daughter Hing who changes her name Winnie in a way to confine her daughter into the belated world of the Confucianism in Canada. However, Hing resists her mother`s Confucian meddling and leaves Chinatown to find her own life. She shows that her mother`s disciplines are no longer available in the Canadian-born generation in the end. By separating her narrative from her mother`s, Hing attempts to place herself as a proper subject who can write her own story in the history of not the adoptive but the adopted nation by her own will.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.007 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".