Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abandoning one's loved home to expatriate.-VirgilTHE OTHER DAY, ON MY WAY HOME FROM TEACHING CLASSES IN Melbourne, I met a student of mine who revealed that there was nothing more he wanted to do than migrate to Australia. In his early 40s, more than 15 years my junior and from China, where he had managed a small company, this man had a determination that reminded me of mine in 1990, when both my wife and I had a secure job each, she working in a research institute and I as a lecturer of at Wuhan University in China. With one child of six and work-unit provided accommodation, we were well off enough to be able where we were.And yet, in retrospect, something more than the stagnant political situation following the June 4th Incident in 1989, and what would have been facilely interpreted as the call of freedom from the West, had seemed to be at work. Earlier, at the same university, classmates of mine, and later my young colleagues at work, had seemed to share a tacit view that getting stuck in one place for the rest of one's life would be the death of one, even if it was comfortable enough, financially and family-wise; the best solution, all seemed to agree, was to keep moving, from place to place, from job to job and, if possible, from country to country, rather than have a clear future laid out before one. In a word, chasing the impossible, the more difficult and, to be more exact, the not yet known I once put in the following lines:all i want to say-isgo awaymy springhere this year, there next, and i know not where the year afterMy life, as that of many of my classmates or friends, was thus a series of self-imposed changes or challenges in the chase of the unknown, by constantly giving up on things in favor of the more unreal, the more unrealistic; moving from Wuhan Shanghai and back to Wuhan again before I came to Australia, it was there, in or about 1992, that I found myself writing these lines that I would never have imagined myself doing back in China:in a season of self-exile in AustraliaI feel doubly alienated doubly illusionedthe death of the old world has such weird attractionswhile the light of the new world has somehow darkenedMontreal, Canada (1986)In April 1986, while in Montreal, Canada, as head interpreter for a visiting Chinese delegation working on the Three Gorges Dam, I learnt that I had been granted an interview at ECNU (East China Normal University) in Shanghai after I succeeded in passing the examination for my MA candidacy in literature. I was overjoyed. I was eager to embark on an academic career as I had entertained hopes of pursuing literary studies in a university after I had obtained my BA in and American literamre. Would ECNU bypass the bureaucratic process of interviews and directly accept me into the MA program? I wired Shanghai and received a No. My second disappointment came at the start of the interview in Shanghai, where I was told that they only had on offer, instead of the English that I had wanted to go for because the professor I had chosen as my supervisor had fallen ill.Much as I was disappointed by the news, I gave up on my good job as an interpreter and translator and went for the unknown. At the end of three years in the Australian literature program, I did well enough to be offered a PhD scholarship in 1990, jointly by La Trobe University and the Australia-China Council. By then, I had already begun teaching and American literature at Wuhan University; according to my contract, I was not allowed to leave for Australia unless I had served five years in Wuhan, even though the scholarship was due to expire in 1992.Sydney, Australia (1992)It is a complicated enough story of how I managed to leave, but to put it simply, I was able to come to Melbourne in 1991 on the strength of my expatriate Grandfather 10, an air force commander in Taiwan, as the Chinese government had a policy in favor of people with overseas connections- particularly Taiwanese connections- with which one could be exempted from the aforesaid conditions. …
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".