Review: <i>Maritime Men of the Asia-Pacific: True-Blue Internationals Navigating Labour Rights, 1906–2006</i>, by Diane Kirkby, Lee-Ann Monk, and Dmytro Ostapenko
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Abstract
a diaspora with experiences as outsider merchants comparable to the Jewish diaspora in Europe and the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia.Fascinating case studies support the book's arguments.For example, It Chb was a pioneer in Japan's modern cotton industry and managed his businesses according to his Shin-Buddhist beliefs.His descendants followed Japan's imperial expansion managing textile mills in China and Korea.In retail, Minakai and Chjiya were companies founded by Omi families that developed department stores in Japan and its colonies.Also, descendants of Omi merchants established retail stores in communities of Japanese immigrants in Vancouver, Canada.These cases highlight important historical continuities in the development and expansion of Japanese capitalist enterprises.In making a strong case for the importance of regional actors, the book perhaps understates the effects of central government policies.Future research might explore further how provincial merchants interacted with and influenced government officials in various contexts.The book's conclusion also suggests that further study is warranted on how contemporary debates in Japan over corporate social responsibility are leading to revision of narratives of the Omi merchants in an ongoing invention of tradition.Provincializing Empire challenges notions of a top-down Meiji developmental state and offers us new ways to think about Japanese capitalism, empire, and migration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.It is essential reading not only for scholars of Japan's modern empire but also anyone interested in comparative studies of diasporas, capitalism, and imperialism.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
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".