The East Asian Miracle and Air-Transport : Cathay Pacific and the British Empire of the 1960s
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This survey attempts to examine Hong Kong’s civil aviation and the British Empire during the period from the 1960s through the 1970s. Due to Japan’s economic development in the postwar era, Hong Kong began to be regarded as an important trading port and processing base, linking Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. In this context, it is worthwhile to examine Hong Kong in terms of its air transport as one of its main industries was the processing of semiconductors and export of electrical appliances. In addition, as the postwar influence of the British Empire in Asia was increasing and is considered the main topic of recent historiography. This paper use Cathay Pacific, which is Hong Kong based airline, as a case study. The acquisition of Hong Kong Airways in 1959 caused gradual expansion of its route network and started to coincide with the trading network of Hong Kong. This paper attempts to focus on the activities of that company as the starting point of Asian economic development, rather than the mere consequences of the competition between conglomerates in Hong Kong. The study will expand the historiography of Hong Kong and show it as a processing and trading post.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
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".