Angie Wong, Laughing Back at Empire: The Grassroots Activism of the Asianadian Magazine, 1978-1985 (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2023), 200pp. Paperback. C$27.95. ISBN: 978-1-7728-4029-2
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This neat little book (with a very funky retro cover illustration, hearkening back to the late 1970s and early 1980s) is the latest in the University of Manitoba Press’ Human Rights and Social Justice series. Angie Wong focuses therein on one of Canada’s most groundbreaking publications you have probably never heard of, The Asianadian, that took up an avowedly anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic cause at a crucial moment in Canadian history. As well as an engagement with the existing scholarship on the Asian-Canadian experience, and the contents of the magazine itself, Wong has conducted interviews with contributors, readers, and many others with an Asianadian association. The prose and poetical content, as well as the imagery and advertisements of The Asianadian are given new life throughout, and the result is a really excellent window into a micro-movement that expanded as it spoke to, and inspired, much broader conversations about nation, race, gender, and empire.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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".