Editors’ Introduction: Disciplinary Stakes For Cultural Studies Today

Guest Editor’s Introduction Chinese Folklore Studies: Toward Disciplinary Maturity

The historiography of Chinese folklore studies commonly traces the advent of the discipline to the Folksong Studies Movement (Geyaoxue yundong 歌谣学运动; (hereafter, FSM) of the May Fourth era (1910s to 1920s)1 (Chao 1942; 1943; Honko 1986; Hung 1985; Tuohy 1991). In his critical study of this movement, Wolfram Eberhard highlighted the underlying forces of nationalism and cultural awakening that re...

Introduction: Rethinking the Disciplinary Confluence of Anthropology and Literary Studies

Long-term followup studies of schizophrenia: editors' introduction.

What are the major long-term followup studies of schizophrenia from around the world? What have we learned about schizophrenia and its vicissitudes over a lifetime? Does the lifelong vantage point help us to identify the primary psychopathologic components of schizophrenia and to distinguish it from other forms of mental illness? What are the implications of the longitudinal perspective for red...

Healthcare [Guest editors' introduction]

W e’re moving closer to realizing pervasive computing devices that can monitor our health status, both individually and as a community. Imagine what doctors could do with ECG data collected on a more regular basis, as people carry on their daily activities. The ability to monitor day-to-day heart data would profoundly affect how the medical community tracks our individual health status. Likewis...

Focus: Guest Editors’ Introduction