A Climatic Model of Urban Energy Budgets

A deductive model of the energy budgets of urban landscapes, based on the exchanges of energy, mass, and momentum, is introduced. The absorption of shortwave and longwave radiation and their dissipation via the channels of reradiation, convection, conduction, and evaporation are generated by the model in order to simulate the interplay of the many energy cascades among the myriad of city surfaces. A city can be geographically analyzed by determining its energy budget and resultant surface temperatures on a block-by-block basis. In spite of some simplifying assumptions, the predictions of surface temperatures of this initial model compare favorably with observations.     

Publications briefly noted

WEN‐HSIN YEH (ed). Becoming Chinese: passages to Modernity and Beyond. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. x, 435 pp. US$55.00, hardcover; US$22.00, paper.

CLAIRE HUOT. China's New Cultural Scene: a Handbook of Changes. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. viii, 258 pp. US$18.95, paper.

PANG‐YUAN CHI and DAVID DER‐WEI WANG (eds). Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century: a Critical Survey. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. xliii, 332 pp. US$39.95, hardcover.

RICHARD JOHN LYNN (trans). The Classic of the Way and Virtue: a New Translation of the Tao‐te Ching of Laozi as Interpreted by Wang Bi. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 244 pp. US$29.00, hardcover.

KENNETH G. HENSHALL. Dimensions of Japanese Society: gender, Margins and Mainstream. New York and London: St Martin's Press/Macmillan Press, 1999. xxi, 249 pp. List of tables, preface, acknowledgments, glossary, introduction, notes, references, index. £47.50, hardcover; £20.99, paper.

KENNETH G. HENSHALL. A History of Japan. From Stone‐Age to Superpower. London: Macmillan Press, 1999. xvi, 242 pp. List of tables, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, references, glossary of Japanese terms, index. £19.99, paper.

ROGER BUCKLEY. Japan Today, 3rd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv, 233 pp. Preface to the first edition, preface to the third edition, abbreviations, note on Japanese names, map, introduction, appendices, bibliography, index. £13.95, paper.

SUSAN ORPHETT LONG (ed). Lives in Motion: composing Circles of Self and Community in Japan. Ithaca, NY: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1999. xii, 295 pp. Preface, list of contributors, introduction, index. No price given, paper.

DEWI ANGGRAENI. Neighbourhood Tales: a Bilingual Collection of Short Stories. Briar Hill, VIC: Indra Publishing, 2001. 248 pp. A$21.95, paper.

KANDICE CHUH and KAREN SHIMAKAWA (eds). Orientations: mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. 339 pp. US$19.95, paper.

HAROLD D. ROTH. Original Tao: inward Training (Nei‐yeh) and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 275 pp. US$29.50, hardcover.

CHIANG YEE. The Silent Traveller in London. Oxford: Signal Books Ltd, 2002. xvi, 216 pp. £24.95, hardcover; £10.99, paper.     

Ruptures and continuities in nationhood narratives: reconstructing the nation through history textbooks in Serbia and Croatia

While the (mis) use of history to fuel particular constructions of the nation is well‐documented in the literature, the ways in which nationhood narratives and national ideologies evolve and transform over time are rarely explored. When ruptures – such as state failure or civil war – occur, interpretations of history and nationhood narratives cannot be completely rewritten. Rather, they need to follow up upon previous, established versions, relying on anchoring motives that offer a minimum level of continuity. Relying on a systematic analysis of over forty years of history revisionism in Serbia and Croatia (1974 to 2017), I demonstrate the discursive ways in which nationhood narratives evolved over time and space: from the dismantling of the former common Socialist narrative, replacement with new ethno‐national narratives, the bumpy transformations through the democratic transitions, to the gradual consolidation into the ‘new’ reconstructed nationhood narratives prevailing in the two countries today.