Implementing Lean Production in an Old Industrial Space: Restructuring at Corner Brook, Newfoundland, 1984–1994

Kruger Incorporated purchased the aging pulp and paper mill in Corner Brook in 1984, armed with a federal-provincial modernization agreement and a pattern-breaking contract with the mill unions. It is argued that changes made in the decade since then correspond most closely with a form of lean production. Six elements of lean production are found at Corner Brook: tighter coordination of production and automation; a continued concentration on core activities; the farming out of ancillary activities; shrinking and segmentation of the workforce; environmental compliance, increasing technical efficiency; and the co-opting of the workforce into the mission of the firm.     

Archaeologies of Cultural Interaction: Wybalenna Settlement and Killalpaninna Mission

This paper compares two contrasting Australian case studies in the archaeology of Indigenous-European interaction: one mission-like in its intent, the Aboriginal Settlement for Tasmanian Aborigines at Wybalenna on Flinders Island in the Bass Strait (1833–47), the other the Lutheran mission at Lake Killalpaninna (1867–1928) investigated by the Central Australia Archaeology Project (CAAP). Each of the two case studies adopted different strategies of investigation. Wybalenna was a small excavation while Killalpaninna was an extensive surface survey. Both studies reveal diversity in the range of responses to a missionizing program, providing evidence of agency in the formation of the archaeological record. They demonstrate the value of the material evidence and the significance of archaeology in contributing to a more sensitive understanding of the interaction process by providing an alternative to textual sources.     

‘We wouldn't be dead for quids’: Hansonism,Fascism, Death and Difference

There are a number of ways in which the Australian political movement led by Pauline Hanson can be implicated in the totalitarian episodes of the twentieth century. But there are also significant differences between what Hansonism presents us with in Australia and what totalitarianism has presented us with in Europe, in the fascist and Stalinist regimes with which totalitarianism is associated. The suggestion in this paper is that totalitarianism can be understood in schematic terms as a mutation of the symbolic order through which differences have been arranged and evaluated in Western thought since the time of the ancient Greek philosophers. Specifically, it belongs with the history of the binary opposition. Its mutation is that it attempts to realize — that is, to accomplish in reality — the fiction of the binary structure, which is its claim to comprehend or to be able to totalize and exhaust the space over which its positive and negative terms must govern. In a contemplation of death and difference, the question is considered here of what is to be gained for thought in characterizing Hansonism as a neo‐fascist phenomenon.     

“Turkish Dames” and “English Mastiffs”: The “Turk” and the Female Body in Massinger’s The Renegado

Abstract

In early modern travel discourse, exploration of ‘distant’ or ‘other’ lands is typically configured as some aspect of the female body. Power relations between East and West were often described in terms of conquest or ravishment, the site of which is typically the female body, as might be seen in early modern English literary response to the Ottoman. Couched in terms of the menace the Ottoman poses to the Western Christian, Massinger’s The Renegado courts parallels between sexual license, female rebellion, and religion to address domestic threats at home–not from the Ottoman Empire, but rather from the rebellious English women, who represent a clear danger to the patriarchal hegemony.     

Publications briefly noted

AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (QUEENSLAND BRANCH) and CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF AUSTRALIA‐;ASIA RELATIONS. Australia and the Asia‐Pacific Challenge: Queensland Business in Asia. Brisbane: Griffith University, Australia‐Asia Papers no. 77, 1996. 24 pp. A$10.00, paper.

EDMUND S.K. FUNG and CHEN JIE. The Attitudes of the PRC Chinese Towards Australia and China, 1989–1996. Brisbane: Griffith University, Centre for the Study of Australia‐;Asia Relations, Australia‐Asia Papers no. 78, 1996. 29 pp. A$ 10.00, paper.

HAROLD MARSHALL. Ignorance to Enlightenment: fifty Years in Asia. Brisbane: Griffith University, Centre for the Study of Australia‐Asia Relations, Australians in Asia Series no. 18, 1997. xii, 120 pp. A$16.00, paper.

O.H. ISAKSSON. Encounters in Asia: a Soldier's Story. Brisbane: Griffith University, Centre for the Study of Australia‐Asia Relations, Australians in Asia Series no. 19, 1997. x, 67 pp. Af 14.00, paper.

CURTIS ANDRESSEN and KEICHI KUMAGAI. Escape from Affluence: Japanese Students in Australia. Brisbane: Griffith University, Centre for the Study of Australia‐Asia Relations, Australia‐Asia Papers no. 79, 1996. 116 pp. A$16.00, paper.

HANS ANTLOV. Exemplary Centre, Administrative Periphery, Rural Leadership and the New Order in Java. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Monograph Series no 68, Richmond: Curzon Press, 1995. xi, 222 pp. A$25.00, paper.

CRAIG BAXTER and SYEDUR RAHMAN. Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh (Asian Historical Dictionaries, ed.Jon Woronoff, no. 2 ), 2nd ed. Lanham, Md. and London: Scarecrow Press, 1996. xvii, 285 pp. Foreword, list of acronyms, chronology, map, introduction, dictionary, appendices, bibliography. US$49.50, hardcover.

HARUMI BEFU (ed). Japan Engaging the World: a Century of International Encounter. Denver, Colorado: Teikyo Loretto Heights University Center for Japan Studies, 1996. 120 pp. US$15.00, paper.

MARY ELIZABETH BERRY. The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xxxii, 373 pp. US$45.00, hardcover.

BRIAN BOCKING. A Popular Dictionary of Shinto. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1996. 251 pp. £35.00, hardcover

MARCEL BONNEFF, translated by Rahayu S. Hidayat. Komik Indonesia. Jakarta: Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia, 1998. x, 226 pp. No price given, paper.

MALCOLM CHALMERS. Confidence‐building in Southeast Asia. Bradford Arms Register Studies no. 6. Trowbridge: Westview Press, 1996. 279 pp. £19.95, paper.

HARUKO TAYA COOK and THEODORE F. COOK. Japan at War: an Oral History. New York: The New Press, 1992. 479 pp. US$39.95, hardcover.

ROMAN CYBRIWSKY. Historical Dictionary of Tokyo. Lanham Md. and London: Scarecrow Press, 1997. 212 pp. US$49.00 hardcover.

GORDON DANIELS. Sir Harry Parkes: British Representative in Japan 1865–83. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1996. 239 pp. £40.00, hardcover.

PHILIP DORLING and DAVID LEE (eds). Australia and Indonesia's Independence, The Renville Agreement: documents 1948. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1996. xxvi, 603 pp. A$34.95, paper.

MONIKA DREXLER. Daoistische Schriftmagie: interpretationen zu den Schrifta‐muletten "fit" im "Daozang". Munchener Ostasiatische Studien vol. 68 Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994. 241 pp. DM 96, paper.

J. C. EADE. The Thai Historical Record, A Computer Analysis. Tokyo: Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies for Unesco, 1996. xix, 265 pp. No price given, paper.

EDWARD FOWLER. San'ya Blues: laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo. New York: Cornell University Press, 1996. xxi, 262 pp. US$29.95, hardcover.

RICHARD M. W. HO. Ch'en Tzu‐ang: innovator in T'ang Poetry. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1993. 233 pp. (including a 30‐page Chinese translation). No price given, hardcover.

PIERRE HUTTON. After the Heroic Age and before Australia's Rediscovery of Southeast Asia. Brisbane: Griffith University, Centre for the Study of Australia‐Asia Relations, Australians in Asia Series no. 20,1997. x, 99 pp. A$16.00, paper.

DAMIEN KINGSBURY. Culture and Politics: issues in Australian Journalism on Indonesia, 1975–93. Brisbane: Griffith University, Centre for the Study of Australia‐Asia Relations, Australia Asia Papers no. 80, 1997. xii, 161 pp. A$20.00, paper.

JULIE LANDAU. Beyond Spring: Tz'u Poems of the Sung Dynasty. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. 275 pp. No price given, paper.

SUIWAH LEUNG (ed). Vietnam Assessment, Creating a Sound Investment Climate. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1996. xiv, 122 pp. US$18.50, paper.

LINCOLN LI. The China Factor in Modern Japanese Thought: the Case of Tachibana Shiraki, 1881–1945. New York: State University of New York Press, 1996. x, 171 pp. No price given, paper.

W. H. McLEOD. Historical Dictionary of Sikhism (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies and Movements, ed. Jon Woronoff, no. 5). Lanham, Md. and London: Scarecrow Press, 1995. xi, 323pp.

ATSUSHI MAKI. Postwar Private Consumption Patterns of Japanese Households: the Role of Consumer Durables. Canberra: Australian National University, Australia‐Japan Research Centre, Pacific Economic Papers no. 262, December 1996. 20 pp. A$15.00, paper.

SURJIT MANSINGH. Historical Dictionary of India (Asian Historical Dictionaries, ed. Jon Woronoff, no. 20). Lanham, Md. and London: Scarecrow Press, 1996. xi, 511pp. Foreword, abbreviations and acronyms, glossary, chronology, maps, introduction, dictionary, bibliography, appendices. US$78.00, hardcover.

JAYANT MENON. Has Japan been “Opening‐Up”?: empirical Analytics of Trade Patterns. Canberra: Australian National University, Australia‐Japan Research Centre, Pacific Economic Papers no. 263, 1997. 21 pp. $A15.00, paper.

EDWIN E. MOISE. Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War. Chapel Hill, London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xviii, 304 pp. US$39.95, hardcover.

LUC NAGTEGAAL. Riding the Dutch Tiger, The Dutch East Indies Company and the Northeast Coast of Java, 1680–1743. Verhandelingen 171. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1996. vii, 250 pp. / 50, paper.

HEIDI ROUPP (ed). Teaching World History: a Resource Book. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1997. xiii, 271 pp. US$66.95, hardcover; US$31.95, paper.

MITZIKO SAWADA. Tokyo Life, New York Dreams: urban Japanese Visions of America, 1890–1924. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xvii, 268 pp. No price given, hardcover.

J. R. SIMPSON, Y. KOJIMA, R. KADA, A. MIYAZAKI and T. YOSHIDA. Japan's Beef Industry‐economics and Technology for the Year 2000. Wallingford, Oxon: CAB International, 1996. 207 pp. No price given, hardcover.

STEPHEN F. TEISER. The Ghost Festival in Medieval China. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. xvii, 275 pp. US$18.95, paper.

ELIZABETH ROCHAT DE LA VALLEE, and CLAUDE LARRE (trans). Su Wen: Les 11 premiers traites. Varitetes Sinologiques no. 70. Moulins‐les‐Metz: Maisonneuve (Editions medicales), 1993. 408 pp. 470 FF, paper.

RICHARD T. WANG. Area Bibliography of China. Lanham, Md. and London: Scarecrow Press, 1997. xiii, 334 pp. US$59.00, hardcover.

NG CHEE YUEN, NICK J. FREEMAN and FRANK H. HUYNH (eds). State‐owned Enterprise Reform in Vietnam, Lessons from Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1996. viii, 170 pp. No price given, paper.