SCHOLARSHIPS FOR MASTERS AND PHD STUDY IN WOMEN'S STUDIES

Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

SCHOLARSHIPS FOR MASTERS AND PHD STUDY IN WOMEN'S STUDIES.

Scholarships are available for candidates commencing Masters by researchand PhD study in Women's Studies at Monash University in 2008.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?
Candidates must hold a first class honours in their Bachelors degree (orequivalent e.g. Masters level qualification with a significant thesis component graded at first class honours) to be eligible to apply for a scholarship. International candidates for whom English is a second language must also submit a recent IELTS score.

WHAT DO SCHOLARSHIPS COVER?
Scholarships cover both tuition and living stipend. Check out: http://www.mrgs.monash.edu.au/scholarships/publication/index.html

WHEN DO APPLICATIONS CLOSE?
Applications for the 2005 university scholarship round close on 31OCTOBER 2007. Late applications will not be accepted.

WHEN ARE RESULTS ANNOUNCED?
Successful applicants will be notified in early December 2007 and should normally commence their scholarships between 1 January 2008 and 31 March 2008 (in special circumstances, start dates up to 30 June 2008 can be negotiated).

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CENTRE'S PROGRAMS AND STAFF?
You can check out the following website: www.arts.monash.edu.au/ws

HOW DO I APPLY?
Scholarship forms and pre-application forms are now available and can beobtained by contacting Sue Stevenson (sue.stevenson@arts.monash.edu.au ) the Graduate Administrator of the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Monash University

Announcement from the University of California Press

Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

Gail Hershatter is Professor of History and Director of the Institute
for Humanities Research at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Among her books is Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity
in Twentieth-Century Shanghai.

http://go.ucpress.edu/Hershatter

"An important and much-needed introduction to this rich and
fast-growing field. Hershatter has handled a daunting task with
aplomb." -Susan L. Glosser, author of _Chinese Visions of Family and
State, 1915-1953_


This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's
history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century
China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than
650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of
marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the
process, Hershatter offers keen analytic insights and judgments about
the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields.
The result is both a practical bibliographic tool and a thoughtful
reflection on how we approach the past.

Full information about the book is available online:
http://go.ucpress.edu/Hershatter

WAGNet Graduate Students Workshop ”Gender and History in China”

Dear colleagues and friends,

The WAGNet steering committee is delighted to announce the next Graduate Students Workshop, to be held at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, 31 January to 3 February 2008.

In 1998, Professor Harriet Zurndorfer at Leiden University organised the first gender-centred graduate workshop for Ph.D. students in Chinese Studies. Following its success, WAGNet held two other workshops, one in September 2003 at Oxford University (http://www.wagnet.ox.ac.uk/gsw/index.htm), and one in January 2005 at Charles University, Prague (http://www.wagnet.ox.ac.uk/gsw2/index.html). All three events were extremely fruitful, and generated inspiring collaborations between PhD students working on a wide range of issues, but all related to gender and the study of China. At the end of each event, the participants expressed their desire to develop further events. The Bremen workshop follows these three events, and hopes to build on the foundations of what became by all accounts important, meaningful exchanges and debates.

The WAGNet Graduate Students Workshop is designed for a group of around 12 to 15 PhD students who are at an advanced stage of their research. Students will get the opportunity to present their projects to other graduate students and more senior scholars working in the field of China-related women and gender studies. Each presentation will be commented on by a senior discussant and then discussed in the plenum.

The theme for this workshop reflects our wish to strengthen reflections on the historical dimension of gender structures and representations of gender in China. While we invite applications on a broad range of topics including contemporary issues, all applicants are expected to reflect on the historical dimension of their research project.

Applicants should submit three copies of the following material:

- an outline of their project (around 1000 words)

- a curriculum vitae

- a letter of reference by someone familiar with the project, to be sent under separate cover

Applications should be received by 12 March 2007. Members of the steering committee will discuss the applications, and make a selection based on the merit of the outline, the recommendation, and the stage of the research.

Please send your application to:

Prof. Dr. Nicola Spakowski

International University Bremen

(Jacobs University Bremen as of spring 2007)

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

P.O. Box 750 561
28725 Bremen
Germany

Participants are strongly encouraged to find their own funding. Subsidies to travel expenses and accommodation may be available, but please indicate in your application to what sources of funding you might have access to support your travel to Bremen.

For further information, please contact the workshop organizer at n.spakowski@iu-bremen.de.

Please forward this information to students and colleagues who might be interested in the event.

We look forward to your applications!

Nicola Spakowski

The Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality

Call for papers
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The Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality (JMMS) is a new online, scholarly, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal. JMMS is published twice a year, beginning in January 2007 with provision for other special editions. JMMS seeks to be as inclusive as possible in its area of enquiry. Papers address the full spectrum of masculinities and sexualities, particularly those which are seldom heard. Similarly, JMMS addresses not only monotheistic religions and spiritualities but also Eastern, indigenous, new religious movements and other spiritualities which resist categorization. JMMS papers address historical and contemporary phenomena as well as speculative essays about future spiritualities. JMMS is currently seeking papers and reviews for its first issue. Please refer to our website for further information: http://www.jmmsweb.org

Woodrow Wilson Fellowships in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowships in the Social Sciences and Humanities 2007- 2008
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The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is announcing the opening of its 2007-2008 Fellowship competition. The Center awards approximately 20-25 academic year residential fellowships to individuals from any country with outstanding project proposals on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illuminate policy issues of contemporary importance. Applicants must hold a doctorate or have equivalent professional experience. Fellows are provided stipends (which include round trip travel), private offices, access to the Library of Congress, Windows-based personal computers, and research assistants. For more information and application guidelines please contact the Center at: Tel: 202-691-4170; Fax: 202-691-4001; E-mail: fellowships@wilsoncenter.org . You can download the application from the Center's website athttp://www.wilsoncenter.org/fellowships . Application deadline: October 2, 2006

Call for Papers
Sexual histories: bodies and desires uncovered
23/24/25 July 2007
XfI Centre, University of Exeter

Key Note Speakers include: Professor Joan Cadden, UC Davis Professor Philippa Levine, University of Southern California

Histories of bodies and sexuality remain dominated by categories of analysis drawn from contemporary, Western society despite awareness that to do so is potentially misleading, euro-centric and anachronistic. Narratives of change about sexual histories are dominated by ideas about repression and liberation, and historical investigations continue to be framed by modern concepts such as homosexuality and pornography. This conference seeks papers on a wide range of topics across all time periods and disciplines, addressing issues to do with both practice and representation. It is hoped that through such interdisciplinary exchange we can discuss and develop strategies for approaching the study of sex, bodies and desires which are both sensitive to the nuances and complexities of past sexual cultures and able to speak to contemporary concerns and non-specialist audiences. We would especially like to encourage discussion of the following topics:
> sexuality and the life cycle
> body shape, presentation and desire
> transsexuality and intersex
>unusual sexual practices
> rape and sexual violence
> pornography and its politics non-European perspectives.

If you are interested in presenting a paper at this conference, please could you contact Dr Sarah Toulalan either at the History Department, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ or by email at S.D.Toulalan@ex.ac.uk with a title and abstract by 31 October 2006.

Women and Society Conference

15th Women & Society Conference NOVEMBER 3 & 4, 2006 Marist College, Poughkeepsie New York

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Proposals and abstracts are being solicited for the 2006 Women & SocietyConference. This feminist conference is interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary, covering all aspects of women & gender being studied in the academy. The conference mentors and models feminist inquiry/scholarship for undergraduate students so joint faculty/student papers and excellent student papers are also considered, undergraduates may attend at no cost. Please send your 250 word abstract with a brief bio. Papers, workshops, roundtables and panels are welcome, please include abstracts and bios for all participants, with one contact person. Please include all contact information--including home and e-mail addresses for summer correspondence to: Women & Society Conference c/o Jo Anne Myers Fontaine 315 School of Liberal Arts Marist College Poughkeepsie, NY 12601For more information e-mail: JA.MYERS@MARIST.EDU Proposals must be postmarked no later than June 26, 2006

call for submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Race, Gender, Disability and Employment in Higher Education: Real Employment Experiences by Real People
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I am soliciting submissions for an anthology tentatively titled Race,Gender, Disability and Employment in Higher Education: Real Employment Experiences by Real People, with the intention of having it published and distributed by the Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) in 2007. I am specifically seeking personal stories and/or scholarly works written by and about employees with disabilities, and their employment-related experiences in higher education. Writers are requested to identify their racial/cultural backgrounds, gender, and description of their impairments when submitting works (will be included in any published bio statements), as well as their status as either current or past higher educationemployees. Tentative topics may include works addressing: Challenges; Passing (experiences related to invisibility, and/or shielding ones'identity);Coming Out (experiences related to becoming comfortable and "open"about any combination of identities); Relationships (may involve sexual orientation andother sexual experiences); Accommodations, Consequences, and Other (I am open to "other" possibilities and experiences contributors might offer). This publication has great potential to be appealing to those interested in disability studies, diversity studies, psychology, sociology and otheracademic departments as well as AHEAD Members, and the students served. To be considered for the anthology, writers are invited to submit a draft manuscript outline or proposal to the editor by May 5, 2007. Final original, unpublished manuscripts of up to 8,000 words (approximately 10 to 25 typed pages in 12-point type), double-spaced, and printed on one side of the paper are due to the editor December 1, 2007. Earlier completed submissions encouraged. Target publication date is expected to be summer 2007. Submissions must be typed as a Microsoft word document and sent electronically to the editor, along with a cover sheet with the writer's name, address, telephone number, email address, and brief biographical paragraph which includes racial/cultural identification, gender and disability diagnosis. Submissions will not be returned. Submissions and questions are to be directed to the editor, Dr. Mary Lee Vance at mvance@uwsuper.edu

Conference announcement

The 3rd Christina Conference on Women’s Studies & The 4th European Gender & ICT symposium

Gender, Images and Global Contexts, March 8–10, 2007, University of Helsinki, Finland

Gender, Images and Global Contexts brings together two successful conferences: the Christina Conference on Women’s Studies, organized in Helsinki in 2003 and 2005 and the European Gender and ICT symposium, previously organized in Amsterdam (2003), Brussels (2004) and Manchester (2005). It explores the challenging phenomena of gender and ICT that take place in-between the cultural images and societal contexts in the processes where the local intertwine with the global. We invite scholars, students, educators, policy makers and other practitioners to consider the challenges and possibilities brought forth by global information and communication technologies for working practices, education and feminist theorization. The conference aims to be a meeting point for researchers from different disciplines and research schools. We invite abstracts addressing gender and ICT from the perspectives of
* cultural images- representations of gender, sexuality and technology, or, of gendered agency in technically mediated society and digital culture
* work - design, production and use processes, work and technology, new forms of work in technically mediated society, global economy and global division of work
* education and policy - teaching and learning using ICT; gender and e-learning; gendered ways of learning technology, including learning styles and pedagogies; design of ICTs in education, policies of inclusion.
* feminist theory- theorizing the phenomenon of gender and ICT in between images and global processes of trade and work; gender inscriptions in ICT and in computing science.

Organisers: Christina Institute, University of Helsinki and Department of Women’s Studies, University of Tampere, and HILMA- University Network of Women's Studies.

Fee -- sorry, no grants available! 120 euros (paid before Jan 15, 2007) 50 euros for (unwaged and undergraduate) students 150/70 euros after January 15, 2007.

Dates: Conference web-site:> http://www.helsinki.fi/kristiina-instituutti/conference/index.htm

Spring Workshop: The Women's Studies Research Centre (HKU)

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Spring Workshop The Women's Studies Research Centre & the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong Date: 13 May, 2006 (Saturday) Time: 9.30 - 1.00 pm
Venue: The Reading Room, Centre of Asian Studies, Tang Chi Ngong Building, Room G-4 (Ground Floor), The University of Hong Kong website: http://www.hku.hk/wsrcweb/

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TOPIC: GOOD WOMEN, BAD WOMEN IN CHINESE COMMUNITIES: NEW RESEARCH, NEW REALITIES

This year's Spring Workshop highlights new and ongoing research in the domain of Hong Kong Women's/Gender Studies? The four papers to be presented reflect a range of methodologies and interdisciplinary perspectives, as well as a solid commitment to foregrounding individual women's lived experiences and narratives. Discussion and dialogue between audience and presenters will follow the formal papers.

(1) THE MAKING OF A 'GOOD MOTHER' IN POST-WAR HONG KONG NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES Anita Kit-wa Chan ( Dept of Mathematics, Science, Social Sciences & Technology, The Hong Kong Institute of Education) & Wai-ling Wong (Centre of Asian Studies, HKU)

It is increasingly recognized that a mother is not born but made and a 'good mother' is a social construction which, however, can exert itself as a transparent truth, regulating and disciplining women's desires, identities and behavior. This paper is particularly interested in exploring whether and how a Hong Kong version of the ideal woman/mother exists. Based on an investigation of the articles and advertisements in local newspapers and magazines from 1950 to 1980s, we will show that at least two prominent versions have emerged in the local context in the post-war period: 'the caring mother' and 'the supermom'. With the rise of women's educational level and labor force participation, 'the supermom' seems to be the more dominant discourse but we would argue that 'the caring mother' remains to be central of what constitutes a 'good woman'.

(2) MOTHERING STORIES AND CAREER STRATEGIES: HONG KONG ACCOUNTS AND POTENTIAL FOR CHANGE May Partridge Free-lance writer and consultant (Ph.D., HKU)

This presentation will offer three stories about mothering in Hong Kong. Each corresponds with a particular type of career strategy followed there by university and college-educated women in the years 1980 to 2000. These women have had to manage an enormous struggle to enter and stay in the paid labour force; certain kinds of story-making and strategizing have therefore been necessary to manage this effort. However, there is evidence that along with present-day careers, the stories and strategies of earlier years are growing increasingly difficult to maintain. What possibilities exist for new stories, new strategies, and therefore, new kinds of careers?

(3) PRESIDING GENIUS OF THEIR OWN BODIES: FEMINISTS AT THE MARGINS IN CHINESE COMMUNITIES Petula Sik Ying Ho (Department of Social Work & Social Administration, HKU)

Many Hong Kong authors have looked at the women's movement in Hong Kong as a form of identity politics. In their writing of the feminist history of Hong Kong, they have tried to trace the transformation of Hong Kong women's collective identities through analyzing public discourses on selected women's issues. In recent years, there are others who have noted a gap in the movement and argued for a space to explore women's sexuality and desire. I would like to add a footnote to the two trends of writing feminist history by looking at a number of young women who present themselves as independent political actors who engage in feminist practices. They are not the core members of any woman's organizations, but claim that their main concerns are with gender issues and feminism in the broad sense. A mong them is Choi Fung, a 28 year old, M.Phil. student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. With reference to Choi Fung's case, I will focus on the lives of women who have refused to be pin ned down as conventional feminists and are often being seen as 'bad' women. Special emphasis will on be how they use their selves including their bodies as 'a stage' for the performance of their identities as women. Their employment of different media, for example, video and theatre, in engaging with what they think are feminist practices/interventions, is particularly worthy of note.

(4) BUREAUCRATIC JUSTICE: THE INCARCERATION OF MAINLAND CHINESE WOMEN WORKING IN HONG KONG'S SEX INDUSTRY Robyn Emerton, Karen-Joe Laidler, and Carole Petersen (Department of Law & Department of Sociology, HKU)

Since Hong Kong's return to the People's Republic of China on 1 July 1997, there has been an exponential growth in the number of mainland Chinese visitors to Hong Kong. The 2000s have also been marked by a dramatic increase in the number of mainland Chinese women engaging in sex work in Hong Kong. Although sex work itself is not illegal in Hong Kong, a mainland Chinese woman cannot legally work in Hong Kong without an employment visa, which will not be issued for sex work. Thousands of mainland Chinese women are being arrested, prosecuted and sentenced each year in Hong Kong for involvement in sex work, and Hong Kong's female prison population has consequently boomed. This presentation summarizes the results of 58 qualitative interviews with women incarcerated in Hong Kong and presents data on their socio-economic backgrounds, their motivations for coming to Hong Kong, the extent to which they were fully informed about the nature of the work and the risks of being arrested, and their experiences in Hong Kong's criminal justice system. ( The interviews were conducted by Ms. Lau Garlum and the project was funded by a grant from the University of Hong Kong's Small Project Funding Programme).

Research on Women in Modern Chinese History (Vol.13, Dec 2005)

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_Research on Women in Modern Chinese History_
Vol.13 (Dec 2005)
Special Issue: Transcending the Boundaries of Research on Women's History in Modern China
Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
website: http://www.sinica.edu.tw/~women
contact: cmwise@gate.sinica.edu.tw
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CONTENTS:* Introduction (by Chien-ming Yu) p.i

SCHOLARLY NOTES:* Discovering Tradition through Gender: A Reflection on Women History Studies of the Ming Dynasty (by Li-yueh Lin) p.1* Literary Experience and Body Politics: Directions in the Studies of Women's Literature of the Qing (by Siao-chen Hu) p.27* To Supplement History or Rewrite History? Studies of Modern Chinese and Taiwanese Women's History in Taiwan over the Past Twenty-Five Years (by Chien-ming Yu) p.65* Women, Gender, and Others: Research on Modern Chinese Women's History in Mainland China and Hong Kong during Recent Twenty Years and Its Prospective Development (by Hon-ming Yip) p.107* What's in a Field? Women, China, History, and the "What Next?" Question (by Gail Hershatter) p.167* What's in a Field? Women, China, History, and the "What Next?" Question (by Gail Hershatter; translated by Fang-chen Yu, Yi-chun Yeh , Ya-chun Mo) p.197

SPEECH:* The Violence of the Everyday in late-Qing China (by Rebecca E. Karl; translated by Yen-wei Miao) p.217

REPORT ON RECENT TRENDS IN SCHOLARSHIP:* Women's History: Past, Present, and Future -- Reflections by Women's Historians in the United States (edited by Yen-chuan Yu; summarized and translated by Shu-ching Chang, Ying-Chih Chen, Yan-chiou Wu, Fei-yi Chang) p.245* Japanese Studies of Modern Chinese Women's History -- 2000-2005 (by Mizuyo SUDO) p.279BOOK REVIEWS:* Hu Siao-chen's Cainu cheye weimian: Contributions and Questions (by Ellen Widmer) p.295* Funu, Nuxing, Nuren and Ecriture Feminine: The Development of Chinese Feminism (by Siao-yan Peng) p.305* Modern Women in Chinese Urban Culture (by Poshek Fu) p.315

'Modernisation, Modernity,and the Media in China' Conference, 16 June 2006, London

‘Modernisation, Modernity and the Media in China’ Conference, China Media Centre, University of Westminster'
15th - 16th June 2006

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The China Media Centre (CMC) at the University of Westminster is pleased to announce a two-day conference on ‘Modernisation, Modernity and the Media inChina’ that will be held at University’s Harrow Campus (London) on the 15th and 16th June 2006. for details, see the conference website:
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-1264

relevant article in JWH

_Journal of Women's History_ Volume 18, Number 1, 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_womens_history/toc/jowh18.1.html

Smith, Norman. "The Difficulties of Despair: Dan Di and Chinese Literary Production in Manchukuo"

KEYWORDS
Di, Dan, 1916-1995
Criticism and interpretation
Politics and literature
China - Manchuria - History - 20th century

ABSTRACT
In the Japanese colonial state of Manchukuo (1932-1945) a critical Chinese-language literature emerged to shine a light on the failure of colonial authorities to actualize the socio-political ideology through which they sought to legitimize their rule. This article analyzes Dan Di's literary legacy to problematize received interpretations of Japanese rule in Manchukuo. Dan was partly educated in Manchukuo and in Japan, and used the educational and career opportunities offered her to establish a career as a cultural critic. Under Japanese colonial auspices, she aspired to realize her potential as a Chinese new woman writer, determined to act as a spokesperson for the underprivileged. Ironically, the critical nature of her writings fueled the anti-Manchukuo narratives that led to her own downfall, as any success in such an oppressive context was deemed suspect. Dan Di's career underscores the vital endurance of Chinese May Fourth-inspired ideals of the new woman in a Japanese colonial context.

New Book: China's American Daughter (CUP)

Forthcoming in April 2006 ISBN: 962-996-057-5 website: http://www.chineseupress.com/english/e_front_page.htm
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
This book is a chronicle of a bicultural woman, Ida Pruitt, who was born in the 19th century of American missionaries, raised in a small Chinese village and lived in her adopted country for fifty years. She brought an almost unique perspective to her notable oral history, __A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman__ and to other writings and translations. Her work with the Chinese poor at the Peking Union Medical College established social casework in China. Ida Pruitt became an organizer of the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives in Nationalist and Communist regions and early advocated U.S. diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dr Marjorie King is Visiting Scholar in the Department of East Asian Studies Department, University of Arizona. Her research interests are in American religious and secular reform in late 19th-20th century China, and the revived Chinese Industrial Cooperatives. She has published on American missionary women, the Rockefeller Foundation's Peking Union Medical College, and the American Committee for the Promotion of the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives.

Age and the Body SAMLA convention

Age and the Body: Special Session 2006 SAMLA Convention: 10-12 November; Charlotte, NC
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Topic: Informed by recent developments in critical age studies, literary scholars have begun to reconsider how age operates through and on the body within texts. We invite submissions from all periods and genres, with topics including but not limited to:

childhood adolescence
widowhood
death and dying
the prime of life
old age
youth
babyhood
middle-age
pregnancy/fertility
plastic surgery
Viagra and other efforts to defy aging
weight loss / weight gain
the fountain of youth
impotence
pedophilia
sexuality
performances of age.

Submission deadline: April 1, 2006

Send inquiries or submissions to Esther Godfrey at egodfrey@utk.edu .

Per SAMLA guidelines, please include the following information with your submission.
1. Panelist Name and Institution as this information should appear in the convention program.
2. Panelist Address: street, city, state, zip
3. Panelist Phone Number: area code and number
4. Panelist Email address
5. AV Equipment Request: Due to the high cost of AV equipment and the miscommunication between panelist and chair and the SAMLA office, all AV requests must be made in writing by the panelist and included with each panelist proposal to the session chair. If a panelist does not wish to have any AV equipment, this information must also be included. No completed program listing submitted by the chair will be accepted without these written AV requests by the panelists.
6. Panelist proposal, Session Title, Name

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