the direction of Lindy Hess, has provided students an intensive introduction to the publishing world. More than 100 publishing professionals come to the course each summer to lecture. Past speakers include Bennett Cerf, (Chris Cerf's father who founded Random House), John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, and John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Chris Cerf is one of the most prolific and actively creative people in New York. He's played a significant role in the creation and production of the Sesame Street, most notably as a regular contributor of music and lyrics, and as producer of many of its music albums. He's won two Grammys and three Emmys for songwriting and music production for the show. Since writing and performing his first song for Sesame Street, "Count It Higher" in 1972, he's written or co-written more than 200 songs featured on the program, including "Put Down the Duckie," "The Word Is No," "Dance Myself to Sleep," "Monster in the Mirror," and such notable parody songs as "Born To Add," "Letter B," and "Furry Happy Monsters." You remember those, kids; no?
Since Sesame Street's first season in 1970, Chris has also played a pivotal role in the ongoing funding of the show. He also founded and served as the original editor-in-chief of Sesame Workshop's books, records, and toys division.
In addition to his contributions to Sesame Street, there's musical material that has been performed on Saturday Night Live, The National Lampoon Radio Hour, The Electric Company, Square One Television, Between the Lions, and in numerous Muppet productions. His songs have been performed by such stars as Paul Simon, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, R.E.M., James Taylor, Tony Bennett, The Dixie Chicks, Tracy Chapman, Carol Channing, Randy Travis, The Four Tops, Melissa Etheridge, Smokey Robinson, Bonnie Raitt, Wynton Marsalis, Little Richard, B.B. King, Jimmy Buffett, Bart Simpson, and the Metropolitan Opera's José Carreras—not to mention the blond, curly-haired Muppet character from Sesame Street who is his namesake and the lead singer of the rock group "Chrissy and the Alphabeats."
Before joining Sesame Street, Chis spent eight years as a senior editor at Random House where he worked with such diverse authors as George Plimpton, Andy Warhol, Abbie Hoffman, Ray Bradbury, and Dr. Seuss. In 1993, he renewed his ties to Random House when he assumed the role of Chairman of the Modern Library's Board of Advisors.
One of his best-known projects (I told you; this guy never sleeps) was the editing and production of Marlo Thomas & Friends' Free To Be...A Family book, album and TV special. The book reached #1 on The New York Times bestseller list within a week of its publication in 1987, and the show received a prime-time Emmy as the year's outstanding children's special.
Cerf and Thomas recently collaborated again, co-editing and co-producing Thanks & Giving: All Year Long, a book and CD about generosity and sharing (and their polar opposites, selfishness and thoughtlessness). Royalties from the project, for which Thomas and Cerf won a 2006 Grammy Award, go to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, founded by Thomas's father, Danny Thomas, in 1962.
And if that's not enough, he's also served as Executive Producer, and Music and Audio Producer, of Between the Lions, the children's literacy series that his company, Sirius Thinking, Ltd., created for PBS.
Between the Lions has twice won the Television Critics' Award as the nation's outstanding children's television program, and, in its six seasons on the air, the show has amassed six Emmy Awards. (In 2006, Between the Lions was nominated for three more Emmys, including Outstanding Children's Show.) In two independent studies, conducted by the University of Kansas and Mississippi State University, the program has also demonstrated success in helping kids – including those at the highest risk of literacy failure – to learn how to read.
The general public know him best for his work as an author and satirist. In 1970, he helped launch the National Lampoon, serving as a Contributing Editor from its first issue until the mid-1970s, and in 1978, he co-conceived and co-edited the journalistic parody Not the New York Times. The Experts Speak, the "compendium of authoritative misinformation" that Cerf co-authored with Victor Navasky in 1984, has recently been reissued. In 1986, Cerf collaborated with National Lampoon colleague Henry Beard on The Pentagon Catalog: Ordinary Products at Extraordinary Prices, which offered readers the historic opportunity to obtain a free hex nut—valued at $2,043 by the McDonnell Douglas Corporation—with every copy they purchased. The Official Politically Correct Dictionary, also written with Beard, first appeared in 1992.
But I digress: The party at Chris Cerf's home was a great way for students to interact with industry leaders. In attendance were Nicholas Callaway, Ed Victor and Lena Tabori from Welcome Books, just to name a few. Share the wealth is a Cerf philososphy.
Also at the party Paige Peterson and Chris unveiled the first copy of their book Blackie The Horse Who Stood Still which was illustrated by Paige as well as written by Cerf and Peterson and published by Welcome Books.
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The Wreckage Wrought By A Marauding Minority
by Keith Schneider December 26, 2012 December 6, 2014
Along the Champs Elysees on Christmas Day, nobody worried about getting gunned down in the street, or about a marauding minority political party bent on wrecking the nation. Photo/Keith Schneider
PARIS — Along the Champs Elysees' on Christmas night, an angels' envy of rope-thin LED halos — colors shifting from red to blue to white — circled the trees and lit the broad boulevard where thousands of people strolled carefree. Nobody worried about the sick and the deranged wielding assault weapons capable of mowing children down like wheat toppled by a stout wind. People stood in line at a theater, clearly unconcerned that the movie inside could be the last one they watched.
Paris, where I've alighted this week, is the largest city (2.2 million residents) in one of the world's largest democracies (population 65.6 million). And while there are issues aplenty here, neither the city nor the nation are undermined by a marauding minority bent on wrecking order and stability from within.
That is not true at home. In the United States, this was a Christmas of consideration for what we've allowed ourselves to become. The murders of 20 children in Newtown, Connecticut was a chilling disaster for the country. Newtown crystalized the accumulation of tragedies that have weakened the nation – terrorist attack, financial meltdown, climate-warming fires and floods, mass murder, governing deceit and fecklessness. More significantly, the massacre clarified the principal cause — a reckless and dangerous minority, armed with a governing strategy constructed from the raw materials of greed and fear, and firing with indiscriminate recklessness the bullets of inflexible ideology.
The central issue for America's intelligent, world-aware, reality-respectful president and his progressive supporters is pretty straightforward: How to stamp out the renegade threat. That campaign, it seems to me, encompasses four essential components:
1. Recognize the danger. As I noted in an earlier ModeShift post, the progression of nationally injurious events — from the Supreme Court's sanction of President Bush's hanging-chad victory to 9/11 to the Newtown massacre — are directly tied to the Republican Party's dangerously diligent agenda. The United States has sustained 13 straight years of national body blows.
It is about to sustain another. House Republicans are defying their own House leadership. They are pushing the country to another fiscal confrontation that weakens our financial credibility and could thwart the recovery. The illogical dimensions of what's happening defy reason. House Republicans refuse a modest increase in taxes for the top 2 percent richest wage earners and businesses to provide more federal revenue to lower the deficit. Because of the peculiar strictures of a deficit-reducing bill negotiated a year ago, the result of what these right wing lawmakers and their supporters clearly see as a matter of principle is that taxes will rise for all Americans.
In the world of reality where most of us live, there is absolutely no logic to what the right is doing. But in the world of fabricated reality, invented enemies, made up facts, and delusion where the right operates today, it makes pefect sense to block a tax hike on the richest Americans that has the effect of producing a tax hike on all Americans. After all, this is the same party that argues that teaching kids how to gang rush adults, and cries for more guns in schools are sensible answers to preventing mass murder in schools.
2. Understand the right's shrunken electoral influence. The Republican Party represents a minority of American voters, and its reach is steadily diminishing. Outside of the Deep South states, President Obama swept Mitt Romney by more than 10 percentage points in the 2012 election. House Republicans argue that they have a mandate since so many lawmakers won their districts by margins exceeding 60 percent to 40 percent. But a lot of that influence is due to the geographically insane redrawing of House district lines — an exercise undertaken by state legislatures every 10 years — in a way to maximize conservative voting patterns. The total 2012 national vote for all House seats, though, showed the same result as the presidential vote: The Democratic tally was millions of votes larger than the Republican tally.
3. Talk about this in public. Conservatives succeeded over the last two decades to command
the public arena by being fearless and articulate. They demonized the progressive press. They temporarily removed the word "liberal" from the political lexicon. They silenced or redirected the national discussion of climate change, gun violence, the deficit, terrorism, and war. They did this by citing made up facts, broadcasting them on commercial radio and Fox News, and by drawing together a melange of emotional concerns – guns, gays, abortion, and race – to rally support among a ragged group of largely white, older, suburban and rural voters.
The terrible national consequences of the Republican Party's dogma are indisputable and perfectly visible. There are bound to be Republicans who are capable of seeing reason and don't want to be complicit. Democrats need to reach out to them even as they talk about the record of violence that Republican dogma has produced, and that is now killing children, obliterating facts, and damaging the nation. Reasonable people who support Republican candidates need to be asked, time and again, why they are countenancing such a reckless agenda? Why do they reject the science of climate change when droughts and storms and floods are proving the accuracy of computer climate models? Why are they fighting restrictions on assault weapons and putting their children and ours in harm's way? How is it that they can fight so hard for the unborn and care so little for those that are born? Just as being a member of the white supremacists, the skinheads, and the Klan carries a black mark, voting for this Republican Party needs to be seen by Democrats and by reasonable conservatives as a social stigma.
4. Actively support President Obama and fearless progressive candidates. The Republican Party has grown weaker and meaner. They represent a real threat to the American economy and to personal safety. Their record of policy making and governing over the last decade reflects an allegiance to one sacrosanct principle: making the very rich richer. Elections are still sacred institutions in the United States. We just elected a president who has the capacity to be truly great. He needs active, consistent, enthusiastic support. The rational among us owe him and the country the strongest measures of our allegiance.
— Keith Schneider
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richard kooyman says:
The paradox is how has a minority party become such a damaging influence to our society? The answer, I feel, is in understanding that they are not simply a marauding minority but rather a highly organized, deeply funded political force. The recent anti-labor legislation passed in Michigan was not achieved by an illogical group, but a highly ideological, politically active, body funded by Michigan's wealthiest man, Dick Devos and masterminded by the right wing think tanks he bank rolls. Their logic is one of complete capital control based on Christian religious dogma.
I agree with all of your assessment Keith with one exception. The Democratic party along with President Obama has been egregiously complicit in a two party political system that too often kicks the can down the road on issues of poverty, the environment, and race. Our best effort to address these issues is in not simply providing President Obama with unconditional support but rather pressuring him to step out of his centrist position, to move beyond merely being a president who wants to find common ground between these two parties, to a president that leads us in a truly meaningful new direction.
Keith Schneider says:
Well said and well argued. I didn't know Devos was involved. The young Congressman from his Grand Rapids district is a big player in opposing the fiscal cliff deal.
jim dulzo says:
Your thoughts on Newtown, and your follow-up here, are right on. The only thing I would change is that I don't think these whackos are destroying the country on purpose. They actually do believe they are right and that this is what will save America. It's just that they are whackos who can't think straight because they've been very effectively taught to hate liberals.
To me, the gun argument is no different than what was behind Karl Rove's election night meltdown–the bubble these people live in is completely fact-free. Some know that and don't care because they've been winning with flat-out lying for quite awhile; while others simply don't know that. But they've been so poisoned by hate radio and TV–starting way back in the '70s with Pat Robertson and Limbaugh–that ANY position taken by a non-right wing ultra conservative is not only wrong, but proves the person holding it is an idiot. It works for any topic you can think of, including all of those in your new post.
Facts don't matter with these people; only power does. That is what Newton and all of us are now coming to grips with: whether it's the economy or the climate or public safety or better food or anything else, it's making sure the power resides with the friends of the big banks, oil companies, agribusiness or whatever. That's ALL that matters, as the NRA President-Jerkoff so masterfully proved in his statement on Friday. I have not seen the whole thing but the backlash against it has been just terrific.
I do think, however, that they've dealt themselves out of a seat at the table as legislation moves forward. I think it will be like Johnson passing the Civil Rights Act–a real landmark change that, while not having an immediate effect like putting 200,000 new heavily armed cops in classrooms might have in one or two instances, will point us back in a different direction.
I do think NRA has been a big part of a longterm strategy to disembowel all government and deliver all decision-making away from liberals and toward gun-toting conservatives. But, quite literally, that strategy is now blowing up in their faces. As you said, Newton is wealthy and picket-fence-safe; now even rich, disconnected, above-it-all suburbanites see that there literally is nowhere for them or their children to run. These largely Republican areas were/are complicit in letting it get this bad.
Lawrence O'Donnel had quite a take on the NRA guy (whose name I refuse to learn) on his MSNBC show Friday. Lawrence is frequently hyperbolic, but everything he says here seems completely true to me, including calling the NRA guy a desperate rat! You might want to check it out just for some additional perspective:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/22/lawrence-odonnell-nra-lapierre_n_2349965.html
Meanwhile, ya gotta wonder what Obama's gonna say at his State of the Union address. He's said several times now that climate change is one of the big three he's gonna work on this term. It will be interesting to see how the new Republicans work it. He only needs to break off maybe a dozen and he can actually get something done. Maybe they will fear the full force of his ground game, which he's now clearly ready to use again leading up to 2014, something he didn't do in 2010.
The Republican brand seems damaged beyond repair, and I expect he's take full advantage of that. He's already got Boehner lookin' bad for not taking his Social Security COLA offer, and Boehner's got himself lookin' bad because his caucus won't pass his precious Plan B.
Lawrence Odonnell type backlash or Democrat righteousness (no matter how right) over John Boehner's failure will not change policy or established laws.
robert a. davies says:
Keith, You are deluded if you think Obama is a progressive!
BOBBY, not deluded.It's all in context of the time. Thanks for reading and love to you and your family
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How Rural Call Centers and Social Watch Groups Help the Poor Gain Employment and Income: A Success Story from the Grassroots Level in India
IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS: Sambandh
YEARS: 2011-2013
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THEMES: Social Saftey Nets
In India, the national rural employment guarantee scheme (NREGS) aims to provide 100 days of guaranteed wage employment for all employment seekers in rural areas above 18 years of age and willing to work. However, even after many years of implementation of the scheme, the poor in remote villages of India are not benefitting enough from the scheme, mainly because of their lack of knowledge of NREGS, its rules and regulations, the benefits they are entitled to, and a fear to speak up. Typical problems are: insufficient number of days of employment provided, insufficient or no wages provided, fake job-card entries, petty corruption practiced by middlemen and contractors, and threats from vested interests. Consider the following examples:
45 poor residents of Durdura Gram- Pachayat, Jashipur had worked six weeks under the Government's rural employment generation program (NREGS), but, due to their lack of knowledge and fear of the authorities, had not been paid for one year.
Because of poor roads, Badajhili village was having major transport problems. It had been promised funding for a road, but, because of corruption, this project was awarded to another village. Illiteracy and lack of knowledge of their rights kept the villagers from complaining.
Bimbla Nayak, 35-year old, lives in Miriginondi village, Karanjia. She has a husband and children, but the husband does not earn enough and the children are too young to work. Therefore, she had been trying to get work under the employment generation scheme, but had not succeeded so far. She tried to get the necessary papers, but had not been able to get them.
15 poor residents of Deogoan village, Karanjia had not been paid for work provided under the employment generation scheme, and they were threatened by the employment generation scheme officials when they complained.
Parameswar Naik, 40 years old, lives in Badagoan village. He received a very poor education because of financial constraints, and the same thing was starting to happen to his children. When he went to the school to complain, and ask about teaching and school meals, he was told that he was illiterate and should go home.
The people and villages mentioned above are located in Jashipur and Karanjia blocks in Mayurbhanj District in India's Odisha State. The blocks have large groups of tribal populations. Although the literacy rate in those two blocks is higher than the national average, they are still quite underdeveloped. Mostly because of lack of employment and poor delivery of basic services, many people have migrated elsewhere.
In 2009, with British (DfID) aid, the Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF) awarded a grant to a grassroots civil society organization (CSO) – Sambandh – to help citizens implement a project to check corruption in these blocks by setting up Rural Call Centres and Social Watch Groups. Sambandh started its project activities in Jashipur in 2009, followed by coverage of Karanjia in 2011. This note summarizes the strategies used, results achieved, and lessons for wider use.
Governance and Corruption Problems in the Project Area
In preparing its activities in Jashipur, Sambandh found major irregularities and corrupt practices in the implementation of the NREGS program, with the rural poor frequently not getting job cards, 100 days of guaranteed employment, timely and full payment for work completed, equal treatment of men and women, and proper equipment. This was worsened by a serious lack of knowledge among those poor villagers of what they were entitled to under NREGS and by efforts of some of the authorities and middlemen to keep the villagers from knowing any better.
Actions Taken by Sambandh to Address Corruption and Poor Governance
Sambandh thus started a comprehensive project to empower the communities and to encourage them to break the culture of silence and repression, allowing them to raise their voice against the vicious cycle of corruption in the implementation of NREGS activities at the grass root level. To achieve this, Sambandh relied on rural call centres where information on NREGS and other relevant programs was to be made available (using as needed the Right to Information-RTI- law), on social watch groups to gather all local stakeholders for community decisions, and on transparency workers to reach out to the poor and help them get acquainted and provided with the necessary information to gain access to what they were entitled to.
Since the start of the project, Sambandh helped to upgrade the existing rural call centre in Jashipur, helped to establish a new rural call centre in Karanjia, trained social watch group and transparency members and workers, promoted the involvement of relevant government officials and the media, became part of a local network of CSOs, carried out substantial publicity campaigns, and tried to go beyond small-scale improvements at the local level to also gain up-scale policy improvements. All of these activities were aimed at greater transparency and accountability, ensuring that all stakeholders, starting at the lowest level, had the necessary information on the NREGS rules and regulations, how to access those, and also how to seek redress when needed.
Specifically, the strategies used and activities included:
Training programs in social audit and public hearing techniques, community score cards, and RTI for transparency workers and vigilance committees at block and district levels
Regular meetings of villagers with transparency workers
Distribution of brochures and social watch news bulletins, as well as installation of billboards on NREGS at community level
Demonstration meetings on proper planning and implementation of NREGS at block, district and state levels
Distribution of community score cards in the communities and with government officials at block and district levels
Seminar at district level to share information on NREGS implementation issues
Stakeholder workshops at block, district and state levels, including travel media workshops
Reaching out to media for publicizing NREGS policy and operational issues
Challenges Faced and Results Achieved
As a result of these activities over the course of only a few years, much was achieved. In Jashipur, 95 percent of eligible excluded households were provided with job cards and in Karanjia 90 percent, with the required 100 days of work for all cardholders. All cardholders also received their full wages of Rs 126 per day, with 80 percent receiving wages in 15 days and 20 percent in 30 days. Wages were equal for men and women. Minimum worksite facilities such as water and shade were adequate. Social watch group and transparency members and workers, as well as many villagers, became better acquainted with NREGS policies, rules and regulations, and on how to demand their rights. And finally, although still much has to be achieved, responsible government officials have started to listed to the villagers, to take corrective action, and to change rules and regulations where needed.
It is because of these activities and the hard work of Sambandh and all of the people involved- the poor villagers, the transparency workers, the social watch group members, the rural call centre staff, the media, and a host of government officials at various levels of responsibility- that the five problem cases mentioned at the beginning of this paper have a positive ending. It can be mentioned that:
Kuar Tudu, a transparency worker, was told about the lack of payment of the 45 workers in Durdura Gram , and made them aware of the law, regulations and rights, as well as the need for them to raise their voices against this injustice. A village meeting was held, and a written complaint was submitted to the responsible authorities. When there was still no corrective action, 30 people demonstrated in front of the government office, and forced a decision. As a result, within three days the 45 workers were paid.
Noha Tudu, a ward member, became aware of the road problem in Badajhili village, and organized a village meeting to collect and share information. Based on an understanding of their rights, the villagers went to the authorities, who then promised that the next road work would be undertaken in their village. As a result, the villagers can now expect an end to their transport problems, and have gained the knowledge and confidence to speak up when needed.
Transparency and other social workers were told of Bimbla Nayak's plight. She was informed about the employment generation scheme, and how to file an application. She was also told to keep a receipt of her application, and that she was entitled to an unemployment allowance if she did not get work within 15 days. However, she did get work, and now is able to provide financial support to her family.
A transparency worker heard about the lack of payment and the threats against 15 workers in Deogoan village, and arranged a village meeting to inform the residents of the law and their rights. Despite efforts by some interested parties to suppress the information, the transparency worker did manage to get the necessary information. He then contributed to getting this published in the local newspaper. As a result, the 15 workers received their long-overdue payment within a few days.
A transparency worker told Mr Parameswar Naik about the Right to Information (RTI) law and about how to file for information. Again, various people with other interests urged him to stop his efforts, but he persisted, and filed the necessary RTI documentation with the help of the transparency worker and some social workers. He then received official information on the number of authorized teachers at the school, as well as on the free lunches supposed to be provided to the students each week, and he shared this information with his fellow villagers. As a result of this new information, and at the urging of all villagers, the teachers are now attending school regularly and a timetable for the school lunch is now published.
The overall positive outcome of the Sambandh activities has been confirmed by various sources. Sambandh produced its own project completion report, which documented the results of the project in great detail, and this was confirmed through an independent assessment by PRIA, an Indian CSO contracted by PTF.
Although the Sambandh activities only covered a small part of Odisha State, let alone of India, the result of its activities over the course of only a few years confirm that the CAC approach is the right one: fight corruption by providing people with knowledge, the will, the ability, and the support needed to speak up and fight injustice. Get them trained and encouraged to pursue their own interests. In other words, "give them voice". At the same time, ensure the cooperation of responsible government officials, in which effort the media can often play a major role. Indeed, the involvement of all major stakeholders is of critical importance.
It should be noted that the project outcome was to be expected, since the approach of capacitating and enabling people to handle their own interests has worked around the world. As again shown in Jashipur and Karanjia, corruption is a disease, and it can be fought at the grass root operational decision level, as well as at higher policy decision levels!
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Jiangnan o Jiang Nan (, talvolta indicata come Kiang-nan, letteralmente "a sud del fiume") è un'area geografica in Cina riferita alle terre immediatamente a sud del basso corso del Fiume Azzurro, comprendente la parte sud del delta del fiume. La regione comprende la città di Shanghai, la parte meridionale della provincia dello Jiangsu, la parte sud-orientale della provincia di Anhui, la parte settentrionale della provincia di Jiangxi e la parte settentrionale dello Zhejiang. Le città più importanti della zona sono Shanghai, Anqing, Changzhou, Hangzhou, Nanchino, Ningbo, Shaoxing, Suzhou, Wuxi, Wenzhou e Zhenjiang.

Jiangnan è stata a lungo considerata una delle regioni più prospere della Cina grazie alla sua ricchezza in risorse naturali e un elevato sviluppo demografico. La gente della regione parla mandarino Jiangnan e cinese wu come  madrelingua.

Etimologia
Il termine Jiangnan deriva dal nome finesse del Fiume Azzurro, Cháng Jiāng, e nán che significa "sud." Nel XIX secolo, la gente di lingua inglese la chiamava Keang-nan.

Storia

Le prime testimonianze archeologiche sono relative alla Cultura di Majiabang e di quella di Hemudu. La successiva cultura Liangzhu, dal 2600-2000 a.C. circa, creò artefatti complessi di giada. La loro economia era basata sulla coltivazione del riso, sulla pesca e sulla costruzione di case su palafitte su fiumi o laghi. Durante la dinastia Zhou, i popoli  Wu e Baiyue abitavano la zona ed erano dediti all'agricoltura e alla costruzione di case su palafitte, ma andarono sempre più cinesizzandosi attraverso il contatto con gli stati cinesi del nord. Adottarono il sistema di scrittura cinese e crearono eccellenti spade di bronzo. Lo  stato Chu da ovest (in Hubei) si espanse in questa zona e sconfisse gli Yue. Dopo che lo stato Chu fu conquistato dai  stato Qin, la Cina venne unificata. Solo dopo la caduta della dinastia Jin occidentale all'inizio del IV secolo, i cinesi del nord si trasferirono nello Jiangnan in numero significativo. La valle del Fiume Giallo stava diventando sterile a causa di inondazioni (dovute alla mancanza di alberi dopo il loro taglio per creare terreni agricoli) e continue vessazioni, e l'invasione da parte dei nomadi Wu Hu.

Sebbene la civiltà cinese abbia avuto origine nella pianura della Cina del Nord attorno al Fiume Giallo, i cambiamenti climatici naturali e le continue molestie da parte dei nemici nomadi danneggiarono la produzione agricola durante il primo millennio. Molte persone si trasferirono nella Cina meridionale, dove il clima caldo e umido della zona di Jiangnan era ideale per sostenere l'agricoltura e consentire il sorgere di città altamente sofisticate. Già nella dinastia Han orientale (circa II secolo), le aree di Jiangnan erano diventate una delle zone economicamente più importanti della Cina. Oltre al riso, Jiangnan coltivava prodotti commerciali altamente redditizi come il tè, la seta e la porcellana celadon(Shangyu). Comodi mezzi di trasporto - quali il Gran Canale a nord, il fiume Azzurro a ovest e porti marittimi come Yangzhou - contribuirono notevolmente al commercio locale e a quello tra l'antica Cina e altre nazioni.

Diverse dinastie cinesi ebbero sede a Jiangnan. Dopo la caduta della dinastia Qin, lo stato insurrezionale dei  Chu prese il controllo. Il loro sovrano, Xiang Yu era nato lì. Durante il periodo dei Tre Regni, Jianye (l'attuale Nanchino) era la capitale del Wu orientale. Nel III secolo, molti cinesi del nord si trasferirono nello Jiangnan dopo che gruppi nomadi assunsero il controllo del nord. Nel X secolo, Wuyue era un piccolo regno costiero fondato da Qian Liu che ebbe un impatto culturale duraturo sullo Jiangnan e la sua gente fino ad oggi. Dopo che gli  Jurchen sottomisero completamente la Cina settentrionale, nelle guerra Jin-Song degli anni 1020, l'esiliata dinastia Song si ritirò a sud, stabilendo la nuova capitale della dinastia Song meridionale a Hangzhou nel 1127.

Durante gli ultimi anni della dinastia Yuan, Jiangnan fu combattuta da due principali stati ribelli: Zhu Yuanzhang  fazione Ming, con sede a Nanchino, e Suzhou - fazione centrale di Wu guidata da Zhang Shicheng. Una rivalità decennale si concluse con la cattura di Suzhou da parte di Zhu nel 1367. Avendo così riunificato lo Jiangnan, Zhu si autoproclamò il primo imperatore della dinastia Ming il giorno del Capodanno cinese (20 gennaio) del 1368, e pochi mesi dopo espulse anche i mongoli dalla Cina settentrionale. Nanchino rimase la capitale della dinastia Ming fino all'inizio del XV secolo, quando il terzo sovrano Ming, Yongle, trasferì la capitale a Pechino.

Quando la dinastia Qing entrò per la prima volta in Cina, la nobiltà di Jiangnan offrì resistenza negando di pagare le tasse al governo.

L'imperatore Qianlong dei Qing visitò diverse volte Jiangnan (), che sono stati soggetto di numerosi drammi popolari di opera cinese. In precedenza, anche l'imperatore Kangxi aveva visitato la regione.

Dopo la rivolta dei Taiping, nel XIX secolo, il regime costituito dai ribelli Taiping occupò lo Jiangnan creando la sua capitale a Nanchino. L'area risultò molto danneggiata quando la ribellione fu sedata e restaurato l'impero Qing.

Dopo la caduta della dinastia Qing, nel 1911, e la Spedizione del Nord di Chiang Kai-shek, la  Repubblica di Cina (ROC), a seguito dei desideri di Sun Yat-sen, rese Nanchino la capitale nazionale. Dalla fine degli anni 1920 fino alla seconda guerra mondiale, l'area di Jiangnan era al centro dello sviluppo economico cinese. Gran parte dell'élite dirigente del Kuomintang e l'élite economica della ROC provenivano dall'area di Jiangnan.

Identità geografica

Anche il dialetto venne usato come strumento per l'identità e la politica regionale in Jiangbei e Jiangnan. La città di Yangzhou, che era un fiorente e prospero centro di commercio, era considerata parte del Jiangnan (a sud del fiume), che era noto per essere ricco, anche se si trovava a nord del Fiume Azzurro. Una volta che la ricchezza e prosperità di Yangzhou cominciarono a calare, venne considerata parte del Jiangbei, e detta "ristagno". Dopo che Yangzhou venne separata dallo Jiangnan, i suoi abitanti decisero di sostituire il Mandarino, che era il dialetto di Yangzhou, con il Taihu Wu. Nello stesso Jiangnan, diversi sottodialetti di  Wu combatterono per una posizione di prestigio dialettale.

Città importanti
Hangzhou - storica capitale della dinastia Song.
Nanchino - storica capitale di diversi periodi nella storia della Cina.
Nantong - città prefettura della provincia di Jiangsu.
Ningbo - città sub provinciale nel nord-est della provincia dello Zhejiang.
Shanghai - uno dei centri più importanti della Cina dal punto di viste economico e finanziario.
Suzhou - famosa per I suoi canali e le belle architetture di templi e giardini.
Wenzhou - città nel sud-est della provincia dello Zhejiang.
Wuxi - vicina a Suzhou, famosa per le sue belle viste del lago Tai (uno dei cinque maggiori laghi d'acqua dolce in Cina) e per la cultura. Culla dell'industria nazionale cinese.

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Geografia della Cina

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The Financial Times (FT) and CNBC are joining forces to launch a multimedia series to explore the future of the finance sector in the wake of the global financial crisis.
By Marketing Week	 14 Oct 2009 4:50 pm
The print, online and broadcast series, called The Future of Finance, will "gauge the impact of the world-wide sector crisis and the unprecedented government interventions that followed".
The series launches on 19 October and will cover four key topics; the future of banks, governance and regulation, the future of financial markets and regulating bubbles and the future of the global economy, in the form of supplements in global editions of the FT, a four-part television series on CNBC and a microsite on FT.com.
The FT is launching a global marketing campaign to support the series while CNBC will focus marketing on the EMEA and Asia regions.
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Q: netstat cannot find Mongo port 27017 even when it is started OS: CentOS 6
Mongod Server: 4.4
Node 10.x
I have installed latest Mongo server 4.4 using RPM, start the service using service mongod start and using ps | grep mongo to know that Mongo is running.
However, when I am running netstat -aunlp, I did not see any 27017 port running Mongo??
Here is my mongod.conf:
#mongod.conf

# for documentation of all options, see:
#   http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/configuration-options/

# where to write logging data.
systemLog:
  destination: file
  logAppend: true
  path: /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log

# Where and how to store data.
storage:
  dbPath: /var/lib/mongo
  journal:
    enabled: true
#  engine:
#  wiredTiger:

# how the process runs
processManagement:
  fork: true  # fork and run in background
  pidFilePath: /var/run/mongodb/mongod.pid  # location of pidfile
  timeZoneInfo: /usr/share/zoneinfo

# network interfaces
net:
  port: 27017

  # Using either line didn't work, comment out both lines didn't work.
  #bindIp: 127.0.0.1  # Enter 0.0.0.0,:: to bind to all IPv4 and IPv6 addresses or, alternatively, use the net.bindIpAll setting.
  #bindIp: 0.0.0.0  # Enter 0.0.0.0,:: to bind to all IPv4 and IPv6 addresses or, alternatively, use the net.bindIpAll setting.

Here is the NodeJS code that use Mongo.  Neither success nor error on console.log shown.
var mongoose = require('mongoose');

// Connect to database - both lines didn't work
mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/somedb');
//mongoose.connect('mongodb://127.0.0.1/somedb', function(err){console.log({"err": err}); });

mongoose.connection.once('connected', function() {
  console.log('Successfully connected to MongoDB.')
}).on('error', function(e){
  console.log({"ERR": e});
});

Can you all please help me on this?
Thank you very much for all your help in advance.

A: -u restricts to UDP sockets. MongoDB uses a TCP socket.

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Q: Recall functions in multiprocessing's child process I'm using multiprocessing library (not new in python but new in multiprocessing). It seems that I lack of understanding how it works.
What I try to do: I send a lot of http requests to server and if I receive connection error it means that remote service is down and I restart it using paramiko and then resend a request. I use multiprocessing to load all available processors because there are about 70000 requests and it takes about 24 hours to process them all using one processor.
My code:
# Send request here
def send_request(server, url, data, timeout):
try:
    return requests.post(server + url, json=data, timeout=(timeout or 60))
except Exception:
    return None

# Try to get json from response
def do_gw_requests(request, data):
    timeout = 0
    response = send_request(server, request, data, timeout)
    if response is not None:
        response_json = json.loads(response.text)
    else:
        response_json = None
    return response_json

# Function that recall itself if service is down
def safe_build(data):
exception_message = ""
response = {}
try:
    response = do_gw_requests("/rgw_find_route", data)
    if response is None:
        # Function that uses paramiko to start service
        # It will not end until service is up
        start_service()
        while response is None:
            safe_build(data)
    --some other work here--
return response, exception_message

# Multiprocessing lines in main function
pool = Pool(2)
# build_single_route prepares data, calls safe_build once and write logs
result = pool.map_async(build_single_route, args)
pool.close()
pool.join()

My problem is if service already down at the start of script (and potentially if service got down in the middle of script's work) I can't get non-empty response for two first requests. Script starts, send two first requests (I send them in loop by two), finds out that service is down (response become None), restarts service, resends requests and seems gets None again and again and again (in endless loop). If I remove loop while response is None: then first two requests will process as if they was None and other requests will process as expected. But I need every request result that's why I resend bad requests.
So it recall function with same data again and again but without success. It's very strange as for me. Can anyone please explain what am I doing wrong here?

A: It seems that problem not with behavior of Pool workers as I expected. response is a local variable of function and thus it become not None after reviving of service at the second call of safe_build, it's still None in the first call. response, _ = safe_build(data) seems work.