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民族想像、死亡與性：淺析黎紫書小說〈州府紀略〉與〈國北邊陲〉的民族想像書寫, Yun Han Koo

Dissertations from all years

本文旨在分析黎紫書的馬華民族歷史小說〈州府紀略〉和〈國北邊陲〉中其最為人津津樂道的「死亡」及「性」這兩個意象。筆者認為，在馬華離散文學的語境中，〈州府紀略〉和〈國北邊陲〉裏的「死亡」和「性」具有一致的象徵意義：前者象徵馬華民族身份及記憶在兩代之間的斷裂，而後者則象徵民族身份及想像出於求生本能而產生的轉化與救贖。

筆者認為，這兩部小說裏的「死亡」象徵民族及其身份想像的消亡，而這種消失亡使兩代之間的民族身份和歷史意識出現斷裂。〈州府紀略〉裏的敘事者「我」和死了的主角譚燕梅的距離，象徵意義上即為「我」和那個年代的馬共想像及民族身份想像的距離；「死亡」導致上一代的馬共情結無以延續，下一代亦無法繼承馬共認同。〈國北邊陲〉裏家族的詛咒使「你」滿懷「香火不可斷」的民族情義。兩部小說都指涉「死亡」造成（和即將造成）的民族歷史斷裂帶來的迫切和滄桑。

「性」隱喻小說主人公被迫直面自身文化身份認同與其他文化之間的關係，直至讓步，以求生存。〈州府紀略〉裏，譚燕梅與馬共黨員劉遠聞的性關係，象徵著馬華族裔尋求中國性的身份認同，並最後通過「性」的儀式和關係來獲得實現。在〈國北邊陲〉裏，「性」是放棄狹隘的國族使命，與馬來西亞本土認同相結合的象徵；如果大馬華人必須有「根」，那麼東卡阿里就是那個「根」，讓他們活下來的、真實存在的「根」。

驚夢, Yi Lam, Pinky Chan

Dissertations from all years

一場戲曲節，敲響了一場夢。

夢中之情，可以當真嗎？生於現代，愛好崑曲，會遇上知音嗎？一見傾心，便能兩情相悅、廝守終生嗎？

念念是戲曲節的工作人員，她熱愛崑曲，尤其鍾愛《牡丹亭》。她心中有情，但所遇到的都是無緣人。直到今年戲曲節，她遇上來自蘇州某崑劇團的「柳夢梅」……

台上的柳夢梅身姿翩然、氣宇軒昂，含情脈脈的眼神、撩動人心的歌喉、義無反顧的愛戀，無不使人動心，是值得託付之人；台下的「柳夢梅」毫無架子，與念念談笑風生，和藹可親。念念從來沒想過自己能與崑劇演員有這麼多的交集，她心中有個「牡丹夢」：她想做一回杜麗娘，與柳夢梅真真切切地愛一場，此生不渝。面對眼前這位「柳夢梅」，她無法自拔地陷入夢中之情，然而「夢醒」以後，又是否真如《牡丹亭》中的杜麗娘和柳夢梅一樣，走出夢境後能再續情緣？"

การศึกษาการใช้ภาษาจีนเพื่อการสื่อสาร: กรณีศึกษาพนักงานขายสินค้า ชาวไทย บริษัท คิง เพาเวอร์ อินเตอร์เนชันแนล จำกัด., พนิดา เจียมสมัย

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาลักษณะการใช้ภาษาจีนของพนักงานขายสินค้า ชาวไทย และเพื่อศึกษาสาเหตุของปัญหาการใช้ภาษาจีนของพนักงานขายสินค้าชาวไทย กลุ่มตัวอย่างของการวิจัย คือ พนักงานขายสินค้าชาวไทยของบริษัท คิง เพาเวอร์ อินเตอร์เนชันแนล จำกัด จาก 3 แผนก จำนวน 12 คน เครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการวิจัยคือ เครื่องบันทึกเสียงการสนทนาภาษาจีน วิธีการดำเนินวิจัยแบ่งเป็น 3 ขั้นตอน คือ ขั้นที่ 1 บันทึกเสียงการสนทนาภาษาจีนระหว่างพนักงานขายสินค้าชาวไทยกับนักท่องเที่ยวจีน ขั้นที่ 2 ศึกษาลักษณะการใช้ภาษาจีนในด้านคำศัพท์ รูปประโยค รวมถึงบทสนทนา ขั้นที่ 3 ศึกษาสาเหตุของปัญหาในการใช้ภาษาจีนของพนักงานขายสินค้าชาวไทย ผลการวิจัยพบว่า โครงสร้างประโยคภาษาจีนของพนักงานสินค้าชาวไทย แบ่งเป็น 2 ประเภท คือ 1) ประโยคที่ไม่ใช่โครงสร้างประธานภาคแสดง (非主谓句) และ 2) ประโยคโครงสร้างประธานภาคแสดง (主谓句) ลักษณะของการปนภาษาของพนักงานสินค้าชาวไทย พบทั้งภาษาไทยและภาษาอังกฤษ การปนภาษาอังกฤษจะพบในชื่อสินค้า หรือชื่อประเทศต่างๆ ส่วนการปนภาษาไทยพบคำไทยทั้งหมด 6 ชนิด ตามพจนานุกรมราชบัณฑิตยสถาน พ.ศ.๒๕๕๔ คือ "คำวิเศษณ์" "คำอุทาน" "คำสรรพนาม" "คำสันธาน" "คำนาม" "คำกริยา" โดยพบคำไทยต่างๆ ที่ปนในบทสนทนาจำนวน 740 ครั้ง สาเหตุของการปนภาษามีผลมาจากอิทธิพลของภาษาแม่ ปัญหาการใช้ภาษาจีนของพนักงานขายสินค้าชาวไทย พบทั้งหมด 4 ประเด็น คือ ปัญหาทักษะการฟัง ปัญหาทักษะการพูด ปัญหาทักษะการอ่าน และ ปัญหาไวยากรณ์ โดยปัญหาไวยากรณ์ แบ่งเป็น 4 ประเภท คือ "การตกหล่นคำหรือส่วนประกอบของประโยค" "การใช้คำเกิน" "การใช้คำและประโยคไม่เหมาะสม" และ"การเรียงลำดับคำไม่ถูกต้อง"

Influence Of South Korea's Soft Power On The Extension Of Korean Language In Thailand, Kunathai Onnom

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The research named "Influence of South Korea's Soft Power on the Extension of Korean Language in Thailand", has aimed to understand and explain the background of South Korea's soft power in a globalization context. The research will emphasize on the extension of Korean soft power to Thailand by using the Korean language as a key instrument. About the methodology, this research firstly collected the document information from reviewing previous researches, books, articles and other online sources. As being the qualitative research, the in-depth interview has proceeded discreetly with 25 key informants from many related-fields such as undergraduate students, employees, businessman …

Making Japan Great Again: Japan's Liberal Democratic Party As A Far Right Movement, Wesley Yee

Undergraduate Honors Theses

In recent years, far right-wing political parties have gained power around the world. Far-right movements build a populist, anti-establishment support base through the use of ethno-nationalism and xenophobic policies and slogans. This article applies the models and party frames used to study European far-right movements and applies them to the case of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP), a party whose policies under prime ministers Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe have pushed the party from having a center-right stance to having more of a far-right nationalist and populist one. Using this framework I find that the LDP has utilized …

Determinism And The Problem Of Individual Freedom In Li Zehou’S Thought, Andrew Lambert

Publications and Research

Li Zehou’s work can be understood as an account of a Chinese modernity, a vision for Chinese society that seeks to integrate three distinct philosophical approaches. These are Chinese history and culture, which Li understands as largely Confucian; Marxism, which has exerted such influence on a modernizing China; and Western learning more generally, as expressed by figures such as Immanuel Kant and Sigmund Freud. Li also frequently expresses the hope that a Chinese modernity will be one in which the importance of the individual is recognized, and rights and freedoms upheld (e.g., 2006, p. 182). But this stance raises an …

Isang Muling-Sipat Sa Tradisyong Pabigkas Sa Filipinas O Kung Sadya Nga Kayang Makabagong Anyo Ng Balagtasan Ang Battle Rap, Michael Coroza

Filipino Faculty Publications

Sa pagtalakay na ito, iisa-isahing sulyapan ang mga batayang pagkakaiba sa pamamaraang pabigkas at pasulát sa panitikan ng Filipinas. Nilalayon nitong maitampok at bigyang-diin ang mga kalikasáng pabigkas ng sining na pasalita sa pagpapahalaga sa tradisyon ng Balagtasan at sa usong-uso ngayong Rap Battle na pinakapangunahing itinatampok sa ligang Fliptop. May dalawang pangkalahatang bahagi ang pagtalakay. Nakatuon ang una sa komparatibong paglalarawan ng magkasalungat na modo o pamamaraang pabigkas at pasulát gamit bilang halimbawa ang mga transkripsiyon ng ilang tulang-bayan gaya ng dalit at tanaga, ang mga klasikong akda gaya ng awit at korido, at ang mga piling tulang liriko …

Thinking About The 'Ming China' Anew: The Ethnocultural Space In A Diverse Empire-With Special Reference To The 'Miao Territory', Yonglin Jiang

East Asian Languages and Cultures Faculty Research and Scholarship

By examining the cultural identity of China's Ming dynasty, this essay challenges two prevalent perceptions of the Ming in existing literature: to presume a monolithic socio-ethno-cultural Chinese empire and to equate the Ming Empire with China (Zhongguo, the “middle kingdom”). It shows that the Ming constructed China as an ethnocultural space rather than a political entity. In essence, China was defined as a Han domain that the Han people inhabited and where Han values were produced, practiced, and preserved in contrast to those of non-Han “barbarians,” be they domestic or foreign. The “Great Ming”—the dynastic title—cannot be confused with China, …

The Common Place: The Poetics Of The Pedestrian In Kevin Huizenga’S Walkin’, Shiamin Kwa

East Asian Languages and Cultures Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Still Moving: Gabrielle Bell’S Graphic Auto-Fiction, Shiamin Kwa

East Asian Languages and Cultures Faculty Research and Scholarship

In Lucky, The Voyeurs, and Truth is Fragmentary, cartoonist Gabrielle Bell adopts comics panels of approximately the same size as a passport photo. The comics draw a kind of auto-fiction that marries the fantastical and the autobiographical, frequently eliding musings on her status as a woman writer, a comics writer, and a traveler. These are all categories that share the distinction of being “threshold” or liminal categories. This chapter takes Bell’s presentation of identity as an object of formal and phenomenological inquiry. It considers how the hand-drawn rendering of the autobiographical self ironically draws attention to the irregularity of identity …

Exclusionary Megacities, Wendell Pritchett, Shitong Qiao

All Faculty Scholarship

Human beings should live in places where they are most productive, and megacities, where information, innovation and opportunities congregate, would be the optimal choice. Yet megacities in both China and the U.S. are excluding people by limiting housing supply. Why, despite their many differences, is the same type of exclusion happening in both Chinese and U.S. megacities? Urban law and policy scholars argue that Not-In-My-Backyard (NIMBY) homeowners are taking over megacities in the U.S. and hindering housing development therein. They pin their hopes on an efficient growth machine that makes sure “above all, nothing gets in the way of building.” …

China's Rise, The U.S., And The Wto: Perspectives From International Relations Theory, Jacques Delisle

All Faculty Scholarship

What do China’s dramatic economic rise, engagement with the World Trade Organization (“WTO”) (and other established features of the international economic legal order), and rising assertiveness in external relations tell us about China’s past and likely future relationship to status quo international economic legal institutions and the norms they instantiate? What do these developments indicate about prospects for those institutions and norms? In China’s Rise: How it Took on the U.S. at the WTO, Gregory Shaffer and Henry Gao offer, or point us toward, answers to these questions. They do so on a grander scale than their relatively modest …

The Biopolitical Elements In Yan Lianke's Fiction Worlds, Xiaoyu Gao

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Entrepreneurs' Characteristics On The Performance Of Venture Businesses, Janghoon Lee

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

In South Korea, venture businesses play a key role in commercializing new technology and revitalizing the economy. The Korean government implements various policies and supporting programs directly. Evaluating the possibility of future growth and selecting good venture business is very important for the effectiveness and efficiency of government programs supporting venture businesses.

There have been many studies aimed at finding the factors affecting the success of venture businesses, and entrepreneurs‟ characteristics are known as the major factor. In this study, the impact of entrepreneurs‟ characteristics on the performance of venture businesses is analyzed by using the survey data of 2,049 …

Determinants Of Personal Information Protection Activities In South Korea, Pilku Kang

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how people’s awareness and ways to obtain relevant materials of personal information have influenced individual’s information privacy protection activities. This study uses the data of a 2016 survey on information security published by Korea Information and Security Agency.

The dependent variables of this study are preventive measures for the security of a Personal Computer (PC) and preventive measures against personal information breach. I classify independent variables into four types. They are internet users’ perception about information privacy, such as awareness of the importance of protecting one’s personal information, and awareness of information …

The Effect Of The Total Maximum Daily Loads(Tmdl) Management Implementation Plan On Total Phosphorus(Tp), Jaejeong Ma April

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

The Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea has been making efforts to improve water quality and the health of the aquatic ecosystems of the inland waters. Establishing water quality standards for point sources and permissible wastewater emission standards to achieve the target environmental standard were part of the efforts. Nevertheless, water quality indexes such as Biochemical Oxygen Demand(BOD) and Chemical Oxygen Demand(COD) has not improved significantly. Also, harmful cyanobacteria blooms have frequently been occurred, which, in particular, has brought people to lose faith in the environmental policy and has created anxiety about drinking water. As the solution, the …

Dialogue Of The Fisherman And The Woodcutter, Joseph A. Adler

Joseph Adler

The Downward Spiral: Postmodern Consciousness As Buddhist Metaphysics In The Dark Souls Video Game Series, Paolo Xavier Machado Menuez

Dissertations and Theses

This paper is about locating the meaning of a series of games known as the Dark Souls series in relation to contemporary social conditions in Japan. I argue that the game should be thought of as an emblem of the current cultural zeitgeist, in a similar way one might identify something like Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums as an emblem of the counter cultural 60s. I argue that the Dark Souls series expresses in allegorical form an anxiety about living in a time where the meaning of our everyday actions and even society itself has become significantly destabilized. It does …

Seeing Witchcraft, Bernhard Udelhoven

Journal of Global Catholicism

When Christians in Zambia struggle with witchcraft, they also struggle with African cultural and religious concepts that deal with life’s ambiguities and that require discernment. It is not by working against the cultural and religious heritage, but by working with it, as far as possible, that the pastor can identify the broken relationships towards which many witchcraft discourses point. However, before we place the concepts of witchcraft into the realm of superstition (as are the trends of mission Christianity) or the demonic (as are the trends of charismatic Christianity), the Church has the duty to look at the concepts, stay …

Allocutio: Articulating The Task For The Future Of African Catholicism, Mary Sylvia Nwachukwu

Journal of Global Catholicism

This essay charts how Catholicism can become more indigenously African and respond better to African needs and concerns.