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Chuanqi & Zaju By Scholar Writers During The Republic Of China Period And Their Significance In Drama History, Dahuai Yao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Before the New Culture Movement, the development of chuanqi & zaju was directed by reporter writers and adherent writers. Hereafter, they were gradually replaced by scholar writers. Influenced by such factors as national crises and individual plights, scholar writers wrote plays to call upon the struggling spirit, or express their own melancholy. As they had the most profound attainment on traditional drama during the Republic of China, scholar writers respected the essence of drama, and especially devoted more in melody, phraseology and structure. They had the highest achievement in the creation of chuanqi & zaju since the late Qing Dynasty …

Cosmopolitanism And Cultural Translation, Shaobo Xie

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The global present remains saturated with various forms of xenophobia, hostility towards cultural and ethnic others, us-versus-them feelings, and ethnocentric arrogance. It is in response to such an exigency, to which one cannot respond, that cosmopolitanism and cultural translation are being globally debated and embraced at various intellectual forums, academic conferences, and in various journal special issues. This paper explores the issue of cosmopolitan cultural translation through the lens of two world-famous novels: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The River Between. It illustrates how the cosmopolitan reader, by way of cultural translation, perceives or recognizes culture-specific …

Some Theoretical Categories In Sanskrit Poetics, Xi-Nan Yin

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Sanskrit poetics contain many unique theoretical categories like rasa, dhvani, vakrokti, poetic atman, camatkara and guna. These categories are of a long history with genuine Indian nature and they are still holding implications for contemporary poetics and comparative studies. The paper singles out seven categories to demonstrate how connotative and unique ancient Indian literary theory, i.e. Alankarasastra or Sanskrit poetics could be.

A Techno-Political Poetics Built On The Body: On Brian Massumi'sb Parables Of The Virtual, Yunfan Yao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Centered round his elucidation of the concepts of "body" and "the virtual," Massumi proposes a critique toward the understanding of the process of subjectivization dominated by the symbolic operations in his work Parables of the Virtual: Movement, Affections and Sensations. He assumes that contemporary capitalist power mechanism does not abide by the logic of subjectivization that is mediated by the symbolic order; instead, with help of technology, the capitalist power can control the human-beings by intervening the intensity and direction of human affections. The hope of escaping the control relies on the objectification of human beings during the evolution of …

How To Study Literature With "After Theory": Focusing On Eagleton's Event Of Literature, Yan Sun

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In The Event of Literature, Terry Eagleton tries to elucidate on the literary philosophical questions pertaining to the decline of theory, and calls for a return to literature itself by breaking through the delimitations of politico-cultural studies as in post-colonialist and post-modernist criticism. However, Eagleton does not revert to pure formal research in the "after theory" period as he does not believe formalism can save literary studies. For Eagleton who has a Catholic background, the authority of new religion lies in ethical rather than aesthetic claims. What Eagleton tries to bypass the fruitless debate over essentialism and revive Aristotelian ethnical …

Ruminating On Garbage: Exemplified By Kunal Vohra's Film The Plastic Cow, Chang Chia-Ju

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper examines the way in which non-human animals are constructed as unwanted object through human language, culture and economic system, and how such construction in return affects the lives of the animals. The paper aims to think through the entangled interconnected relationship among animals, humans and environment on both the conceptual and material levels. It argues that animals are deeply enmeshed in capitalist system while the animal-garbage connection can be traced in etymological, cultural, and economic and ecological systems. In order to reflect on our culture, globalization, and modernity, an Indian documentary film, The Plastic Cow, by Kunal Vohra, …

A Soulful Egg Can Break A Rock: A Case Study Of A South Korean Social Movement Leader's Rhetoric, Eunsook Sul

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation introduces and analyzes Ven. Hyemoon’s rhetoric emanating from his leadership of the civic group, the Committee for the Return of Korean Cultural Property in South Korea. On the surface, he seems focused on retrieving cultural artifacts, pillaged by the Japanese colonial invasion. His work, upon deeper analysis, emerges to be about regaining a Korean cultural and national identity that is historically grounded, civically engaged and morally reflective. This study is informed by multiple theories (i.e., framing, narrative, social semiotics, critical geography, rhetoric, and social movement) to examine aspects of a phenomenon in depth – involving nationalism, social movement, …

Eustia Of The Tarnished Wings: The Visual Novel In Translation, Matthew R. Bird

Masters Theses

The center of this thesis proposal is a translation of the first book of AUGUST Software’s Eustia of the Tarnished Wings 穢翌のユースティア, a 2011 dark fantasy visual novel. As visual novels are practically unknown in English or Japanese academic writing, this thesis will provide an introduction to the medium’s history, as well as common display and organizational formats of the medium; a literary overview of Eustia of the Tarnished Wings and its characters and themes of choice and sacrifice; and a discussion of translation methodology and goals pursued in the accompanying excerpts.

The translation presented consists of selected excerpts from …

Assembling Creative Cities In Seoul And Yokohama: Rebranding East Asian Urbanism, Changwook Kim

Doctoral Dissertations

By investigating institutional and cultural practices as well as the consequences of the creative industry-led development policy in Yokohama, Japan and Seoul, South Korea, this dissertation critically reexamines the key rationales of creative economy-driven urban development and considers social costs and tensions between the state, capital and citizens that are embedded within creative city policy discourses and practices. This dissertation intervenes in the conventional understandings, which consider the influx of neoliberalism as the key to explain the rapid global circulation of creative city policy, typically based on cities in the West. By considering the policy transfer as endless processes of …

A Textbook-Based Study On Measure Word Acquisition In Learners Of Chinese As A Second Langauge, Shaofang Wang

Masters Theses

The Chinese language features a rich class of words called measure words that serve as units for counting objects and actions. In comparison with English and other Indo-European languages, Chinese makes much more extensive use of measure words. American students who study Chinese as a second language often find it hard to acquire the usage of Chinese measure words. To obtain a comprehensive and objective evaluation of students’ measure words acquisition, I designed an experiment where measure words as introduced in Integrated Chinese are collected.

In the current study, measure words are divided into two categories by their semantic features: …

Youth Narrative In Feng Tang's The Beijing Trilogy, Mingjia Zhang

Masters Theses

In the past fifteen years, the Beijing writer Feng Tang has enjoyed great popularity, especially among young readers. As a versatile writer, he published not only novels but also essays and poems. His representative work is the semi-autobiographical The Beijing Trilogy which depicts the coming-of-age of a boy named Qiushui and his friends. The main theme of this trilogy is the growth of youth and thus establishes a youth narrative. Based on a close reading of the trilogy, this paper aims to explore the true nature of the youth narrative that Feng Tang presents in his The Beijing Trilogy. …

Buddhist Depiction Of Life In The Verse Of The Tang Dynasty Poet Han Shan, Sijia Niu

Masters Theses

The present works of reading Chinese poetry offers a biographic reading method, but it cannot fit for reading Han Shan’s poetry, as he had unclear recording in history. Focused on exploring the persona and religion in Han Shan’s poetry world, I examine reading Han Shan’s poems in Buddhist way. Chapter 1 provides the biography of Han Shan, and presents his vernacular expression as different from other poets in history. Chapter 2 introduces some new methods on reading poetry brought up by some literature critics. Chapter 3 presents the Buddhist reading method that I have adopted to read and understand Han …

The Challenge Of Teaching Chinese Philosophy: Some Thoughts On Method, Andrew Lambert

Publications and Research

In this essay I offer an alternative perspective on how to organize class material for courses in Chinese philosophy for predominately American students. Instead of selecting topics taken from common themes in Western discourses, I suggest a variety of organizational strategies based on themes from the Chinese texts themselves, such as tradition, ritual, family, and guanxi (關係), which are rooted in the Chinese tradition but flexible enough to organize a broad range of philosophical material.

前言, Chunhong Wang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

2015年春，嶺南大學召開以“明清文學與文論”爲主題的國際研討會，與會者均屬學界資深專家，他們所發表的論文代表著古典文學研究的前沿態勢，具有較高的學術價值。《嶺南學報》編委會經討論，決定以專輯形式，刊登此次會議成果，以與海内外同道切磋分享。

本輯《嶺南學報》之編輯，大致根據會議之主旨，即“小説、戲曲及文化”以及“明清詩學、詞學及文化”，這樣兩個板塊來安排，既凸顯縱向的歷史脈絡，也呈現横向的域内與域外的聯繫。

論說"戲曲資料"之五種類型, Yung-Yi Tseng

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

治戲曲之艱難，不下於治經史。就其學程而言，經 史已逾兩千年，可資憑藉者甚富；戲曲不過百年，苑囿新開，花果未蕃。就其資料而言，經史基本上爲文獻，兼及考古文物；戲曲則文獻、文物之外，亦應顧及訪查與觀賞。觀賞用於對現存戲曲劇種表演藝術的評論，訪查用於對現存戲曲劇種及其表演者情況的認知，考古則通過文物了解古代戲曲，文獻則從記載中探索古代戲曲。可見研究戲曲，文獻、文物、調查、訪問、觀賞五種資料缺一不可。

高密詩學的理論品格及其批評實踐, Yin Jiang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

作爲清代自乾隆中葉一直綿延到晚清的地域性詩歌流派，高密詩派，始終是在對前人詩學的批判中深化，同時也是在與當代詩學的對話中展開的，其中不只包含着對王漁洋神韻詩學、沈德潛正统詩學、袁枚性靈詩學的揚棄，也包含了對明代以來山東格調詩學的繼承和改造。它通過《重訂中晚唐詩主客圖》對中唐詩歌的獨到發掘和把握，爲詩壇引入一種新的美學理想和藝術典範，并以縝密的批評为其師法路徑加以定位與拓展，以其平易近人的品格再度摇撼“詩必盛唐”的傳统壁壘，給乾隆後期到嘉、道之際的詩歌以有力的影響。

儀式與象徵: 清順治十七年冒襄得全堂夜宴演劇述論, Yingde Guo

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

清順治十七年(明永曆十四年，1660)五月，太倉 (今屬江蘇蘇州)著名學者陳瑚(1613—1675)率門人瞿有仲(1626—?)，拜訪如皋(今屬江蘇南通)名士冒襄(1611—1693)。冒襄在冒氏祖宅的得全堂開樽夜宴，出家樂，先後演出《燕子箋》、《邯鄲夢》兩部劇作。

賓主觀演《燕子箋》，激發起他们“故國不堪回首月明中”的追憶，冒襄以此説服陳瑚，不妨享受人生的有限逸樂，從而使這一觀劇活動成爲晚明風流生活的象徵儀式。而賓主觀演《邯鄲夢》，則唤醒了他们“别有一番滋味在心頭”的憤慨，陳瑚以此感召冒襄，應該堅守儒者的永恒氣節，從而使這一觀劇活動成爲清初隱逸生活的象徵儀式。

著意選取藴含興亡感慨與人生況味的劇目，藉以傳達心中難以抑止的新愁舊恨，這是冒襄别具慧心的文化選擇，並成爲得全堂演劇活動含藴丰富的儀式性象徵。作爲一種文化儀式，得全堂賞心悦目的演劇活動彌漫著明清易代之际士人的悲憤情绪與悼念氣息，並象徵著他们的往迹追懷和恢復憧憬。

冒襄纂辑、刊刻的《同人集》，作爲一种文本影像和文化記憶，强化了得全堂演劇的象徵儀式和儀式象徵。得全堂演劇活動是冒襄與同人精神對話的最佳方式，也是冒襄進行自我救贖的有效媒介，還是冒襄生存意義的鮮明象徵。

明初文化格局中的地方儒家與臺閣文風, Wenxin Chen, Xian Fang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

明初文學中一個引人注目的現象是永樂至宣德間臺閣文風的盛行。以朝廷爲主導的臺閣文風，如何成功地覆蓋了在野的、地方的、下層的廣泛社會文化場域？追溯其來龍去脈，地方儒學官是值得關注的群體。相較於明中後期學校的荒廢，明初是地方儒學發展的興盛期。地方儒學官在政治、文化生活中作用顯著，永宣時代的臺閣要員就多有任教地方的仕宦經歷；經由考竅選拔、親族鄉誼等聯結因素，地方儒學官與臺閣要員往來密切，交流頻繁，大量酬赠詩序體現出受臺閣影響的旨趣和文風。臺閣體的長期風行，是廣泛的士人群體參與的結果，體現了不同社會階層之間的文化整合。臺閣文風可視爲明初打破朝與野、地方與中央二元對立從而實現以皇權爲中心的政治大一统格局的文化操誌。

明代 "古詩" 總集的編纂、出版、接受 : 從宏觀角度的考察, Jing Chen

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

近年來，明清時期“古詩”總集的編撰與出版逐漸得到學界注意。多數研究以出版業的興起爲時代背景，檢析一部或幾部重要選本的内容及其所體現的文學觀點。這些考證及研究則爲本文的分析提供了可能與基礎。本文嘗試另闢蹊徑，以副文本(paratext)的閲讀爲中心，兼及文本，從宏觀層面勾勒有明一代“古詩”總集的編撰與出版，以及這類書籍可能的流通與接受之宏觀趨勢。第一部分以筆者檢索書目所累計的條目爲基礎，對先唐詩文集在明代的編纂出版進行量化分析，從而進一步確認明代是先唐詩文集產生的高峰；随後三個部分各以不同的 副文本(paratext)要素爲討論中心：首先，以書名爲中心，對書名加以分組語義詞頻考察，探尋先唐詩類總集的命名策略與所呈現的編纂趨勢；其次，以序言爲中心，管窥總集編纂動機的變化； 然後，以書目爲中心，討論明代這類書的價格、目標讀者、閲讀體驗等。最後，本文將明代古詩總集的產生與發展分爲三個階段， 進而總結出明代古詩總集的編纂、出版、流通在不同時期的特點。

道光詞壇的典範建構 : 兼論晚清詞學從流派意識向典範意識的轉移, Shuiyun Chen

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

從乾隆末年開始，清代詞壇漸現批評浙派的聲音，嘉慶、道光時期常州、吳中兩派同時崛起，以《宋四家詞選》、《宋七家詞選》、《心日齋十六家詞録》先後出現爲標誌，重塑典範，更新觀念，崇尚比興寄託，講求聲律諧美，在清初曾經盛行的南北宋之爭趨於消解，浙西與常州兩派由對抗走向交融，這表明晚清詞學從流派意識向典範意識轉移的重大變化。