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《詩經·周頌》與《大武》重探 : 以清華簡《周公之琴舞》參證, Pui Ling Tang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

《大武》樂章是先秦時期的樂舞組詩，歷史文獻稱之爲《大武》，又或簡稱作《武》。20世紀初，王國維先生發表《周大武樂章考》一文，根據《禮記·樂記》記載之《大武》“六成”提出“詩當有六篇”，包括《周頌》的《昊天有成命》、《武》、《酌》、《桓》、《賚》及《般》，其意見雖然受到研究者的普遍重視，但因分析角度及詮釋之異，後代仍有不少研究者提出異議，較爲重要者有高亨、張西堂、孫作雲、陰法魯、楊向奎等十數家。

《清華大學藏戰國竹簡（叁）》於2012年12月出版，其中刊載有《周公之琴舞》一篇，竹簡凡17枚，記載周公及成王儆毖詩共十首，保留迄今所見最早及最全面的先秦樂舞記録，能爲過去有關《大武》的討論提供重要的參考材料。本文將借助先秦兩漢古籍與《周公之琴舞》相參證，對《大武》的相關問題作重新探討。

禮壞樂崩時代聖賢君子的堅持與抉擇, Kuo-Liang Yeh

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

西周末葉一直到漢初，自周初建立起來的禮樂文明逐漸崩壞，其間約七百餘年，國家社稷爲何没有全面瓦解？其後漢武帝提倡儒術，終使往後二千餘年的歷史持續受到禮樂文明的影響，成爲中華文化的特色。此一歷史過程，值得探討。

本文臚舉十六項西周末葉至春秋末年禮壞樂崩的事實，然後陳述當時明君、賢大夫以及儒者如何堅持理念及禮典，同時如何體察世變做出抉擇，展現正面的力量，因而使得國家社稷不致迅速土崩魚爛，進而説明反映上述理念的古禮書的性質與價值之所在。結論是：《儀禮》、《禮記》爲典範，而《春秋》及三《傳》爲正負面之教材，這使得漢武帝提倡儒術有所依據，中華之禮樂文明成爲可能。討論古代文化，捨此諸書，無法有所褒貶，而這是孔子及其後學的主要貢獻。

劉百閔的經學著述, Chun Hing Hui

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

劉百閔 (1898-1968) 是20世紀五六十年代香港著名的經學家。他在1949年由廣州移居香港前，長期投身政界。1952年9月，被香港大學聘爲中文系講師，1956年被擢爲中文系高級講師。前後服務香港大學13年，於1965年6月榮休。在退休前一年開始專注於整理舊作，以“學不倦齋自刊書”的名義先後出版《經子肄言》、《易事理學序論》與《周易事理通義》三書。於1968年1月4日不幸因喘病遽然辭世。《孔門五論》是他生前最後一本親自定稿的“學不倦齋自刊書”，在他逝世三個月後被冠以“劉百閔遺著”之名出版面世。1970年3月出版的《經學通論》則是在未及親自定稿的情況下付梓的，也是最後一部“劉百閔遺著”。這五部經學著述都是他任教香港大學時的教學與研究成果。本文即擬探討此等著述的若干特色，藉以窺察當時香港經學教育的一二情狀。

Enhancing The Chinese Writing Skills Of Non-Chinese Speaking Students, Joanna Kar Wai Cheng

Practical Social and Industrial Research Symposium

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The Logical Progress Of German Idealist Aesthetics: With A Discussion On The Aesthetic Historical Significance Of Schiller's On Beauty, Wei Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The trajectory of German Idealist aesthetics form Kant to Hegel revolves around the developmental process from philosophical analysis of psycho-aesthetic structure to dialectic examination of aesthetic object down to critical aesthetics and philosophy of art, with a knowledge background of modern European intellectual climate or the pursuit of determinacy. Schiller's On Beauty (Kallias, 1793), by exhausting the research methods of beauty, constituted an intermediary link in the advancement in German Idealist aesthetics and established its inerasable significance in the history of aesthetics.

The Politics Of Technology: Reflections On Overseas Modern Chinese Visual Cultural Studies, Xiayun Yu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The dialectical relationship between words and images is an important issue of modern Chinese literary studies. Although the interpretations from the overseas, especially Rey Chow's "technologized visuality," highlight the key position of visuality in the making process of modern Chinese literature, they exaggerate the opposition between words and images, and this exaggeration implies a colonial thinking of technology which sets the relationship between China and the Western as that between the primitive and the modern through its emphasis on Western-ownership of technology. Thus, technology becomes not only a state of matter but also a structure of ideology. If the emphasis …

The Political Turn And Rational Return Of Critical Discourse In Its Localization In China, Wenfang Yao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The term "critical discourse" was not indigenous in China, and Liang Qichao and Wang Guowei were believed to bring it as a Kantian concept into Chinese knowledge and discourse system. But Liang gradually strayed from the neutral and rational Kantian concept to relate it with negative political nuance. The denunciative negative nuance was increasingly reinforced in the years from the May 4th New Culture Movement to the 10-year Cultural Revolution. The 1980s saw the return of the implications of the term from the highly political to the rational and neutral, with significant flexibility and tolerance. This return helped to redress …

The Qi-Liang Poets' Rediscovery And Imitation Of The Han Dynasty Music Bureau And Ancient Style Poetry, Yao Zhong

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Qi-Liang Period was an important phase in the acceptance history of the Han Music Bureau Poetry and the ancient style poetry. The Qi-Liang poets rediscovered and imitated the Han poetry and through this they had developed a reflective relationship with the Han poetry in terms of technique, style and criticism. Their emphasis on the folk song tradition and on the Wu-dialect ballad (Wu Sheng Xi Qu) had not only highlighted the folk song features but also the lyric genre in the Music Bureau poetry, while their pursuit for lyricism, individualistic style and the expression of personal sentiments led to …

The Structure Of Narrative Dynamics In Lyric Poetry: Exemplified With Classical Chinese Lyric Poems, Junqiang Tan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

As a product of author-reader communication, lyrical texts, like narrative texts, have internal narrative dynamics to push the narrative progression. The structure of the dynamics shows as the three relations of time, logic and space in the texts. These relations exist in the combination of events and development of plots in narrative texts, but in lyrical texts they show in different ways. The fusion of narrative dynamics and reader dynamics pushes the narrative progression and realizes the communications between the author and the reader. This paper takes classical Chinese lyrics as examples to illustrate the analysis.

Narrative, Situation And Metaphor: How Plato's Republic'S Opening Paragraphs Are Written And Read, Linfang Zhu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Plato's Republic is both a philosophical and a literary text. Plato had kept revising the opening of The Republic till the end of his life. The Republic has a structure of dual narrative, with the man called "I" also playing a double role in this book. The time, the place, the order of appearance and the unfolding of the events all correspond to the theme. The genre of dialogue and narrative saves this philosophical text from being trapped too deep into the metaphysical mire, but too many symbolic metaphors make the interpretation of the text an attempt to solve mysteries. …

Notes On Text Theory, Youxiang Tu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The conception of le texte scriptible (the writerly text) in Roland Barthes reveals the character of the text of undistinguished relation between subject and object. According to Barthes, "the text" is both an object and a subject, and if it is a pure object, it will be a work, while as a subject the text brings the author's role into play. The theoretical significance of the text is given not innate, and the pure plurality in Roland Barthes's theory does not refer to multiple meanings, because ambiguity can still lie in a unified structure, when pure plurality eliminates the centrality …

On Beauty: Its Naming And Reference, Hongxiang Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

What is beauty? This is the first and an everlasting question in aesthetics. However, there is no clear definition about beauty so far in aesthetic history because of the confusion of name and reference. Beauty is often interpreted as the beautiful thing or the beautiful attribution of thing. This paper aims to delineate the problematic of the naming and reference of beauty by putting the problem back to the context of Plato's time and tracing the process of the formation of this philosophic concept. The paper falls into three sections, which first problematizes the naming of beauty and the reasons …

On Liu Shipei's "On The Difference Of The Southern And The Northern China's Literature", Jian Wu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Traditional distinction between the Southern and the Northern China's literature were made on historical specificities, while Liu Shipei in his pioneer essay in modern literary criticism "On the Difference between the Southern and the Northern China's Literature" took a theoretical perspective that viewed the distinction as an ahistorical literary framework a priori. Liu's argument may be read as a point for a paradigmatic breakup, but Liu did not push forward his idea in his practice. Instead, he attached more weight to the essence (zhi) over the literary (wen) in this traditional pair of concepts, and his contribution in the history …

Redefining Art, Anying Chen

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper tries to present a new definition of art on the basis of contemporary Western philosophy of art. William E. Kennick's and Arthur Danto's definitions are sophisticatedly open, but they fail to take into account of the dimension of value in art. This paper proposes that art is both a production and a culture, which means that art is the production of cultural value through artisanship. The definition of art in the classical aesthetics has defined art as craftsmanship plus aesthetic value and defines artworks as the product with aesthetic value, while this paper defines art as craftsmanship plus …

Style-Breaking In Song-Dynasty Ci-Poetry And Its Acceptance In The Context Of "Flexible Method", Xiaoli Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The idea of "flexible method" in composting ci-poetry in the Song Dynasty has two essential elements of "rule" and "change," and this idea embodies the pursuit of literary innovation in the Song Dynasties. It is an important part of the poetic theory and has profound influence on the literary evolution in the Song Dynasties. The style-breaking methods such as "composing ci-poems like regulated poems" and "composing ci-poems like prose" were in effect the proliferation of the idea of "flexible method" in the field of ci-poetics. There has been much elucidation in the Song and Yuan commentaries on ci-poetry that echoes …

Truth / Method: The Gadamer-Ricoeur Debate, Jin Qiu, Fenggang Du

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

There exist remarkable differences between Gadamer's and Ricoeur's understandings of the concepts "truth" and "method." Ricoeur believes that Gadamer's hermeneutics brings about the disjuncture of hermeneutic truth, while Gadamer holds that Ricoeur's structuralist method cannot integrate the conflicts of interpretations into a unified ontology. This paper points out that both philosophers develop their theories of truth on the basis of Heidegger's hermeneutical ontology, but in different ways. Gadamer focuses on the truth of understanding disclosed in the event of hermeneutic dialogue, while Ricoeur emphasizes the truth of self-understanding mediated by hermeneutic reflection. Both philosophers keep similar distance from the absolute …

What Is Narrative Ethic Criticism?, Hongsheng Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper probes into the origin, significance and problematic of narrative ethic criticism, and demonstrates narrative ethics can be approached from three aspects. Firstly, narration and ethics are indivisible in that there has been for a long time an intertwining and mutually generative relationship between them. Secondly, narration may be characterized to be moral or immoral as well as ordered or unordered, which means there exists non-ethical or even anti-ethical narration. Finally, narration itself may have ethical nature, and this nature is very likely to be under tension due to the possibility of constructing multiple value orders by way of …

The Duality Of Expressive Rhetoric: The Intention Of Literary Mind And The Carving Of Dragon As Investigated From "Casting And Paring", Baojing Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

On the basis of a global reading of Liu Xie's Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragon, this paper proposes a link between the section "Casting and Paring" and the other sections in the book, and maintains that only through such a link can the structural features, cultural efficiency and Confucian responsibilities in Liu Xie's expressive rhetoric. The parallelism in argumentative mode between the section "Affections and Coloration" and the section "casting and paring" informs a two-sided rhetoric with affection as the subjective quality and casting as the textual quality. "Casting and paring" (argumentation and writing) is realized as a …

A Comparative Study Of Deleuze's And Badiou's Theory Of Cinema: Exemplified By Wim Wenders' False Movement, Xinyu Hu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou have different philosophical foundations constructed their own theories of cinema and applied them into the analyses of cinematic works. One of their intersections of analysis falls on Wim Wenders' False Movement. Through a comparative study of their analyses of the film, the paper tries to arrive at a deeper understanding of both philosophers' theory of cinema and a general survey of their similarities and differences. Through the analysis, the paper also hopes to expose the problem of the relationship of philosophy and cinema.

A Philosophical Discussion On Liu Xie's Concept Of Literary Talent Mindset, Shugong Zhao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The idea of literary talent mindset was epitomized in The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons in the period of Wei-Jin and Six Dynasties. The book contained the most comprehensive and profound knowledge of literary mind as an aptitude, which was seminal to almost all the later discourses on the issue of literary talent, and its theoretical insight remains unsurpassable in many aspects. Liu Xie's philosophical view of the nature and human is reflected in this concept of literary talent mind, which gave both weight to gift and diligence, and the equal emphases on human efforts and born gift …