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剪牛雜的聲音, Yat Kan Clifford Kung

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我們懷舊，是因為恐懼未來的變遷嗎？

此心安處是吾鄉。有時在外多玩幾天，總會不期然懷念起在街邊大排檔吃的牛雜麵——無法取代的「Comfort Food」。我們沉醉於探索外面的花花世界，也是時候回到最熟悉的Comfort Zone。

但無人能保證Comfort 是永恆的，那麼我們應該努力留住它，還是讓新的事物成為自己新的舒適圈？對舊文化的眷戀，就組成了〈剪牛雜的聲音〉。在這座城市裏、在人們的心目中，舊有的、平民的熟食小販文化，在代表着甚麼？但願在每日都要換新裝的時代，這個故事可以成為留住過去的記錄。

同一個宇宙, Yuying Li

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創作內容為兩個故事，兩個主人公都源自大三寫過的文章。

故事一主人公又生面臨多重壓力，父母讓他買房、公司對員工的苛刻，他會停下追逐的腳步嗎？他又能否找到自己的目標？

故事二主人公牙瑛是屬性為菇的孩子，離鄉別井，在異鄉求學，起初隱忍而後反擊。

這些都是日常生活的實事，日子苦巴巴，我決心刨個快樂的捷徑。文字，請你給我們提前或延遲的圓滿吧！

誰能救我脫離這取死的身體, Samuel Chun Hei Ng

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這是一個關於小人物的故事，關於受苦的故事，關於救贖的故事，也是關於香港的故事。

故事講述妓女陳霖，與一個混血小孩梓樂在油麻地相遇的故事。他們生活在油麻地舊區，面對茶餐廳結業、舊樓強制拆遷、原生家庭，他們做了什麼抉擇？廟街唱檔的音樂悠然響起，能唱出他們的心聲嗎？面對艱苦的生活，他們想盡辦法去脫離，可惜都找不到辦法。命運使他倆相遇，彷彿成了彼此的救贖，只是事與願違，二人有不同的結局。

人總是悲慘的，誰能救贖人們脫離這取死的身體呢？

夏之春, Chi Ho Wong

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遠離了城市喧囂的離島上，我和島上的夥伴們每天過著悠閒平和的日子。

偶爾去老奶奶開的粗點心店一起吃零食，偶爾和喜歡釣魚的老爺爺一起到海岸邊釣魚，偶爾到其他人的家裏打發時間。

平凡且無憂無慮的生活一天天地過去，夥伴中年紀最小的我，也以為這樣的日子能夠一直繼續下去。

但隨著男孩女孩們逐漸成為少年少女，朦朧的心意開始浮出水面，沒有得到眷顧的少女滿懷著愁緒卻仍與我們如往常般那樣相處。

直到父親成為了殺害夥伴的兇手時，我才隱約意識到有什麼發生在我們之中了。

我的生活因此發生了翻天覆地的變化，但我卻依然留在那個離開島上的夏天。

多年之後，當年的真相終於擺在我的面前，我作出的選擇，是否能讓我走出那個夏日？

莊周夢蝶, Man Wai Tsui

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〈莊周夢蝶〉以大量的內心獨白，描寫出一個內心壓抑着激烈情感的青年，在對現實世界感到絕望後，轉而投向幻想世界，最終為去往那個理想中的世界而死的故事。在這個不愁吃穿，卻彷彿誰都不能脫穎而出、名留青史的城市，許多人或會失去生命的意義，對自己存在的價值產生質疑，但人生是否真的需要活成英雄才算得上有意義？

唐代宮廷女詩人及其詩作研究, Hin Wing Ng

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唐朝是詩歌的黃金時代，能詩者遍及社會各階層，當中不乏婦女作品，恰如元代辛文房所言：「歷觀唐以雅道獎士類，而閨閣英秀，亦能熏染，錦心繡口，蕙情蘭性，足可尚矣。」在《全唐詩》一百二十多位女詩人裏，有二十五位屬宮闈女性，後又稱為宮廷女詩人。然而，後來學者亦明白宮廷婦女的數目遠不只二十五位那麼少。

唐代宮廷女詩人，所指的是由女皇、皇后、妃嬪、公主、女官及宮人等不同宮廷階級組成的女詩人群體。本文將以唐代宮廷女詩人為研究對象，首先探討她們在宮廷女子教育下，於文學、書法及樂舞等各方面取得的成果，進而用初、盛唐及中、晚唐分期法，探討她們的身份、詩歌題材及整體趨勢的嬗遞。最後，本文歸納出宮廷女詩人及其詩歌的三大特色，並說明五代十國時期宮廷女詩人呈復興之趨勢。

Exploring The Nexus Gender Equality And Economic Development In China: A Comparative Analysis, Hejie Liu

Honors Theses

This study will document the extent to which China continues to be affected by the influence of traditional gender norms, and the degree to which gender relations in China are changing in terms of culture, behavioral norms, labor force participation, and family structure. The study will also document the Chinese government’s family planning policy and marriage law that reflect traditional gender norms. In establishing the current state of gender equality in China, this study will assess the current and potential future impact of gender norms on economic growth and population growth. Subsequently, the Chinese experience will be contrasted with Japan …

Global Communities: The Potential Of Street Art And The Public Space, Elena Picech

The Coastal Review

This paper highlights the significance of physical proximity and the potentiality of socio-spatial situations as tools to enrich study abroad programs. Particular attention is given to street art and the public space. While, studying on-site can be somewhat uncomfortable, it can potentially prompt unique reflections, enhance student’s learning and encourage introspection. Being on-site provides the opportunity to come into contact and to connect with the physical objects and their environment. It enables a multisensory and immersive embodied experience. Leveraging art for communicative educational activities can facilitate a participatory experience, promote critical thinking and enhance cultural understanding.

Departure, Othilia Choi

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在這篇遊記小說中，作者詳細記錄了自己在歐洲交流期間的體驗和心路歷程。主角在歐洲的旅程不僅是地理上的漫遊，也是對自我、生活和愛情的深刻探索。從初到歐洲時的無助和迷茫，到逐漸融入當地文化，再到與朋友和愛人間的情感交織，讓她對未來充滿期待。

在立陶宛的日子裡，主角不僅體驗了當地的文化和生活，也結識了來自世界各地的朋友，豐富了人生視野。

每個城市的旅行不僅是地點的轉換，更是一次次自我探索和反思的過程。從奧斯威辛的沉重到葡萄牙的陽光，再到歐洲各地的美食體驗，讓主角對生活有了更深的理解和感悟。

小說的結尾，主角帶著對過去的回憶和對未來的期待回到香港，心中充滿了對旅行中遇到的人和事的感激。這段旅程不僅是一次地理上的跨越，更是心靈和情感的成長之旅。

這是一部關於青春、夢想、愛情和成長的小說，讓讀者在主角的旅程中找到共鳴，也鼓勵着每個人勇敢追求自己的夢想，不斷探索和成長。

Mistress Gu The Tigress: Warrior Women & Knight-Errantry In Outlaws Of The Marsh, Ryan K. Christenson

BYU Asian Studies Student Journal

Outlaws of the Marsh, also commonly known as Water Margin, is one of the four most beloved classic novels of Chinese literature, most frequently attributed to the 14th-century writer Shi Nai’an. In this novel, one of the more relatively obscure characters among the 108 outlaws of Mount Liang is Gu Dasao “the Tigress,” a heroic woman who is normally characterized as a “woman general” (nüjiang) along with the other two prominent women in the novel, “Ten Feet of Steel” Hu Sanniang and Sun Erniang “the Witch.” This characterization has endured to this day, perhaps due to tradition or simply convenience. …

(Re)Producing Orientalism: Industry Logic Of Chinese Mobile Game Re-Skins In The Global App Empire, Yizhou Xu

Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications

Through the case study of the mobile title Game of Sultans, this article examines the proliferation of iterative and copycat games through the practice of reskins in the mobile game industry. Based on year-long autoethnographic fieldwork working in a Chinese mobile game company, I provide an on-the-ground perspective of how Orientalist representations in reskinned games are instrumentalized through the roles of “cultural brokers” and the work of localization for Western markets. By taking a theoretical and technological understanding of reskins, I argue that reskinned games, as a form of industrial mimicry, while an important aspect of standardized game production, …

Learning Chinese Vocabulary: Understanding Students' Perspectives, Austin Gasiecki, Zuotang Zhang

The Coastal Review

This study used a survey to investigate self-study and university-enrolled Chinese learners’ habits in studying Chinese vocabulary in order to determine what study methods influence a.) learners’ confidence in learning Chinese vocabulary and b.) what aspects of Chinese vocabulary they consider easy or difficult. We were particularly interested in seeing what the data had to say about students’ attitudes towards characters and the written language, given that the field of Chinese language pedagogy is known for a stronger focus on the written language as opposed to the spoken language. We found that aspects of Chinese vocabulary associated with the spoken …

Between Pain And Glory: Memory Disputes Of The Brazilian Dictatorship In Retrato Calado And O Que É Isso, Companheiro?, Angela R. Mooney

The Coastal Review

This article analyzes Luiz Roberto Salinas Fortes’ Retrato calado (Silent Portrait) published in 1988, considering the theoretical discussions on testimonio's epistemology—addressing the challenge of narrating trauma and the risk of stylization. It compares Fortes' memoir with Fernando Gabeira's O que é isso, companheiro? (What's This, Comrade?) from 1979, examining diverse approaches to capturing historical trauma through literature and its impact on collective memory about Brazilian Dictatorship (1964-1985).

Recontextualization Of Sun Wukong’S Heroism In The Monkey King Film Trilogy 2014–2018, Adi Kristina Wulandari, Manneke Budiman, Nurni Wahyu Wuryandari, Suma Riella Rusdiarti

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

The classic Chinese novel, Journey to the West, written by Wú Chéng’ēn in the 16th century of the Ming Dynasty, is an influential work in Chinese culture. The main character of the novel, the Monkey King Sun Wukong, has become a highly popular character and been adapted into various cultural products. Sun Wukong’s popularity was adapted into three films directed by Cheang Pou-soi, namely Monkey King 1 (2014), Monkey King 2 (2016), and Monkey King 3 (2018). This article analyzes the reconfiguration of Sun Wukong in the films based on the monomyth schemes by Joseph Campbell, focusing on the construction …

Buddhist Music As A Contested Site: The Transmission Of Teochew Buddhist Music Between China And Singapore, Jie Zhang

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

In the Chaozhou City Gazetteer of Buddhism & Chaozhou Kaiyuan Monastery Gazetteer published in 1992, the then Abbot of the Kaiyuan Monastery, Shi Huiyuan 释慧原 heavily condemned the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) monk Shi Kesheng 释可声 (date unknown) for "starting the sins among laities in the Chaozhou region who dared transgressing (the Buddhist doctrines) and became chant leaders in a flaming mouth ceremony.” Why was the Abbot so upset with a fellow monk back in history? What did Kesheng do, and what were the implications of him starting this "transgression"? This article investigates the history of the international traffic of Buddhist …

Shan Song Xiao / 山松晓, 熙福 著, Jane Li

Zea E-Books Collection

故事梗概 这本书描写一百年来一家三代女儿的家族故事，从外祖母，母亲，再到女儿，她们生活在有重叠的生活里，又各自有着不同时代不同主旋律的生活轨迹。光阴荏苒，人生匆匆，回首过往，记录生活。 书中的人物以真实人物为原型，作者将真实名字略去，并在故事情节上加以了丰富和构想。 作者：熙福

ShanSongXiao 'Morning Pine on the Mountain' -- Summary of the story: This book describes the family story of three generations of daughters in a family over the past 100 years. From grandmother, mother, to daughter, they live in overlapping lives, and each has a life trajectory with different themes in different times. Time flies, life is in a hurry, look back on the past and record life. The characters in the book are based on real people. The author has omitted their real names and enriched and imagined the storyline. Author: Xi Fu

部分读后感： 你的小说语言淳朴，接地气。我非常喜欢你的小说，看过后有很多感想。一代一代的 女性不容易，我们赶上了好时代，要争取自己的权力！~ …

Living In Untranslatability--Performance Art In China And Usa, Ziyun Ma

Masters Theses

This thesis embodies discontinuities in performance art and its non-equivalent Chinese term “行 为艺术” between language and cultural context into a migrating journey. A comparative analysis on the disciplinary history of performance art studies in the US and China laid a foundation in exploring the dynamics of marginality in two contexts. Extracting from the narrative mechanism and body view of Chinese performance art, I demonstrate how the philosophy of living (生) inspired many artistic creation, which also echoes my research journey. And from our mutual living experience, I pose the concept of constructive untranslatability that applies positionality and situated knowledge …

根據《世説新語》某條疏證晋、齊、楚區域之學術、文化記憶與分歧, Chunhong Wang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

文化絶非一成不變的，此在時間和空間之兩端，俱可體會中國文化與時俱進，它在各個時代分别借用不同區域的文化資源，而匯總起來就形成整體的中國文化。中國古代任何時期士人或政治人物都具有兩面性，他既是傳統的，又是現實的，所謂傳統就指他受某種區域或學派的思想學術之熏染，所謂現實乃指其人現實處境中的具體反應，而此種人生際遇下的現實表現又必然與其文化傳承存在著某種關聯，或者説其人所受文化觀念之影響又鮮活地體現在其人生應對之間，尤其面臨巨大挑戰時候，其言行舉止必然與其人知識結構、學術積累及思想意識保持一定程度的契合，而《世説新語·言語》某條所記述王坦之、伏滔和習鑿齒三者之間的對話，恰好牽涉三晋、齊地與荆楚的歷史文化之歧異和衝突，而此三者又與秦、漢、魏晋三個時代依稀有著對應關係，所以既是時間的流轉，又屬空間理念之此消彼長，由此入手，揭示此三地文化歷史之記憶與分歧，亦涉獵中國文化版圖之犖犖大端，或藉以呈現朝代更替間的必然性邏輯，而此種分析和研究也既屬歷史的推流溯源，又可一窺接受文化路徑依賴的王、伏、習三者之不同的現實處境和内心世界。

Chinese culture advances by drawing cultural resources from different regions at different times, which come together to constitute its totality. Scholars and officials in ancient times were both traditional and realistic: the former meaning that they were influenced by the scholarship of a certain region or school of thought; the latter referring to their responses to their immediate realities. In life’s twists and turns, the choices they made were necessarily linked to cultural lineage or reflected the influence of cultural ideas vividly, and their writings and behaviors were in sync with their knowledge structures, intellectual cultivations, and ideologies, especially …

鍾會讒殺嵇康公案的再審視——對《世説新語》史料的分梳, Shulin Zhong

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

以鍾會爲個案，探討《世説新語》獨特的編撰體例、編撰思想及其對歷史人物的獨到品鑒與書寫，體現出不同於《三國志》《晋書》等史籍而自成一家之言的可貴價值。在以往研究中，鍾會被誤認爲進讒言而誅殺嵇康，成爲嵇康之死的直接推動者，被後世披以惡名，今以《世説新語》對鍾會的幾則記載爲例，參驗以其他典籍，可知鍾會之惡名實多爲誤解或誤讀。我們以“了解之同情”，重回歷史現場，以《世説新語》文本記載爲基點，對鍾會生平及行事，細加考索，可以了解到鍾會才學過人，“不是什麽不知義理的武人”（吕思勉語），其行事舉止、社會聲譽，總體而言，皆有令名，《世説新語》所載大抵契合當時實況。而後世對鍾會所責之惡名，宜有所釐正。

This article reinvestigates the case of Zhong Hui slandering Ji Kang and discusses A New Account of Tales of the World’s unique compilation style and philosophy and its appreciation and representation of historical figures, which illustrate its stand-alone value different from that of Annals of the Three Kingdoms and Book of Jin. Previous research has argued that Zhong Hui’s slander was the direct cause of Ji Kang’s death and has drawn critiques to the former. This article reads the records about Zhong Hui in A New Account of Tales of the World with references to other classical …

《堯山堂外紀》雜纂成書方法考略, Jingyi Cao

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

明人蔣一葵編纂《堯山堂外紀》一百卷，以人爲綱，輯録詩歌作品及其本事，體量龐大，取材獨特，唯全不注出處，無從得知其材料來源，瞭解其成書方法。《堯山堂外紀》事實上輯録了《歸田詩話》、《西湖遊覽志》、《西湖遊覽志餘》、《留青日札》等詩話、筆記、雜記類文獻，並通過抹除原著者的個人風格，改變原史料的叙事重點，統合諸書的不同體例等策略完成了對諸種文獻的利用。同時，蔣一葵曾箋釋李攀龍《唐詩選》，此書很可能也曾被與《堯山堂外紀》相互參照編纂。蔣一葵對《堯山堂外紀》的編纂有著明確的去取原則與體例自覺，即堅持以人爲中心、以文學掌故爲主要内容。他統一了不同文獻的不同風格，這使此書雖然出自諸書雜纂，卻具備極高的鎔裁性。《堯山堂外紀》的編纂代表了明代流行的文學文獻彙編方式，展示了其背後的工作方法與原則。

Ming-dynasty scholar Jiang Yikui 蔣一葵 compiled the Supplementary Records Compiled in the Yaoshan Study 堯山堂外紀 in one hundred volumes. Organized primarily around individual figures, this compilation encompassed a vast collection of poems and anecdotes. Notably, the sources of these select materials were not provided, rendering it challenging to discern their origins or understand the methodologies adopted in the compilation. Supplementary Records compiled in the Yaoshan Study records from varied genres of literary sources, such as Returning to the Farm: Remarks on Poetry 歸田詩話, Records of the West Lake Tour 西湖遊覽志, Additional Records of the West Lake Tour 西湖遊覽志餘, and …