文苑 (重刊號第10期),
2010
Lingnan University
《說文》古文與籀文之關係研究,
2010
Lingnan University, Hong Kong
《說文》古文與籀文之關係研究, Yan Ho Siu
Lingnan Theses
關於《說文》古文與籀文的關係，以學者王國維（1877-1927）的說法影響最 大，王氏於其研究中數次提到「秦用籀文，六國用古文」的論點，即認為古文與 籀文為兩種不同的文字體系，兩者無甚關係。近代學者何琳儀（1943-2007）則持 不同的見解，何氏嘗試以古、籀文相同的文字為例，嘗試證明兩者並不能全然劃 分，何氏更指出，籀文可能是古文的源頭，於戰國時期，古、籀文才劃分成兩個 體系。
《說文》古、籀文的關係，仍未有具體清晰的結論。由此，本論文以《說文》 古文與籀文為研究核心，運用比對與統計的方法，嘗試分析及釐清兩者之間的關 係。本論文所採用的「字符、部件比對法」，先將古、籀文分別拆分成構意最小 的部件，並歸納出「個體字符」、「複合部件」與「基礎部件」三批材料，再將古、 籀文的資料相互比較分析，嘗試從最仔細的部件著手，分析古、籀文之間的異同 與關係。除古、籀文的直接比對外，本論文會利用依從「字符、部件比對法」所 分拆出的古、籀文材料，與三批不同的文字材料比對，三批材料分別為西周金文、 戰國文字，以及《說文》小篆，嘗試以不同時代的文字為佐證，並統計當中的數 據，以進一步展示《說文》古、籀文的異同之處，並探討兩者與西周金文、戰國 文字，以及《說文》小篆的關係。
Silence Is Still Golden: Women And The Metropolis In Early Chinese Cinema,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Silence Is Still Golden: Women And The Metropolis In Early Chinese Cinema, Yap Soo Ei, Ji Xing, Nicolai Volland, Yang Lijun, Paul Pickowicz
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Feng Xiaogang’s blockbuster Aftershock is making headlines these days, setting new records at the box office in China. We cannot say yet if the excitement is justified—Aftershock has only just hit the theaters here in Singapore. It is clear, however, that the current cinema craze in China is not at all a new phenomenon. In fact, new releases on the silver screen created similar sensations in Shanghai as early as eighty years ago. And many of these old films continue even today to fascinate. Films by pioneering Chinese directors of the 1920s and 1930s still dazzle, with their opulent sets, …
An Interview With Deanna Fei, Author Of A Thread Of Sky,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
An Interview With Deanna Fei, Author Of A Thread Of Sky
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Deanna Fei is author of A Thread of Sky (Penguin Press, 2010), a novel about three generations of women in a Chinese American family. Here, she talks with recent UC Irvine graduate Mengfei Chen.
Mengfei Chen: What were some of your inspirations in writing the book? How did it begin? What experiences informed your writing?
Deanna Fei: A Thread of Sky is the story of a family of Chinese American women who reunite for a tour of their ancestral home. It was inspired by a trip through China’s “must-sees” that I embarked on ten years ago with my mother, my …
“We Are Not Machines:” Teen Spirit On China’S Shopfloor,
2010
University of Michigan
“We Are Not Machines:” Teen Spirit On China’S Shopfloor, Mary E. Gallagher
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
This spring, a series of well-coordinated and successful strikes in foreign-invested enterprises in China made headlines all around the world. Young migrant workers openly and forcefully articulated demands for higher wages, better representation, and more consideration of their “spiritual” and mental well-being. These demands have led to increased speculation that China’s current economic boom is winding down, as its growth strategy founded in part on cheap migrant labor from rural areas faces domestic and international difficulties.
This is not the first time that Chinese workers have openly protested for higher wages, better treatment, and more job security. What makes this …
Reading Round-Up: China Now The World’S Second-Largest Economy,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Reading Round-Up: China Now The World’S Second-Largest Economy
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
This week came the not-unexpected news that China has passed Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy. Here, we’ve rounded up reactions to and analyses of the story:
• At his New Yorker blog, Evan Osnos asks “Why the Long Face?”, explaining that “While the story has rated front-page treatment in the U.S., it has sent China into a frenzy of self-flagellation, in the hope of reminding people that it is still home to a lot of very poor people.”
• Yoree Koh at the Wall Street Journal reports that Japan is taking the news of its third-place status with …
An Image,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
An Image
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
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I had never bid on eBay. It takes too much energy, too much attention to follow the vagaries of an online auction. And there never seems to be anything I want that badly. But I wanted that propaganda poster—a reproduction of an oil painting, mid-1970s—depicting, with the imagination and rhetorical power possible only in socialist realism, the May Fourth movement of 1919.
In the painting, the sky is clearing and clouds are dissipating behind the imposing presence of Tiananmen, which dominates the scene. The students, young men and women, are marching at …
Panic Room,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Panic Room
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
On my (continuing) walk across China, I have occasionally come across the kind of construction featured in the attached image — a farmhouse with a door half way up the wall, no stairs attached. I have previously assumed the house was still under construction, or perhaps they ran out of money before doing the stairs. But as I passed his one, in Guang’an county in the middle of Sichuan, last Saturday, it struck me that this is in fact a “panic room”, a way to seal off and protect the family and its assets in the top room, safe from …
Frivolous Friday: The Red Army Learns To “Just Beat It”,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Frivolous Friday: The Red Army Learns To “Just Beat It”
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Have you ever wondered what it would look like if Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” were performed by a Cultural Revolution-era musical troupe? Perhaps not. But thanks to this video on Tudou, the question you never thought to ask has been answered.
The video has been making the rounds on Twitter this week (follow us at@chinabeat!); thanks to Kaiser Kuo for bringing it to our attention.
Sodden Anniversary,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Sodden Anniversary, Paul Katz
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
August 8, 2010 marked the first anniversary of the Siaolin Village 小林村 tragedy, when torrential rains caused by Typhoon Morakot triggered a massive mudslide that swept this idyllic community off the face of the earth, taking 474 lives. Conditions one year later were eerily similar, with rain drenching the disaster site and another threat (Tropical Storm Dianmu 電母) lurking off the east coast (happily it did not make landfall). Southern Taiwan has suffered heavy rains during the past month, but there has been little destruction and loss of life (so far), unlike the terrible flooding that has ravaged so much …
Hong Kong’S Glass Ceiling,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Hong Kong’S Glass Ceiling, Reenita Malhotra
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Hong Kong’s women have the power of their purses, are freer and more educated, and enjoy more legal protection than they did 20 years ago. And since 1996, when Hong Kong signed CEDAW, the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women—which calls for 50 percent representation of women in government leadership, political parties, trade unions, professional and other representative groups—women’s participation in managerial positions has risen from 22 percent in 1998 to 29 percent in 2008. In the civil service, women held 31 percent of directorate officer positions in 2008, compared to 21 percent in …
An Interview With Chinese Underground Rock Musician Zuoxiao Zuzhou,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
An Interview With Chinese Underground Rock Musician Zuoxiao Zuzhou, Tim Hathaway
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
A quick listen to Zuoxiao Zuzhou’s (左小祖咒）music would not be enough to explain his fame. His trademark is singing off key.
In spite of the odd sounding vocals or perhaps because of its contrast to the saccharine sweet sounds of Chinese pop and rock, Zuoxiao has become one of China’s most successful rock musicians.
He started his career in 1993 and has since produced ten albums. He has also published a best selling novel and created sculptures and artistic photography. He was a founding member of the avant garde artists residence called Beijing’s “East Village” in the early 1990s where …
The Freshest Kids In China,
2010
Fudan University
The Freshest Kids In China, George Zhi Zhao
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
R16 at the Shanghai World Expo
June 19, 2010 I hear the voice of the late James Brown shouting over the booming speakers, and I watch a crowd of dancers move and contort to every minute rhythm and sound that is being controlled and manipulated by the DJ. The energy in the air is tense, as different b-boys (breakdancers) take turns stepping inside a circle of bodies, all asserting themselves in back-to-back solo performances of gravity-defying sequences of dance movements. The competitive performance of breakdancing happens all over the world, in metropolises ranging from New York City to Tokyo, from …
Where’S Haibao? Help Us Find Him!,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Where’S Haibao? Help Us Find Him!
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Shanghai seems to have turned into a massive game of “Where’s Haibao?” as the image of everyone’s favorite Expo mascot pervades the city, in places both expected and not. Gina Bock, an entering student at Pomona College, recently returned from her first trip to China and shared a few photos of her Haibao sightings with us. They’re now in a Picasa album (link below, and also accessible through our “Media” page). If you have Haibao photos of your own to add (the more unusual, the better!), let us know by writing to thechinabeat[at]gmail.com. Though we suspect Haibao will be only …
Anthologize: A New Tool For Bloggers,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Anthologize: A New Tool For Bloggers
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
We wanted to alert readers who are fellow WordPress users to the arrival of a cool new WordPress plugin that has just been unveiled. Anthologize is the product of the “One Week | One Tool” program, a summer institute funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and held at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The plugin — conceived, developed, and released in just one week! — enables bloggers to grab online content, edit and organize it, and produce an electronic book. Read more about Anthologize, and some ideas about how it can enhance …
A Q-And-A With Scott Tong Of Marketplace,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
A Q-And-A With Scott Tong Of Marketplace
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
As regular readers of this blog know, I spent late June and much of July in Shanghai, with brief trips to other parts of China. One aspect of this sojourn in the PRC that proved memorable was the opportunity it afforded me to finally meet several people whose reporting or commentaries I’ve admired, but whose paths had never crossed mine before, including Kaiser Kuo (whose Sinica podcasts we’ve talked up here before), David Barboza of the New York Times (whose day-in-the-life of a South China worker I singled out for praise in a recent commentary), freelancer Adam Minter (who has …
Reading Round-Up, 8/2/2010,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Reading Round-Up, 8/2/2010
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Before we fully embrace the arrival of August, a bit of housekeeping from July . . . some stories that we noticed during the past month and wanted to share with our readers:
• Xujun Eberlein has been busy lately, and two of her recent pieces of writing have overlaps with topics we’ve discussed here at China Beat in the past few weeks. On the matter of Wang Hui and plagiarism, see her post at Inside-Out China; for her review of the “social science fiction” novel Shengshi: Zhongguo 2013, head over to Foreign Policy.
• If you’re in Beijing and …
Live Confucian: The Newsletter Of The Confucius Institute Of Pace University July 2010,
2010
Pace University
Live Confucian: The Newsletter Of The Confucius Institute Of Pace University July 2010, Confucius Institute Pace University
Live Confucian
A newsletter of the Confucius Institute, Pace University.
The Confucius Institute at Pace University is dedicated to providing Chinese language and cultural education, resources,and services to meet the needs of people from all backgrounds.
Human Capital, Education, And Entrepreneurs: Evidence From The Yangtze River Delta,
2010
Gettysburg College
Human Capital, Education, And Entrepreneurs: Evidence From The Yangtze River Delta, Zhining Hu, Jianghuai Zheng, Jialing Wang
Economics Faculty Publications
This paper seeks to examine the relationship between education demand and entrepreneurs in the process of enhancing the growth of human capital in China. We develop a theoretical model that incorporates the important roles played by human capital, education and entrepreneurs. Then, we derive an immigration condition under which the demand for education depends on the existence of entrepreneurs. Finally, we test whether this condition holds true in China, using a panel data set from the Yangtze River Delta which is considered a key barometer of Chinese economy. The empirical results reveal a significant positive relationship between entrepreneurs and education …
Kajian Metafora Dalam Puisi Tradisional Bahasa Cina.,
2010
Universiti Malaya
Kajian Metafora Dalam Puisi Tradisional Bahasa Cina., Liew Foot Yuen
Student Works (2010-2019)
In recent years, the reading of Chinese traditional poems has become more popular in the Chinese society in Malaysia. Traditional Chinese philosophical poems have even been incorporated into the Chinese language syllabus in primary as well as secondary schools. However, students still encounter difficulty in understanding the real meaning of the poems because of the artistic language of the poems which contain numerous metaphors. This is a descriptive study which aims to identify the kinds of metaphor used and the reasons for using such metaphorical items in traditional Chinese philosophical poems. In this research, 122 lexical metaphors from 30 traditional …
