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Smart Chinese Reader: A Chinese Language Learning Aid With Web Browser, Yifeng Yu

Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology

Smart Chinese Reader is a program based on NLP (natural language processing) technology to help you learn Chinese language through deep reading. It provides Chinese word segmentation, Chinese part of speech tagging, Chinese to English translation, example sentence search, and text to speech conversion. Compared with dictionary apps, it lets you gain more Chinese language knowledge (meanings and usages of Chinese words, patterns and even rhythms of Chinese sentences) from a text, rather than just to get through the text. It makes your Chinese learning more effective.

Culture Shock Hanban Teachers Encounter In American Classroom Teaching, Shunqing Li, Lifen Han, Huiwen Li

Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology

Hanban teachers have made important contributions to the spreading of Chinese language and culture in the US. They also experience great cultural shocks during their teaching, which greatly challenge their life, work and even their physical and mental health. What are those cultural shocks? What are the causes of them? Can we find out some methods to prevent or deal with them? The present study, by employing classroom observation, interview, and self-reflection approaches, investigates the cultural shocks Hanban teachers commonly encounter during their teaching in K-12 schools in the State of Ohio, and conducts analysis of the causes of these …

Problems And The Coping Measures In American Beginners’ Chinese Calligraphy Writing, Huiwen Li, Brendan Mcdermott

Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology

Through class observations and interviews, this study identified eight types of writing errors that American beginners of Chinese calligraphy. These errors include: (1) failure to apply the Chinese philosophical mindset when producing a real work of calligraphy, (2) dropping some stroke(s) or stroke part(s), (3) misplaced strokes, (4) improperly connected strokes, (5) misshapen curved strokes, (6) disproportionate component size, (7) incorrect thickness and character size, and (8) angled vertical strokes. These errors reflect the students’ lack of knowledge of Chinese characters, the writing skills, and the application of Yin and Yang philosophy. Corresponding instructions and guidance are needed to help …

Introduction Of The World Organic Language Teaching Approach, Jingyi Zhang

Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology

This article introduces the OWL instructional approach including its rationale, target setting, procedure, and class structure. With the OWL experience, the author also gives reflections on this approach.

Foreword, Jianping Zhu

Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology

Foreword by the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Cleveland State University

Table Of Contents, Huiwen Li

Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology

Table of Contents

Editors And Reviewers, Huiwen Li

Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology

Editors and Reviewers

China And The Politics Of Cross–Cultural Representation In Interwar European Fiction, Carles Prado-Fonts

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "China and the Politics of Cross–Cultural Representation in Interwar European Fiction" Carles Prado-Fonts analyzes Joan Crespi's La ciutat de la por (The City of Fear, 1930) to illustrate the varied representations of China in interwar Europe. In the 1920s and 1930s, a plurality of views on China and the Chinese people became widespread across different parts of Europe, mainly shaped by English, French, and German representations. Contradictory images of China coexisted in literature, thought, and popular culture. Crespi's work exemplifies these contradictions: China appears as both an attainable reality and an unreachable fantasy, two tropes that prevailed …

Jing Li, Associate Professor Of Chinese Language And Culture, Musselman Library, Jing Li

Next Page

In this first Next Page column of the 2017-18 academic year, Jing Li, Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Culture, shares recommendations for Chinese folktales that will help readers “see China in plural forms,” her favorite book to give as a gift, how she got her hands on magazines and comic books to read for fun during her childhood in China, and much more.

中國新詩與古典詩關係研究 (1917-1937) : 以聞一多、卞之琳、林庚和郭沫若為中心, Sai Ho Ma

Lingnan Theses

本論文從新詩和古典詩關係的角度切入，探討1917 年至1937 年的新詩作家怎樣借用古典詩歌的文化資源，並結合時代環境因素和個人因素，探索和發展新詩的形式和語言，並以具體創作加以實踐。論文以個案形式展開論述，重點考察對象，包括：聞一多(1899－1946)、卞之琳(1910－2000)、林庚(1910－2006)和郭沫若(1892－1978)。這些作家有共同的背景：他們具有深厚的古典文學素養，同時寫作新詩和舊體詩，創作經歷是從舊體詩的沉浸中而來，並漸漸對新詩創作產生興趣，因而自覺地繼承古典詩歌的文化資源，再轉化成新詩的形式和語言，表達屬於現代的思想，對往後新詩的形式和語言發展有重要的影響力。中國古典詩歌的文化資源影響中國新詩的形成，促成中國詩歌的現代轉型。本論文重點探討以下問題：第一，探討詩人如何繼承和轉化古典詩傳統，發展成新詩的傳統。第二，分析詩人如何從古典詩歌汲取養份，建構新詩的形式和語言範式。第三，檢討在中國詩歌的現代轉型過程中，傳統民族文學因素在新詩建構工程中的位置。

透過各章節的分析，本論文進一步釐清新詩人如何借助古典詩的文化資源，作為新詩創作的參考理論。傳統民族文學因素在新詩建構工程中的位置十分重要，古典詩所確立的詩學觀、形式句法、意象系統和語言系統，在聞一多、林庚、卞之琳和郭沫若的新詩中，有不同的承繼和轉化。這四位詩人對「新詩特質」有不同理解，這與時代因素、文學觀念的取態和創作目的有密切關係。「新詩特質」的理解影響他們接受古典詩文化資源的方針，從中可見中國現代文學史的新詩和古典詩關係，遠比很多人想像中複雜。

My Name Is Jing, Jing Wang

Theses and Dissertations

My Name is Jing is an essay film about my family and a commentary on the rapid changes that have taken place in Chinese society over the past five decades. The film explores personal and national memories. It shows the impact of large-scale economic and social changes on an ordinary Chinese family.

Sex In China (Book Review), Wenqing Kang

History Faculty Publications

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馬其昶《毛詩學》析論, Man Lung Chong

Lingnan Theses

馬其昶(1855-1930)，字通白(又作通伯)，晚年號抱潤翁，安徽桐城人，清末民初著名學者。早年以古文名，晚歲殫治群經子史，旁及內典，有桐城派「殿軍」之稱。其著《毛詩學》因晚清經學衰微，加之珠玉在前，以往較少學者研究，然不失為一部《毛詩》學的總成之作。本文以此書作為研究對象，內容計有以下數端：一、通伯著書或有異名，或有異卷。本文先考《毛詩學》版本，繼而剖析體例，簡介成書背景及撰寫架構。二、歷來《詩》說紛紜，馬氏既以《毛詩》為宗，其於《詩經》學的重要問題必有傾向。本文擇取並析述書中部分觀點，窺探通伯對於《詩經》學部分問題的基本立場。三、陳漢章(1864-1938)謂「蓋此書出而經學可息爭矣」，此書實有功於《毛詩》學。筆者先比較《毛詩學》與清代《詩經》新疏三大家之撰述理念，從而了解《毛詩學》對同朝《毛詩》學派的繼承和相異之處。次而略舉《毛詩學》說詩條例，尤重比對此書與清代新疏之說法，考察此書釋《詩》具體方式和特點，並從徵引、釋詞、辨音、明句，以至撰述理念等角度，評述其按語獨到、可取，或誤解之處。四、由其書至其人，延伸馬氏著成此書的學術淵源。試從《毛詩學》具體思想傾向與特點，推論背後形成因素，論及此書與桐城派學術觀之關係。

Contested Moral Issues In Contemporary African Catholicism: Theological Proposals For A Hermeneutics Of Multiplicity And Inclusion, Stan Chu Ilo

Journal of Global Catholicism

Drawing upon the broad work of Vatican II and Pope Francis’ Evangelicum Gaudium the article proposes how a hermeneutic of multiplicity and inclusion could help hold in balance the tension between tradition and innovation, universal principles and specific contextual application for Catholicism in Africa. Among the issues addressed are cultural relativism, natural law theory, and polygamy.

Academic Freedom As A Human Right: The Problem Of Confucius Institutes, Jay Todd Richey

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Academic freedom is the ability to explore, research, and analyze any topic without prohibitions or repercussions. In the Anglo-American tradition, it is both a fundamental aspect of academia and, as this thesis argues, a fundamental human right. Although the United States embraces this core principle of academia within American universities, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) seeks to suppress the acquisition of knowledge through restrictions on topics deemed politically-sensitive to the Chinese government. Although human rights abuses pervade the PRC and academic freedom is suppressed, PRC-funded entities known as Confucius Institutes (CIs) are widely embraced at universities in liberal democracies. …

Patterned Fluidity Of Chinese Ethnic Identity: Networks, Time, And Place, Cynthia Baiqing Zhang

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

This study tests the salience/prominence of Chinese ethnic identity by applying identity theory, social identity theory, and social network analysis. Using survey data of Chinese graduate students in two universities in the United States, I show how Chinese ethnic identity salience varies with the percentage of Chinese in an individual’s ego network revolving around him or her. In addition, among newcomers to the United States, as the percentage Chinese in ego networks increases, the decline of Chinese identity salience/prominence declines, but for old timers in the United States, as the percentage Chinese increases, the decline of Chinese identity salience/prominence is …

The Invention Of "Japanese" Literature In Colonial Korea, Or How Shameless Literary Engagement Could Be Under Colonial Conditions, Mihara Yoshiaki

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This is the full-paper version of the 338th Si-Mian Lecture delivered at ECNU on March 17, 2017, which focuses on the "shameless" act of intellectual collaboration committed by Ch'oe Chaes ô (崔載瑞), an eminent scholar of English literature and criticism as well as a prominent "pro-Japanese" intellectual in Colonial Korea, who encouraged Korean writers to contribute to Japanese "kokumin bungaku" [national literature] by writing in the Japanese language. Rather than simply denouncing him as a "shameless" traitor, however, the author of this article tries to salvage the potentially postcolonial problematics he has posed in his theoretical struggle as regards possible …

The Literary Concepts Through Novel Titles Of The Ming And Qing Dynasties, Guofu Cheng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Titles are special insight into the Ming and Qing novel writing. Through an examination of the texts, prefaces and epilogues, the records of book production, guidelines for book use, book reviews, notes etc. the paper explores the literary concepts reflected by the Ming and Qing novels. Specifically, novel titles can be interpreted in four respects, namely, the novel as a supplement to history, the novel as admonishment, the novel as entertainment, and the novel as true feelings. Through these concepts we may have a better understanding of the significance and the evolution of the literary concepts of the Ming and …

The Origin Of The Title "The Four Dreams Of Linchuan" And The Deep Significance Of The Peony Pavilion, Baocheng Kang, Yanfang Chen

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The title "the Four Dream of Linchuan" is not in accordance with the facts of the four Chuanqi plays written by Tang Xianzu, for "The Purple Hairpin", one of the "four dreams" has little to do with "dream" of any kind. Inspired by "the Four Dreams" written by Che Renyuan and the folk song "4 dreams 8 voids" in The Plum in the Golden Vase, Tang Xianzu himself began to use the title of "the Four Dreams of Linchuan". The title was rarely recognized till the late Ming Dynasty, but it became popular during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of …