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From Micro To Marco: Jade Snuff Bottles In Qianlong Era, Jinpeng Wang

MA Theses

Emperor Qianlong, whose original name is Aisin Gioro Hongli, was the sixth emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Qianlong was one of the most famous emperors in Chinese history. As the word “Qianlong” means in Manchu, he was truly blessed by the god: the Qing Empire was already very strong when Qianlong came into power; meanwhile, Qianlong had a relatively stable outside environment. It allows Qianlong to be able to focus on pushing his own governing policy. Qianlong’s policy of agricultural development and tax reduction was very effective, under sixty years of reign, the empire has expanded its territory, and the …

Private Art Museum Backed By Hong Kong Invetment - Wan Fung Art Musem As An Example, Yiye Chen

MA Theses

The rapid development of private art museums in the world can be regarded as the epitome of global economic development. The Chinese government has given unprecedented support to the development of culture and art. As the world's second largest economy, China's middle class has been increasing year by year. The hot art market has attracted European and American auction giants, and famous galleries have entered the Chinese market. Since the birth of the first private art museum in China at the end of the 20th century, Chinese scholars have been constantly exploring the direction of development. From copying the European …

Story Of Twin Cities, Who Will Be The Next Storm Center Of Art Fairs?, Rui Bian

MA Theses

Since 2000, with the rapid development of China's economy, the evolution of contemporary art fairs in China has been accelerated. This paper takes two representative cities, Beijing and Shanghai, as examples. In the past one decade, Shanghai and Beijing have respectively led the trend of contemporary art market due to various internal and external factors. This paper uses PEST model to analyze, trying to find out who will be the next center of contemporary art in the next ten years.

The first part of this paper mainly starts from the differentiations in policies and regional distributions of Chinese contemporary art …

The Prc And Its Anti-Drug War: The Opium Suppression Campaign Of The Early 1950'S, Queen Marcela Pierre

Honors Theses

For centuries, China sought to suppress opium consumption within its borders. Following the Chinese Communist Party’s rise to power, the 1950’s drug suppression campaign initiated new attempts to bring about the end of opium’s presence within Chinese society. What led to this campaign’s success is its utilization of different strategies within each region of focus. The combination of strategies used allowed the CCP to eradicate all forms of the opium market in both urban and rural areas where the campaign was active. This thesis examines the methods used during the campaign and how these methods resulted in the campaign’s success.

“Making It Your Own By Adapting It To What’S Important To You”: Plurilingual Critical Literacies To Promote L2 Japanese Users’ Sense Of Ownership Of Japanese, Noriko Iwasaki, Yuri Kumagai

East Asian Languages & Cultures: Faculty Publications

The dichotomy between native speaker (NS) and non-native speaker (NNS) remains ubiquitous across different language-learning contexts despite increasing mobility and multilingualism of society. L2 Japanese learners in particular may find themselves positioned as subordinate to NSs because of the myth of Japan being a homogeneous nation of one race and one language. To help L2 Japanese students counter such positioning and gain a sense of ownership, we implemented “plurilingual critical literacies” in a Japanese language course in the U.S. Critical literacy aims to cultivate students’ awareness that power relationships are at play in language use, and plurilingual pedagogy valorizes students’ …

Review: Literate Community In Early Imperial China: The Northwestern Frontier In Han Times, By Charles Sanft, Sujane Wu

East Asian Languages & Cultures: Faculty Publications

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[Introduction To] I And You, J. David Stevens

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The four stories in J. David Stevens’s I and You focus on immigrants and their families, characters trying to find the merge point between the China of a previous generation and America today. A teenage son puzzles over his father’s obsession with American football. A Texas lesbian falls for an international graduate student. A divorced middle-aged woman tries to right an old wrong in the life of a man for whom she serves as caregiver. Through episodes where intimacy falters in the face of palpable distance, characters must confront unknowable details in the lives of even those closest to them: …

[Introduction To] Chinese Revolutionary Cinema: Propaganda, Aesthetics And Internationalism 1949-1966, Volume 48, Jessica Ka Yee Chan

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Engaging with fiction films devoted to heroic tales from the decade and a half between 1949 and 1966, this book reconceives state propaganda as aesthetic experiments that not only radically transformed acting, cinematography and screenwriting in socialist China, but also articulated a new socialist film theory and criticism. Rooted in the interwar avant-garde and commercial cinema, Chinese revolutionary cinema, as a state cinema for the newly established People's Republic, adapted Chinese literature for the screen, incorporated Hollywood narration, appropriated Soviet montage theory and orchestrated a new, glamorous, socialist star culture. In the wake of decolonisation, Chinese film journals were quick …

Analysis Of The Performance Of The Korean Government’S R&D Subsidy For Small Businesses, Soonjae Kwon

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

Investment in Research and Development (R&D) is one of the most significant governmental activities. Many countries including Korea continue the R&D investment in various fields such as defense, environment, and medical care. In addition, the Korean government has a plan to significantly expand R&D investment for small businesses because the growth of small businesses is considered as an important factor for economic development such as new job creation. Since the government budget is a finite resource in which various departments compete for the budget, the budget increase of a program can be justified when the government grants lead to better …

A Study On The Determinants Of Childbirth In Primary Local Government Districts In South Korean ‘Do’ Metro Provinces, Seungmin Kim

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

Korea is experiencing a very serious low fertility rate. As of 2017, Korea has a fertility rate of 1.05, which is the lowest among the G20 countries. The low fertility rate can lead to pension burden problems and economic recession problems. In particular, the Primary Local Government Districts ((PLGDs) in "Do" Metro provinces in Korea may have a problem of a decrease in the agricultural population, and the reduction of organizational and administrative functions due to the reduction of fiscal income. To solve the low fertility rate, we need to identify factors that affect childbirth, and to engage in policy …

Chinese Cubans: Transnational Origins And Revolutionary Integration, Kevin J. Morris

The Corinthian

The Chinese legacy in Cuba exists in a dual state, at once both a fundamental aspect of the Cuban people and the Cuban nationality while also an oft-overlooked strand in the fabric of Cuban society and culture. While today the official number of Chinese-born Cubans in Cuba is low, the number of Chinese-descendants in Cuba may well number in the hundreds of thousands. This duality merits exploration, as it sheds light on the unique experiences of Chinese Cubans and Chinese-descendants through several eras of Cuban history. Most interestingly, the role and presence of Chinese Cubans in the Cuban Revolution provides …

A Semiotic Reading Of The East Asian-Canadian Restaging Of The Immigrant Experience And Redress In Marty Chan’S The Forbidden Phoenix And David Yees’S Lady In The Red Dress, Rania M Rafik Khalil

English Language and Literature

The astounding increase in immigration and the rise in intercultural relationships within Canadian society resulted in the last decade in the acceptability of a number of dramatic works by ethnic, immigrant and second generation Canadian playwrights. This paper examines through Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Sanders Peirce’s theory of semiotics the East-Asian Canadian immigrant experience and the journey of redress in two dramatic works: Marty Chan’s The Forbidden Phoenix (2010) and David Yee’s lady in the red dress (2010). The Forbidden Phoenix and lady in the red dress, address issues related to exclusionary policies against early Chinese immigrants to Canada …

The Implications Of Science And Technology For Chinese Women: A Cultural Study Of The Chinese Era Of Reforms, Wenjing Liu

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Abstract

This dissertation addresses the gendered implications of science and technology in the era of reforms. It argues that in this era, which began in 1978 and continues today, science and technology are highly romanticized as nearly omnipotent. This results in its being embedded not only into ordinary Chinese people’s lives, hoping to bring them positive changes, but also into the Chinese government’s political practices, hoping to achieve its political purposes through science and technology. It also points out that in the era of reforms, Chinese women’s lived experiences are full of tensions, struggles, and conflicts, as evidenced by the …

英語詞與香港粵語詞的語法融合現象, Chi Lam Cheung

Dissertations from all years

自上世紀末起，不少學者已展開針對漢語與外文字詞混雜使用的研究，並稱此類進入漢語語法體制的詞彙為「字母詞」；當《現代漢語詞典》正式把「西文字母開頭的詞語」收錄入冊後，此課題得到更多人關注。對於「字母詞」的界定，雖然至今仍未有絕對一統的定義，但基本共識都是要求該詞彙擁有一些特殊的表徵，例如緊縮、與固定漢字組合、難以對譯等，而不會把日常語碼混合 (code mixing) 中借用到的英語詞都歸為同一類。然而，港式粵語中卻有一些特別的英語詞彙，它們保留著原來英語的發音和書寫方式，卻不再遵從原先的語法功能和意義，僅僅被香港的粵語使用者所能理解及廣泛普遍地應用。

本文挑選了「friend」、「OK」、「short」這三個經常被本地人使用的英語詞作分析。研究它們在粵語句子中充當的功能並且探討它們與其粵語對應詞的關係，在語法層面上歸納一套能夠解釋這類英語詞借入粵語的規律和機制。

雙關與歧義 : 以近期香港電影宣傳為例, Ambrose Yiu Lam Leung

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諧音因應漢語自身具備的語音特色而生，常被香港電影業界用作構成電影片名或相關宣傳語句，見例如：《緣來無限期》(Home again ，臺譯《愛情齡距離》2018)，宣傳語為「1月18日愛情回閨」。上例的港版片名以至宣傳導語均見諧音手法。縱觀電影業界，諧音在港版電影宣傳尤為常見，比起其他地區，如中國大陸、臺灣地區等，港版電影不論本地出品抑或外語翻譯作品同樣會同上諧音手法命名。在電影宣傳上巧妙運用諧音既能讓暸解該個語言體系的觀眾留下深刻印象，又能委婉地透露該片內容大要，藉此吸引觀眾購票入場。在現代漢語修辭當中，獨特的語音特色發展出不同修辭手法，雙關借音，便屬其一。然而，歧義主要因音而見，顯得兩者組成條件互有相似。雖歧義目前被廣泛視為語病，但歷來亦有學者將歧義歸入修辭。換句話說，關於歧義的修辭性質各家各說。有見學者眾說紛紜，本文遂以港版電影宣傳為研究對象，透過電影的諧音宣傳，展示電影當中所體現的雙關和歧義，由此分析兩者是否有異。文末整合各派意見之後，將提出己見。

淺析粵語虛詞「同」與「同埋」的分別, Shan Lam

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虛詞和實詞為漢語中兩個大類。相比實詞，漢語中的虛詞數目比實詞要少，且無法充當主要 的句法成分，但由於其語法功能之多，虛詞依然佔漢語中一個十分重要的位置。在意義上，虛詞可表達出抽象、非形態的語法意義，大部分實詞之間的關係、語氣等都需依靠虛詞表達。要理解漢語，就需要先理解漢語中的虛詞。

粵語為漢語系統其中一分支，有其獨特的語言方式及習慣，虛詞的使用方法與其他分支的亦不盡相同。「同」、「同埋」為粵語中常用的虛詞， 一般而言，語法書、語言工具書都將其解釋為與「同」相當的虛詞。但實際習慣上，其實有不少情況只能用其中之一，兩者並非完全相同。對這兩個虛詞的選擇，有可能會影響句子的意義，或違反粵語的語 法習慣。因此，本文將以日常例子找出現時研究中缺漏的，有關兩者的用法及意義，並分析兩者的分別。

另外，「埋」為粵語中另一常用虛詞，與「同埋」的關係亦值得討論。因此，在分析「同」與「同埋」的分別之後，本文亦會根據這些分別，討論「同埋」與「同」、「埋」的關係。

釋「脣」與「唇」字 : 兼論其成為異體字之源流, Kwun Wai Law

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一般人把表達「嘴脣」義的「脣」字當作「唇」的異體字，例如《漢語大詞典》便將「脣」列為「唇」的異體字，兩字都讀作chún，而一般場合也用「唇」多於「脣」。而古代的一些文獻，「嘴脣」之義也有寫作「脣」或「唇」的，兩字在字義、字音兩方面似乎構成異體字的關係，在任何場合都可作互換。

然而，翻查東漢許慎所著的《說文解字》，「脣」字解釋為「口耑也，从肉辰聲。䫃，古文脣从頁。」本義為「嘴脣」之義。而「唇」字解釋為「驚也，从口辰聲。」本義為「震驚」之義，兩字字義本不相同，不作混同。至於在字音方面，「脣」字在《廣韻》標作「食倫切」，為合口三等的全濁字，「唇」的反切則為「側鄰切」，為開口三等的全清字，兩字讀音絕不相同。可見，從兩字的字義及字音看，「脣」與「唇」在上古及中古時期都不構成異體字的關係。

雖然不少學者如(清)徐灝、章太炎都留意到兩字的不同，然而他們皆沒有對二字成為異體字的源流進行深入研究，二字在什麼時候、什麼原因混同成一起仍有不少探討的空間。因此，本文旨在解釋「脣」與「唇」字，並兼論兩字成為異體字的源流及其原因。

論《剪燈新話》中人鬼婚戀對女性文學形象的重建 : 〈以金鳳釵記〉、〈牡丹燈記〉和〈綠衣人傳〉為例, Tsz Ho Ng

Dissertations from all years

《剪燈新話》成於明洪武十一年，隨即因其獨特的思想題材而受到當時文人歡迎。作者瞿佑在序中提及《剪燈新話》旨於「勸善懲惡」，所記之事都是「遠不出百年，近止在數載」，能一定程度上反映元明時期的社會現實。凌雲翰亦以「造意之奇，措詞之妙，粲然自成一家」評之，可見其具有相當的文學價值。再者，《剪燈新話》興起後不斷出現如《剪燈餘話》、《覓燈因話》等仿效之作，甚至流傳到海外促使諸如越南之《傳奇漫錄》、日本之《奇異雜記談》、朝鮮之《金鰲新話》等作品，不但為明清小說發展甚至漢文化區文學帶來深遠影響。

雖然《剪燈新話》中的愛情題材作品共有九篇，然而涉及人鬼婚戀卻只有金鳳釵記、牡丹燈記與綠衣人傳三篇。本文將先論證中國傳統文學對女性形象的建構，再就上述三篇分別論證《剪燈新話》對女性形象的重建。首先借西方社會學家福柯Michel Foucault對權力和知識(Power/Knowledge)的理論分析金鳳釵記的兩性地位。然後，借西方電影批評家勞拉·穆爾維(Laura Mulvey)的男性凝視(male gaze)分析的男性凝視。最後借明清時期「唯情」一派學說分析綠衣人傳的「情至」觀念。

以〈賴索〉及《躁鬱的國家》為觀察文本，看黃凡如何表現政治與文學的互動性, Chun Ho Andrew Lau

Dissertations from all years

本論文要處理的中心問題為：黃凡如何運用不同文學手法，表現不同時期台灣所處的政治環境及問題。

首先為緒論，將略說明政治小說的崛起與發展（形成條件、作品概況），解嚴前的台灣文學如何受到政府的控制；然後略述黃凡於七十年代末期的冒起如何引起台灣文學界的轟動，並會配合當時政治、社會背景再作解說。

然後，會著重討論政治文學的特徵，並就〈賴索〉及《躁鬱的國家》兩部小說的時代背景作解釋，〈賴索〉寫於1979年，而《躁鬱的國家》則發表於2003年，相隔二十多年，解嚴前後，台灣環境的轉變所帶來的問題亦是作者創作的動機。

接著，會就文本作深入的分析，包括人物、情節如何與當時的政治環境掛鉤、使用什麼手法表現，從而令黃凡的作品有獨特性。本章更會將兩個文本作對讀，從而深入探究它們的相似性，以及一些根本問題。

最後，將會討論政治與文學如何互相影響，政治之操弄、社會之亂象在文學中有沒有解決的出路，並評論黃凡在政治文學寫作上的局限。

文末會為全文作總結。

淺析先老學︰容成思想及其流變, Kwun Cheong Lau

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本文受饒宗頤先生於1998年文章《（傳老子師）容成遺說鉤沉——先老學初探》啟發，故欲探究容成遺說對於老子以至往後學說有何影響。先老學一詞乃指對於道家思想起源－老子有所的影響的思想。一些上世紀出土的文獻，如《十問》、雲夢秦簡、九店楚簡等均有文獻能夠引證老子思想或有受容成氏（或容成子）思想所影響。容成一詞能散見於不同古代文獻中，而能夠反映出容成思想的成份與背景。而且在往後的不同學派的思想中，亦能見容成最為見稱的「治氣養精」之說。可見其影響實在不能忽視。為了顯示容成的核心思想，以及其往後的影響，本文將分成三部分。首先嘗試從不同文獻中整理出容成之身份以及其背後象徵的思想，然而詳細探討容成與老莊之間的近似，及其治氣養精之說，最後將從往後涉及其精氣論以及養生思想的學說加以梳理出當中的思想發展。