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《宣室志》作者張讀墓誌考, Shangjun Chen

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

張讀著《宣室志》是唐後期重要的志怪小説集，以往對他的家世生平瞭解甚少，僅知他是張薦孫，牛僧孺的外孫，大中間登進士第，該書撰成時比較年輕。僖宗時追隨入蜀，官至禮部侍郎。今根據西安碑林新入藏徐彦若撰其墓誌，得以完整瞭解他的生平履歷。知道他是唐初著名小説家張文成的四世孫；其父張希復是《酉陽雜俎》作者段成式的好友，雖因早亡未有著作存世，但段書中許多次提到他對於新奇事物的興趣。其母爲牛僧孺女，叙述其父母婚姻的部分也提示他文學來源的另一綫索。墓誌罕見地爲此小説世家保存了珍貴記録。而對存世《宣室志》遺文的截止時間，以及苗台符曾爲撰序，基本可認爲該書譔寫於他二十歲左右。此後他進士及第，宦海浮沉，雖與文學活動漸遠，但足以瞭解他完整履歷，足稱珍貴。

廖恩燾 : 詩界革命一驍將, Quanzhang Hu

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

從1903年攜帶一批“俗曲新唱”的新粤謳作品登上《新小説》“雜歌謡”專欄，在“詩界革命”主陣地奏響啓蒙救亡的主旋律，成爲《新小説》第一詩人，到1906年創作“以舊風格含新意境”的古巴紀事詩和域外竹枝詞，被飲冰室主人譽爲“詩史”和“地志”，與黄遵憲一樣“餘事爲詩人”的晚清外交官廖恩燾，憑藉其貢獻給20世紀初年新詩壇的三個系列五十多篇詩歌作品，在詩界革命陣營扮演了他人不可替代的重要角色，洵爲詩界革命一驍將。時至今日，當我們從原始報刊文獻史料出發重新勘察、篩選、描述與定位詩界革命詩人群及其代表詩人，當我們以客觀公允的歷史態度重寫中國近代文學史和詩歌史的時候，實在不該再遺漏掉被塵封了一個多世紀的新派詩人廖恩燾。

仍在胡適的延長綫上 : 有關中國學界中古禪史研究之反思, Zhaoguang Ge

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

本文從1980年代以來中國大陸對於禪宗研究狀況的討論開始，探討在當時“文化熱”背景下禪宗研究存在的問題與方法，並且介紹迄今爲止中國大陸的禪宗研究狀況。試圖指出，1920-1930年代，胡適開創了中國學界禪宗研究的現代典範，他大力提倡並且身體力行的歷史學與文獻學結合的方法，至今仍是中國學界在禪宗尤其是禪宗史研究領域最擅長、最有希望也是最有成績的。本文在簡單介紹了日本與歐美禪宗史研究界的各種現狀，並與中國對比之後，强調中國學界關於禪宗尤其是禪宗史研究，至今仍在胡適當年的延長綫上，歷史學與文獻學結合，至今仍是應當努力的方法。

From A Traveling Daughter: A Photographic Memoir, Lilian Murnen

Honors Projects

“World sits outside the door, A voice in your heart is calling, The ends of the world await, Traveling daughter, Feel the sunshine on your face, Starlight guides your feet, Earth and Sky will carry you, Journey after journey, One mountain to the next, Voice in your heart is calling.” (Abigail Washburn, “Song of the Traveling Daughter” translated from Mandarin Chinese)

My family keeps me safe, but it is this safety that protects me from the discomfort that is necessary for growth. Like Abigail Washburn’s “voices,” my discontent and my curiosity call me to venture far beyond what I can …

Tour Guides Take Technology: Mobilizing The Coverage Process, Cassie Jes Jacob

Senior Honors Projects

Technology has progressed more in the past decade than it has in the past century, and it has changed the way we live. To succeed in this society, innovation is a necessity. A recent phenomenon in technology is the use of mobile applications designed to make our lives and daily activities, such as note-taking and scheduling, more convenient.

This project explores the use of mobile applications in a business. At URI, the Tour Guide team acts as a business that manages over 100 employees as they lead visits around campus for prospective students.

These employees are college-age students raised in …

再論八音詩和八居詩, Fukang Chen

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

本文對歷史上的八音七律詩、最早的八居詩、百多年後的八居詩、八音詩與八居詩相結合的“雙八詩”、難度更大的限字詩等問題繼續進行探討。所言均爲雜體詩研究領域的首次論述。强調對於古人無比高妙的智慧與文學傑作，應該心存敬畏之心而進行介紹、欣賞、評論和研究。

Taiwanese Traditional Musical Idioms Meet Western Music Composition: An Analytical And Pedagogical Approach To Solo Piano Works By Tyzen Hsiao, Yi-Chuan Tsai

Dissertations

Since Western classical music was introduced in Taiwan, many contemporary Taiwanese composers have been experimenting with different musical forms and techniques. The members of the Third Generation of Taiwanese Composers began to lead the modernization of Taiwanese music after 1960. They proposed the establishment of a specifically Taiwanese musical tradition, one which would reach out to Taiwanese audiences through the incorporation of familiar folk songs and musical idioms, while incorporating Western compositional techniques and forms.

Tyzen Hsiao (蕭泰然) (1938-2015) was one of the most influential Taiwanese composers. His music is a blend of Taiwanese traditional musical idioms and Western music …

History And Context: Late Meiji (1905-1912) Narratives Of The Imjin War (1592-8), Brian Heise

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

From a foreign policy perspective, Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) invites comparison with the regime of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-98), the warlord who united Japan at the end of a 150 year period of civil war: in both times, the state leadership of the archipelago sought to expand its authority onto mainland Asia through both war and negotiation. These two period stand out in Japanese history as examples of only a very few instances when Japanese states had taken such an interest in continental affairs. Writers who recounted the story of Hideyoshi and his continental ambitions at the close the the Meiji …

What Does It Take To Learn A Language? Strategies For Teaching Esl And Japanese, Andrew Mikesell

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

ABSTRACT

This portfolio reflects what the author believes to be effective tools and methods for teaching a second or foreign language. The first section includes the author’s teaching philosophy which addresses teacher and student roles, communicative and meaningful tasks, learning environments, and the importance of literacy development. Following the teaching philosophy are three research perspective papers which discuss the use of digital storytelling as a tool for developing language proficiency, how blogs can be used to help students develop writing skills in their second language, and alternative approaches to teaching and learning kanji, which are one of three sets …

Women In Ambiguity: Fictitious Monogamy In Genji Monogatari, Anita Fike

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

The Heian classic tale Genji monogatari (c. early eleventh century) follows the amorous adventures of the Shining Prince Genji. After his death, the text continues to depict the romantic affairs of the next generation. Over the course of fifty-four chapters, an image of Heian-era romance comes to life, fraught with ambiguities surrounding romantic entanglements. The term “marriage” itself is contentious, as it is difficult to determine how the text interprets the marriage system and relationship practices at the time. The unclear stratification of women leaves many of the monogatari’s main female figures living in insecurity, where informal marriage seems …

Korean-Ness: Creating And Embracing New Identities Through Language And Culture, Damon Dohe, Daniel Shin

Creative Activity and Research Day - CARD

Technological advances in communications and transportation have unlocked new pathways for mobilizing transnational flows of people, information, and culture. The cyber-networked landscape in which we now live has enabled a pluralistic existence, no longer restricted to singular definitions of citizenship, identity, and cultural membership. In the era of the internet and globalization, the world is often said to be “shrinking.” However, instead of a smaller or simpler world, our project illustrates far more layered and complex relationships and positionalities. This multi-sited research project focuses on the ways in which Korean immigrants and Korean Americans use language to establish cultural networks, …

Linguistic Challenges And Coping Strategies Of Chinese Exchange Students Attending A University In Eastern Kentucky: A Case Study, Shanshan Li, Wilson Gonzalez-Espada

Celebration of Student Scholarship Poster Sessions Archive

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The Formation Of The Autonomous Woman Through A Hegelian Lens: A Comparative Study Of The British Fin De Siecle "New Woman" And The Post-Mao "Amazing" Woman, Robyn L. Buro

English Department Theses

This thesis utilizes the Hegelian concept of self-consciousness development to explore the formation of the autonomous woman within the New Woman movement of the British fin de siècle and the literature of women writers in 1980s Post-Mao China. The sexual figuration of the New Woman via an unremitting male gaze as well as the absence of individual awareness due to limited reflective self-assessment lead to a misrepresentation of the female figurehead in fin de siècle Britain. Through an in-depth study of literature by Charlotte Mew, Victoria Cross, George Egerton, and Thomas Hardy, the reader can identify key points of failure …

Beyond Boundaries: Women, Writing And Visuality In Contemporary China, Géraldine Fiss, Li Guo

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

This special issue offers explorations of women, writing, and visuality in contemporary Chinese literature and culture, following up on a previous issue titled “Nation, Gender, and Transcultural Modernism in Early Twentieth‐Century China,” which was published in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China (vol. 8, no. 1, 2014). The earlier issue addressed “the complex cultural mechanism which placed gender at the center of the nationalist discourse” in early twentieth‐century works by both male and female authors and questioned how the uncertainty of discourses on gender and nation “opens up space for creating subversive cultural imaginaries and challenging colonial discourses.” This issue …

The Aesthetics Of Hysteria In Feminine Melodrama; On Fang Fang's Water Under Time (2008), Li Guo

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

Water under Time, the novel by the reputed Chinese fiction writer Fang Fang, appropriates and reconstructs the conventions of the hysteric narrative as an affective form of feminine history telling and writing. The novel, which accounts Hankou city’s past through the heroine’s life story, illustrates how feminine hysteria provides a gendered lens of reconstructed historical authenticity via the panorama of China’s early Republican period, the anti‐Japanese War, and the present new millennium. Transcending the official historical accounts, Fang Fang’s narrative features women’s innovative reconfiguration of contesting historical discourses about the city, the community, and the nation. This study of Water …

Measuring Quality Of Life For Shanghai’S Floating Population Employed In Urban Renewal Sites, Jacob A. Watkins, Gregory Veeck

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

Chinese internal migrants continue to struggle to obtain social and economic equity in some of China’s largest cities. Shanghai, China’s largest city, houses one of the largest floating populations in the country. As city officials and the CPC continue to spend on urban renewal sites in the city proper, new opportunities may be emerging for migrant workers. These sites contain hundreds on new commercial and service based businesses that could potentially provide stable employment for rural-to-urban migrants in Shanghai and influence migrant quality of life as well as provide the means for migrants to remain in the city long-term. This …

Teaching Zen's Ten Oxherding Pictures Through Leonard Cohen's "Ballad Of The Absent Mare", Ronald S. Green

Philosophy and Religious Studies

No abstract provided.

Let Your Light Shine: A Holistic Reflection On The Individual In A Community, Nicole C. Argudin

All College Thesis Program, 2016-2019

"Sic luceat lux vestra," or “Let your light Shine” This phrase from the Gospel of Mattew stresses the importance that we all have a light or a talent and we should shine our light for all. The problem though is when we live in the same community for so long, we start to lose our uniqueness and eventually become close-minded to new experiences. By encountering and learning from other communities, we are made aware of this issue and other strengths and weakness of our own community that we take for granted. My disclaimer about this paper is that it is …

Hello Keikan-Chan: The Implications Of Female Japanese Police Mascots, Gage Meyers

Asian Studies: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

The concept of yuru-kyara, a mascot character designed by towns and prefectures to boost tourism, has been a trend in Japan for two decades. Overtime Japanese police adopted the trend and created their own mascot characters to improve public relations. For the decade since the first police mascot was created only male police mascots were created and it was not until the late 90s early 2000s that female police mascots were being made. These female mascots were not original characters, but rather female counterparts of the already existing male police mascots. This paper explores the cultural, political, and social …

“Shadowy Objects In Test Tubes”: Ishiguro’S Never Let Me Go As An Example Of Freud’S “Uncanny” And Agamben’S “Bare Life”, Fabian Rempfer

2017 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity – Documents

According to Freud, “the idea of being buried alive by mistake is the most uncanny thing of all” (10). He vividly describes a fear many people cannot grasp because it is too abstract to think about even though death is the indisputable consequence of being alive. The difference is, however, that we are consciously living through our own demise, being aware that death is inevitable and at hand, which rightly depicts one of the most frightening situations a human being can experience. Therefore, human beings desperately attempt to prevent death by trying to cheat it and even avoid it all …