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從經典走進通俗 : 論《左傳》至《東周列國志》中「義」的轉化, Wai Lun So

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前人研究馮夢龍小說，多是研究其所編的「三言」，雖有研究《新列國志》的論者，但多從其小說家的筆法寫歷史故事的角度出發，又或論述《新列國志》與《三國演義》之間的異同。然而，馮夢龍作為一名小說編著家，同時又是一名《春秋》學者，其投放在《春秋》的心血，同時亦灌注在《新列國志》之中。即使清代蔡元放評點為《東周列國志》，內容上始終依從馮夢龍《新列國志》。

小說在明代以前一直是受文人所攻訐，不少文人認為小說是誨淫誨道的作品，對社會教化有害。然而，作為《春秋》學者的馮夢龍，卻一直致力於撰寫小說、編輯小說集等，甚至將其所學投注在《新列國志》當中。亦因馮夢龍對小說的推崇，使文人開始肯定「四大奇書」等小說作品，繼而研究當中所包含的義理，當中亦包括以馮夢龍《新列國志》為底本的《東周列國志》。

本文以「從經典走進通俗」為題，主要探討《東周列國志》繼承《左傳》的情況，以及馮夢龍如何透過小說敍事的方法，重現經義之所在。惟《東周列國志》與《左傳》之間的連結甚多，本文特以儒家最為重視的觀念之一——「義」作為切入點，討論小說和經傳中如何呈現「義」的觀念，或如何透過評論的方式來體現對「義」的肯定。又，若兩者有所不同的話，《東周列國志》又如何對《左傳》所呈現的「義」有所轉化？這亦是本文重點探究的方向。

金庸《射鵰英雄傳》中「桃花島」的符號化意象研究, Mei Yin Ng

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《射鵰英雄傳》乃金庸先生筆下家傳戶曉之武俠巨著，更是「射鵰三部曲」之首，於整個中國武俠文壇中可說舉足輕重。《射鵰英雄傳》以至其續作《神鵰俠侶》中亦多有圍繞神秘莫測、繁花似錦的桃花島而展開之情節。書中一對主人公郭靖、黃蓉相知相愛，為報郭靖殺父之仇，二人結伴行走江湖，先後遇上各路正邪人物，如大金小王爺楊康、比武招親的孝女穆念慈、重情重義的「江湖七怪」、正氣凜然的「全真七子」、身懷絕技的「四絕」、斷腸妖魅「黑風雙煞」、色膽包天的白陀山少主歐陽克等等；郭、黃二人屢有奇遇，亦不乏涉及一個神秘的東海小島──「桃花島」，亦是女主人公黃蓉成長之地。「桃花島」於書中佔不少重要情節，如「黑風雙煞」盜經私奔、「老頑童」周伯通被囚十五年、郭靖及歐陽克拜門向黃蓉提親、三位武學宗師「三絕」比武、郭靖恩師「江南五怪」被殺，然而，至今仍少有文獻對金庸小說中如此不可或缺的一處世外桃源作深入研究或分析。

故此，本研究現以西方語言符號學角度探析金庸《射鵰英雄傳》中桃花島一地於文中所呈現之文學意象。本文將從「桃花島」及「絕境與生機」兩方面解讀，分析情節、人物，透過西方語言符號理論闡釋金庸筆下「東海桃花島」之豐富文學意蘊。

劉克襄動物小說研究 : 以《風鳥皮諾查》、《座頭鯨赫連麼麼》、《永遠的信天翁》為例, Wai Sin Lok

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在台灣當代自然書寫的發展中，劉克襄的動物書寫具有高度的評價，本研究試圖針對劉克襄動物小說進行探討。這位自然作家在過去二十多年的創作過程中，不斷探索動物小說的可能性。「動物小說」在劉克襄的眾多作品當中可能不是特別矚目和引起討論的類別，但作家在這類作品當中，表達了文學與自然，人類與動物之間複雜的關係，讓我們看到了劉克襄如何在作品上呈現生命的互動與交織。從一九九一年至今，劉克襄共出版了四本動物小說。本文將以《風鳥皮諾查》、《座頭鯨赫連麼麼》、《永遠的信天翁》三本著作為主軸，探究由動物所引發的一系列有關於美學與倫理的問題。論述方面將首先勾勒過去對當代動物問題的討論，並集中在「流變動物」的概念上；接著聚焦在劉克襄三本動物書寫的小說，分為鳥類書寫及鯨類書寫，闡述作家如何通過小說的美學表現，表達當中對自然書寫的美學與倫理特殊見解。

淺析黎紫書筆下的國族書寫 : 以〈國北邊陲〉和《告別的年代》為例, Man Sze, Amy Tse

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黎紫書在文學獎項的出色表現受人注目，崛起於九十年代的馬華文壇，她對人性的精鍊掌握顯示了她作為小說家的出色技藝。她的作品反映了馬華文學的不同面向。

馬華文學被外界視為邊緣文學，當中或以世界華文文學角度觀之。研究馬華文學學者的討論主題大多圍繞着馬華文學的身分問題進行探究。文本首先介紹華語語系研究作為新興的學術概念，其去中心傾向，強調了不同地區華語文學體系的主體性，有助重新思考馬華文學的定位─指出馬華文學作為區域文學的身分特徵，如「小文學」等。

本文從「身分」話題開展討論，思考黎紫書的新生代作家身分在馬華文學的特殊性，展現了與前代不同的文學視角。討論她所身處的時代與地域，提供了更豐富的文學土壤和養份，使其書寫題材和技法呈現現代以至後現代性。 筆者選取了黎紫書的短篇小說《國北邊陲》和長篇小說《告別的年代》進行分析，希望通過討論當中的身分問題，理解黎紫書對馬華國族身分的思考。二者所書寫的語境皆不同，前者是對華族的遙遠想像及回應，後者則為作者對其成長年代的記錄與回應。

禪讓與先秦儒家之關係 : 以郭店楚簡〈唐虞之道〉為討論中心, Hoi Tik Chan

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禪讓思想，自先秦已見，多載於堯舜之事。而近世出土之郭店楚墓竹簡，內含多種儒家文獻，其中〈唐虞之道〉一文極倡堯舜禪讓之事，直認為「不禪而能化民者，自生民未之有也」。學人據此文而提出各說：或謂〈唐虞之道〉為戰國中期禪讓思潮一時之產物，雖近儒家思想，而其後之儒者實無倡禪讓；或謂是文極重禪讓，顯其不屬儒家著作；或謂儒家重禪，〈唐虞之道〉即其反映。學人不僅爭議於〈唐虞之道〉屬儒家思想與否，而儒家在禪讓之態度亦未有定論。故筆者欲探禪讓與先秦儒家之關係。

本文論述以簡文〈唐虞之道〉為討論中心，分析文中禪讓思想之內涵，再探究先秦儒家代表作《論語》、《孟子》、《荀子》三書在禪讓之態度；其見用本文，為《論語》、《孟子》二書所述堯舜事，《荀子》在〈正論〉之論禪讓者。比較〈唐虞之道〉與儒家三書，乃見禪讓與先秦儒家之關係。

羊圈外的常春藤, Ling Law

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故事主人公雨陽生於一個養羊的家庭。十四歲那年，他家的羊場被政府收回而要迫遷，他的家庭因此發生劇變。他與父親從郊區搬到觀塘市區生活，心裡卻一直惦掛着童年羊場走失的那隻小羊。面對城市生活的壓迫和童年的創傷，他以重金屬音樂作為精神領地，組織樂隊得到生活寄托。同時，他在工作的玩具店邂逅女主人公慕嵐。怎料樂隊受「活化工廈」計劃影響而解散，而租住的工廈單位亦被地政署發現，他面臨第二次無家可歸的慘況。

面對種種壓迫，他最終又能找回那隻走失的小羊嗎 ？

每個人都需要空間。在香港這個彈丸之地，城市發展以大量高樓擴展人們的生活空間，然而，這些高樓卻正慢慢侵蝕我們的心靈土地。

願這片土地，能夠滋養出嫩綠的常春藤。

影子, Ka Tak Lam

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簡言之，〈影子〉是一部敘述「影子」如何存在於父子關係間的短篇小說。敘述者「我」生於一個平凡的家庭，父親的性格與行為卻笨拙得不平凡，於是「我」以嘲諷他為逸樂，同時希望自己成長以後，能夠擺脫父親不良性格的影子，將自己，以致自己的下一代，導離上一代的牽絆；可是，「我」卻在過程中發現，自己兒子承接了自身的世故和涼薄，也正是自己的影子，使「我」在力圖改變之下顯得十分乏力。終究，努力是努力，成果是成果，就像人生中更多的別的事情一樣。

文中所謂的「影子」，就是隱含了一代父子的關係當中父對子的薰陶，而這種影響卻又不僅僅限於一代之中。當一代兒子成長為父親以後，其對待兒子，又或是教育兒子的方法，或多或少會受到自己成長過程的陶染，這樣代代傳繼的效應，又恰似影子一般，是必然會發生的。

Proposed Research Instrument For Establishing A Baseline Measurement Of Buddhist Background Believers, Gregory P. Whitsett

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

"My plan for this survey is to create a self-administered questionnaire. What makes this a preferred method of research is that it can be conducted quickly using a drop-and-collect technique by national church leaders sending the survey packets to local church leaders to then distribute to willing participants. Self-administered questionnaires are relatively inexpensive and respondents are not influenced by the interviewer or her bias. Another advantage is that this type of survey allows longer batteries of questions than you could ask in person as well as giving the respondent anonymity. The disadvantages include that there is no control over how …

Family Resilience In Displacement: Defining Validity And Reliability In A Hermeneutic Phenomenology Inquiry, Regine Rimarzik

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

"The voices of the poor confirmed a common recommendation among scholars to combine the best of person-focused approaches with the best of variable-focused approaches in resilience studies. This could be especially beneficial for comparative studies in terms of religion and culture adherence. In other words, I am considering to slightly tweak my research topic and widen the scope towards a comparative religious study within the same environment and to specify the impact of comparative faith traditions on the human development context in displacement. Finally, my better understanding of the nature of family resilience awakened my curiosity for discovering the nature …

The Revival Of The Tulku Institution In Modern China: Narratives And Practices, Nicole Willock

Philosophy Faculty Publications

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What child could perform such an impossible feat? Arik Geshé Chenmo Jampa Öser’s (A rig dge bshes chen mo Byams pa ’od zer, 1728-1803) 2 trenchant last testament chided his disciples for imploring him to reincarnate, yet he did not deride the tulku institution itself. In his autobiography, the Sixth Tséten Zhabdrung, Jikmé Rikpai Lodrö (Tshe tan zhabs drung ’Jigs med rigs pa’i blo gros, 1910-1985) retold Arik Geshé’s story with a similar didactic purpose, in order to analytically expound “the Tibetan-Mongol system of reincarnation.”3 Yet when Arik Geshé’s incisive words were re-employed for a twentieth century audience, …

Effect Of The Relocation Policy Of Public Agencies In South Korea, Chan Ho Kim

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

In 2005, the government announced the relocation policy of public agencies to non-capital regions. The main purpose of the policy was to decentralize population in the SMA (Seoul Metropolitan Area) through building regional competitiveness. The transfer of 98% of the public institutions was completed in April 2017 (MOLIT 2017). However, unlike the blueprint for the initial plan for the relocation of the agencies, there may be an increase in social cost and insufficient contribution to the regional economic development.

This study empirically examines effectiveness of the policy and its impact on regional economic growth and on how differently the policy …

The Effect Of The Housing Support Policy For The Disabled And Factors Affecting Policy Satisfaction In South Korea, Hee Bum Lee

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

The Korean government has recently recognized the importance of residential environment for the disabled, and has begun to establish various housing support policies as a social safety net. In this context, the Korean government has enacted the Housing Support Act for the Underprivileged (HSAU) which includes the disabled in 2012. The goal of this legislative action is to strengthen the Housing Support Policy for the Disabled (HSPD) and establish a legal basis for HSPD (NLIC, 2017). The purpose of this study is to analyze whether the introduction of HSAU has a positive effect on the policy satisfaction for the disabled. …

The Effect Of 'Drowsy Shelters' In Preventing Traffic Accidents In South Korea, Hye Jin Chun

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

The Korean government has paid attention to drowsy driving, because drowsy driving accounts for a high percentage of traffic accidents, and the government thought that it could address this problem with facility improvements. The Korean Government beg an installing simple rest spots, called ‘Drowsy Shelters’, on the highway for drivers who feel tired, in 2011. In this study, I figured out that the distance between rest areas is related to the number of drowsy diving accidents. When the distance between rest areas increases by 1 km, drowsy diving accidents increase. Therefore, this policy seems to be effective in terms of …

Effective Traffic Noise Policy Of Urban Development Projects In South Korea, Jaechang Jo

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

In 1980, South Korean government built a large scale apartment complex in the Seoul metropolitan area because of consecutive urbanization and rapid industrialization. However, in late 1980, as the housing market surged rapidly, the government constructed several huge new towns. These new towns and urban development projects contributed to stabilizing the housing market, but residents in new towns began to suffer from traffic noise and this became social problems.

Traffic noise is caused by tire friction and also influenced by various factors such as vehicle volume and traffic speed. There are two primary measures to mitigate the traffic noise; reducing …

A Comparative Analysis Of The Organizational Effectiveness Of Three Korea Land And Housing Corporation Construction Field Groups, Jachoon Koo

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

The purpose of this study is to propose a performance evaluation method (organizational effectiveness value) that is most suitable for LH field organizations and to suggest an improvement plan by comparing and analyzing the results from organizational perspective.

I compared and contrasted three LH construction fields. The following is my research findings: First, the main factors which determine successful or unsuccessful field are organizational cohesion and inter-organizational communication. Mutual communication of field groups affects the quality more, if the field conditions are difficult. Second, if field groups fail to cohere and communicate, it is likely to lead to low performance …

Content-Based Instruction (Cbi) For The Social Future: A Recommendation For Critical Content-Based Language Instruction (Ccbi), Shinji Sato, Atsushi Hasegawa, Yuri Kumagai, Uichi Kamiyoshi

East Asian Languages & Cultures: Faculty Publications

In this article, we seek to reconceptualize content-based instruction (CBI) curricula and practices from a critical perspective. Further, we propose developing criticality as an essential component of CBI, advocating for an approach we call critical content-based instruction (CCBI). While the importance of CBI has long been recognized, previous discussions predominantly focused on its effectiveness for language learning (and content learning to a lesser degree), and overlooked its fundamental linkage and relevance to broader educational missions. In order to fully maximize the potential of CBI and envision language education as integral to the advancement of society, we argue that a critical …

The Question Of Remilitarization: Is Japan's Pacifist Nature In Danger Of Reform, Shanisha Coram

Scripps Senior Theses

Though Article 9 has not been revised since it was implemented in 1947, the past two decades have seen an increase in Japanese military capability due to the government’s loose interpretation of Article 9 and its limitations to allow for Japanese involvement in collective security operations internationally. As a result, a number of Japanese political scholars and newspapers have projected the possibility of not only Japanese constitutional revision but also the re-militarization of Japan as well. Interested in finding out whether or not this projection has any likelihood of success in the future, I have posed the following question: Why …

Walking In The City: Koji Nakano’S Reimagining And Re-Sounding Of The Tale Of Genji, Isabella Ramos

Scripps Senior Theses

Imagined Sceneries is a work written by composer Dr. Koji Nakano of Burapha University, Thailand for two sopranos, koto, light percussion, narrations, soundscapes recorded in Kyoto, Japan in December 2015, and digital projections of Ebina Masao’s 1953 print series Tale of Genji. Imagined Sceneries’ reimagining and “re-sounding” of Heian Kyoto relies on a balance between what is imagined and what is experienced in performance. Its many elements collectively explore multiple layers of Japanese histories, soundscapes, environments, and sensibilities. Using Michel de Certeau’s concepts of the city, this thesis journeys through Nakano’s imagined spaces.

Masculinity On Women In Japan: Gender Fluidity Explored Through Literature And Performance, Jessica M. Perreira

Scripps Senior Theses

The first half of my thesis are my translations from Yumi Hirosawa’s Onna O Aisuru Onnatachi. The first translation is excerpts from a high school girls journal documenting her realization and acceptance of being lesbian, and her time with her first girlfriend. The second translation is a report by a freelance writer on three different lesbian bars in Shinjuku Ni-Chome. The most notable bar is an onabe bar called Little Prince. Onabe in the simplest terms are women who dress and act like men. Onabe are important to the research portion of my thesis because they allowed me to research …

Śākya Chokden, Yaroslav Komarovski

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

During his long writing and teaching career, Śākya Chokden (1428-1507) developed a novel, and in many respects unusual approach to the key systems of Buddhist thought and practice. A recurrent theme given special attention in his numerous works is the question of the relationship between conflicting conceptual models of ultimate reality and the means of its realization on the one hand, and practical outcomes of utilizing those models in contemplative practice on the other. The position he articulates based on critical comparison of several Buddhist systems of thought and practice, is that despite their different, and often conflicting, conceptual approaches …