A Contemporary Spin On Tradition: Xu Bing's Cultural Exploration,
2014
Minnesota State University, Mankato
A Contemporary Spin On Tradition: Xu Bing's Cultural Exploration, Karen Obermeyer-Kolb
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
This paper analyzed the artwork of Xu Bing and his exploration of cultural values, specifically of language in China. Chinese is one of the oldest written languages of the world, with forms established by 1000CE. One of the purposes of classical Chinese calligraphy was self expression. The Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 70s brought a shift to this tradition by using large characters as propaganda. Xu Bing uses prominent symbols of culture and language, stemming from the classical teaching of his parents and his work experience during the Cultural Revolution, to convey views of society, as well as to …
蜚語 (第十一期),
2014
Lingnan University
Variables That Affect Graduation In A Community College,
2014
Indiana State University
Variables That Affect Graduation In A Community College, Cathy Jean Alsman
All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This study examined whether the use of variables—age, sex, remediation, and financial aid— could be used to predict persistence to graduation in a community college sample. The study also asked if these same variables could be used to predict number of semesters completed in this sample. Archival data were gathered from a community college with multiple campuses and a single state-wide accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Logistic regression, ordinary least squares regression, and Pearson r correlation were used to analyze data. Results suggested overall model significance in the logistic regression …
Dust In The Wind: A Definitive Hou/New Cinema Work,
2014
Gettysburg College
Dust In The Wind: A Definitive Hou/New Cinema Work, James N. Udden
Interdisciplinary Studies Faculty Publications
Book Summary: For younger critics and audiences, Taiwanese cinema enjoys a special status, comparable with that of Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave for earlier generations, a cinema that was and is in the midst of introducing an innovative sensibility and a fresh perspective. Hou Hsiao-hsien is the most important Taiwanese filmmaker working today, and his sensuous, richly nuanced films reflect everything that is vigorous and genuine in contemporary film culture. By combining multiple forms of tradition with a uniquely cinematic approach to space and time, Hou has created a body of work that, through its stylistic originality and …
Finding The Correct Fit Or Quickly Finding An Exit For School Superintendents: Perceptions From Those Who Placed Them Or Are Commissioned To Replace Them,
2014
Indiana State University
Finding The Correct Fit Or Quickly Finding An Exit For School Superintendents: Perceptions From Those Who Placed Them Or Are Commissioned To Replace Them, David Andrew Hoffert
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The purpose of this study was to gain an essence and understanding of the phenomenon of short superintendency tenure through the qualitative lenses of superintendent search agents. Research questions included the roles of educational preparation, leadership qualities, and contextual factors in superintendent tenure. Superintendent search agents matching the criteria boundaries of working for an agency with at least 10 years of search experience and also the firm’s non-profit status were chosen for this research work. These criteria were used to reduce bias due to financial reward and lack of institutional or association experience. Two semi-structured interviews were conducted with superintendent …
Linguistic Variation In Contact: The Use Of Erhua And Rusheng In The Xianggang Community In China,
2014
Syracuse University
Linguistic Variation In Contact: The Use Of Erhua And Rusheng In The Xianggang Community In China, Lei He
Theses - ALL
This study considers dialect variation by young and middle-aged speakers in the Xianggang community in China. The Xianggang community is located at the southern part of China, but it used to be composed of northern people. The contact between northern and southern dialects has given birth to a dialect mixed situation. With the attempt to know the driving force of language change within this speech community, both social factors and linguistic factors have been taken into consideration. In this study, Erhua is chosen as the representation of northern dialects and rusheng is chosen on behalf of the southern dialects. Linguistically, …
Exploring Naxi Baisha Xiyue,
2014
Liberty University
Exploring Naxi Baisha Xiyue, Nicholas Kircher
Masters Theses
"Exploring Naxi Baisha Xiyue" is a qualitative research descriptive paper delving into the origin of the Baisha Xiyue music style among the Naxi people based in northwest Yunnan province of the People's Republic of China. A brief historical background of Baisha Xiyue includes the Yuan dynasty (AD 1279-1368) invasion by Kublai Khan when he and his army entered Yunnan province in AD 1253. The topic of the remaining eight songs is a Naxi historical conflict with a neighboring tribe. As musical instruments are essential in the performance of this genre, each of the commonly used instruments are introduced and described. …
A Synopsis Of The 2NdYouth Forum Of The Society Of Chinese Literary Theory,
2014
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
A Synopsis Of The 2NdYouth Forum Of The Society Of Chinese Literary Theory, Zhedan He
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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How The Postmodern Literary Theories Entered China And Inserted Influences?,
2014
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
How The Postmodern Literary Theories Entered China And Inserted Influences?, Liyuan Zhu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This article reviews and examines the five stages during which postmodern literary theory currents gradually entered China and exerted influences since the 1980s. With a significant amount of empirical evidence, the paper demonstrates that the influences of the Western postmodernism filtered slowly through the field of Chinese literary theory in the process during which Chinese theoretical circle did not unreservedly embrace the theories but accepted the influences through borrowing and assimilation, refutation and criticism. The paper takes the essentialist way of thinking as an example and expounds the characteristics of the positive and negative impacts which the postmodern literary theories …
Ecolinguistics And The Foundational Construction Of Language Theory For Contemporary Ecological Literary And Cultural Studies,
2014
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Ecolinguistics And The Foundational Construction Of Language Theory For Contemporary Ecological Literary And Cultural Studies, Kuiying Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Language research is closely related with eco literature and cultural studies, while a dilema in the study of eco literature and cultural theory is the need for a proper linguistic theory as its foundation. Ecolinguistics emphasizes the two-way interactions both between language and environment and between language and the world, and takes language as the intermedia between nature and culture, and put the environment of language into the complexity of nature, socity and psychological elements. Therefore, ecolinguisitics can transcend the one-way determinism between the world and language on the one hand and the either-or dualism of the naturalness and artbitrariniess …
Shih-Hsiang Chen's Theory On Chinese Lyrical Tradition And Its Limitation,
2014
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Shih-Hsiang Chen's Theory On Chinese Lyrical Tradition And Its Limitation, Cheng Xu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Shih-hsiang Chen, deeply affected by the revolution of modern Chinese literature, conceived a theory on Chinese lyrical tradition, which took as its standard the ideal of Western Romantic literature and rendered ancient Chinese literature to be monistic. At the present vantage position, the method Shih-hsiang Chen's adopted to study comparative literature was to use Western principles in Chinese literature, which, due to its dominant monistic discourse, concealed the complexity of Chinese literature. While his study might have promoted the academic interest in the West, it was basically an early effort to establish the discipline of comparative literature in China. Therefore, …
The Possibilities And Paths Of Art History,
2014
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Possibilities And Paths Of Art History, Yichuan Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Art history has been under question and is now in urgent need for explorations of its possibilities and paths. As the discipline of art history has been established and in continuous operation, the academic domain and possibilities of art history will be gradually opened, and along with these developments, the discipline of Chinese art history is also opening its possibilities and path, given the fact art historians are actively opening up and expanding art history. A multiplanar framework of art history research can be constructed to include the history of a uni-modal art in the universal perspective, the comparative history …
The Value Re-Establishment Of Modern Chinese Literature And The Reconfiguration Of Literary History Since The 1980s And Overseas Chinese Studies,
2014
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Value Re-Establishment Of Modern Chinese Literature And The Reconfiguration Of Literary History Since The 1980s And Overseas Chinese Studies, Yi Huang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Since 1980s, the influence of overseas Chinese studies has been significant in the value re-establishment of Chinese modern literature and the reconfiguration of the liteary history, which has helped to form an important line for literary history narrative, especially in the transmission of literay values and the remodelling of canons, the explorations into modernities and the promotion of the great literary history, and the re-finding of new literary tradition. Needless to say, the limitations and biases of overseas Chinese studies also showed in this process. The proposition of "the literature of the Republic of China" in recent years is in …
Wang Yuanhua's Concept Of Ideology-Academics As Social Remedy And Its Implications To Intellectual History,
2014
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Wang Yuanhua's Concept Of Ideology-Academics As Social Remedy And Its Implications To Intellectual History, Chengwan Lao, Guoqiao Lan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Wan Yuanhua (1920-2008) believed that academic research and ideology should be integrated with each other, and this idea of ideology-academics integration is Wang's preposition to redress the social maladies. Although his idea has not found fervent echoes in the academic circle, the paper claims that his idea could not be ignored during the development of our cultural intellectual history and can be done full justice by scholars who have investigated the origin, trajectory and outcome of his idea. What worried Wan Yuanhua was the spiritual rootlessness shown in the cynicalness toward and mindless challenge of serious academic pursuit. Wang Yuanhua's …
Ye Shi's Distinction Between Discourse And Literariness And His Concept Of Literary History,
2014
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Ye Shi's Distinction Between Discourse And Literariness And His Concept Of Literary History, Qingcai Guo
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Ye Shi (1150-1223) was erudite in Confucian classics, historiography and literature equally, with an awareness of the fundamental commensurability between them, believing that their division was resulted from the split of "yan (discourse)". Discourse was epitomized in the language use in the Three Dynasties, with the nature of political practice. Literariness flourished after the Han Dynasty, gradually becoming trivial rhetorical strategies. In general, the attentions to "literariness" and to political culture were reciprocally causal. Ye Shi advocated the idea of "pursuing 'The Tao (Logos)' by tracing 'discourse'," that is, reconstructing the Tao governance through re-interpreting the Five Classics. For him, …
A Study On The Multi-Dimensional Space In Frank O'Hara's Urban Poetics,
2014
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
A Study On The Multi-Dimensional Space In Frank O'Hara's Urban Poetics, Xiaoling Wang, Mingyuan Zheng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
As a leading poet in the New York School, Frank O'Hara's urban poetics stands out for the multi-dimensional space in his poems. This feature is particularly manifested in the visual space, auditory space, and the psychological space in his poems about city, which embodies the blending of urban poetics and space theory. A study on multi-dimensional space in Frank O’Hara’s poetry helps to explore the natural isomorphism of urban poetics in a metaphoric way.
On The Composite-Sign Literary Text And The Layers Of Sign In The Text,
2014
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
On The Composite-Sign Literary Text And The Layers Of Sign In The Text, Xiaoxi Shan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Literary text of composite sign is composed with different types of signs such as linguistic sign, body sign, image sign, audio sign and so on, among which linguistic sign functions as the keynote, defining the identity of a text as a form of verbal art. Oral literature before written language takes the form of verbal-body composite text or the verbal-body-music composite text. The picture-word literary texts in ancient Chinese, picture story books in Western and Japanese are important forms of word-picture composite texts, while word-image-sound composite text is the major type of digital literature today. Composite sign in literary texts …
Resistance And Its Possibility In The Perspective Of Deconstructionism: Spivak's View On Subaltern And Its Subjective Consciousness,
2014
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Resistance And Its Possibility In The Perspective Of Deconstructionism: Spivak's View On Subaltern And Its Subjective Consciousness, Yingzhi Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Deconstructionism is often seen as a radical anti-essentialist theory, but for G. C. Spivak it is a critique toward that which "we have to inhabit in." This means that deconstructionism not only allows but also requests us to strategically use essentialism. It is Spivak's interpretation of Derrida along this trajectory, this paper argues, that frees deconstructionism from the accusation of relativism and nihilism, and merges with Marxist criticism on capitalism, which makes it possible for the subaltern to construct its subjective consciousness and to maintain a ground for resistance.
The Application Of Referent In Western Marxist Critical Theory And Its Significance,
2014
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Application Of Referent In Western Marxist Critical Theory And Its Significance, Bi Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The application of the semiotic concept of referent in Western Marxist critical theory achieves the purpose of recognizing and analyzing the social reality represented by referents, and it has also made up for the blind areas in the methodology of structuralist semiotics. Furthermore, the application has theoretically bridged the two methodological tradition of Anglo-American and Structuralism semiotics, and it also highlights the referent as an important issue in the study of semiotics, and therefore the application has made significant theoretical contribution to semiotics.
The Definition, Potentiality And Paradigm Of Art History,
2014
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Definition, Potentiality And Paradigm Of Art History, Feng Peng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The mixed use of "art" and "fine arts" causes the current confusion in the establishment of arts theory. This paper argues that the conventional use of the two terms as have established in modern Chinese may help to clarify the confusion. Fine arts refer to plastic art or visual art, while the art as a general term denotes all categories of arts. Thereby, the criticism of fine arts can be differentiated from art criticism, and the philosophy of the fine arts from the philosophy of art. Then, the question comes to how to separate the history of fine arts from …
