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韓麗珠作品中的身體改造與主體性的辯證關係, Wing Yan Chu

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本文分析香港新生代作家韓麗珠的三本小說，分別為《縫身》、《人皮刺繡》和《空臉》，三本小說皆有描述改造人體的情節，並藉由這些異化情節探討主體性在社會中該如何彰顯。《縫身》中，主角順應社會主流而進行縫身手術，手術後迎來諸多不便，最後選擇進行分離手術；《人皮刺繡》中，主角是一名人皮刺繡師，透過刺繡的方式同時傷害和療癒客人；《空臉》中，主角希望消除別人在她臉上留下的痕跡，故選擇換臉，最終她領悟到臉不代表主體，但換臉手術能使臉更貼近真實的自己。三部作品分別描述身體改造和主體性之間的對立、矛盾和統一，構成辯證關係。筆者將以三章分析三部作品，先以改造身體的動機、過程和結果帶出身體改造的特點，再以小說中的重要意象分析何謂主體性，繼而帶出身體改造和主體性如何構成辯證關係。

《閱微草堂筆記》狐空間研究, Kam Hung Leung

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前人對狐形象及狐世界研究成果豐碩，但對狐空間的研究稀少，但狐空間對於《閱微草堂筆記》的狐研究如何表達紀昀想法甚有關連。故本文第一章先以統計方法記錄筆記中狐的居住地，再藉由研究狐在居住地中的生活特性，歸納出狐有近人而居，而且是居人樓上的特性。狐居人家與人的接觸甚多，染有人類習性，擅於暗中觀察人類行為，或有揭發，或有援助。第二章則探討狐空間與紀昀「勸懲」教化主題之間的關係，得出狐空間於教化主題中充當保存人類禮教、人類道德的「試金石」的作用之結果。

野．城, Tsz King Yeung

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都市還是大自然才是理想居住地？

這是一個迷失於城裡的男孩渴求慰藉的故事。

剛升中學的丁偉文成績倒退，遭父母的不解、同學排斥。內心孤獨的他對日常生活感到苦悶。這時，他發現自己可以和一隻麻雀溝通，牠比身邊的人更了解自己。

既然身邊沒有人明白自己，倒不如離開城市吧──一次衝動的離家出走，獨自前往森林。與猴子對峙、暴雨襲來，當大自然裡的危機逐漸浮現，丁偉文對自然的幻想破滅了嗎？這次旅程數次遇上那隻麻雀，協助、分享、吵架、鄙夷，他與那隻麻雀是敵是友？而人和自然最理想的關係究竟是怎樣？是疏離、相敬如賓、親密還是崇拜？

即將展開的自然探索，更是成長路上自我了解的冒險之旅。

紅江名勝錄, Siu Leung Cheung

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二零一九年毫無疑問是香港歷史上的一個重要轉折。社會運動席捲了全港十八區，持續了大半年方告平息。運動的出現難以歸咎單一因素，而是由日積月累的民怨爆發而成。在一九年後，該如何展望將來、該如何回顧歷史、該如何理解現在，便成了更為重要而複雜的問題，而這些也是許多香港作家寫作的核心。

本論文正是嘗試以文學創作的方法，從側面回應上述問題。論文以散文的形式，共六篇短散文合集而成。每篇各選香港一個具代表性的地方，或寫人或寫景，刻劃香港的社會問題與現況。六篇當中首三篇側重於對社會問題的探討，第四、五篇則描寫社會運動前後的香港，第六篇嘗試整體地回顧香港歷史，以此記錄我們身處的時代。

彼個所在, Pui Man Ku

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「我」是一個思覺失調病患，與家人關係疏遠，也沒甚麼朋友，本想着到德國作交換生逃離香港的一切，卻不想一切美夢因疫情而中斷。「我」不能再逃避，被迫面對。從隔離開始，「我」的幻覺愈趨嚴重，各種詭異的聲響與黑影逐漸使過去使「我」所畏懼的回憶浮現起來，迫使「我」正視問題。而「她」是貼體的解語花，總在「我」需要的時候伸出援手，陪「我」渡過難關。「她」看似陽光開朗，家庭和諧，好似世上一切的煩惱紛擾都與「她」無關一樣。然而「她」只是從來不透露自己的情緒，實際是與「我」一樣深受精神病困擾。故事圍繞二人發展，希望帶出不一樣的精神病人視角，其實他們不像我們想像的那樣瘋，「我」和「她」也與大家一般無異，生長於普通家庭、如常讀書、生活。然而我們一般不易察覺他們，才釀成最後的悲劇。

從英語到粵語 : 論《小婦人》的在地化及其原因, Chui Yee Lo

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露意莎・梅・奧爾科特（Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888）所著的美國小說《小婦人》（Little Women）於1869年正式面世，出版後廣受讀者喜愛，更被收入世界經典名著中。著作其後在1917年首度改編成同名默片電影，及後多次搬上大銀幕，其中較為人熟悉是1933年由喬治．丘克（George Cukor）執導的有聲電影。其後，首部彩色電影在16年後由梅爾文・勒羅伊（Mervyn LeRoy）執導。距離原著出版約一個世紀後，香港首部改編《小婦人》的粵語片在1957年由華僑電影企業公司出品，電影由吳回執導、程剛編劇，為公司一周年紀念作。

一九五O年代的香港影業蓬勃發展，取材多元，基於市場需求及當時的政治與文化環境，跨文化改編的電影恆河沙數，《小婦人》便屬一例。有論者認為改編電影的藍本不限於原著小說，更包括外國的改編電影。當作品經歷從某地改編到某地，作品的時代特色、文化背景、人文日常等必然與新地不盡相同，由此編導在接受和重新詮釋外國的文學作品時，便需要將作品「在地化（localization）」，以貼合當地人文特性。過去亦有不少關於改編作品的研究，例如電影研究者易以聞就曾探討《小婦人》由美國到香港電影的改編過程，分析原著與本地文化的融合和呈現。然而有關研究多探討香港電影如何改編原著，較少論述有關改動中在地化與當代語境的關係。

有見外國原著小說《小婦人》具代表性，而且由世界文學的文本到粵語改編電影，亦屬跨文化改編的典型例子。本文遂以前人研究為基礎，開展有關跨文化改編與在地化的討論，除探討文本與改編電影的異同，亦會結合五十年代香港環境，分析粵語改編電影在佈局、主題、人物和結局上的改編如何體現在地化，並推測當代語境與作品在地化的關係。

一夢知舟, Chui Yee Leung

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鴿子代表和平、聖潔、快樂，可是在程舟舟夢裏的鴿子，卻一點都不和平。每夜夢回，她總能看見那隻黑鴿的鳥啄是如何的鋒利。

葉知秋與程舟舟相識於大學時期，是形影不離的好朋友，可惜在一場爭吵後，兩人日漸疏遠，其後更是失去了聯絡。畢業後，程舟舟在酒店裏任職宴會廳的領班，某日下班後，收到了來自大學同學的電話，邀請她出席同學聚會。這一通電話看似平平無奇，卻又帶着程舟舟昔日逃脫不開的夢捲土重來。夢愈來愈真實了，那兩隻鴿子、那個黑裙女子，還有那一地的血紅⋯⋯

曾經的掙扎、不安、恐懼，重新佔據她的心頭。她一直都以為是葉知秋騙了她，但當回憶重浮水面時，她駭然驚覺，騙她的竟另有其人，看到那張臉最終從深處趨步走來時，她的胸口幾乎喘不過氣來，當一切都化作細沙時，她是否有機會重新來過？

Remembering The Experience Of War: A Sensory Study Of The Vietnam War And Collective Memory, Jacob Randolph

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The Vietnam War is remembered in a variety of ways. It is remembered as a war against communism, yet one that was also against American ideals of freedom. It is remembered as a war of patriotism, yet one that was also against the numerous military members who fought in it. It is remembered as a war for integration and unity among black and white, yet many African-Americans remember the time period as a war being fought abroad and at home. Memory of the war is obviously contradicting, but then again the 1960s and 1970s oftentimes were.

This thesis examines how …

Reality And Ideology: The Use Of Gender Indexing Features In Reality Tv, Steven J. Gerencser

Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics

This article analyzes 4 episodes of the Japanese reality television program Terrace house: Aloha State for instances of gender indexing language to investigate the gap between actual speaker usage of these features and the linguistic ideology surrounding their usage as is perpetrated and perpetuated by media. Specifically, the gender indexing features which will be investigated to accomplish this are sentence final particles and first-person pronouns. Instances of these linguistic features are typically presented as features of gendered language, but as will be demonstrated, this does match their actual usage by speakers. I set out to answer three research questions, (1) …

Similarities Of Expressing Disagreement By Chinese And American College Students, Yanling Yu, Yanrong (Yvonne) Chang, Zhan Long

Communication Faculty Publications

To explore the ways in which modern Chinese and Americans express their disagreement in intercultural communication and to reveal the reasons for their usage from the perspectives of sociolinguistics and persuasive communication and with the rapport management as the theoretical framework, this paper focuses on the discourse analysis of implicit disagreement expressions between 11 pairs of Chinese and American college students. The analysis of the four-month communication corpus reveals that Chinese and American students tend to use implicit disagreement when they disagree with each other and there are more similarities than differences in the usage of implicit disagreement. The reasons …

Answers In The East: An Examination Of China's Renewable Energy And Its Application To Central Appalachia, Lillian Hamm

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

While much of China’s electrification has depended on coal, recent decades illustrate the country is heavily investing in and implementing renewable energy as a power source. Even China’s coal-rich provinces, like the northeastern province of Shanxi, have been making the transition to renewable energy. The central Appalachian states comprised of eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, western Virginia, and northeastern Tennessee share many characteristics with China’s Shanxi province including economic resources, climate, and geography. Yet, central Appalachia has not been able to easily transition to renewable energy. However, there are various cultural, political, and technological differences between the two regions to explain …

The Textual Architecture Of Empire In Two Early Qing Anthologies, Jessica D. Moyer

East Asian Languages & Cultures: Faculty Publications

During the first half century of the Qing dynasty, Manchu emperors commissioned massive publication projects on the Chinese classics. In early Qing interpretations of classics on the family, negotiations between Manchu and Han family and gender norms furthered the empire-building project. This article compares the spatial form of the Yuding Nei ze yanyi 御定内則衍義 (1656), an expansion of the “Inner Standards” chapter of the Classic of Rites commissioned by the Shunzhi emperor, to that of the Yuding Xiao jing yanyi 御定孝經衍義 (1682), an expansion of the Classic of Filial Piety commissioned by the Kangxi emperor. These works are textual spaces …

North Korea: How Fear Is Used To Control A Nation, Ashley Clisby

Capstone Showcase

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, more commonly known as North Korea, is most commonly known for its possession and testing of nuclear weapons and threatening to use these weapons of mass destruction. Less commonly talked about are the human rights violations that are being experienced by the citizens of North Korea. Most, if not all, of the information regarding North Korean human rights that have been reported on comes from individuals who have escaped the Kim regime. There is very limited information traveling in and out of North Korea that is not heavily monitored by the government. These individuals …

Blurring The Boundary Between Play And Ritual: Sugoroku Boards As Portable Cosmos In Japanese Religion, Jingyi Yuan

Honors Papers

This thesis examines two Japanese board games, both called sugoroku 双六, from a religious studies perspective. Although bearing the same name, ban-sugoroku 盤双六 and e-sugoroku 絵双六 have long been studied separately because of their different origins, eras, layouts and rules. However, an examination of visual and textual evidence such as illustrated handscrolls and encyclopedic sources demonstrates that the two games are strikingly similar: both games carry cosmological meanings, and their religious functions are closely tied to the process of playing. I propose that the inextricable nature of ritual and play exhibited in both games enabled them to serve for laypersons …

Imagining An Asian American Superhero Of North Korean Origin: A Design Fiction, Seo-Young J. Chu

Publications and Research

My talk, a thought-experimental blend of literary criticism and speculative "design fiction," will introduce you to an Asian American superhero of North Korean origin. In this science-fictional superhero, whom I have tentatively named "구름"/"☁️"/"Ku-reum," Korea's elusive realities coalesce into legible form. More specifically, they become available for narrative experience and relatable to us as an anthropomorphic character, a person with whom we might identify, come face-to-face, sympathize, interact dynamically, and have a conversation. Ku-reum is designed to reflect Korea's complex past and hopes for the future. Existing beyond division systems, Ku-reum uses the non-binary pronouns "one"/"they." Neither "South" nor "North," …

從《裸命》看陳冠中小説裏的異托邦書寫, Hoi To Kwan

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陳冠中本是一名文化人，七十年代在港創辦《號外》雜誌，亦曾任電影編劇。小説作品只有《太陽膏之夢》（1978）、《什麼都沒有發生》（1998）等數部短篇。他直到2000年定居北京，才潛心寫作 。其作品計有《盛世：中國2013年》（2009）、《裸命》（2013）、《建豐二年》（2015）及近作《北京零公里》（2020）。這幾部作品均以不同的表現方式構建出一個「具備異質性的場域」，以此觀照在中國共產黨統治之下的新中國，寫出時代的矛盾，並由此想象新中國的未來進路。

《裸命》在2013年出版，以藏人強巴的第一身敍事角度切入，描寫其在漢藏兩地的所見所聞，並滲入大膽的情慾書寫，以此呈現人在當代中國下的生存困局。本文會以該文本為研究對象，透過分析作品中的藏地書寫、情慾隱喻等不同元素，找出陳冠中作品中異托邦圖像的特徵，並歸結出異托邦在當下時代的意義。論文第一章為緒論，將交代研究緣起及研究方法，概述陳冠中數部政治小説的特色，及《裸命》的獨特之處；第二章界定傅柯（Michel Foucault）提出的異托邦概念；第三章以文本細讀的方式，從小説中的性愛描寫、藏地書寫以及裸命的具體呈現等筆法入手，並借用阿岡本( Giorgio Agamben)的政治哲學觀，找出文中異托邦書寫與現實的關係及意義所在；第四章為結論，總結陳冠中以小説回應時代，洞見現實的寫作特點。

論泰州學派對晚明文學人本思潮的影響 : 以「三言」為例, Junting Jin

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自20世紀初梁啟超提出「早期啟蒙說」以後，陸續有侯外廬、蕭萐父等學者致力於從明清時期探求中國自身學術發展的啟蒙思想，並希望以此追溯中國現代化進程的內在動因。

隨著研究的推進，學者們逐步意識到，早在明中後期（約16世紀，近乎與歐洲文藝復興同時），中國本土就已經出現了具有啟蒙色彩的思想學說，也即是王陽明心學門下的泰州學派。這一學派又被稱作王門左派，因為它的創始人王艮雖受學於陽明，但又常常不滿師說而另外提出了許多新的見解（如百姓日用即道、吾身是天下國家之本、天性之體本自活潑等等）。從當時的視角來看，這無異於是對儒家宗旨及封建傳統的頂撞與叛逆。也因此在很長的時間裡，泰州學派都蒙受著 “狂放空疏”、“亡國之學”一類的罵名。

但是，隨著近代學界對於「早期啟蒙說」的提出，人們得以洗刷成見，並重新發掘出泰州學說中追求平等、重視人權及解放個性之類帶有啟蒙性質的閃光點。不過，由於此說提出未久，前人對此的分析著述相對比較有限。而且已有的研究或偏重於論述哲學思想的發展，或偏重於論述文學思想的發展，而能做到兩相並重，並從文學現象出發去反映泰州哲學與文學之間影響關係的著述則尚不多見。故而本文旨在對這一領域做出嘗試，通過對於明代歷史、思想、文學之間發展關係的大致梳理，找尋其中互相影響的動態脈絡。並通過對馮夢龍「三言」中故事人物的言行舉止與思想傾向的細節觀察，去證明並揭示泰州思想對於晚明文壇人本思潮的滲透。

文章大致分為四部分：第一章緒論交待明初至明中晚期的思想與文學之發展概況；第二章具體闡述泰州學派的由來及其三大人本思想主張；第三章論述泰州思想對於文壇個性解放思潮的影響，並以李贄與馮夢龍為切入點，結合馮氏「三言」具體分析其中的人本精神呈現；第四章為全文總結。

人性與藥性, Tik Yin Wong

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這是一個瘋狂的年代，位於社會低下階層的鍾家為了徹底根治鍾老爺的病，四處尋找合適的藥物。終於在鍾媽的努力下，得到了羅醫師開的藥方。然而，明明眼前的藥物就能挽救全家的命運，但鍾家卻因為負擔不起昂貴的藥費，迫不得已轉向了康大叔的推薦——人血饅頭。

兩種藥物，兩種不同的藥效，尋覓已久的藥物就擺在眼前，藥的功效與人的險惡偏偏在交纏在一起。在不幸之中，既有貪婪與冷血侵吞著剩餘的人性，也出現過能治愈病痛的藥性，一個錯誤的選擇更逼得兒子鍾新走上革命的道路，故事就在讀者知道真相與結局的情況下拉開序幕。

Using A Smart Phone To Learn Spanish: Does It Work And Will Students Use It?, Andrew J. Demil, Alysha Assaf, Ryan Cragun

The Coastal Review

Over time, mobile devices have penetrated the classroom, requiring new and beneficial ways to implement classroom instruction. Research suggests that Short Message Service (SMS) based instruction is an effective tool for acquiring second language (L2) vocabulary and idiom knowledge (Hayati, Jalilifar, & Mashhadi; Lu,). Additionally, studies have found that students believe that mobile learning (m-learning) is beneficial to acquiring a second language (Cavus & Ibrahim; Hayati, Jalilifar, & Mashhadi; Lu, 2008). This study examined whether m-learning can lead to Spanish vocabulary familiarity and if sentence comprehension outperforms reading definitions. Participants were 29 native English speakers studying Spanish as a second …

A Complicated Affair Of Twentieth Century Southeast Asia, Nhi Phan

BYU Asian Studies Student Journal

January 7, 2021 marked the 42nd anniversary of the Vietnamese army and allied forces of Cambodian general Hun Sen overthrowing Pol Pot. Although this invasion took a mere two weeks, the consequences lasted for more than ten years with huge losses for both the Vietnamese and Cambodians. After 1975, Indochina has gone through many changes with different regimes; its geography, however, has remained the same. Even though both Vietnam and Cambodia became communist regimes after winning their independence from France in 1975, they experienced different changes in political ideology. The shift in regime also brought along border conflicts between the …