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Biographical Profiles: James And Mochtar Riady, Chang Yau Hoon
Biographical Profiles: James And Mochtar Riady, Chang Yau Hoon
Chang Yau HOON
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Translation And Distortion Of Linguistic Identities In Sinophone Cinema: Diverging Images Of The ‘Other, Henry Leperlier
Translation And Distortion Of Linguistic Identities In Sinophone Cinema: Diverging Images Of The ‘Other, Henry Leperlier
Books/Book Chapters
In today’s globalized market, Asian films are being increasingly exported; often,
multilingual movies deal with more complex societal issues and catch the interest of
a foreign audience interested in having an open door, one might say multiple doors,
into another society. The nearly complete lack of a system enabling such an audience
to be made aware of the complex multilingual and multilingual characters in such
movies ends up providing a distorted and simplified view of Chinese, Taiwanese,
Hong Kong and Singaporean societies as reflected in its cinemas.
This chapter examines all the resulting issues and cultural misunderstandings that can occur …
The Ji Self In Early Chinese Texts, Deborah A. Sommer (司馬黛蘭)
The Ji Self In Early Chinese Texts, Deborah A. Sommer (司馬黛蘭)
Religious Studies Faculty Publications
In much recent scholarship on notions of self in Chinese studies, the term "self" is usually used in a general sense. In this essay, however, Sommer focuses specifically on unraveling the fields of meaning of one Chinese character: ji 己, which may often be rendered as "self." She compares this ji self with other terms for body and person current in classical times. This ji self is strongly individuated, but it exists primarily in relation to other human beings (ren 人 ). These "others" are almost never one's own kind and are usually people who fall outside one's ascribed …
Biographical Profile: Timothy Ong, Chang Yau Hoon
Biographical Profile: Timothy Ong, Chang Yau Hoon
Dr Chang Yau HOON
No abstract provided.