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論余懷《板橋雜記》的「有為而作」, Stella Siu

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晚明時筆記小品興盛，大量筆記、隨筆小品出現。筆記小品包括的體裁不限於文或詩，內容更包羅萬有，有像呂坤《呻吟語》、洪應明《菜根譚》等記載處世之道和人生哲理的作品，也有像袁宏道就曾寫《瓶史》講述插花藝術的作品，這些筆記小品的內容大可按篇目內容分類。

而明末清初易代之際，筆記小品的內容和思想有所變化。一些明朝遺民創作了不少追憶故國的回憶錄。值得注意的是，這些回憶錄內容追憶過去的美好生活，內容上除了大量書寫繁華、熱鬧城市的生活風景外，對青樓和妓女的記錄和描寫更是特別豐富。這樣豐富的記載除了來自書生才子與她們相處的生活經驗，更有意藉描寫這些妓女來表達一些個人感受。然而當時文字獄極盛，文人不敢隨意抒發個人心聲，很容易被捕風捉影招致殺身之禍。這些心聲往往顯得隱晦不明。

余懷在《板橋雜記》的〈序〉提到這本書是「有為而作」，更指書中所記的金陵佳麗和勝地均繫「一代之興衰，千秋之感慨」，並不是為艷冶而記。本文旨在結合歷史語境，透過分析余懷在《板橋雜記》中對妓院和妓女的記錄和描寫，了解他收錄妓女事跡的原因，並藉此探討「有為而作」所指的寫作目的。

常, Sin Hang Tai

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一直想寫一篇關於人與城市的故事，構思時恰是雨傘運動爆發之始。我走到三個佔領區的街頭，觀察那裡的環境和群眾。我發現各式各樣、獨一無二的人，這些人大多本不相識，甚或一生都應緣慳一面，但他們因著同一件事在同一段日子走到街上，遇上彼此。這些人有怎樣的性格、身分、人生？外在的環境和過去的生活如何影響他們？

故事涉及的時間長度只從雨運醞釀期間直到爆發前的一瞬，即二零一四年八月三十一日到九月二十八日之間，從政改決定直至第一顆催淚彈之前。我選擇這一段時間而不是雨運的期間，是因為我想探討人的變化，而不是決定。這是一切彷彿還在「常態」中的日子，大部份人仍然照常生活，期間有關政改、罷課、重奪公民廣場等等的輿論愈來愈多。我想發掘的是這些後來出現、或者不出現在佔領區的人，在這段時間的心路歷程。面對城市的變化，人物的角色定位與價值取態會有怎樣的改變？人與城市之間的連結，在世界被「扭轉」的時候，又變成了什麼樣的存在？若常規逐漸被挑戰，城市環境面臨抽空，在「烏托邦」下，城市人原來的角色身份會有怎樣的變化？我想通過探討不同身份背景的人物的平凡日常、行為與思想，窺探出他們的生活態度及價值觀，描述他們面對社會從正常到異常的轉化過程時的心理轉變，並讓讀者自行推斷人物的「結局」。

蕭紅在香港的生活與《呼蘭河傳》, Yuen Yee Wong

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女性、愛情、自由、革命、叛逆、逃亡、寂寞……每一個詞放在蕭紅身上都別有意味。2014年，許鞍華電影《黃金時代》再一次掀起了蕭紅熱。蕭紅是中國現代文學史上一個獨特的女作家，也是逐漸受學界重視的作家之一。隨著近年來蕭紅研究的不斷深入，這個具有傳奇和悲劇色彩的女作家，她絕世的文學才華也逐漸展露眼前。

香港，作為她重要作品的孕育之地，某程度上也成就了蕭紅的寫作及文學地位。《呼蘭河傳》是蕭紅的重要代表作之一，也是在香港寫畢的作品之一。許子東教授認為：「中日戰爭期間，作為租界的香港受英國人管治，成為可讓懷抱不同政治立場的人與當下處境拉開距離的避風港，給予作家逃離專制政府的機會，蕭紅也就是在這個環境下完成《呼蘭河傳》。

雖然蕭紅在來香港前已經成名，但在香港時期的創作才真正地讓她名聲大噪起來。因著對蕭紅研究的深入，長篇小說《呼蘭河傳》也被研究者們從各個角度、各個層面進行了挖掘和闡釋，揭示出這部經典作品的現實性。故本論文的重心意在探討「蕭紅是在如何的寫作環境中創作了《呼蘭河傳》」的核心主題之上。換句話說，研究背後究竟是什麼原動力或原因促使蕭紅創作《呼蘭河傳》正是本論文的寫作目標。

蕭紅與她其後的丈夫端木蕻良一起來到香港不久，正好碰上日軍侵襲、香港淪陷之時。她死於香港，使論者總禁不住藉此想像著她與香港的浪漫關係。這也是吸引論者研究蕭紅的最大原因。香港對蕭紅來說也許意義並不大，但許多偶然的因素導致她在這裡成就了她的文學人生。故本論文將會集中細看蕭紅在香港時期的經歷，並結合其遭遇探討《呼蘭河傳》得以問世的原因。在香港這麼南、呼蘭河這麼北的地方，家鄉和避難之地相隔如此遙遠，《呼蘭河傳》可謂是蕭紅一次精神返鄉的旅程。

Week 5: Feasting, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

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Untold Narratives: Refugee Experiences From Laos To Richmond, California, Laiseng Saechao

Scripps Senior Theses

Untold Narratives: A Refugee Experience from Laos to Richmond, California is focused on the Mien refugee experience from Laos to Richmond, California. This thesis highlights the ways Cold War politics, the Secret War, and heavy industrialization have impacted Mien communities who have been displaced from their homelands into refugee camps, and again through sponsorship into the United States. This thesis looks at political theories that discuss inequalities that exist, particularly through environmental degradation and negative health impacts that Mien refugees are experiencing in their resettlement into Richmond, California. Due to the limited scholarly articles and documented narratives that are available …

The Christian Influence Over Secular Understandings Of Marriage In The United States: A Critical Analysis Of Augustinian Theology, Rebecca C. Shin

Scripps Senior Theses

In this thesis, I seek to contextualize the exclusivity of traditional marriage in the United States. I investigate the use of Christian beliefs applied to the American legal system, consequently becoming the foundation of American commonsense. I draw out the ways in which Augustinian thoughts on marriage have inadvertently been used to justify institutional favoritism toward heterosexual, monogamous couples. Through examining the Christian-American lens that shapes our understanding of traditional marriage, I argue that previous and current secular opposition to non-traditional marriage is fundamentally grounded in Christian faith, furthermore, American cultural understanding of marriage is unconsciously lined with Augustinian thought.

Pattern And Disorder: Anxiety And The Art Of Yayoi Kusama, Susanna S. Ferrell

Scripps Senior Theses

Yayoi Kusama is undoubtedly one of the most esteemed artists today, and yet she is continually written off as "crazy." Kusama's work draws not from insanity, but from her experiences with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and acts as a tool to both process and temper her obsessions and compulsions. In my own work, I reflect on the necessarily obsessive faculty of hand-drawn animation, in an effort to communicate the feeling of OCD.

The Migration Of Bibliographic Methodology, Zachary Thomas Eggemeyer

Book Publishing Final Research Papers

This paper will examine the bibliographic methodology used by book historians to detect a print forgery, and it will attempt to show those same methodologies can be applied to digital documents by digital humanities scholars to uncover digital forgeries. To accomplish this it will be necessary to examine a known case of forgery and detail the exact methods used to uncover it, as well as look at the methods and tools available to digital humanities scholars. Doing this should allow us to map the forensic methods of analytical bibliography to their digital counterparts. The goal will be to establish a …

The Role Of Prayer In Ministries Dependent Upon Donations, Susan Payne

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

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Healing As An Approach For Discipleship In The Bible: A Missiological Perspective, Jacques Yves N. Mbende

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

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A Biblical And Missiological Framework For Cross-Cultural Mission: A Case Study Of The Lobi Funeral Rites In Burkina Faso, Boubakar Sanou

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

No abstract provided.

Religious Issues In The Ukrainian Media After Euromaidan, Maksym Balaklytskyi

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Kyrgyzstan: "Draconian" Proposed Religion Law And Administrative Code, Mushfig Bayram

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Kazakhstan: Religious Freedom Survey, March 2014, Mushfig Bayram, John Kinahan

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Visualising Migrant Voices: Co-Creative Documentary And The Politics Of Listening, Darcy Alexandra

Doctoral

This ethnography of media production explores the challenges of literally and figuratively visualising voice. The labour of a shared production and the distribution of the audio-visual documentary essays unfolded within a field of diverse, and at times, conflicting interests. For this reason, judicious attention to what I name ‘encounters’ of ‘political listening’ (Bickford 1996; Dreher 2009) provides one framework for theorising the challenges of researching with marginalised subjects and stories, and the contradictions of developing shared practices within proprietary contexts. These encounters reveal moments of listening and being heard, struggles over ‘veracity’ and ‘evidence,’ and the power relations inherent in …

El Sábado Semana 6: ¿Qué Sigue Ahora?, Calvin University

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Week 03: Isaiah 6:1-8 “Confess & Listen”, Calvin University

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Week 09, Calvin University

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Week 01: Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 “Confrontation Of God’S People”, Calvin University

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Semana 03, Calvin University

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Week 02, Calvin University

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Week 03, Calvin University

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Semana 01, Calvin University

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Week 08: Isaiah 58:1-9a “Justice Is More Than Skipping A Meal”, Calvin University

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Semana 06, Calvin University

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Semana 09, Calvin University

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Week 09: Isaiah 60:1-6 “Arise, Shine!”, Calvin University

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Leading Ladies In Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Hannah C. Badenhop

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

This paper analyzes the women in Willa Cather’s novel The Professor’s House and demonstrates the ways in which the women are able to adapt to change better than the men in the novel, even though the women are degraded for their materialism and behaviors. By looking at previous scholarship, this thesis highlights how women in this novel have for some reason been excluded from the academic debate surrounding The Professor’s House. This exclusion is often the result of scholars placing more emphasis on St. Peter and Tom as the main characters in the story. What this ignores, however, is the …

Organic Angels: Innocence, Conversion, And Consumption In The Antebellum American Novel, Laura Jean Schrock

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Midcentury American novelists variously reworked the traditional conversion narrative to reflect a marked cultural shift in attitude towards human "nature," newly conceived as innocent and inclined to salvation. This liberalized aesthetic of conversion takes shape through the trope of the "organic angel," a developmental female figure whose journey from childhood innocence to saintly womanhood merges the processes of sexual maturation and Protestant conversion. Because she purifies self-interested desire by redirecting it towards spiritual ends, the organic angel provides a symbolic reconciliation of the young nation's budding imperial capitalism with its millennial expectations. While traditional emphasis on a maternal ethos at …

Please Don't Forget About Me: African American Women, Mississippi, And The History Of Crime And Punishment In Parchman Prison, 1890-1980, Telisha Dionne Bailey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Despite the vast amount of research covering incarcerated men in the southern prison system from the beginning of the nineteenth century to present, the incarceration of women has gone almost unexamined. As the forgotten offender, historians, criminologist, and others interested in Mississippi carceral studies have failed to include a historical study that focuses on the incarceration of African American women in Mississippi. To date, there are two major historical works that explore Mississippi penology and its notorious Parchman Penitentiary. David Oshinsky’s, Worse Than Slavery and William Banks Taylor’s, Down on Parchman Farm, are the two pivotal historical works that examine …