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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

Dissertations from all years

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

Dissertations from all years

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。

The State, The Gentry, And Local Institutions: The Song Dynasty From A Longue Durée Perspective, Song Chen

Faculty Journal Articles

Review essay on five books:

• Cunshe chuantong yu Ming Qing shishen: Shanxi Zezhou xiangtu shehui de zhidu bianqian 村社傳 統與明清士紳：山西澤州鄉土社會的制度變遷(Village Worship Associations and the Gentry in Ming and Qing Times: Institutional Transformations in the Local Society of Zezhou, Shanxi). By DU ZHENGZHEN 杜正貞. Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe, 2007. 348 pp. CNY 30.00 (paper).
• The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy. By NICOLAS TACKETT. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. xiv + 281 pp. $49.95 (cloth), $25.00 (paper).
• Kin Gen jidai no kahoku shakai to kakyo seido: Mōhitotsu no “shijin sō” 金元時代の華北社会と 科挙制度―もう一つの「士人層」(Society and the Examination System in North …

Ji Sor (1997): Self-Realization Of Women In Cinema And In History, Tong (Hilary) Lin

CMC Senior Theses

100 years ago, there was a group of women called Zishunu who stood up against the whole society and swore off marriage for life. Zishu offered an escape for many women in the Pearl River Delta area. As forerunners in female independence and liberation, Zishunu never had the chance to be the spokesman of themselves or the recognition they deserved. Ji Sor (1997), a groundbreaking work in lesbian-themed movies, beautifully depicts this special and unparalleled historical phenomenon in detail. Released a few months after the Handover of Hong Kong in 1997, this critically acclaimed movie by Hong Kong New Wave …

Individual Differences In Intentional And Unintentional Exposure To Online Pornography Among Hong Kong Chinese Adolescents, Cecilia M. S. Ma, Daniel T. L. Shek, Catie C. W. Lai

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

The current study aimed to test how gender and religion affect unintentional and intentional exposure to online pornography in Chinese adolescents. A total of 1401 secondary school students (age range from 11 to 16 years) participated in the study. Findings from multivariate analyses show that males reported higher levels of unintentional and intentional exposure to online pornography than females. Significant differences were found in adolescents’ religiosity, with students who had religious beliefs reporting a lower level of unintentional exposure to online pornography than their counterparts without religious beliefs. In terms of intentional exposure to online pornography, adolescents were more likely …

Crime And Culture : A Thematic Reading Of Sherlock Holmes And His Adaptations., Britney Broyles

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation focuses on the adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes character and stories into the television shows Sherlock and Elementary on air today. The project will consider three central questions: 1) Why is this Victorian detective hero still popular in the twenty-first century and what has remained constant and still resonates with modern audiences? 2) Both television shows transport Holmes in time by setting their narratives in the present day; therefore, what has been changed in this process of adaptation? 3) How do these changes represent shifts in our cultural thinking about important aspects of humanistic inquiry? The …

Black Noise, White Noise, And Ghostly Sound: The Ontology Of Noise In The Context Of Deleuze's Conception Of Event, Yuhui Jiang, Yan Zheng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

As a complicated concept, Deleuze's "event" has traversed different phases of his thinking. However, one should always return to Logique du sens to have a thorough and proper understanding of this idea. Through detailed interpretation of the Stoic theory about "incorporeal", causality and temporality, this article intends to justify the ontological priority of event. The most recent arguments from the speculative realism have also shed a new light on this guiding line implicit in LS. This emerging correlation took its initial shape especially through the contemporary noise music that not only serves as the figurative counterpoint to the philosophical argument, …

Event And Art: Lyotard's Politics Of Phrase And The Postmodern Sublime, Hui Zhou

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Starting from the relationship between modern French philosophy and event and time, this article attempts to expound the main idea of the politics of phrase oriented to différend, to compare the differences and similarities between Kant's reflective judgment and the judgment of Lyotard, to analyze the reasons why postmodern art finally leads to the sublime, and thus to point out the special significance of event to postmodern theories. In the end, this article reflects on the oscillation of postmodern theories between the activeness and passiveness of the subject, and the price that elites have to pay for detaching themselves from …

Highlights Of Symposium On "Studies Of Contemporary Art: Philosophical And Sociological Dimensions", Zheng Tao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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Literature Through The Lens Of Davidson's Event Theory, Qiao Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In contemporary literary theory, we discuss literary eventlargely withthe theoretical source of continental philosophy. This articleaims to draw an analytical philosophical picture forliterary event through Davidson's event theory. It investigates Davidsonianliterary event from two aspects. On the one hand, according to Davidson's ontology of event, the nature of literature should beseen as the particulars, and the way of discussing literature should be changed from "existence" to "happening", hence the shift from ontology of literature to performance of literature. On the other hand, literary event represents intentional literary action, and a successful literaryaction presents how the writer usesidiolects to communicate successfully …

Mirror Image Deviation In Cross-Cultural Transmission: A Reevaluation Of The Debate On H. D. Thoreau As A Hermit Or A Fake Hermit In Dushu, Luechang Liu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In the dissemination of H. D. Thoreau in China over the past 90 years, one heated debate with Dushu as the main platform occurred over Thoreau as a hermit or a fake one. By nature, this debate is a false statement, because Thoreau has never claimed to be a hermit. Being similar to the hermit and Chinese yinyi culture, a visible tendency to detach oneself from society and live in seclusion, Thoreau is arbitrarily judged as a hermit or a fake one. From the perspective of Chinese yinyi culture, some Chinese scholars analyzed the period, place, motivation and lifestyle of …

A New Interpretation Of "Xing, Guan, Qun, Yuan", Qizhou Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Confucius puts forward the idea that "poetry helps to inspire, to observe, to keep company, and to express grievances" (xing, guan, qun, yuan), which had a huge impact on Chinese poetics. Among numerous interpreters of this idea, Zhu Xi was the most important authority. While he argues that the interpretation of "guan" by scholars in the Song Dynasty was unreliable, his own interpretations of Confucius's words were not logically consistent, either. Situated in the context of his own educational ideas and practices, one would discover that Confucius's words are about neither the composition nor ontology of poetry, but its use. …

The Primer Tradition And Reflections On Chinese Education Over The Past 100 Years, Zihui Zhu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

"Initiating Children's literacy by musical language" has been an important characteristic and fine tradition of elementary Chinese education in ancient China. In primers of this kind, it is characterized by syntactical antithesis and rhyming which were derived from the profound understanding of the ancients about the characteristics of the Chinese language. In the elementary education, it not only satisfies children's "willingness and readiness" to learn, but also exposes them to the aesthetic of Chinese language and culture. However, unfortunately, in the past one hundred years, due to the unscrupulous transplant or absorption of foreign education thought, the fine primer tradition …

Symptomatic Reading, Event, And Iconography: A Brief Discussion Of Georges Didi-Huberman's Image-Knowledge, Wen Zhao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

As one of the most active art historians in France, Georges Didi-Huberman takes "event" as his theoretical basis, by which he makes possible the renewal of the critical tradition of Aby Warburg. Didi-Huberman is innovative because, on the one hand, he confirms Warburg's special epistemology that is situated within Walter Benjamin's horizon of event-truth implied in dialectic images, and, on the other, he legitimizes Benjamin's symptomatic reading of events by introducing Warburg's image-knowledge into iconographical studies. Didi-Hubermanian critical iconography has changed the look of contemporary French art history, disrupted the linear historical narrative of art in academic tradition, and ultimately …

Behavior Language, Unconscious Structure And Literary Activities, Dakang Ma

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Human's consciousness is constructed by the memory of speech acts, and the unconscious is constructed by the memory of behavior language. The similarities and differences between the two languages (behaviors) determine the relation and differentiation between the structure of consciousness and that of the unconscious. Therefore, it does not hold water that Lacan uses the structure of language to explain the unconscious. Aesthetic activities are the full cooperation between consciousness and the unconscious, so the characteristics of the two kinds of behaviors (languages) determine the dual character of aesthetic and artistic activities.

On Literary Theory: Its Way Of Unveiling, Semiotic Rectangle And Absolute Deterritorialization, Jin Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In the 21st century, literary study has started a self-reflection on the multiple facets of theory, thus giving rise to anti-theories, meta-theories and after-theories, all of which cast doubt on theoretical study and literary theory. However, all the facets of theory are the inherent dimensions of theory per se. The exploration of the unveiling way of theory lies in a comprehensive view and an unveiling of theory itself. The theoretical rectangle reveals the varied and interconnected connotations within theory per se. The absolute deterritorialization of theory offers a dialectical possibility among territorization, deterritorization and reterritorization. The after theory is a …

Prefaces And Postscripts In Early Dunhuang BianwenAnd The Establishment Of Research Paradigm For Modern Folk Literature, Yajing Wang, Xun Sun

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Top scholars in China attracted by findings of Dunhuang Bianwen in 1907 sorted out these newfound materials and wrote prefaces and postscripts for them, which indicated their understanding of various aspects related to Bianwen. Firstly, studies of Bianwen's value brought folk literature to modern academics; secondly, the differentiation and analysis of Bianwen's literary forms opened up the path of emphasizing intrinsic characteristics of literature; thirdly, textual criticism on origins and development of stories in Bianwen introduced an important and new research method for narrative literature. All these paradigms and outlines of Bianwen studies established earlier have displayed Chinese academics' achievement …

Rewriting And Rewritology: A Poststructuralist Approach To Literary History, Jinlong Xiao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Research on literary history is the most fundamental way to construct the knowledge system of literature, which is mainly divided historically into two schools: contextualism and formalism. They both have major defects, which are caused by their thinking in logocentric binary opposition. A shift of our perspective to poststructuralist binary complementation may enable us to realize that all texts of literary discourse are formed by a rewriting of other discursive texts. Correspondingly, the most proper approach to literary history is to probe into the dynamic complicated relationship between a text of literary discourse and its pretexts. This approach,termedrewritology,includes four major …

The Triple Connotations Of Eagleton's "Event" In The Event Of Literature, Zhike Yin

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Is there any connection between Terry Eagleton's The Event of Literature and the philosophy of event? If any, why does he discuss "event" in the final chapter of this book? Why is it confined in only one chapter? To answer these questions, one needs to clarify the concepts he uses. His Structure/Event is based on Claude Levi-Strauss's mythology, Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics, Anthony Giddens's "Structuration", and Wolfgang Iser's "Strategy". Nevertheless, Eagleton's "eventness" differs from Alain Badiou's "event", and is actually closer to Derek Attridge's literary ethics. As literature and art have to bring out actual effect, they are for Eagleton open …

From Discourse Of Political Practiceto Strategy For Cultural Interpretation: Jameson's Aesthetic Transformation Of Mao Zedong Thought, Yuyu Wu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

After the Western left-wing movement suffered setbacks in reality, its practice experience has been transformed into a method of textual interpretation. However, there are very limited studies to question how the failure of such political practice is reborn in a new discourse. This paper tries to explain its process through the case of Jameson's transformation of Mao Zedong thought into aesthetic. The transformation finds its expression in three aspects: 1) theory travel — variation occurs as the text travels; 2) the impact of the practice — deviance happens when the text is decontextualized; and 3) the transformative borrowing — the …

The Debate On "National Characteristic" And The Mindset Of Binary Opposition In Contemporary Intelligentsia, Yugao He

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In the debate on Lu Xun's "national characteristic" at the turn of the 20th century, Feng Jicai and Liu Hewereseverely criticizedfor their post-colonial stance. However, all these critics misunderstood Liu He's point. Through analysis, one finds that critics' mindset of binary opposition such as "China/west, tradition/modernity" was the main cause of the misreading. Meanwhile, Liu He's post-colonial practice also betrays dogmatic binary thinking. The mindset of binary oppositions inherent inmodern Chinese academic thought throughout history has restrained intellectuals' talent, hence a waste of intelligence. To avoid such mindset, Chinese literary scholars should be more sensitive and receptive tofindings in other …

The Earliest Experiment Report Of College Chinese: A New Interpretation Of The Teaching Of Practical Writings By Liu Bannong, Eryuan He, Wenli Feng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

After Gui-Mao education system enforced in 1904, preparatory courses lasted and became an organic part of modern Chinese higher education. As the predecessor of First-year College Chinese in the Republic of China, "preparatory Chinese courses" indicated the early form of College Chinese. Liu Bannong's "Teaching of Practical Writings", finished in 1917 and published in the next year, was the earliest research article and experiment report in modern Chinese as a discipline. Situated within the background of New Culture Movement, this article could have a better display of Liu Bannong and his colleagues' ideas of Chinese language education. Among them, the …

From Guowen, Zhongwen T OHuawen: The Localization Process Of Chinese Textbooks In Singaporean Secondary School, Bing Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Due to the impact of political and cultural contexts, Chinese textbooks in Singaporean secondary school experienced a long and tortuous process of localization. In the early British colonial era and the Japanese occupation of Singapore, almost all Chinese textbooks in Singapore were imported from China and entitled guowen. From the end of World War II to 1979, with dramatic changes in China and Malaya, textbooks were primarily used to promote the consciousness of localization under the concept of Malayalization. Correspondingly, the publication of Chinese textbooks tended to be autonomous and their titles changed to zhongwen, yuwen or huawen. From 1979 …

A Dream Of Red Mansions And Xu Zhenya's Novel Writing, Yingjie Bai

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This article discusses the influence that A Dream of Red Mansions had on Xu Zhenya's novel writing. In his early years, Xu Zhenya wrote sixty Ci-poems about A Dream of Red Mansions. These Ci-poems indicate his understanding of characters in the novel and the love tragedy of Baoyu and Daiyu. When writing novels, he always uses A Dream in Red Mansions as an exemplar. Although Her Sacrifice and The History of Tears are autobiographical novels, Xu imitates A Dream in Red Mansions in terms of characterization and plot. Two Servant Girls, his third novel, is entirely a duplicate of A …

A Feminine Gaze: A Lacanian Analysis Of The Tv Series Journey To The West, Guanjun Wu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The TV series Journey to the West, first shown on China Central Television in 1986, is undoubtedly a seminal work in the history of Chinese television. As a TV remake of the classical Chinese novel bearing the same title, this work, following the principle of "faithfulness", substantively makes itself a symptomatic excess to the original novel. Through the "feminine affection" depicted by the general director Yang Jie, the original novel's phallocentric perspective is replaced in a revolutionary way by a feminine perspective of the Queen of the "Feminine Kingdom". In the end of the TV remake when Tripitaka has "completed" …

Double Inscription And The Concept Of Origin In Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan , Yu-Kai Lin Carlos

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

To many Western readers, Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, published in 1904, is a seminal work of what they perceive as Japanese kaidan literature. The fact that this work was first published in English for Western readers reveals the transcultural as well as translational nature of this literary genre that is called kaidan in the English-speaking context. The question of the origin of kaidan therefore makes it an interesting case of translation, since this book, in effect, is at once a translation and an inscription of the origin of Japanese kaidan literature in the Western context. …

Li Jinxi's Theory Of Chinese Language And Literature Education In Tertiary Institutes: "Integration" And "Remedy", Fengxia Cao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In the 1940s, due to the lack of systematic education, university students had an imbalanced command of Chinese language and literature. Li Jinxi, a pioneer in Chinese language and literature education, published a series of papers on the ideas of "Tong Chou" (integration) and "Jiu Ji"(remedy) in Chinese language and literature education in tertiary institutes. "Integration" refers to the standardization of the number of essays in Chinese textbooks, focusing on improving reading and writing skills. Meanwhile, based on students' levels of Chinese, teachers could be flexible in terms of teaching methods, which is "remedy". Similar problems still exist today: there …

On The Rise Of The Early Notion Of Literary Genres Inchina, Chengxue Wu, Guanlan Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Research on the generation of the notion of literary genres is the point of departure and a cornerstone for studies of the history of Chinese literary genre theories. The establishment of the notion of literary genres is marked by authors' having a clear knowledge of the characteristics of a certain genre, and applying it constantly and consistently, or in other words, by a consciousness of the very forms of literary genres. The notion of genres, in the beginning, is found, either in the application, or in the unambiguous definition and quotation, of the genres concerned. The birth of such a …