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Recent-Style Poetry : Pentasyllabic regulated verse : Li Bai : the poet-immortal of China
Get PDFThis episode examines Li Bai’s self-fashioning as a free spirit or rather the creator of the universe in a poetic form seemingly ill-suited for making glamorous claims. The poem discussed is not among the best known of his works but well attests to his reputation as the poet-immotal
Strategic identities : Chinese & Hong Kong queer women\u27s self-presentations on lesbian dating apps
No full textLesbian dating apps (such as LESDO and Butterfly) are emerging as crucial sexual landscape in China and Hong Kong. Previous scholarship have analysed new formations of cyber communities and intimate encounters on these platforms, but less attention was given to the use of identity sub-labels, and more importantly, to the ways in which dating apps contribute to ongoing lesbian feminist debates on identity sub-labels. How do users privately feel about this system? What self-presentation strategies do they employ and what are the boarder impactions about constructing sexual identity in the age of digital dating
Carving out the lines of visual intimacy in the story of a Chinese artist and collector
No full textThis paper explores the ways visual intimacy is performed and enabled by the agency of knives in art making and art appreciation by a Chinese artist and collector who lives between South Africa and China. Based on a biographical study of Li Shudi, it demonstrates the use of the knife physically and metaphorically in facilitating multiple accesses of proximity that pulls together traces of informal, obscured interconnections of ordinary individuals in the South (Baasch, Folárànmí, Koide, Kakande and Simbao 2020). The use of a knife, on the one hand, provides “restorable reach” (Schutz and Luckmann, 1973) to Li’s memory of carving Mao’s profile during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and it also provides a link to his vulnerable experience of working as a graphic designer in a Taiwanese owned carpet factory in South Africa, where he carved patterns on the handle of a knife and used it as a means of protection. On the other hand, it also provides a reflective reach to the learning experience with his lecturer Liu Tiehua (1917- 1997), who was one of the primary artists in the Modern Woodcut Movement in China (1930-40s), and to his print collecting practices in South Africa. A sense of visual intimacy is activated by Li as he carries the bold and often crude lines of Liu’s style in woodcarving and the spirit of an emotional rawness and humility with him in art making and collecting practices in South Africa. The paper substantiates the visual intimacy by interweaving visual analysis of Li\u27s collection of Japanese prints, and artworks of a South African community artist Edith Bukani as well as Li’s artworks. It proposes the visual intimacy maintained by individuals like Li Shudi as a new way of seeing the obscured and complex co-presence of informality, proximity, and mobility within the broad discourse of China-Africa contacts
Yuefu Poetry : War as a theme in early popular Chinese poetry
Get PDFThis episode first discusses the functions of the Han Music Bureau and the yuefu poetry as a poetic genre. It points out the fact that we still don’t know if the Bureau really collected these songs from various regions and matched them with music. Many of the popular poems we now call “Han yuefu” are actually preserved in the History of the Liu Song Dynasty written in the sixth century. The second part focuses on analyzing the yuefu poem entitled, “We Fought South of the Walls” from different angles
The Tang Dynasty : Quatrains : Waking from a Yangzhou dream : Middle and late Tang
Get PDFThis episode discusses the differences in tonal patterns between wujue and qijue, which had a clear impact on poetic practice. After the Tang, wujue became increasingly rare; we can conclude that poets no longer saw creative potential in the form—the great Tang writers had exhausted it. Qijue, on the contrary, remained one of the most popular and expressive poetic forms throughout the classical period
Northern and Eastern Syria : stateless democracy in a critical time
No full textModerator: John RESTAKIS (Synergia Institute, Canada)
Speakers: Leman HASENO (Civil Diplomacy Center, the Autonomous Administration of North and East of Syria) Muhammad HASSAN (Department of Foreign Affairs, the Autonomous Administration of North and East of Syria
The question of modernity : challenge to the self and to ecology
No full textModerator: LAU Kin Chi (Lingnan University, China)
Speaker: HUANG Ping (Chinese Institute of Hong Kong, China)
Discussants: LEE Jung-Ok (Catholic University of Daegu, South Korea) DAI Jinhua (Peking University, China) Manoranjan MOHANTY (Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India
Essays on the consequences of auditor regulatory oversight : evidence from PCAOB international inspections
Get PDFThe Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) was created in 2002 in response to widespread perceived audit failures with the mandate to oversee and inspect all auditors of SEC-registered firms. Though the PCAOB inspection is for the benefit of US-listed firms, it also has consequences for non-US-listed firms. Using a sample of firm-year observations from 35 countries that allow PCAOB international inspections, I examine the implications of the PCAOB international inspections for non-US auditors and non-US-listed firms. The dissertation consists of two chapters. The first chapter examines the effect of the PCAOB international inspections on industry specialization for inspected non-US auditors. I find that PCAOB inspected non-US auditors are more likely to reduce industry specialization after the public disclosure of inspection reports. The effect of reduced industry specialization is more pronounced for inspected non-US auditors who receive deficiency inspection reports, who are in industries with more SEC-registered clients, and who have a riskier portfolio of clients before the inspection. Also, the results show that local regulatory oversight does not affect the relationship between PCAOB international inspections and auditor industry specialization. The second chapter investigates the impact of PCAOB international inspections on debt choice for non-US-listed firms. I find that PCAOB international inspection is negatively associated with non-US-listed firms’ preference for bank debt. However, further analyses reveal that non-US-listed firms tend to rely on bank debt if their auditors receive deficiency inspection reports. These effects are larger for non-US-listed firms that are financially constrained. Also, the impact of PCAOB international inspections on bank debt is greater for non-US-listed firms operating in countries with common law, low corruption, high regulatory quality, and strong rule of law. Overall, the study suggests that PCAOB international inspections reduce industry specialization for non- US auditors and improve debt contracting for non-US-listed firms
元明時期華北國家秩序的重建 : 軍屯、漕運和馬政 : 以大名府為例
Get PDF本研究將以大名府為例，從軍屯、漕運和馬政三種國家制度展示元明華北國家秩序對地方社會重塑的過程。本研究不僅能夠為華北的衰落提供制度層面的解釋，還能說明元明制度的連續性。本文第二章和第三章將討論明初大名府的衛所和軍屯。這二章會結合大量不同地域和時期的地方志對大名府軍屯的設置、分布和數量做一考證，並通過東明縣穆氏家族說明這一二元體系對地方社會產生的影響。本文第四章將通過河南漕糧於小灘鎮交兌這一經濟活動進一步說明大名府被塑造為薊州鎮「飛地」的過程。本章將通過梳理豫漕交兌點之變說明豫漕交兌對小灘鎮的依賴，並分別從環境和制度兩個角度說明交兌點變與不變的原因。本文第五章將以大名府為例從「餘地征銀」的角度重新檢討明代華北馬政的負擔。本文將通過考證史料說明，實際上明代馬政並未對華北地方社會造成想像中的沉重負擔。總之，本文將通過軍屯、漕運、馬政三種國家制度說明明代國家權力對位處北方內地的大名府重塑的過程，並冀求通過這一過程說明華北的衰落，以及元明制度間的連續性