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陳鱣《禮記參訂》稿鈔本八種考述
Get PDF清代乾嘉學者陳鱣，向以藏書家著名。其人實則精究鄭、許之學，著書頗富，惟因遺稿多佚而聲名不彰於學術史。本文旨在調查陳鱣所著《禮記參訂》一書之版本，考察今日所見八種稿鈔本之流傳情形，並梳理其版本譜系，以便日後整理是書。與此同時，借兹個案，可以窺探古人著述流傳之不易，並見鈔本文化至近世藏書家仍未衰歇也。
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the editions of Liji CanDing (《禮記參訂》) written by Chen Zhan (陳鱣), a scholar in Qing Dynasty. Firstly, we found eight copies of the book through the investigation. Secondly, we find out the writing and circulation of these editions according to the literature records. Finally, we sort out the relationship between these editions through edition collation
周馥易學思想闡微 : 《易理匯參》校讀筆記
Get PDF周馥是中國近代歷史上赫赫有名的人物，晚清名臣，事功之外，著作亦夥，俱見“學涉淵廣，精義入神，有非經生家所能幾及，而平生志在經世，不欲以文章自名”。所著《易理匯參》，於天下“殃慶倚伏之故，邪正消長之原”，尤所措意，字裏行間，灼然自見；與晚年所著《負暄閒語》並參，可知見其思想趣寄，及家事、國事、天下事，時縈回胸際。揆諸清代特别是晚清易學史研究，《易理匯參》能於“經學易”、“理學易”兩分之下，既不拘於“經學易”之迂腐，亦不陷於“象數易”之迷信，超越“窮理”與“盡性”，自具面貌，賦予易學研究以時代體悟及“新命”，非惟篤守專家，按文究例，或隨以引伸，誠所難能，亦可謂晚清易學史發展之一重要成績。且從家族史研究角度來看，《易理匯參》與《負暄閒語》堪屬内外篇，内者明於理本，外則語其事蹟，循循導誘者矣。
As a famous scholar-official of the late Qing dynasty, Chou Fu (1837—1921) is an important figure in late imperial and modern Chinese history. Although he was not well-known for his study of the Book of Changes, his work Yili huican that expresses his thoughts and interests on the study of this text is worth reading. There were two schools in the study of the Book of Changes during the Qing dynasty: one focuses on the philological study of the contents and the other, on the philosophical one. Chou Fu maintained a middle way between the two. He was able to avoid the tedious philological examination and, in the meantime, reject the superstitious “images and numbers” interpretation. He used the Book of Changes to guide his everyday social life, to understand the spirits of different times, and to help himself conduct official business during the tumultuous late Qing period. From this perspective, Chou Fu’s work should be considered a new development in the study of the Book of Changes, a work that has long been overlooked in this field
Fictional characters and their discontents : a prolegomena to any future metaphysics of fictional entities
Get PDFIn recent metaphysics, the questions of whether fictional entities exist, what their nature is, and how to explain truths of statements such as “Sherlock Holmes lives in 221B Baker Street” and “Holmes was created by Arthur Conan Doyle” have been subject to much debate. The main aim of my thesis is to wrestle with key proponents of the abstractionist view that fictional entities are abstract objects that exist (van Inwagen 1977, 2018, Thomasson 1999 and Salmon 1998) as well as Walton’s (1990) pretense view, which denies the existence of such entities. In the process, I propose modifications to these views to deal with problems they face and show how the modifications better account for the philosophical data.
Key abstractionists (van Inwagen 1977, Thomasson 1999) make a strict distinction between discourse within fiction, in which statements about literary characters cannot be literally true, and discourse about fiction, as it occurs in literary criticism, where statements about fictional characters can be literally true. Fictional objects are postulated to account for the truth of the latter. This runs into trouble because statements thought to be literally true are not literal. (Yagisawa 2001, Friend 2002) I provide a uniform analysis to account for the truth of statements involving fictional characters by appealing to a presupposition involving a metaphor in both contexts. The presupposition is that there is an x such that x is fictional; x is likened to a real person; and x is and ought to be treated/counted as a real person for all relevant intents and purposes.
More generally, I adopt Everett and Schroeder’s (2015) realist view that fictional characters are ideas constituted by mental representations. This, to me, better accounts for how fictional characters are created within the world’s causal nexus (unlike non-spatiotemporal entities in abstractionism), among other things. One key challenge they face is to explain how ideas can possess properties such as being a detective. I present a fine-grained version of their view, according to which the mental representations constituting fictional entities encode mind-dependent properties. Moreover, I explain how reference to such representations is possible, using Bencivenga’s (1983) Neo-Kantian view of reference and Karttunen’s (1976) view on discourse referents. Finally, I suggest that the identity of fictional characters is interest-relative. The constant, and sometimes radical, change of properties that, fictional characters can undergo is taken to be a consequence of the fact that unified mental representations are bundles of simpler mental representations. As change occurs, simpler representations are replaced by others.
A key theme that runs through the thesis is that neither fictionality nor pretense is relevant to the semantics of fictional sentences—a claim bolstered by Matravers’ (2014) arguments. Whether or not my account works, this claim, as well as the new philosophical data I bring up, are some of the challenges I pose to the heart of established views
Interactive translation in cyberspace : translator-reader dynamics in online translation of children’s novels
Get PDFThis thesis investigates a new mode of online literary translation characterized by translator-reader interactions. Its focus is on Internet-mediated exchanges between a non-professional translator Xiao Mao and his readers in the production, dissemination, and reception of his online translations of three novels by E. B. White from 2000 to 2001. By employing the methodological framework of actor-network theory (ANT), this thesis sets out to unearth not only the interactive dynamics among heterogeneous (human and non-human) actors but also how these engagements shape the translations at different stages.
This thesis first unravels how readers in the New Threads online community participated in Xiao Mao’s translation process via a mailing list. Triangulating paratexts, mailing-list archives, and my interviews with the translator and two readers, it reveals the polyphony of voices and multiple translatorship in the translation production. This thesis then examines how and why the translations were disseminated in cyberspace. It uncovers a decentralized and participatory peer-to-peer online distribution network, in which online readers acted as distributors by reposting and discussing the translations on various social media. Using a quantitative and qualitative analysis of posts from the translator and readers in the discussion forum, Xianxian Shuhua, this study finds that reception is a dynamic process in which interpretations and evaluations are conditioned by interactional mechanisms in online communities. Taken together, translator-reader dynamics pervade the three phases of Xiao Mao’s translations, and his translation mode can be theorized as interactive translation, consisting of interactive production, interactive dissemination, and interactive reception, which foregrounds the participatory nature of online translation. This study is original in unleashing the descriptive power of ANT in researching online translation. It also reconfigures the notions of translation, translator, and reader, and prompts us to reconsider the translation profession in the digital age
Translating and literary agenting Anna Holmwood’s Legends of the Condor Heroes
Get PDFThe role of literary agents in translation is intriguing yet under-researched. The mechanism of literary agenting vis-à-vis the initiation, production, and promotion of translated literature is under-explored. How literary agenting affects translation epistemologically, aesthetically, and technically remains uncharted territory. This dissertation attempts to fill the gap by investigating how Anna Holmwood, a translator-cum-literary agent, conceives and conducts the English translation of Shediao Yingxiong Zhuan (“射雕英雄傳”), a wuxia (武俠) magnum opus by Jin Yong (金庸).
It first employs an NVivo-based theme analysis to unearth how the translation has been received and perceived by general readers. Next, it develops the notion of professional habitus based on Bourdieu’s concept of habitus. Capitalizing on first-hand materials such as email exchanges, speech transcriptions, interview records, agent reports, and unpublished essays, it then examines how Holmwood’s professional habitus as a literary agent empowers her to act as the initiator (as demonstrated in translation selection, contract-signing, and pitching), coordinator (as demonstrated in designating co-translators, and establishing and strengthening connections between various actors), and promoter (as demonstrated in coining the tagline “A Chinese Lord of the Rings”) of the translation project, and recounts the process in which this translation comes into being. Next, it conducts a textual analysis of the first two volumes of the translated book with various corpus tools (AntConc, L2SCA, MAT, etc.), showing how Holmwood’s literary agent identity shapes her approach to wuxia translation, and demonstrating her “fingerprints” on the “tone”, “pitch”, and “pace” of the translated texts. It is revealed that Holmwood’s translation is distinct from previous translations of Jin Yong’s novels on multiple linguistic levels, and that her translation style is imprinted on the translation by Gigi Chang, the co-translator. Finally, Holmwood has appropriated such cinematic techniques as undercranking, fast cutting, zoom in shot, and extreme long shot in her translation, making it reminiscent of Tsui Hark’s wuxia films.
Thanks largely to her literary agenting experience, Holmwood produces a reader-oriented translation that is readable, dynamic, and fast-paced, and projects Jin Yong wuxia as entertaining, individualistic, apolitical, multicultural, and cosmopolitan. This mixed-method study not only refreshes our understanding of literary agenting of translation, but also contributes to the research methodology of translation reception and translation style
Republican autonomy : extending freedom as non-domination
Get PDFIn political philosophy, the concept of autonomy is often associated with liberalism: it serves as a justification for the liberal values of state neutrality and value pluralism, and seems coherent with the liberal definition of freedom as the absence of interference. Neo-republicans have pointed out that freedom as non-interference fails to acknowledge the fact that one may be unfree while non-interfered with, while on the other hand, not all forms of interference are freedom-limiting. They have proposed to replace the concept by freedom as non-domination, which they define as the absence of actual or possible arbitrary interference. Although their definition is promising, neo-republicans tend to neglect the concept of self-government and therefore, are vulnerable to the same accusations of incompleteness faced by liberals. By focusing on the negative part of freedom as non-domination, they have omitted two aspects: first, that there are other ways to be unfree than to be the subject of mere arbitrary interference, and second, that the real value of non-domination is the capacity to act as a non-dominated being, which requires a level of self-mastery. To fix this problem, I propose an extension of the concept of non-domination and argue that the theory would benefit from including autonomy in the list of its conditions for freedom. Following the republican idea that one is only free in a free state, I propose a definition of republican autonomy that is political in nature, and depends on globalized nondomination
Common auditor and supplier’s performance
Get PDFI examine the effect of a common auditor in supply chain on supplier’s performance. A common auditor in supply chain is defined as the same audit firm that provides auditing services to both the supplier and the customer. As the common third party, the common auditor could transfer information between supplier and customer, which might benefit the performance of the supplier. I find that a common auditor can increase supplier’s ROA and this effect is driven by the reduction of supplier’s production cost. I also find that a common auditor can reduce supplier’s receivables conversion periods. This finding gives evidence that supplier gains more bargaining power in supply chain through the presence of common auditor, which might contribute to the positive effect of common auditor on supplier’s ROA. The common auditor effect of improving supplier’s performance is found to be more pronounced when there is high information asymmetry in supply chain, when the supplier and customer use the same audit office, and before the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which gives evidence that common auditor plays an information intermediary role in improving supplier’s performance. As for the information content transferred by common auditor, I find that common auditor can reduce supplier’s bullwhip effect. This finding indicates that common auditor might transfer customer’s demand information to supplier so that the supplier could make better capacity planning and thus reduce production cost. Overall, the results show that supplier can benefit from the presence of common auditor, and the results are robust to alternative measure of common auditor, and potential endogeneity concerns
Cultural granaries for a liveable kampung : negotiation and resilience in Indonesia
No full textModerators: Ariel SALLEH (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa/ Australia) SIT Tsui (Southwest University, China)
Speaker (60-90 mins): Melani BUDIANTA (University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Has democracy ever existed?
No full textModerators: LAU Kin Chi (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China) YAN Xiaohui (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China)
Speaker (40 mins): Michael HUDSON (Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends, USA)
Discussants (15 mins each): David HARVEY (City University of New York, USA) Eric TOUSSAINT (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt, Belgium) Steve KEEN (Kingston University, Australia) Boris KARGARLITSKY (Institute of Globalization and Social Movements, Russia
Fukushima after ten years
No full textModerators: Lisa LEUNG (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China) SUN Ge (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China) SIT Tsui (Southwest University, China)
Speakers (15 mins each): LAU Kin Chi (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China) OHASHI Masaaki (University of the Sacred Heart, Japan) AIHARA Hiroko (Japan Perspective News, Japan) LEE Seejae (The Catholic University of Korea, South Korea) Rebecca JOHNSON (ICAN, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, UK