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The politics of fashion: perceptions of power in female clothing and ornamentation as reflected in the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei
No full textThis thesis examines issues of female power and influence in sixteenth-century China focusing on how women and their roles were perceived in the changing social environment of the mid-late Ming dynasty. Using aspects of a New Historicist approach, information from contemporary literary and historical sources are analysed alongside each other. With its emphasis on the lives of women and preoccupation with the description of material objects, the late Ming novel Jin Ping Mei forms an important element in the thesis. China in the sixteenth century saw expanding urbanisation, the emergence of a new wealthy merchant class, increasing visibility of women and a questioning of traditional morality. Fashion consciousness, as one of the most conspicuous aspects of the new material culture, is a possible indicator of these trends. Traditional Western theories contend that fashion began in the particular context of Renaissance Europe. However, this study argues that a similar fashion awareness existed in China too, and was manifested in a competitive striving for social status, in this case specifically among women. In contrast to previous studies which downplayed the impact women had on defining traditional Chinese culture, this thesis demonstrates how women and their sartorial choices began to redefine the boundaries of material culture, influencing literati discourse which, in turn, re- influenced female behaviour
Negation in Chinese : a corpus-based study.
No full textThis article explores negation in Chinese on the basis of written and spoken corpora of Mandarin Chinese. The use of corpus data not only reveals central tendencies in language based on quantitative data, it also provides typical examples attested in authentic contexts. In this study we will first discuss negation variants in general terms, on the basis of which the focus will be shifted to the semantic and genre distinctions between two major negators, bu and mei (including meiyou). Following this is an exploration of the interaction between negation and aspect marking. We will then move on to discuss scope and focus of negation, transferred negation, and finally double negation and redundant negation
Brecht and China : a mutual response
No full textThis thesis deals with the cross-cultural relations between Brecht and China
through an analysis of how Brecht responded to the traditional Chinese theatre and
how his drama was received in turn by modern Chinese theatre. It attempts to
examine the respective socio-cultural or political contexts wherein such kind of crosscultural
contacts were needed, and the consequent aesthetic-theatrical as well as
socio-cultural or political changes brought about by these contacts that have produced
two distinctively independent yet related forms of theatre.
It is argued that Brecht's search for a theatre style of his own amidst the sociocultural
as well as political crises between the two world wars made him look to the
East for inspirations, and his direct encounter with Mei Lanfang enabled him to
interpret the latter's acting in such a way that he responded to it with his postulation of
the alienation effect and modification of a gestic performance style. His repudiation
of the well-made dramatic theatre brought his epic theatre closer to the traditional
Chinese theatre whose aesthetic principles he shared in constructing a non-
Aristotelian episodic form of drama. In his experimentations with new modes of
theatrical expressions, he did not simply borrow or copy the forms and content of
classical Chinese drama; he appropriated, transformed and renewed them, for
example, in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, for the particular purpose of instructing
audiences in a scientific age.
China! s reception of Brecht has had much to do with the country's changing
socio-cultural as well as political situations. Chinese theatre practitioners responded
to him because he was a politically, culturally and aesthetically suitable figure. His
epic drama provided an alternative style for the Chinese in their attempt to innovate
their realist spoken drama imported from the West, and was also introduced into local
forms of performing arts in hope that the traditional Chinese theatre could be
resurrected. Furthermore, he prompted Huang Zuolin to theoretically re-examine
Chinese operas, which the latter integrated with techniques of Brecht and
Stanislavsky into spoken drama to establish a new theatre style called Xieyi drama
Li yi zhong de mei shu Wu Hong Zhong guo gu dai mei shu shi wen bian = Art in its ritual context : essays on ancient Chinese art
No full textBen shu xuan yi le zhu ming mei shu shi jia wu hong jiao shou zi 1985 nian yi lai fa biao de 31 pian lun wen. zhe xie lun wen wei rao zhe " li yi mei shu " zhe yi ji ben gai nian tao lun le zhong guo shang gu he zhong gu mei shu zhong de duo xiang yi shu chuan tong he xing sh
New Roads for Patron-Driven E-books:Collection Development and Technical Services Implications of a Patron-Driven Acquisitions Pilot at Rutgers
No full textCollection development librarians have long struggled to meet user demands for new titles. Too often, required resources are not purchased, while some purchased resources do not circulate. E-books selected through patron-driven plans are a solution but present new challenges for both selectors and catalogers. Radical changes to traditional technical services workflows are required, and selectors must modify the selection process to give more choice to the user. Rutgers University librarians have adopted an innovative new technical services workflow and collection-development model to manage a successful, patron-driven acquisitions project for e-books in the fields of math and computer science.This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship on 13/12/2011, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1941126X.2011.627043
Jin Ping Mei
No full textThis is one of hundreds of 60-second radio spots created by the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) for Kansas Public Radio (KPR). The purpose of this outreach program is to introduce the people of Kansas to the culture and current issues of East Asia.Broadcast Transcript: This is Randi Hacker with another Postcard from Asia from the KU Center for East Asian Studies.
Jin Ping Mei is the title of a Chinese vernacular novel, meaning that it was written in common Chinese rather than in the Classical Chinese used for more esoteric works. Jin Ping Mei, or Plum in the Golden Vase in English, is famous for its portrayal of Ming Dynasty manners and infamous for its hard-core pornographic content. It's the story of Ximen Qing, a randy and corrupt merchant who drinks and gambles and and fornicates until he dies of a priapic event brought on by an aphrodisiac overdose: What a way to go, right? Good news: Thanks to David Tod Roy who spent 40 years translating the work, all five volumes are now available in vernacular English. And to paraphrase Paul Simon: They're still racy after all these years.
From the KU Center for East Asian Studies, this is Randi Hacker. Wish you were here.
#China #Hacker #CEA
KOHESI GRAMATIKAL DAN LEKSIKAL EDITORIAL THE JAKARTA POST
No full textberkaitan dengan kohesi pada editorial The Jakarta Post yang mempunyai tujuan
mendeskripsikan kohesi gramatikal dan leksikal dalam membentuk keterpaduan
wacana editorial. Penelitian ini juga bertujuan menjelaskan kegunaan kohesi
gramatikal dan leksikal pada editorial The Jakarta Post.
Penelitian ini membahas dua permasalahan yaitu: (1) bagaimana jenis dan
penggunaan penanda kohesi gramatikal yang terdapat pada kolom editorial The
Jakarta Post (2) bagaimana jenis dan penggunaan penanda kohesi leksikal yang
terdapat pada kolom editorial The Jakarta Post
Data penelitian ini adalah wacana dari editorial yang dimuat dalam media
massa The Jakarta Post. Data yang dianalisis adalah empat editorial dari The
Jakarta Post yang diambil setiap hari Senin dalam bulan Mei. Metode yang
digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode kualitatif deskriptif. Metode yang
digunakan untuk menganalisis aspek gramatikal dan leksikal wacana editorial The
Jakarta Post adalah metode distribusional. Teknik yang digunakan adalah teknik
bagi unsur langsung (BUL) dan analisis struktur mikro.
Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa kohesi gramatikal dan leksikal banyak
digunakan dalam editorial ini sehingga wacana editorial The Jakarta Post ini
adalah wacana yang padu. Dari empat editorial ini ditemukan 206 penanda kohesi
baik gramatikal maupun leksikal. Hasil analisis penelitian ini juga menemukan
bahwa editorial The Jakarta Post menggunakan hampir semua aspek kohesi
gramatikal kecuali substitusi yang tidak selalu ada di dalam editorial. Tetapi
penggunaan aspek kohesi leksikal melingkupi seluruh wacana editorial ini.
Penggunaan aspek kohesi yang terbanyak adalah aspek pengacuan persona
(16.01%) khususnya kata ganti orang III tunggal it dan kata ganti terikat (11.65%)
yang paling sering digunakan adalah their. It berfungsi sebagai pengganti nomina
atau frasa nomina. Pengacuan demonstratif muncul 13.59% dan didominasi oleh
this. Dalam hal ini, this lebih banyak berfungsi sebagai penjelas. Pengacuan
komparatif (6.79%) selalu muncul dalam setiap editorial dalam wujud yang
berbeda-beda tetapi menunjukkan adanya suatu perbandingan. Substitusi (1.94 %)
jarang digunakan tetapi ellipsis (8,25%) selalu digunakan. Konjungsi sebesar
(16.50%). Hasil ini membuktikan bahwa wacana editorial The Jakarta Post adalah
padu. Kohesi leksikal dalam editorial ini wujud satuan lingualnya tidak dapat
ditentukan tetapi satuan-satuan lingual itu bergantung kepada lingkup topik yang
sedang dibicarakan. Reiterasi (16.99%) adalah kohesi leksikal yang paling banyak
ditemukan sedangkan hiponimi (1.94%), kata umum (1.94%), dan kolokasi
(4.37%) juga ditemukan walaupun tidak banyak digunakan
Review of Mayer, R.; Knothe, F.; Shuo, H. (2022) Reflected beauty: Chinese reverse glass paintings from the Mei Lin Collection
No full textIn this well-documented, bilingual, and richly illustrated catalogue, published for the long-anticipated exhibition Reflected Beauty: Chinese Reverse Glass Paintings from the Mei Lin Collection at the University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong (September 2021-January 2022), the authors give us a profound insight into the phenomenon of reverse painting on glass and mirror paintings, with a particular focus on those from the Mei Lin Collection assembled by the Sinologist, author, and translator Rupprecht Mayer and his wife Haitang Mayer-Liem. Composed of over one hundred works acquired in East Asia between 1968 and 2012, this is one of the world's most important collections of Chinese reverse glass paintings from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Modern and Contemporary Studie
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