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Linking Ancient and Contemporary. Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Literature
Full text linkLinking Ancient and Contemporary: Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Literature is a collection of essays which stems from a project of cooperation between the Department of Asian and African Studies of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Peking University.\ud
The first conference was held in Venice on 21-22 March 2013, the second will be held in Peking University on 14-16 October 2016. The volume reflects the desire to compare and integrate different approaches to Chinese literature, showing how, in different epochs, traditional intellectual and literary values have been repeatedly criticized and rejected, yet have often resurfaced\ud
in many different ways and have been reinterpreted
The Evolution of Metaphorical Language in Contemporary Chinese Political Discourse. Preliminary Evidence from the 12th and 18th CPC Congresses
Full text linkThe tools provided by corpus linguistics and textometric analysis, applied to a number of o icial speeches delivered by the leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC) during its Congress, provide useful insight into the evolution of the linguistic material and discursive strategies used in o icial communication, especially when focusing on the period between the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and the present day. In the post-Mao era, the progressive construction of a new political, socio-economic, and cultural context, along with the renegotiation or obsolescence of certain concepts and models, inevitably yields its specific vocabulary and rhetorical patterns, which can be detected both quantitatively and qualitatively. One of the most interesting levels of analysis in contemporary Chinese political discourse is the use of figurative language: by resorting to a prelimi- nary textometric analysis conducted on the reports delivered at the 1982 and 2012 CPC Congresses, the main figurative devices observable in Chinese political discourse will be located and commented upon, investigating their diachronic transformation and significance in a changing context
Ancestral Sites and Lineages of the Later Tang (923-936) and the Later Jin (936-947) Dynasties According to the Song Sources
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The Making of the Shatuo: Military Leadership and Border Unrest in North China’s Daibei (808–880)
No full textIn the early ninth century, a composite military group mostly of Turkic extraction collectively known as the Shatuo moved from the northwestern borderlands to the central provinces of the empire. Shatuo soldiers were recruited in the mobile army under the command of a provincial military governor, and their families and civil settlements were registered as settlers in the borderlands. The Shatuo settled first in Yanzhou and then in Daibei in the mobile garrisons under the command of the Hedong provincial governor. The recruitment of the Shatuo as garrison soldiers was part of the reorganization of the frontier defense undertaken by Dezong (780–805) in Ling-Yan and the subsequent military reforms undertaken by Xianzong (806–820) in 819. For most of the ninth century, Shatuo retainers served under subordinate command, and the provincial governors were able to exert a certain control over them and exploit them as a mobile force. Once Zhuxie Chixin (d. 887) reached the highest provincial position of military governor, however, the power balance between the imperial court and the Shatuo changed to favor the latter. The court lost control over the northern garrisons after a military mutiny in Daibei that led to the slaughter of several officials. In the early 880s, Zhuxie Chixin (now Li Guochang) and his son Li Keyong (856–907) consolidated their power over Daibei, clearing the way for the Shatuo to become the dynastic founders of the tenth-century northern regimes.
This paper explores the stages of the Shatuo’s growth in the late Tang period from retainers to an enlarged military force. It shows how the Zhuxie-Li were able to take advantage of the relative mobility that characterized the Tang military ranks, quickly progressing through the ranks of the army and taking over civilian positions as well. The Shatuo also benefited greatly from the general shortage in manpower in the aftermath of the Uighur refugee crisis and the various mutinies that took place in the Hedong provincial armies during this period. Moreover, this paper shows how the term “Shatuo” was used both in reference to a specific military formation, the Daibei mobile encampment, and to the troops who were more closely affiliated to the Zhuxie-Li clan and rebelled against the Tang court. In both senses, different ethnic elements are to be found under the catch-all term “Shatuo.” This paper shows how ethnicity played little to no role in the internal dynamics of military affiliation. Belonging to the Shatuo was more of a military, political, and constitutional matter. Biological and cultural ties among the Shatuo may have been emphasized and created in later periods as a means of expressing political loyalty. This paper endeavors to explore some aspects of this constitutive process
Representations of Descent: Origin and Migration Stories of the Ninth- and Tenth- Century Turkic Shatuo
No full textModern scholarship has explored aspects of the origin stories of the Shatuo. The latter were the military elite of Turkic extraction who dominated northern China in the second half of the ninth century and built the foundation of four of the northern regimes of the first half of the tenth. This article compares three specific origin stories that differ significantly: 1. the entombed epitaph of Li Keyong (856–907); 2. the Jiu Wudai shi’s chapter “Wuhuang ji” (“Basic Annals of the Martial Emperor [Li Keyong]”); and 3. the “Shatuo liezhuan” (“Shatuo Memoir”), namely, chapter 218 of Xin Tang shu. The primary argument here is that each of these narratives has uniquely reassessed Li Keyong’s historical role and political legitimacy. Moreover, the article questions the narrative of the alleged southeastward migration of the Shatuo– Zhuxie from territories northwest of Beiting to Hedong during the second half of the eighth century and early-ninth century, arguing that this narrative was enhanced in the “Shatuo liezhuan” as a means to create an image of the Shatuo as “subjugated barbarians.
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