12,065 research outputs found
Popular Music in Taiwan: Language, Social Class and National Identity
No full textThis project explores how longstanding conflicts in Taiwanese society have been reflected in the development of popular song in Taiwan in the period of martial law from the late 1940s to the late 1980s, and in the light of the periods of colonisation experienced by the country (i.e. Japanese colonial rule from 1895-1945, and the rule of the Chinese Nationalists from 1945-1987). The research methodology employed is sociological as well as historical and ethnomusicological in orientation.
It is argued that popular song offers a significant focus for two main reasons: (i) it is a shared medium through which ordinary people interpret and make sense of their everyday life experiences; and (ii) it provides a rich resource in terms of the diversity of linguistic usage in the two main language groups in which popular song is produced in Taiwan – Mandarin Chinese and Minnan-Taiwanese, each of which has come to represent conflicting attitudes to social class and national identity. Genres of popular song like the ‘patriotic popular song’, the ‘campus song’, the love song, ‘dialogue’ songs, and songs of migration and separation are examined and interpreted in relation to the larger historical and political context of this period.
The dissertation is organised into two parts. Part I (Chapters One to Three) focuses on how the Chinese Nationalist government propagated a particular version of Chinese cultural hegemony through cultural policies, control of the mass media and the education system, and support for the notion of ‘patriotic popular song’. Part II (Chapters Four and Five) explores the post-war period by examining Taiwanese-language popular song and its musical structures and lyric narratives, together with the starkly contrasting world-view that emerges from these songs.
Through an examination of popular songs and their lyrics in the period of martial law it is shown how the split in Taiwanese society is represented in the songs of these years of change – the move from the countryside to the cities, the role of work, the differing social status of immigrant Chinese and indigenous Taiwanese, and the status of women. What emerges from this study is an awareness that the conflict is not only that between the immigrant Chinese and the indigenous Taiwanese communities, but also the conflict of identity within the Taiwanese Minnan-speaking community itself
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
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
Song Chunfang lun ju er ji.
No full text宋春舫著譯.附: 漢譯歐美劇單行本目錄.Song Chunfang zhu yi.Fu: Han yi Ou Mei ju dan xing ben mu lu
The Song of Songs in late Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline poetry
No full textThis thesis is about reading. Working on the understanding that all texts read other texts, it aims to uncover something of how English poets from 1590-1650 read the Song of Songs, by analyzing when and how they use it in their poetry. By looking at poetic readings, rather than theological ones, it also explores the connections and distinctions between reading literature and reading Scripture. As both Scripture and lyric love poetry, the Song of Songs has participated in theological and literary discourse over a long period. The Introduction gives background on both kinds of reading, and how they have been applied to the Song of Songs. It also sets out the structure of the thesis. Chapter 2 surveys theological writing about the Song of Songs produced during the period. The material includes sermons, commentaries, household advice books, hymns and translations, including poetic translations. There is a stable core of interpretation, which reads the Song as primarily about the relationship between Christ and the Church, or the individual soul, or both. Within this stable core, however, there is a wide variety of interpretations. Chapters 3-5 are themed, and look at how poets handle the three topics of the feminine voice, beauty and desire when they read the Song of Songs. The first poet considered in each chapter is Aemilia Lanyer, who provides a plumb-line for the exposition. As a poet seeking elite patronage, Lanyer is typical of her age in many important respects; but she also challenges expectations about poets of the period. The other poets considered are Shakespeare, Southwell, Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Spenser, Donne and Crashaw. The Conclusion considers what light these poetic readings shed on the relationship between Scripture and literature
A musical analysis of Michael Head's song cycle, Over the Rim of the Moon
No full textAccess to thesis permanently restricted to Ball State community only.The song cycle of Over the Rim of the Moon presented in this study comprises works
performed in the master’s recital of the author on November 14, 2020. The study explores the
composer’s early life and style of writing in the four pieces of the song cycle “The Ships of
Arcady,” “Beloved,” “A Blackbird Singing,” and “Nocturne” and seeks to define the influences
on Michael Head’s compositional style and specifically his early works. The study also gives a
detailed musical analysis on “The Ships of Arcady,” “Beloved,” “A Blackbird Singing,” and
“Nocturne” from Michael Head’s Over the Rim of the Moon song cycle.Thesis (M.M.
On and Around Yan Song 嚴嵩 and His Son : Wang Shi-zhen 王世貞, Jin ping mei, etc.
No full textYan Song (1480-1567), the powerful prime minister of the Jiaqing 嘉靖 (1522-1566), has been portrayed as a villain in various historical and literary works ever since his downfall in 1562. It was Wang Shi-zhen (1529-1593), whose father's death was caused by Yan in a power struggle in the court, who contributed greatly to the creation of this negative portrait. Ming feng ji, a popular play criticizing Yan Song published shortly after his fall, was commonly attributed to Wang Shi-zhen. Starting in early Qing 清, Wang was also considered to be the author of Jin ping mei which according to some contemporary critics, was an expose of Yan's faction. Thus, in people's minds, satires of Yan Song were associated with Wang Shi-zhen. Moreover, although we cannot be certain about the authorship of Jin ping mei, we know that early manuscripts of the novel circulated among Wang Shi-zhen's friends. It seems almost certain that Wang had some connection with the novel
Song wen xuan
No full textShang ce wei bei song bu fen ; xia ce wei nan song bu fen. mei pian wen zhang you zuo zhe jian jie ji ti jie he zhu sh
Rhyncaphytoptus fargesis Xue, Song & Hong 2006
No full textRhyncaphytoptus fargesis Xue, Song & Hong, 2006 Rhyncaphytoptus fargesis Xue, Song & Hong, 2006b: 5–7. Type material. 10 females and 2 males (slide number NJAUAcariEri226), from Abies fargesii Franch (Pinaceae), Taibai Mountain, Mei County, Shaanxi Province, P. R. China, 34°01'51' N, 107°48'36' E, elevation 2810m, 1 September 2004, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue & Zi-Wei Song. New material. 9 females (slide number NJAUAcariEri460), from Abies fargesii Franch (Pinaceae), Guan' egou, Dangchang County, Gansu Province, P. R. China, 33°57'39' N, 104°19'45' E, elevation 2083m, 11 September 2005, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue & Zi-Wei Song. Host. Abies fargesii Franch (Pinaceae). Relation to host. Vagrant. Distribution. China (Gansu, Shaanxi).Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng, Han, Xiao, Song, Zi-Wei & Hong, Xiao-Yue, 2012, Eriophyoid mite fauna of Shaanxi Province, China, with descriptions of five new species (Acari: Eriophyoidea) 3292, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 3292 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3292.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/525012
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