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Essay: TAN Ping Copper Engravings: Order and Contingency 谭平铜版画：时序和偶然
Get PDFThis printed essay on TAN Ping is scripted in Chinese. Highlighter marks have been applied to emphasize. At the conclusion of the essay, a brief introduction of the artist is featured. The article was published in journal 美术研究 in 1994 (issue 3). (Jerry Wu\u2723).https://digital.kenyon.edu/zhoudocs/1262/thumbnail.jp
Essay: Decompose, Synthesize, and Reintegrate -- Interpreting TAN Ping\u27s Art 分解，凝聚，重构 - 解读谭平的艺术
Get PDFThis essay on TAN Ping is scripted in Chinese. A few images of his works, with captions in Chinese, are also included. This essay was published in JiangSu Art Journal 江苏画刊 in 1994. (Jerry Wu\u2723).https://digital.kenyon.edu/zhoudocs/1261/thumbnail.jp
Performing Local Identity in a Contemporary Urban Society: A Study of Ping-tan Narrative Vocal Tradition in Suzhou, China
Get PDFChina has many rich traditions of storytelling and story singing, which are deeply rooted oral traditions in their particular geographical areas, carrying the linguistic and cultural flavours of their localities. In Suzhou, the central city of the Yangtze Delta’s Wu area, the storytelling genre pinghua and the story singing genre tanci have become emblematic of regional identity. Since the 1950s, the two genres have been referred to under the hybrid generic name ‘Suzhou ping-tan’ after the city, or simply ping-tan in abbreviation.
Nowadays typically comprising extended narratives performed over the course of half a month, ping-tan has maintained popularity up to the present day. Each afternoon, people go to the unique performance venue of the shuchang (‘story house’), which combines teahouse, performance venue and social centre, to enjoy solo or duet performances given by shuoshu xiansheng (‘storytellers’). The sung episodes are set to an accompaniment of sanxian banjo and – in duet performance – also pipa lute. In the context of face-to-face communication, establishing an empathetic bridge between storyteller and audience is of paramount importance, necessitating storytellers to polish and tailor their artistry efficiently in response to audience feedback. Following the development of radio broadcasting since the 1920s and television since the 1980s, ping-tan has also been widely delivered directly into people’s homes. Listening to and watching ping-tan has become a part of many local people’s daily habits.
This thesis seeks to explain how Suzhou ping-tan has maintained its vitality in contemporary society. Various oral performance traditions have declined with the range of alternative types of entertainment that have bloomed in recent times, yet a great many Suzhou citizens still take for granted that ping-tan represents their local cultural identity. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted since 2011, this thesis explores the interconnectedness between the storyteller and audiences during and outside of performance. It analyses performer/audience ‘feed-back loop’ communication within a variety of fields of ping-tan activity, focusing in particular on the following areas: the role-playing and identity presentation of storytellers and audience members, the different types of ping-tan follower and their respective forms of involvement, the use of gesture in performance to communicate further layers of meaning, the nature of the mutually complementary relationship between words and music in ballad singing, and the effects of television and radio dissemination on ping-tan culture. This thesis identifies ‘feed-back loop’ interplay as being a key factor in ping-tan’s success, facilitating the multi-faceted involvement of all participants within a flexible and unpredictable shared experience
The politics of fashion: perceptions of power in female clothing and ornamentation as reflected in the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei
Get PDFThis 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
Nur Harizah dan Chew Yee Ping terima Anugerah Emas Universiti
Get PDFGAMBANG, 5 November 2022 – Dua orang graduan Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), Nur Harizah Mohd Nadzmi, 23 dan Chew Yee Ping, 21 menerima Anugerah Emas Universiti daripada Pro-Canselor, Tan Sri Dato’ Sri (Dr.) Abi Musa Asa’ari Mohemed Nor pada Majlis Konvokesyen UMP Ke-17 yang diadakan di Dewan Kompleks Sukan UMP Kampus Gambang
Sustainable Livelihood Strategies of Riverine Communities at Sadong Jaya, Sarawak
Get PDFThis study uses the sustainable livelihood approach to examine the livelihood assets and livelihood strategies adopted by the riverine communities at Sadong Jaya, Sarawak as well as the vulnerabilities faced by them. A mixed method approach was adopted in this study. Data was collected from focus group discussions, observations, and face-to-face interviews with 243 households in which the samples were drawn from three clusters (upper estuarine, middle estuarine and lower estuarine) in Sadong Jaya using a multi-stage sampling method. The study found that, due to the dynamic nature of the local environment with its unique geographical location prone to flash flood and monsoon flood besides environment degradation and poor socio-economic conditions, the community is susceptible to a high level of vulnerability. Local people perceived their livelihood vulnerability as the result of poor access to natural resources and limited natural resources to market and basic social amenities such as facing insufficient treated water supply for both household daily consumption besides lacking water for agriculture. The middle estuarine communities are found to be more vulnerable than the upper and lower estuarine communities at Sadong Jaya with the vulnerability index at 0.414 as compared to vulnerability index of 0.394 and 0.410 in upper and lower estuarine respectively. The riverine communities at Sadong Jaya utilize diversified livelihood strategies by optimizing the use of capital assets available to sustain their livelihoods. Communities who are better equipped with an enhanced and diversified assets base are more resilient. Overall, social asset is found to be the most equipped asset in Sadong Jaya while financial asset is the least equipped asset followed by human asset. The study found that infrastructures such as roads and bridges, water supply facilities, drainage systems, watergates and education facilities enable the riverine communities to intensify and diversify economic activities, widen job opportunities, and market opportunities. As accessibility to education and training facilities is made available to the locals through better connectivity facilitated by various physical infrastructure, more riverine communities are involved in non-agricultural economic activities and out-migration to cities and abroad is common in the study area. The regression scores showed that riverine communities in Sadong Jaya are most likely to adopt non-agricultural livelihood activities given that they have higher education and skills level, more purchasing power to own farm tools, better health, better ability to secure financial facilities and sustain disaster conflict and possess more diversification capabilities
Significant Revision Identification between Revised Texts in a Multi-Author Environment
Get PDF© 2019 Ping Ping TanDespite advancement in collaborative writing tools, the track changes capability remains limited to highlighting syntactic changes, with authors still required to manually read through each of the revisions. We envision a collaborative authoring system where an author could accept all minor edits first and then focus on the substantial changes. The primary goal of this thesis is to develop a computational framework for significant revision identification where paraphrase approaches cannot fully support such identification. An existing taxonomy of revision analysis categorises revisions to surface (i.e. no meaning) and text-base (i.e. meaning) changes, with further categorisation of surface change to formal changes and meaning preserving changes, while textbase change is sub-divided to micro-structure and macro-structure changes. However, the taxonomy lacks details for computational modelling. Through examination of the works in the domain of psycho-linguistics, introspective analysis and feedback from both authors and non-authors on what constitute significant revisions, a conceptual framework for significant revision identification is proposed. An inter-rater agreement of alpha Krippendorff = 0.745 was obtained for the annotation between the authors and non-authors. The core concept of our proposed approach is bi-directional textual entailment assessment. We demonstrated that this concept is computationally feasible by relying on existing textual entailment systems. Our proposed approach is more accurate (micro-averaged F1 = 0.541) compared to several baseline approaches based on edit distance, which are similar to the current track changes capability built in most of the word processors. Computationally identifying significant revisions between two versions of a text document has the potential to improve the revision process in a multi-author environment when multiple revisions are done by different authors
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No full textThe Poetry of Ping-Pong
No full textIn this chapter, the author looks at the poetry of Ping-Pong, his favorite sport. According to Marty Reisman, the game of Ping-Pong died in Bombay, India, in 1952. Reisman, nicknamed “The Needle,” was favored to win the World Table Tennis Championship that day. The author says he has always loved Ping-Pong because you can get into a rhythm, hit the ball back and forth across the net for hours, with any racquet, and simply talk. Ping-Pong, like poetry, is a players' sport, not ideal for spectators. Bob Mankoff, the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, claims that there is palpable humor in the game. With Ping-Pong, the author insists that we are all capable of attuning ourselves to the hidden life of sports, a relationship that is about kinesthesia and embodiment.</p
Cheng Yaojin mai chai pa
No full text上海人民評彈團 ; 吳乃安演說.Possibly reproduced from other commercial recording or radio broadcast (Pending for review)"最后几句結尾在2卷开头处"--Memo.Electronic reproduction from Rulan Chao Pian Audio Cassette Collection.Performers: 吳乃安, 上海人民評彈團.Spoken in Chinese ; a memo (1 page) in Chinese.Shanghai ren min ping tan tuan ; Wu Nai'an yan shuo."Zui hou ji ju jie wei zai 2 juan kai tou chu"--Memo.Performers: Wu Nai'an, Shanghai ren min ping tan tuan
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