523 research outputs found
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
Attention and Sensory Characteristics in Children With High-Functioning Autism and Sensory Processing Disorder
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/30/2017
Children with sensory processing disorder and high-functioning autism have different attention and sensory processing characteristics. These results can help therapists identify specific treatment strategies while working on attention and sensory processing skills with these children.
Primary Author and Speaker: Mei-Heng Lin
Additional Authors and Speakers: Jewel Mascarenhas, Patricia L. Davies
Contributing Authors: Emily Marshall, Blythe LaGasse, William J. Gavin</jats:p
A Chinese mind-body exercise improves self-control of children with autism : a randomized controlled trial
No full textAuthor name used in this publication: Mei-chun CheungVersion of RecordPublishedC
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
Dejian mind-body intervention improves the functioning of a patient with chronic epilepsy : a case report
No full textAuthor name used in this publication: Mei-chun Cheung2009-2010 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalVersion of RecordPublishedC
Pathophysiological significance of a reaction in mouse gastrointestinal tract associated with delayed-type hypersensitivity
No full textAIM: To explore the pathophysiological significance of delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) reaction in mouse gastrointestinal tract induced by allergen 2,4-dinitrochlorbenzene(DNCB). METHODS: BALB/c mice were randomly divided into control and DTH1-6 groups. After sensitized by DNCB smeared on the abdominal skin, the mice were challenged with DNCB by gavage or enema. The weight, stool viscosity and hematochezia were observed and accumulated as disease active index (DAI) score; the gastrointestinal motility was represented by active charcoal propulsion rate; the colon pathological score was achieved by macropathology and HE staining of section prepared for microscopy; and the leukocyte migration inhibitory factor (LMIF) activity was determined by indirect capillary assay of the absorbance (A) of migrated leukocytes. RESULTS: Active charcoal propulsion rates of small intestine in the DNCB gavages groups were significantly higher than that in the control group (p < 0.01). The DAI scores and pathological score in DNCB enema groups were also higher than that in the control group (p < 0.05), and there were significant rises in LMIF activity in DNCB enema groups as compared with control groups (p < 0.01). CONCLUSION: Mouse gastrointestinal DTH reaction could be induced by DNCB, which might facilitate the mechanism underlying the ulcerative colitis. Yu WG, Lin P, Pan H, xiao L, Gong EC, Mei L. Pathophysiological significance of a reaction in mouse gastrointestinal tract associated with delayed-type hypersensitivity. World J Gastroenterol 2004; 10(15): 2254-2258 http://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/10/2254.aspGastroenterology & HepatologySCI(E)0ARTICLE152254-22581
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