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Wang Shuo and the commercialisation of contemporary Chinese culture
No full textThis thesis examines the commercialisation of Chinese culture that has taken place over the past twenty years in mainland China. It explores the contribution of Wang Shuo, a cultural figure who straddles different fields of culture, moving from literature to the ultimate mass culture medium of television, this study plots Wang Shuo' s development from educational failure, to business failure, to fiction writer, film & TV editor, film director and cultural critic and analyst. His stories, films, TV series and articles have caused shock-waves throughout national cultural circles as he has transformed the terms of the debate from academic discourse to a validation of the role of the market in the culture field. Although Wang Shuo has not been labelled as a dissident, his approach to the culture market has had a more subversive effect on official ideology that those overt dissidents who have had to live in exile or have been imprisoned. He has utilised the language of official ideology to satirise the authorities, turning the ideology and its supporters into figures of fun. Yet his own goals have been strictly personal and economic ones. The authorities recognize the value of Wang Shuo's work in the cultural market but at the same time distrust his works and place him under strict censorship. Examining the way Wang Shuo and people surround him have succeeded in different fields of cultural achievement is a mirror to understanding the process of the transformation of contemporary Chinese culture from a socialist state-controlled culture to a market-oriented mass culture industry
Yan shuo /
No full textFen yen shuo hsüeh, yen shuo fa, yen shuo chia, yen shuo wen 4 pu fen. Yung wen yen tʻi hsieh chʻeng.Fen yen shuo hsüeh, yen shuo fa, yen shuo chia, yen shuo wen 4 pu fen. Yung wen yen tʻi hsieh chʻeng.Mode of access: Internet
From Dong-fang Shuo to Sun Wu-kong
No full textThis is a famous episode in the Xi-you-ji 西遊記 that Sun Wu-kong steals peaches from the Queen of the West 西王母, and as you know, originally the thief was Dong-fang Shuo who served under the Emperor Wu 武帝 of the Han 漢 dynasty in history. Taoists said that Dong-fang Shuo is exiled to the earth by the Queen of the West, and that he introduces the Emperor Wu, who wants to be immortal, to a lot of things about the west. The character of Dong-fang Shuo arranged by Taoists reminds us of Hou Xing-zhe 猴行者, the antecedent of Sun Wu-kong, in the Da-Tang San-zang qu-jing shi-hua 大唐三藏取經詩話. Hou Xing-zhe steals peaches from the Queen of the West and is banished from heaven, subsequently he guides Tripitaka Xuan-zang 玄奘三藏 to the west for the purpose of obtaining Buddhist scriptures. The author points out that Buddhists adapted the Taoist character of Dong-fang Shuo as a guide to Hou xing-zhe when they described the pilgrimage and ascentation of Tripikata Xuan-zang. Before giving this view, the author discusses Ju-ling 巨靈, who fights with Sun Wu-kong as a general in the Xi-you-ji. Ju-ling was depicted by Taoists as a dwarf who is a messenger of the Queen of the West and is exposed by Dong-fang Shuo. Going back to the Han dynasty, Ju-ling had two types of the original form, one was the God of canal works, and the other was a turtle which bears a holy mountain on its back. Moreover Ju-ling is now male, now female. The author pays attention to these multiple images of Ju-ling, and explore the origin of the so-called trapped monkey. Then in view of the "goddess and traveler" motif he analyzes the relationship between Dong-fang Shuo and the Queen of the West, as well as Sun Wu-kong and the Goddess of Mercy 觀音菩薩. This analysis shows us the evolution of Sun Wu-kong and the Goddess of Mercy from Dong-fang Shuo and the Queen of the West, which took place against the background of the race for power between Buddhists and Taoisits
Lithopolia tadaokanoi Wu & Yen 2019, sp. nov.
No full textLithopolia tadaokanoi sp. nov. (Figs 7–8, 16, 22) Type material. Holotype, 6, TAIWAN, Miaoli County, Guanwu, 2000 m, 27-II-2011, leg. S. Wu & W. C. Chang, no. TFRI141983, preserved in TFRI; paratypes, 1 6, same collecting data as holotype, slide TFRI00142017 (TFRI); 1 6, same collecting data, slide TFRI141979 (TFRI); 1 ♀, Nantou County, Ray-yen, 2220 m, 14-II-2012, leg. S. Wu & W. C. Chang, slide TFRI00138501 (TFRI). Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from L. phahompoki by the zone between forewing orbicular and reniform stigma suffused with brownish scales rather than pale yellow; the dorsal part of abdomen pale yellow rather than brown; the longer and thinner cucullus and the shorter, finer cuneiform process; the less curved aedeagus; the thinner, more tubular proximal part of vesica; the less developed dentate patches of vesica with tubular extension bending dorsal-anteriorly rather than anteriorly when fully everted; the ductus bursae isometric in width rather than constricted medially; the less wrinkled cervix bursae. Description. Adult (Figs 7–8). Forewing length 12 mm in males (n= 3); 13 mm in females (n= 1). Head—2 nd labial palpal segment fringed with dense scales extending anteriorly, 3 rd segment porrect; frons rounded anteriorly; male antennal flagellomeres serrate with long, fasciculate cilia, female antenna filiform. Thorax—Clothed with brown scales on three segments and dorsal part of tegulae, that of outer lateral side pale yellow. Forewing pale yellow, apex slightly projected; orbicular stigma rounded with brownish margin, reniform stigma narrowly bean-shaped with proximal side marked with brownish scales, zone between orbicular and reniform stigma suffused with brownish scales; postmedial line disconnected, appearing as brown, short, transverse streaks on each vein; marginal line undistinguished, with brownish triangular stigma between M1 and M3; region between 1+2A and tornus brownish, extending toward Cu2 at approximately 1/3 and 3/4 parts of base, respectively. Hindwing ground colour brown, distal part darker than proximal, that of female slightly lighter than in male, discal spot dark brown. Pregenital abdomen—ochreous with long scales arising from lateral sides, brownish crest present on 1st tergite; basal trifine abdominal coremata (the brush organ) absent. Male genitalia (Figs 16)—Uncus of moderate length, apex flattened dorso-ventrally and spoon-like, arising with hair-scales. Tegumen short and wide, penicular lobes very broad, covered by long hairs; scaphium and subscaphium membranous. Transtillae heavily sclerotized; juxta shield-like with medial part slightly sclerotized and distal part incised proximally. Vinculum medium long, strongly sclerotized; U-shaped, saccus small. Valva slender, apex elongate, tapered apically; harpe triangular, sclerotized; ampulla strongly sclerotized, digitiform; sacculus elongate, strong. Aedeagus medium-long, cylindrical, straight, proximal end slightly sclerotized; vesica T- shaped, three sclerotized dentate plates arising from medial section and a thorn-like cornutus arising from apex of extended diverticulum; tubular extension bending dorsal-anteriorly when fully everted. Female genitalia (Fig. 22)—Ovipositor uniformly wide, apophyses long and thin. Ostium strongly sclerotized, ventral edge straight. Ductus bursae as long as ovipositor and as wide and heavily sclerotized as ostium. Cervix bursae broader and slightly wrinkled. Corpus bursae rounded, without signum. Distribution and bionomics. This species was taken in mid-elevation (2000–2200m) of northern to central mountain regions in Taiwan, the vegetation of the two collecting localities are primary broad-leaved forests. The adults only found in February. Etymology. Named after the late Tadao Kano (1906–1945?), one of the famous explorers and pioneering scientists studying on Taiwan natural history.Published as part of Wu, Shipher & Yen, Shen-Horn, 2019, Evaluating the generic definition of Lithopolia Yoshimoto, 1993 with a description of one new species of Taiwan (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Orthosiini), pp. 425-432 in Zootaxa 4555 (3) on pages 427-431, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4555.3.11, http://zenodo.org/record/262441
Martial arts fiction : translational migrations east and west
No full textThis thesis was motivated by Robert Chard's puzzlement over the translational
phenomenon of martial arts fiction in the West. It proposes to address how the
translational migration of martial arts fiction took place, first to other Asian countries in the
1920's, but to the West only after a lapse of a few decades beginning in the early 1990's.
Adopting a descriptive approach as described by Gideon Toury, the thesis is intended to
add further to the limited inventory of case studies in urgent demand to test the polysystem
theory propounded by Even-Zohar.
The thesis is made up of two parts. Part I is a macro-level study of martial arts fiction,
intended to contribute to testing the limits of the polysystem theory. After examining
Chinese fiction as a low form in the Chinese literary polysystem and its weak function as
translated literature in the Western literary polysystem, the study explores the translational
phenomenon of martial arts fiction in the West as well as the concurrent phenomenon as to
why so little of martial arts fiction has been translated into Western languages, compared to
the copious amount into other Asian languages, to the extent of stimulating a new literary
genre or (re)writing martial arts fiction in indigenous languages in Indonesia, Vietnam and
Korea, sinicized countries or countries boasting large overseas Chinese communities.
Issues and problems related to these translational activities and cultural phenomena are
presented as tools to test the limits of the polysystem theory.
Part II is a micro-level study focussing on the specifics of rendering Fox Volant of the
Snowy Mountain by Jin Yong into English. I will argue, in the main, that many difficulties,
inherent in both the translating and reading processes, can be constructed within the
theoretical framework of Andre Lefevere's concept of "constraint", particularly that of the
universe of discourse. Lefevere's connotation of the universe of discourse will be expanded
to embrace different cultural presuppositions and literary assumptions underlying two
divergent world cultures, hence different reader expectations in the reading process.
It is hoped that the findings and results of this descriptive case history of martial arts fiction
as a literary genre in translational migrations will contribute to the accumulation of
knowledge
婦嬰新說 = Fu ying xin shuo [v.4]
No full textOn double leaves, oriental style西醫五種包括 : 全體新論, 博物新編, 西醫略論, 婦嬰新說, 內科新說 = Xi yi wu zhong bao kuo : Quan ti xin lun, Bo wu xin bian, Xi yi lue lun, Fu ying xin shuo, Nei ke xin shuoCaption titleThomas Chong Collection. Gift of Dr Dorothy Chong and family, 199
博物新編 = Bo wu xin bian
No full textOn double leaves, oriental style西醫五種包括 : 全體新論, 博物新編, 西醫略論, 婦嬰新說, 內科新說 = Xi yi wu zhong bao kuo : Quan ti xin lun, Bo wu xin bian, Xi yi lue lun, Fu ying xin shuo, Nei ke xin shuoThomas Chong Collection. Gift of Dr Dorothy Chong and family, 199
博物新編 = Bo wu xin bian
No full textOn double leaves, oriental style西醫五種包括 : 全體新論, 博物新編, 西醫略論, 婦嬰新說, 內科新說 = Xi yi wu zhong bao kuo : Quan ti xin lun, Bo wu xin bian, Xi yi lue lun, Fu ying xin shuo, Nei ke xin shuoThomas Chong Collection. Gift of Dr Dorothy Chong and family, 199
Numerical Study on the Behaviors of Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances of Au Nanoparticles
No full text本論文中，我們利用數值模擬計算金奈米柱、金奈米環、金奈米
球殼在其侷域表面電漿子共振模態時的散射、吸收截面積以及單位體
積散射、吸收截面積。其中，金奈米柱、金奈米環、金奈米球殼的模
擬結構及尺寸皆著重在現今製程容許度以及合理之波段範圍。數值結
果顯示金奈米柱的吸收截面積及散射截面積小於金奈米環及金奈米球
殼。而在單位體積散射、吸收截面積的計算中，金奈米柱則為三者中
最高，金奈米環次之，金奈米球殼則為最低者。
我們另外計算了金奈米顆粒在溶液或組織中的隨機指向分布狀態
所產生的效應，可以發現在隨機指向分布時的金奈米顆粒的侷域表面
電漿子共振強度會依其模態所對應的軸向幾何對稱性而有所衰減，另
外，藉由改變金奈米環的高度，我們有效設計一個金奈米環，使其在
隨機指向分布的狀態下，其散射、吸收截面積衰減的效應能有效的減
小。In this thesis, the numerical results of overall absorption and
scattering cross sections and cross sections per metal volume of Au nanorod
(NRO), nanoring (NRI), and nanoshell (NS), based on the commonly used
localized surface plasmon (LSP) resonance modes, with various sizes and
aspect ratios (ARs) in the reasonable ranges, which are determined by the
practical fabrication capability and application wavelength ranges, are
compared. The results show that the overall absorption and scattering cross
sections of NRO are generally smaller than those of NRI and NS. However,
in terms of cross section per Au volume, those of NRO are the highest
among the three types of Au nanoparticle (NP), followed by NRI and then
NS. We also evaluate the effects of NP random orientation distribution in a
solution or tissue in practical applications. It is found that with random
orientation, the reduction range of extinction cross section depended on the
geometry symmetry property of the electron oscillation axis in the
concerned LSP resonance mode. Then, we designed an Au NRI to make the
resonance wavelengths of its symmetric dipole mode and axial dipole mode
the same by increasing the ring height. In such an Au NRI of a large ring height, the reduction ranges of scattering and absorption cross sections were
significantly decreased
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