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Recapitulation and Transformation： The Traumatic
Experience of “Tonggu Qige” and its Pastiches
In the fall of the second year of
Qianyuan乾元 in the Tang, Du Fu杜甫 （712-770）quitted
from his office, and moved to Qinzhou and Tonggu. He
then arrived in Chengdu by the end of the year. His
residence in Tonggu was short, but his poem “Tonggu
Qige” 同谷七歌（Seven Songs of Tonggu）, which shows
his traumatic experience in the world of ethics, has
attracted attention from different generations of
readers. In addition to the comments on Du’s work, his
readers imitated “Tonggu Qige” as a type of writing in
"" similar recapitulation."" This article first explores
the traumatic experience of Du Fu’s “Tonggu Qige” in
its special shaped configuration. Then the author
divides those imitated works into three major series:
loyalist writing, mourning writing, and politics
writing, in order to observe how those works not only
were assimilated to Du Fu’s as the similar
recapitulation, but also created something new. Finally,
the author conducts a comprehensive summary. By this
article, we can find that the formation of literary
paradigm is a process of being repeatedly reinterpreted
and reconstructed.
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Tsao,Shu-chuan
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A Study on Xue Bao-qin’s “Ten Poems of Meditation on
the Past” in The Dream of the Red Chamber
The article analyzes Xue Bao-qin’s “Ten
Poems of Meditation on the Past,” the collection of poems
(henceforth Ten Poems) that is the single
meditation-on-the-past poem (懷古詩) in The Dream of the
Red Chamber and also the longest among all
collections-of-poems (組詩) at the time. Traditional
commentaries on the Ten Poems adopt an allegorical
approach, with typical intention of puzzle-style
interpretations. By contrast, this article analyzes it
from the context of poetry and narrative per se. Relating
the Ten Poems to its literary tradition and the
sociocultural context of the Ming and early Qing era, the
article discusses interrelated issues such as the work’s
narrative patterns and forms, the characteristics and
meanings of its stylistic type, and the role it plays in
order to reevaluate its values in The Dream of the Red
Chamber. In conclusion, the article suggests that the Ten
Poems fuse three poem subgenres including huaigu, yongshi
and yongwu so as to meditate the title of the past (huaigu
qi ming), and chant the functions of objects (yongwu qi
yong) and accomplishments of the history (yongshi qi shi).
Through the ten historic sites and corresponding figures
meditated and described, the Ten Poems proposes a balance
of gender difference. This article also discusses the
significance of Xue Bao-qin as the author of the Ten
Poems.
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Ou, Li-chuan
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Strategies and Structural Conditions of "The Literary
Revolution": How New Youth Constructed the Symbolic
Struggle of Modern Literature
The “literary revolution,” as initiated
in New Youth, can be seen as the starting point of
Chinese modern literature. Taking Pierre Bourdieu as
parameter, the article concerns itself with the
structural conditions in the literary field as well as
the means of symbolic struggle adopted by the
intellectuals during the May Fourth Movement for the
purpose of promoting and constructing the “literary
revolution.” This article will take into consideration
the following four points. 1) the writers of New Youth
prompted the devaluation of sinology by re-interpreting
the literary history and granted the written vernacular
Chinese the legitimacy of knowledge. 2) New Youth became
aware of the fact that the rising new generation of
intellectuals would soon replace the old
scholar-officials. They therefore strategically asserted
the contrast between the modern and the traditional. 3)
A modern nation state needs a “national language,” so
the formation of a modern Chinese nation state serves as
the conducive background for the “literary revolution”
that adopts “written vernacular Chinese.” 4) The
writers of New Youth emphasized the importance of
independent literature and scholarship, thereby allowing
the “autonomous” institution of modern literature to
emerge. To put it simply, the May Fourth intellectuals,
on the one hand, “re-defined” themselves
strategically; on the other hand, they launched debates
in an attempt to win over public opinions, and further
re-organized the literary field while affirming the
formation of “modern literature.”
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Lin, Yun-hung
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A Preliminary Study on 惟wei Clefts in Jinwen
Shangshu
Much
has been done in identifying 惟wei (in 惟wei clefts) as a
focus marker, but much still remains to be done to
identify the structural properties of 惟wei clefts. It is
therefore our goal to attempt a formal description of
惟wei clefts, and to determine the actual scope of the
focus marker 惟wei. It is argued that 惟wei is a one-place
predicate, taking a clausal complement whose subject can
be raised to the matrix subject position, namely the slot
preceding 惟wei. With the subject raised, 惟wei precedes
the remaining predicate, so the informational focus can
fall on the predicate or the adverbial/the preposed object
inside the predicate; with the subject in situ, however,
惟wei precedes the embedded clause, so the informational
focus can fall on the whole clause or the subject/the
adverbial following 惟wei. In addition, regardless
of惟wei’s distribution, it may pertain to the assertion
of the proposition. Finally, it is further suggested that
the copula 惟wei is different from the focus-marking
惟wei.
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Kuo, Wei-ju
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The Interaction of North and South Literati and the
Rising of South Literati During the Early Song: An
Investigation on Xu Xuan and His Disciples
This article discusses a special group of people: Xu
Xuan(徐鉉) and his disciples’ official careers and their
influence on political affairs. We usually consider that
surrendering subjects in the south had been discriminated
during the early Song. Xu Xuan, having most brilliant
scholarship among the intellectuals, however, earned
respect and admiration from the nucleus among the north
literati headed by Li Fang(李昉), and therefore Xu Xuan
and his disciples, on the one hand, had more chances to
enter the court than other surrendering intellectuals. On
the other hand, after Xu Xuan’s death, his disciples, Du
Hao(杜鎬), Chen Pengnian(陳彭年), and Wang Qinruo(王欽若),
gained Emperor Zhenzong of Song’s trust. They utilized
their teacher’s political concept and successfully
convinced Zhenzong to follow the example of Xuanzong of
Tang in the era of “The Auspicious Talisman of Great
Centrality” (大中祥符). Xu Xuan’s disciples’ political
weight thus had increased up to the unprecedented level .
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Chang, Wei-ling
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Positioning Mind in the World: Scientific Practice in
Context and Its Implication for Other Practices
How
does mind communicate with the world—i.e., how do we
position mind in the world? Western mainstream
philosophers have been perplexed by the problem for more
than three hundred years. The aim of this article is to
suggest, from the perspective of scientific practice in
context, to take a detour to deal with the problem. First,
the article considers how philosophers of science propose
their explanation about the nature of scientific
practice—including scientific discovery and judgment in
scientific inquiry. Furthermore, the article explores the
so-called “concept of contextualized evidence” and
“imperfect procedure of judgment” and their relevance to
scientific discovery and judgment. Finally, on the basis
of the general account gleaned from the previous two
sections, a case from moral inquiry and judgment is
explored to further illustrate that, by conducting moral
inquiry and judgment in the domain where they inhabit,
human beings themselves can show—by this very practice of
inquiry and judgment—that human mind indeed has its place
in the natural world.
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Chen, Szu-ting
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