李家翹：中國和香港-國家與城市的探戈.docx

2013

How did people in the Han (漢) Dynasty project their attachment to and imagination of hometown? What does this “hometown”refer to? These are the two questions which this thesis wants to ask. This thesis especially emphasizes the political context which personal feelings depend on and tries to explore how people in the Han Dynasty removed themselves from the indulgence and restraint of homesickness. How did an individual still keep different ways of emotional expression while sharing the same homesick atmosphere? The exhibition of these differences is called agency in this thesis. Chapter One explores how Liu Bang(劉邦) and Xiang Yu(項羽) felt homesick and their different relations and reactions to“hometown” according to the examples of choosing capital cities. What is involved includes not only emotional aspects but political calculations and rational reasoning. The two’s every decision was to seek for a balance between attachment with hometown and political calculations. In addition, th...

Hong Kong: Hong Kong Maritime Museum, 2018

The exhibition catalogue provides invaluable and informative insights into the early Sino-American history of trade, economy, culture and art. The catalogue is divided into two volumes. Volume One includes about 250 exhibits entries contributed by HKMM curatorial team, Curator of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Senior Curator of Winterthur Museum, Senior Director of Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Chief Curator of Independence Seaport Museum, Senior Curator of The Kelton Foundation, Director of Martyn Gregory Gallery, Director of Heirloom & Howard, Manager of History & Art of HSBC Archives, and a number of knowledgeable local and U.S.-based scholars and collectors. Volume Two collects twelve academic essays which can be generally summarized into three categories: Essays exploring the origin and development of the early Sino-American trade from multiple perspectives are contributed by Libby Lai-Pik Chan, Assistant Director (Curatorial & Collections) of HKMM, Dane Morrison, Professor of Salem State University, Jonathan Goldstein, Professor of East Asian History at the University of West Georgia, Paul A. Van Dyke, Professor of history at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, Frederic D. Grant, Jr., expert of business and legal history of trade, as well as Nancy Davis, expert of Sino-American trade and women’s history; Essays revealing the material culture of the Sino-U.S. trade demonstrated through Chinese export artefacts, such as paintings and porcelains, are contributed by independent curator William R. Sargent, Patrick Conner, Director of Martyn Gregory Gallery, John D. Wong, Assistant Professor of the University of Hong Kong, and Angela Howard, Director of Heirloom & Howard; While the rest essays contributed by Ann Uppington, expert of landscape and garden, and Fung Kam Wing, Research Fellow of HKU-Shenzhen Institute of Research and Innovation, illustrates cultural aspect.

2017

Generally speaking, people believe that the living conditions of the new area will be better, then they make decision to migrate to another place to live. In the theory of migration, it can be divided into individual factors and structural factors. No matter which factor, migration will have an effect on the development of immigrant society. In 1949, there were over 1.2 millions of the people who migrated from mainland China to Taiwan. Undoubtedly, it was caused by the structural and political factors that pushed the "great migration". Because the immigrants moving into Taiwan accounted for a considerable proportion of the population, they formatted an ethnic group so-called "mainlanders". This paper attempts to use migration as an approach to review and explore the development of society in Taiwan in the second half of the 20th century. The time frame is between the year of 1949 when the Nationalist government immigrated to Taiwan and the year of 1996 when direct presidential election took place in Taiwan.

2014

社會科學論叢, 2011

法鼓佛學學報, 2008

This article takes various expressions using the Chinese term "speak" (shuo) as the basis for its investigation of Nāgārjuna's linguistic strategy. These include speak, unspeakable, unspoken, and spoken by prajñapti in the Chinese version of the Mūlamadhyamakākarikā. I first point out the two background causes that make the Buddha withdraw from preaching and remain in silence: the profundity of the Dharma and the limits of people's capacities. In response, the Mūlamadhyamakākarikā seems to reveal a two-sided strategy, i.e., confirmation and negation. On the one hand, it emphasizes the unspeakable to get rid of people's attachment, until at last all prapañcas have ceased, and one arrives at the unspoken. On the other hand, Mūlamadhyamakākarikā positively approves of the conventional truth and prajñapti to express that conventional linguistic cognition is necessary. The Mūlamadhyamakākarikā's theory of pratītya-samutpāda and śūnyatā, therefore, reveal double the aspects of negation and confirmation in Buddhist Philosophy and lead people to the way of nirvāṇa.

2016

Of regular script calligraphy styles from the Tang Dynasty, the style of Yan Zhen-qing (709-785) became one of the most highly regarded styles by later scholars. For centuries, " Yan style " was seen as a climax of Tang Dynasty regular script, and his work has had a wide and profound effect on Chinese calligraphy ever since. However, Tang Dynasty calligraphy critics did not place much value on Yan style, and they did not think of Yan Zhen-qing as a great calligrapher. This phenomenon is difficult to understand. The main aim of this paper is to further investigate the above-mentioned observation of Yan's lack of popularity in the Tang dynasty. The conclusions are as follows: 1. There are only ten extant genuine works of Yan Zhen-qing's regular script calligraphy, including Wang-lin Mu Zhi "Wang Lin's Epitaph", Duo-bao-ta Bei "Prabhutaratna Pagoda Stele",Yan Qin-li Bei " Stele for Yan Qin-li" and others. All other works are either co...

人文中國學報, 2021

2016

2013 年9、10 月間，中國國家主席習近平利用訪問中亞四國與印尼的機會，分別提出建設「絲綢之路經濟帶」與「21 世紀海上絲綢之路」的構想。而這樣的戰略意圖到底是如同中國外長王毅所強調的「不是地緣工具……不能用冷戰思維看待」，亦或是如解放軍少將喬良所稱「是跟美國戰略東移的一次對沖」。事實上，中國崛起在國際認知上，從來就沒有一致的認知，是否將會因經濟實力的變遷，而衝擊當前國際秩序，原本就在不同學派認知的爭議中劇烈衝撞。攤開地緣戰略地圖，如此大規模的跨區域戰略布局，不可能僅止於經濟、貿易、通商等低位階的安排，而不去調動高位階的國際政治與權力結構關係。因此，如何觀察這樣一個戰略安排的本質，如何理解其中的權力轉換，如何思考崛起中國在歐亞世界島的權力位置，而如此龐大的跨區域整合、鉅額的投資需求，複雜的權力重組，將會帶來的是無限美好的發展藍圖，亦或是新一輪冷戰的再起，基本上都是本文所關切，而亟欲思考、解決的議題。透過戰略局勢的地緣觀察，筆者認為，地緣的本質不變性與變動性，恰正可以提供超越意識形態認知的一條思維途徑。

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021

If the editor-in-chief of a Taiwanese academic journal receives papers filled with numerical data, equations, and tables submitted by European or American scholars, he/she would likely publish them without hesitation. The same mentality characterizes Indian, Pakistani and African academic journals, when they receive and publish Taiwanese papers. In particular, the titles of these papers are decorated with buzz words, such as cloud computing, electronics, smart capital, and elderly nursing homes, etc. As for American periodicals, it is because they charge an expensive publication fee. This study reveals that these papers share common numerical research results, some of which are self-contradictory. In addition, they usually cite Taiwanese master-degree thesis or self-citing controversial papers. International journals treat these papers with the mindset of reading Taiwanese experiences. However, with the advances in Internet communication and the diffusion of intellectual knowledge, third-world scholars will eventually find such papers controversial. These low-quality papers not only convey false knowledge, but also spread an improper mode of massproducing publications and academic misconduct.