William Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular British writers of his era.Many of his works are closely related to China,among which is the famous novel The Painted Veil.This novel narrates the love story betwee...William Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular British writers of his era.Many of his works are closely related to China,among which is the famous novel The Painted Veil.This novel narrates the love story between the heroine Kitty,an attractive but vainglorious middle-class lady,and the intelligent bacteriologist Walter Fane.This thesis aims at exploring the hetero image of China in The Painted Veil from the perspective of imagology.It comprises four chapters.Chapter one introduces the definition of the terms“Image”and“hetero image”.Chapter two analyzes Maugham’s diversified concepts of China:one is the positive and good image,and the other is the negative image.Chapter three illustrates the specific images of China revealed in the novel The Painted Veil,on both positive and negative aspects.After the exploration of the image of China from the perspective of imagology,we can sum up that actually,the image of China in Maugham’s eyes indicated in The Painted Veil is not the real China.It is a combination of the real world observed by Maugham and the imaginative world conceived by him influenced by his own specific culture and society.展开更多
Since modern Saudi novel vividly captures the essence of cultural and social life in Saudi Arabia,this paper aims to unveil the manifestation of historical events that generated new issues and discourses shaping moder...Since modern Saudi novel vividly captures the essence of cultural and social life in Saudi Arabia,this paper aims to unveil the manifestation of historical events that generated new issues and discourses shaping modern Saudi culture and society as depicted in Aziz Mohammed’s The Critical Case of a Man Called K(2021).The examination of its cultural and social context,thus,serves as an evaluation of a historical record that depicts the episteme of modern Saudi society.However,as ample as previous works on Saudi literature may be,most of them disregard the use of New Historicism in examining modern Saudi novels.This paper,therefore,utilizes New Historicism to unveil the nature of modern Saudi episteme as depicted by the young author Aziz Mohammed in The Critical Case of a Man Called K(2021)and to gain insight into modern Saudi discourses and issues shaped by historical and economic events.The study finds that the novel depicts a dystopian reality due to the implications of both late capitalism and globalization in modern Saudi Arabia.Furthermore,the novel highlights how far the discourse of Saudi Vision 2030,with its various aims,penetrates both society and culture,shaping a great part of modern Saudi episteme.The paper concludes by affirming Mohammed’s novel assertion of New Historicism’s main assumption that the text cannot be divorced from its historical,cultural,and social context and that it serves as a record indicative of a specific and unique episteme.展开更多
On the evening of May 3Oth,the parallel forum"Equality and Inclusiveness&Harmonious Coexistence:Multi-dimensional Narratives of Civilisations from Writers'Perspective",as part of the 4th Dialogue on ...On the evening of May 3Oth,the parallel forum"Equality and Inclusiveness&Harmonious Coexistence:Multi-dimensional Narratives of Civilisations from Writers'Perspective",as part of the 4th Dialogue on Exchanges and Mutual Learning among Civilisations,was held in Dunhuang.The forum was organised by the China Writers Association and co-organised by China National Publications Import&Export(Group)Corporation.展开更多
What will our life be like in the future?With the development of science and technology,our life will get better and much more colorful.I think there must be great changes taking place in the future.Maybe cars will mo...What will our life be like in the future?With the development of science and technology,our life will get better and much more colorful.I think there must be great changes taking place in the future.Maybe cars will move on the way without drivers.Some cities will be built under the sea and humans will live with sea animals.Robots will help us cook food and do some cleaning.展开更多
Find It What does Tim put away?Tim is wearing a suit and standing outside his apartment building.He and his friends made a short film for their city,and it won an award.This afternoon,Tim and his friends,Kurt and Sall...Find It What does Tim put away?Tim is wearing a suit and standing outside his apartment building.He and his friends made a short film for their city,and it won an award.This afternoon,Tim and his friends,Kurt and Sally,will get the award.This is a big moment for them.展开更多
This psychobiographical study on Bessie Head,a bi-racial writer from the South African apartheid period,explored early experiences that defined her identity,personality development and prominence in post-colonial Afri...This psychobiographical study on Bessie Head,a bi-racial writer from the South African apartheid period,explored early experiences that defined her identity,personality development and prominence in post-colonial African literature.For the case conceptual framing,we integrate Donald W.Winnicott’s object relations theory with intersectional feminism to explore her identity by the complex interactions between her psychological experiences and socio-political contexts.Our mixed-methodological approach that combines du Plessis’(2017)structured framework and Knight’s(2019)Phenomenological-hermeneutic Life-narrative Analysis.The analysis revealed three central findings.First,Bessie’s identity development was shaped by early abandonment and racial liminality,resulting in a fragmented sense of self.Second,her emotional and psychological instability was compounded by intersecting experiences of racism,sexism,and exile.Third,her writing and relationships functioned as coping mechanisms and transitional phenomena,offering potential spaces of psychological resilience.From this psychobiographical study framed on intersectional research,the evidence suggests that marginalized identities and a commitment to social justice are revealed by exploring the relationships between individual psychology and systemic influences.展开更多
This paper argues that the dialogues of Emily Grierson in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” systematically and profoundly violate H.P. Grice’s Cooperative Principle and its component maxims: Quantity, Quality,...This paper argues that the dialogues of Emily Grierson in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” systematically and profoundly violate H.P. Grice’s Cooperative Principle and its component maxims: Quantity, Quality, Relation, and Manner, which is not merely a manifestation of her personal eccentricity but also a powerful linguistic act of resistance. Through her non-cooperative speeches, Emily asserts her autonomy, defies the probing and judgmental gaze of her community, and maintains the integrity of her isolated world. Ultimately, she symbolizes the Old South’s desperate, tragic, and often grotesque struggle against the inevitable forces of change and modernization.展开更多
In the past oral Caribbean and African cultures,performances by the“griots”reminded the community of its heroic past.In colonial studies,performance is a way for the colonized people to reconnect with its original s...In the past oral Caribbean and African cultures,performances by the“griots”reminded the community of its heroic past.In colonial studies,performance is a way for the colonized people to reconnect with its original soul and language and to become magnificent of creativity like the storyteller Solibo in Chamoiseau’s Solibo Magnifique(Caribbean).In Chamoiseau’s novel,the Black policemen who came to investigate on Solibo’s sudden death during the performance look grotesque.They mimic the French colonizers with their“baton”and their racism at thinking evil of the Black community and they provoke laughter.Mimicry and the irony it conveys,subverts the formerly ironclad authority of the colonial order(Homi K.Bhabha in Location of Culture).The Cameroonian writer Werewere Liking-Gnépo also warns the Africans of the danger of wearing the White Mask of the colonizers(like Fanon in Black Skin,White Masks).She demonstrates in her Song/Novel She will be of Jasper and Coral,that while the African Mask empowers the performer of metaphysical powers,the White Mask of colonialism on the contrary weakens the performer who internalizes his inferiority and becomes complicit of his subjugation.Fortunately,Werewere Liking-Gnépo shows ithat the White Mask of colonialism can be used to mimic the harshness and corruption of the Colonial order and in doing so to bring back regeneration of Africa.展开更多
Everyone certainly has a dream city in their heart,whether it is a romantic city like Paris or a fast-paced city like Shanghai.However,my dream city is a place where modernization coexists(共存)with history and nature...Everyone certainly has a dream city in their heart,whether it is a romantic city like Paris or a fast-paced city like Shanghai.However,my dream city is a place where modernization coexists(共存)with history and nature harmoniously.It’s a place that resembles a highly motivated(激励)youth with courage,strong willpower and ambition.Now let me introduce.展开更多
A Peking Opera mask shaped like a monkey peered out from Charassri Jiraphas’phone case.In a caféat U-Center in Beijing’s Wudaokou area,she recalled her favorite scene from Shaw Brothers’cinematic adaptation of...A Peking Opera mask shaped like a monkey peered out from Charassri Jiraphas’phone case.In a caféat U-Center in Beijing’s Wudaokou area,she recalled her favorite scene from Shaw Brothers’cinematic adaptation of Journey to the West.“When the Monkey King shrinks into an insect just to enter the belly of Princess Iron Fan,”she recounted,her eyes sparkling with reminiscent wonder,“he punches and kicks until Princess Iron Fan can’t take it anymore,gives in,and lends him her Iron Fan.”Later,the Monkey King uses the magical fan to conjure such strong wind that the Flaming Mountains subside,breaking yet another impasse impeding the four Buddhist scriptureseeking monks.展开更多
Modern secretaries need to master a lot of oldand new skills including some required skills and some modernabilities.And secretaries in modern offices also have to mastersome special skills to be supportive to their b...Modern secretaries need to master a lot of oldand new skills including some required skills and some modernabilities.And secretaries in modern offices also have to mastersome special skills to be supportive to their bosses.展开更多
This paper examines the translation of imagery metaphors in Qu Yuan’s Li Sao using an Embodied-Cognitive Translatology(ECT)approach.It investigates how the poem’s intricate metaphors,such as orchid(lan),pepper and c...This paper examines the translation of imagery metaphors in Qu Yuan’s Li Sao using an Embodied-Cognitive Translatology(ECT)approach.It investigates how the poem’s intricate metaphors,such as orchid(lan),pepper and cassia(jiao and jun’gui),and crescent eyebrows(emei),are translated into English while maintaining their cultural,emotional,and philosophical depth.The study explores the challenges translators face when rendering these culturally specific metaphors,and it identifies strategies such as literal translation,adaptation,substitution,and paraphrasing used by translators to preserve the metaphors’essence.Drawing on the principles of ECT,the paper examines how metaphors function not just as linguistic elements but as cognitive symbols embedded in cultural contexts,reflecting the translator’s cognitive processes.The research highlights the importance of aligning the translation process with the cognitive and emotional resonance of the original text,thus ensuring the metaphor’s full meaning is conveyed.This paper also discusses the broader implications of translating metaphors from ancient Chinese literature,offering insights into the complexities of cross-cultural translation.It concludes with suggestions for future research in translating classical Chinese works,focusing on improving the preservation of metaphorical and cultural integrity.展开更多
When the umbrellas were held up against the tear gas attack in the protest on September 28, 2014, the hot issue raised by the marathon-like Yellow Umbrella Movement was not only the matter of politics but also a coinc...When the umbrellas were held up against the tear gas attack in the protest on September 28, 2014, the hot issue raised by the marathon-like Yellow Umbrella Movement was not only the matter of politics but also a coincidence created for the Hong Kong locals to face, or to be faced with an already moot cliche： How the Hongkongese can redef＇me and redeem their almost lost socio-cultural identity, particularly under the increasingly hegemonic influences and the socio-cultural invasion of the mainland after the 1997 Handover. My present paper is not intended to discuss the topic of identity on the platform of politics, or the postcolonial studies such as transculturation or cultural hybridty. But instead, I am far more interested in locating such issue on the aesthetic dimension of collective memory, which is revealed in two local contemporary Hong Kong compositions. In the process of shaping and reshaping a form of＂HongKongeseness＂ in which the composers tend to create and the local listeners tend to experience, albeit transient, can appear in every nuance of the sonic metaphor embedded in the pre-existing indigenous tunes of a self-contained compositional work.展开更多
On June 13,the Second Academic Symposium on Irish Literature(Yeats's Poetry)was held at the Consulate General of Ireland in Shanghai.The theme of the symposium was“The Poetic Bridge in Cross-Cultural Context:An E...On June 13,the Second Academic Symposium on Irish Literature(Yeats's Poetry)was held at the Consulate General of Ireland in Shanghai.The theme of the symposium was“The Poetic Bridge in Cross-Cultural Context:An Exploration of Literary Aesthetics in Yeats's Poetry”.The symposium attracted scholars,poets and cultural enthusiasts from both China and abroad.Attendees discussed the important role of the poetry of William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)in cultural exchanges,and explored the Irish bard's poetry from a cross-cultural perspective.The goal was to facilitate cultural understanding between the Chinese and Irish peoples.This year's symposium was sponsored by the Shanghai Public Relations Association and the Consulate General of Ireland in Shanghai.展开更多
Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing is a renowned writer in the contemporary British literary scene.Her debut novel The Grass is Singing is based on a case in which a black manservant kills a white mistress who is poor a...Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing is a renowned writer in the contemporary British literary scene.Her debut novel The Grass is Singing is based on a case in which a black manservant kills a white mistress who is poor and mentally unbalanced.Doris Lessing arranges a tangible form of perception for the expression of the colonial discourse in the work by seeking the relationship between spatial structure and the writer’s value.This paper focuses on the spatial writing in The Grass is Singing and analyses it in depth with reference to the spatial critical theories of Henri Lefebvre and Michel Foucault.The oppressed and enslaved characters in the novel are analysed from three perspectives:physical space,social space and mental space respectively to explore how power oppression is made visible through space and the writer’s critique of colonial relations and racial discrimination as well as unequal gender relations.展开更多
The Han-shan and Shi-de story,which spread to Japan around the 11th century,has given rise to many literary works in later times.The Japanese picture book Kanzan and Jittoku by Nagamatsu Yōko and Komai Keiko is a goo...The Han-shan and Shi-de story,which spread to Japan around the 11th century,has given rise to many literary works in later times.The Japanese picture book Kanzan and Jittoku by Nagamatsu Yōko and Komai Keiko is a good example.However,the picture book,which serves as a window on the cultural resonance of the Han-shan and Shi-de story,has not received enough attention from researchers,compared with other forms of rewriting such as poetry,drama,or short stories.This article investigates the representation of Han-shan and Shi-de in the picture book,and examines how the authors have incorporated the preceding texts as raw material for their own.It is found that the transformation of Han-shan and Shi-de in the picture book stems from the authors’selective use of the preceding texts and their unique interpretation.LüQiuyin’s preface,Hakuin’s comments on Han-shan,as well as the authors’knowledge and experience are vital in shaping the characters.展开更多
文摘William Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular British writers of his era.Many of his works are closely related to China,among which is the famous novel The Painted Veil.This novel narrates the love story between the heroine Kitty,an attractive but vainglorious middle-class lady,and the intelligent bacteriologist Walter Fane.This thesis aims at exploring the hetero image of China in The Painted Veil from the perspective of imagology.It comprises four chapters.Chapter one introduces the definition of the terms“Image”and“hetero image”.Chapter two analyzes Maugham’s diversified concepts of China:one is the positive and good image,and the other is the negative image.Chapter three illustrates the specific images of China revealed in the novel The Painted Veil,on both positive and negative aspects.After the exploration of the image of China from the perspective of imagology,we can sum up that actually,the image of China in Maugham’s eyes indicated in The Painted Veil is not the real China.It is a combination of the real world observed by Maugham and the imaginative world conceived by him influenced by his own specific culture and society.
文摘Since modern Saudi novel vividly captures the essence of cultural and social life in Saudi Arabia,this paper aims to unveil the manifestation of historical events that generated new issues and discourses shaping modern Saudi culture and society as depicted in Aziz Mohammed’s The Critical Case of a Man Called K(2021).The examination of its cultural and social context,thus,serves as an evaluation of a historical record that depicts the episteme of modern Saudi society.However,as ample as previous works on Saudi literature may be,most of them disregard the use of New Historicism in examining modern Saudi novels.This paper,therefore,utilizes New Historicism to unveil the nature of modern Saudi episteme as depicted by the young author Aziz Mohammed in The Critical Case of a Man Called K(2021)and to gain insight into modern Saudi discourses and issues shaped by historical and economic events.The study finds that the novel depicts a dystopian reality due to the implications of both late capitalism and globalization in modern Saudi Arabia.Furthermore,the novel highlights how far the discourse of Saudi Vision 2030,with its various aims,penetrates both society and culture,shaping a great part of modern Saudi episteme.The paper concludes by affirming Mohammed’s novel assertion of New Historicism’s main assumption that the text cannot be divorced from its historical,cultural,and social context and that it serves as a record indicative of a specific and unique episteme.
文摘On the evening of May 3Oth,the parallel forum"Equality and Inclusiveness&Harmonious Coexistence:Multi-dimensional Narratives of Civilisations from Writers'Perspective",as part of the 4th Dialogue on Exchanges and Mutual Learning among Civilisations,was held in Dunhuang.The forum was organised by the China Writers Association and co-organised by China National Publications Import&Export(Group)Corporation.
文摘What will our life be like in the future?With the development of science and technology,our life will get better and much more colorful.I think there must be great changes taking place in the future.Maybe cars will move on the way without drivers.Some cities will be built under the sea and humans will live with sea animals.Robots will help us cook food and do some cleaning.
文摘Find It What does Tim put away?Tim is wearing a suit and standing outside his apartment building.He and his friends made a short film for their city,and it won an award.This afternoon,Tim and his friends,Kurt and Sally,will get the award.This is a big moment for them.
文摘This psychobiographical study on Bessie Head,a bi-racial writer from the South African apartheid period,explored early experiences that defined her identity,personality development and prominence in post-colonial African literature.For the case conceptual framing,we integrate Donald W.Winnicott’s object relations theory with intersectional feminism to explore her identity by the complex interactions between her psychological experiences and socio-political contexts.Our mixed-methodological approach that combines du Plessis’(2017)structured framework and Knight’s(2019)Phenomenological-hermeneutic Life-narrative Analysis.The analysis revealed three central findings.First,Bessie’s identity development was shaped by early abandonment and racial liminality,resulting in a fragmented sense of self.Second,her emotional and psychological instability was compounded by intersecting experiences of racism,sexism,and exile.Third,her writing and relationships functioned as coping mechanisms and transitional phenomena,offering potential spaces of psychological resilience.From this psychobiographical study framed on intersectional research,the evidence suggests that marginalized identities and a commitment to social justice are revealed by exploring the relationships between individual psychology and systemic influences.
文摘This paper argues that the dialogues of Emily Grierson in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” systematically and profoundly violate H.P. Grice’s Cooperative Principle and its component maxims: Quantity, Quality, Relation, and Manner, which is not merely a manifestation of her personal eccentricity but also a powerful linguistic act of resistance. Through her non-cooperative speeches, Emily asserts her autonomy, defies the probing and judgmental gaze of her community, and maintains the integrity of her isolated world. Ultimately, she symbolizes the Old South’s desperate, tragic, and often grotesque struggle against the inevitable forces of change and modernization.
文摘In the past oral Caribbean and African cultures,performances by the“griots”reminded the community of its heroic past.In colonial studies,performance is a way for the colonized people to reconnect with its original soul and language and to become magnificent of creativity like the storyteller Solibo in Chamoiseau’s Solibo Magnifique(Caribbean).In Chamoiseau’s novel,the Black policemen who came to investigate on Solibo’s sudden death during the performance look grotesque.They mimic the French colonizers with their“baton”and their racism at thinking evil of the Black community and they provoke laughter.Mimicry and the irony it conveys,subverts the formerly ironclad authority of the colonial order(Homi K.Bhabha in Location of Culture).The Cameroonian writer Werewere Liking-Gnépo also warns the Africans of the danger of wearing the White Mask of the colonizers(like Fanon in Black Skin,White Masks).She demonstrates in her Song/Novel She will be of Jasper and Coral,that while the African Mask empowers the performer of metaphysical powers,the White Mask of colonialism on the contrary weakens the performer who internalizes his inferiority and becomes complicit of his subjugation.Fortunately,Werewere Liking-Gnépo shows ithat the White Mask of colonialism can be used to mimic the harshness and corruption of the Colonial order and in doing so to bring back regeneration of Africa.
文摘Everyone certainly has a dream city in their heart,whether it is a romantic city like Paris or a fast-paced city like Shanghai.However,my dream city is a place where modernization coexists(共存)with history and nature harmoniously.It’s a place that resembles a highly motivated(激励)youth with courage,strong willpower and ambition.Now let me introduce.
文摘A Peking Opera mask shaped like a monkey peered out from Charassri Jiraphas’phone case.In a caféat U-Center in Beijing’s Wudaokou area,she recalled her favorite scene from Shaw Brothers’cinematic adaptation of Journey to the West.“When the Monkey King shrinks into an insect just to enter the belly of Princess Iron Fan,”she recounted,her eyes sparkling with reminiscent wonder,“he punches and kicks until Princess Iron Fan can’t take it anymore,gives in,and lends him her Iron Fan.”Later,the Monkey King uses the magical fan to conjure such strong wind that the Flaming Mountains subside,breaking yet another impasse impeding the four Buddhist scriptureseeking monks.
文摘Modern secretaries need to master a lot of oldand new skills including some required skills and some modernabilities.And secretaries in modern offices also have to mastersome special skills to be supportive to their bosses.
文摘This paper examines the translation of imagery metaphors in Qu Yuan’s Li Sao using an Embodied-Cognitive Translatology(ECT)approach.It investigates how the poem’s intricate metaphors,such as orchid(lan),pepper and cassia(jiao and jun’gui),and crescent eyebrows(emei),are translated into English while maintaining their cultural,emotional,and philosophical depth.The study explores the challenges translators face when rendering these culturally specific metaphors,and it identifies strategies such as literal translation,adaptation,substitution,and paraphrasing used by translators to preserve the metaphors’essence.Drawing on the principles of ECT,the paper examines how metaphors function not just as linguistic elements but as cognitive symbols embedded in cultural contexts,reflecting the translator’s cognitive processes.The research highlights the importance of aligning the translation process with the cognitive and emotional resonance of the original text,thus ensuring the metaphor’s full meaning is conveyed.This paper also discusses the broader implications of translating metaphors from ancient Chinese literature,offering insights into the complexities of cross-cultural translation.It concludes with suggestions for future research in translating classical Chinese works,focusing on improving the preservation of metaphorical and cultural integrity.
文摘When the umbrellas were held up against the tear gas attack in the protest on September 28, 2014, the hot issue raised by the marathon-like Yellow Umbrella Movement was not only the matter of politics but also a coincidence created for the Hong Kong locals to face, or to be faced with an already moot cliche： How the Hongkongese can redef＇me and redeem their almost lost socio-cultural identity, particularly under the increasingly hegemonic influences and the socio-cultural invasion of the mainland after the 1997 Handover. My present paper is not intended to discuss the topic of identity on the platform of politics, or the postcolonial studies such as transculturation or cultural hybridty. But instead, I am far more interested in locating such issue on the aesthetic dimension of collective memory, which is revealed in two local contemporary Hong Kong compositions. In the process of shaping and reshaping a form of＂HongKongeseness＂ in which the composers tend to create and the local listeners tend to experience, albeit transient, can appear in every nuance of the sonic metaphor embedded in the pre-existing indigenous tunes of a self-contained compositional work.
文摘On June 13,the Second Academic Symposium on Irish Literature(Yeats's Poetry)was held at the Consulate General of Ireland in Shanghai.The theme of the symposium was“The Poetic Bridge in Cross-Cultural Context:An Exploration of Literary Aesthetics in Yeats's Poetry”.The symposium attracted scholars,poets and cultural enthusiasts from both China and abroad.Attendees discussed the important role of the poetry of William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)in cultural exchanges,and explored the Irish bard's poetry from a cross-cultural perspective.The goal was to facilitate cultural understanding between the Chinese and Irish peoples.This year's symposium was sponsored by the Shanghai Public Relations Association and the Consulate General of Ireland in Shanghai.
文摘Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing is a renowned writer in the contemporary British literary scene.Her debut novel The Grass is Singing is based on a case in which a black manservant kills a white mistress who is poor and mentally unbalanced.Doris Lessing arranges a tangible form of perception for the expression of the colonial discourse in the work by seeking the relationship between spatial structure and the writer’s value.This paper focuses on the spatial writing in The Grass is Singing and analyses it in depth with reference to the spatial critical theories of Henri Lefebvre and Michel Foucault.The oppressed and enslaved characters in the novel are analysed from three perspectives:physical space,social space and mental space respectively to explore how power oppression is made visible through space and the writer’s critique of colonial relations and racial discrimination as well as unequal gender relations.
文摘The Han-shan and Shi-de story,which spread to Japan around the 11th century,has given rise to many literary works in later times.The Japanese picture book Kanzan and Jittoku by Nagamatsu Yōko and Komai Keiko is a good example.However,the picture book,which serves as a window on the cultural resonance of the Han-shan and Shi-de story,has not received enough attention from researchers,compared with other forms of rewriting such as poetry,drama,or short stories.This article investigates the representation of Han-shan and Shi-de in the picture book,and examines how the authors have incorporated the preceding texts as raw material for their own.It is found that the transformation of Han-shan and Shi-de in the picture book stems from the authors’selective use of the preceding texts and their unique interpretation.LüQiuyin’s preface,Hakuin’s comments on Han-shan,as well as the authors’knowledge and experience are vital in shaping the characters.
