Chung Miu-fun, Anita. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991. / Bibliography: leaves 144-151. / Chapter Chapter One : --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter Two : --- The Life of Xugu --- p.15 / The Early Life as a Military Official --- p.15 / The Era of Political Turmoil --- p.17 / The Dramatic Turn: Conversion to Buddhism --- p.21 / The Artist by Profession --- p.24 / Travels and Social Life --- p.26 / Chapter Chapter Three : --- The Painting of Xugu --- p.50 / Stylistic Origins --- p.52 / Figure Painting --- p.63 / Landscape and Ruled-Lined Paintings --- p.67 / Flower-and-Bird Paintings --- p.76 / Chapter Chapter Four : --- The Legacy of Xugu --- p.92 / Shi Lu --- p.96 / Chen Wenxi --- p.99 / Tang Yun and Zhu Qizhan --- p.101 / Jiang Hanting --- p.102 / Chapter Appendix One : --- The Connoisseurship of the Paintings of Xugu --- p.109 / Chapter Appendix Two : --- Catalogue of Xugu's Painting and Calligraphy --- p.114 / Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms --- p.139 / Select Bibliography --- p.144 / List of Colour Plates --- p.152 / List of Illustrations --- p.153 / Colour Plates and Illustrations

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Vincenzo Cuoco was one of the first political realists of Italy. Living at Naples at the arrival of the French Army, he became accidently involved with the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799. Although he was a declared Xenophobe and a misogallic he was also an ardent patriot trying to respect the existing political order. Informed of the advance of the reactionary army toward Naples he had the occasion to foil a coup to overthrow the government of the young Republic, for which the fugitive Bourbon King placed him on the list of revolutionaries to be arrested. With the fall of the Republic in June 1799, he was arrested and sentenced to exile, the first period of which he spent at Marselles. With the victory of Marengo in 1800, he followed the Italian exiles to Milan. There, after a brief period of hardship, he published his Saggio on the Revolution of Naples and with it gained fame and the recognition of the Republican government. His fame as a political writer did not derive from his artistic ability, but from his shrewd analysis of people and governments. His mind had been formed at Naples under the influence of the French Enlightenment, but as an admirer of Machievelli and a student of Vico, he retained a detached aversion for transalpine rationalism. So strong was his sense of Italianism that while the Parthenopean was still in power he dared to criticize its democratic government as too French and, therefore, detached from Italian needs. This criticism is found in six letters (Frammenti) which he wrote to his friend V. Russo and included in an appendix to his major essay. In the Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione napoletana del '99 he reviwed "from memory" the circumstances surrounding the Revolution. He gave an objective account of the socio-economic conditions of the Neapolitan Kingdom, the political obtuseness of the Monarchy and the events of the Revolutionise analyzed in great detail the failure of the Republican government which he attributed mainly to its alienation from the people. This want of popular spirit for which he called the Revolution "passive" had doomed the Republic from its inception. The work contained,also, pertinent remarks on legislation, economics,and customs. At Milan (1800-1806) he edited the official newspaper, the Giornale Italiano, composed a brief work on statistics and wrote an epistolary novel, Platone in Italia, (1804-6). In this last work he describes an imaginary voyage of Plato through Southern Italy, presenting Vico's Etruscan thesis of an Italic culture preceding that of the Greeks. His aim, which became almost an obsession, was to instill in his countrymen a renewed pride in the Italian past. In 1806, with the return of the French to Naples he ended his exile and was appointed by the new government to several important posts. His duties were many and varied, ranging from the drafting of economic reforms to framing a new system of education, from the presidency of Molise to the directorship of the Royal Treasury. The fall of Napoleon in 1815 ended his active life. A mental disorder,already foreshadowed earlier, developed into lunacy. He lived on in a state of apathy, and died on December fourteenth 1823,without knowing how much he had contributed to the rising tide of national feeling throughout Italy. / Arts, Faculty of / Central Eastern Northern European Studies, Department of / Graduate

章羣. / 附校勘表. / 論文(碩士) -- 香港中文大學, 1967. / 參考文獻: leaves 93-100. / Fu xiao kan biao. / Zhang Qun. / Lun wen (shuo shi) -- Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 1967. / Can kao wen xian: leaves 93-100. / Chapter 第一章 --- 供詞真假問題的提出和解決 --- p.5 / Chapter 第一節 --- 羅爾綱的研究 --- p.6 / Chapter 第二節 --- 判斷供詞真假的標準問題 --- p.9 / Chapter 第三節 --- 供詞的真假問題 --- p.16 / Chapter 第四節 --- 供詞被删改說 --- p.22 / Chapter 第二章 --- 李秀成投降的誠偽問題 --- p.38 / Chapter 第一節 --- 羅爾網的偽降說 --- p.38 / Chapter 一 --- 效法姜維偽降說 --- p.39 / Chapter 二 --- 保存實力偽降說 --- p.42 / Chapter 三 --- 苦肉緩兵計說 --- p.44 / Chapter 第二節 --- 同意和及反對的意見 --- p.48 / Chapter 第三章 --- 供詞的幾個版本和校勘 --- p.66 / Chapter 第一節 --- 關於版本的說明 --- p.66 / Chapter 第二節 --- 箋證本」的脫漏和錯誤 --- p.67 / Chapter 第三節 --- 從校勘看供詞的書法和用詞特點 --- p.71 / Chapter 第四節 --- 脫漏和錯誤與史實的關係 --- p.72 / Chapter 第四章 --- 結論 --- p.78 / Chapter 第一節 --- 供詞真假研究中的問題 --- p.78 / Chapter 第二節 --- 投降誠偽研究中的問題 --- p.80 / Chapter 第三節 --- 新舊考據和史觀 --- p.83 / Chapter 第四節 --- 幾個有關的問題 --- p.87 / Chapter 附： --- 校勘說明 / 供詞四個版本校勘表

Jerry L. Prince and Alan S. Willsky. / Caption title. "October 26, 1988." / Includes bibliographical references. / This research is partially supported by the U.S. Army Research Office, contract DAAL03-86-K-0171 Research is partially supported by the National Science Foundation grant ECS-87-00903

Critical treatment of Mrs. Radcliffe's canon, in addition to being superficial, has laid altogether too much stress on the sensational aspects of her work. In my thesis, I assess the nature of the world which she creates, examine the consequent psychology of her good and evil characters, and point out the manner in which her treatment of some other themes correspond to that nature and that psychology. By this means, I intend to show that there exists in her works a strong moral vision and a unified artistic statement that shows them to be far less frivolous and incompetent than is generally thought. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

El período a analizar en esta investigación ha sido motivo de múltiples debates. Se le ha descrito con adjetivos tales como, desorden, ensayo y anarquía, dejando la impresión que esta es una época nebulosa y oscura de la historia en la que no se presentaron grandes avances concretos y que producto de la agitación reinante los gobiernos eran numerosos y muy cortos, además del hecho de que no había una opinión reinante por lo que se juraron dos Constituciones, además de dar paso a un proyecto de organización federal. Esto es visto así mayoritariamente puesto que entre los años 1823 y1833 ocurre una especie de período de transición entre dos momentos históricos coyunturales: la salida del poder de Bernardo O’Higgins en enero de 1823 y el advenimiento de los conservadores al poder con el Gobierno de José Joaquín Prieto (18 de septiembre de 1831). Por consiguiente, la mayoría de las investigaciones tradicionales al respecto, le ha asignado un juicio de valor a este período de la historia; por un lado se encuentran los historiadores conservadores, entre los cuales se puede nombrar a Ramón Sotomayor Valdés y a Carlos Walker Martínez, quienes estiman que dentro de estos diez años se produce un caos (o anarquía) total hasta que el bando conservador (representado sin lugar a dudas en la emblemática figura del Ministro Diego Portales), tras la ruptura que impuso la batalla de Lircay, estableció un orden y un control que urgían de sobremanera. Por otro lado los historiadores liberales entre quienes se encuentran José Victorino Lastarria, Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna y Diego Barros Arana, proponen que este decenio resultaba ser más que nada una especie de período de organización que mejoraría las instituciones del Estado con el tiempo mediante ensayos que llevarían al pensamiento de la época a un gran desarrollo moderno, el cual interrumpido precisamente por los resultados de Lircay y el ascenso de los conservadores al poder. La motivación y objetivo que persigue esta investigación, es ir más allá de estas dos tradicionales perspectivas de entendimiento del decenio 1823 – 1833 y dilucidar con hechos y nombres concretos si es factible hablar de una anarquía o un desorden, por ello, el objeto principal de estudio en estas páginas será el desarrollo y funcionamiento del Poder Ejecutivo entre el 28 de enero de 1823 hasta la promulgación de la Constitución de 1833 (26 de mayo de 1833). Estas fechas han sido así escogidas por encerrar entre sus días los verdaderos márgenes que permiten separar las épocas históricas, por un lado la salida de O’Higgins y por otro la promulgación de la Constitución, hecho que corona definitivamente el avance conservador y el fin de los ‘ensayos constitucionales’. Al analizar en concreto lo acontecido entre estas fechas, se pretende llegar a un resultado fresco, y en lo posible, libre de una postura ideológica o política, ya que si bien estas son totalmente válidas, al quedarse inmerso en ellas se ejerce un juicio desde una perspectiva más general (debate) en desmedro de la descripción específica y científica de lo ocurrido, la cual puede sin duda, arrojar nuevas luces para comprender este período.

Edkins' theory is mainly consisted of two parts, comparative linguistics and researches on religious ideas of ancient Chinese people. At the same time, he also attempted to find western elements in ancient Chinese astrology, astronomy, philosophy and technology. His theory, together with other supporters, formed a special visual angle through which some Sinologists connected the Chinese culture with the main stream of the general history of human civilization constructed by western scholars. It seams to them that the Chinese civilization and the western civilization are not two different systems. To some Sinologists at that tine, whether the Chinese civilization could be correctly understood or not, rests on whether scholars could find its relation with western civilization. After a series of researches, almost all the elements of Chinese civilization were brought into the hermeneutic system of the west. The mystic color of China faded. / Edkins' theory is not completely new. In the 16th century, Jesuits began to interpret Chinese language, history and religion through the theory of the western origin of Chinese civilization. From the second part of the 19th Century to the first years of the 20 th century, this theory became popular, and among many advocates, there are not only westerners like John Chalmers, Joseph Edkins, Terrien de Lacouperie and Thomas Kingsmill, but also Chinese like Zhang Tai-Yan, Liu Shi-Pei and Huang Jie, etc. Meanwhile, various versions evolved from this theory, different from one another in the time and place that civilization came to China from the west. Some of them mix religious faith with academic studies together, and others' opinions are much more like scientific researches. Strange in the sight of scholars nowadays, this theory had its special meaning at the very beginning of western Sinology. / It seems that Sinologists of the 19th century did not try to describe China as an utter other, totally different from the west. On the contrary, they attempted to eliminate the difference. So this dissertation can also help us to get a deeper insight into the conception of Orientalism. / This dissertation is to discuss the methods that some Sinologists used to decipher the Chinese civilization by examining Joseph Edkins' works on Chinese language and civilization. Edkins is a missionary and Sinologist who advocated the theory of the western origin of Chinese civilization. / 陳喆. / Adviser: Xue Yu. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: 2069. / Thesis (doctoral)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-164) and index. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Chen Zhe.

Ernest Reyer's career as music critic spanned the second half of the nineteenth century. For more than thirty years he held the position of music critic of the Journal des Debats, one of the most respected newspapers in nineteenth-century France. He also contributed regularly to four journals and the daily Courrier de Paris, and wrote as well for other newspapers and periodicals. Reyer was in addition a conductor and a noted composer, whose major musical works—the operas Sigurd and Salammbo--were performed frequently at the Paris Opera until after the turn of the century. This study deals with Reyer the critic: as a writer on music, he did much to raise the level of musical taste in France during the last third of the century. The dissertation contains ten chapters and two appendices. Chapter I provides a biographical sketch of Reyer before focusing on his personality and his music. Chapter II surveys Reyer's literary legacy: the extent of his writings in newspapers, periodicals, and other publications; his musical preferences; subjects of considerable importance to Reyer; his literary style; and the two compilations of his writings (Notes de musique and Quarante ans de musique, which together represent less than ten percent of his literary production). Chapter III demonstrates that Reyer believed his role as critic was to educate the public, and that he sought to fulfil this role by founding his approach to critical writing on three basic tenets: professional knowledge of music; intellectual integrity; and the consistent application of an aesthetic. The principles of his aesthetic and the consistency of their application are illustrated in Chapter IV through consideration of Reyer's judgments of operatic composition and performance. The next five chapters examine Reyer's writings on topics and composers of particular importance to him. Chapter V studies his views on the complex situation in Parisian lyric theatres during the second half of the nineteenth century, and offers a detailed picture of his conception of an ideal theatre. Chapter VI discusses Reyer's attempts to stimulate public interest in Gluck, Spontini, and Weber, whose works for lyric theatre were either neglected in Paris or known mainly through mutilated versions. Chapter VII outlines Reyer's long struggle—as both critic and conductor—to establish Berlioz's reputation in France. Reyer's advocacy was so effective that some of his countrymen eventually credited him with having done more than anyone else to bring honor to Berlioz in his homeland. Reyer also played a major role in establishing Wagner's music in France, as is shown in Chapter VIII. Chapter IX demonstrates that Reyer's support was important in launching and sustaining the careers of many contemporary French composers, including Gounod, Saint-Saens, Bizet, and Lalo. The final chapter summarizes Reyer's achievement as a writer on music. Among the subjects discussed are the strong influence of Berlioz's writings on both Reyer's literary style and his aesthetic, and the impact of Reyer's writings on Parisian musical life. Appendix A contains an annotated bibliography of Reyer's more than seven hundred critical writings, with an explanation of how they were culled from newspapers and periodicals. Appendix B is a list of other published writings by Reyer. Our examination of his criticism reveals that it would be of interest to have Reyer's complete works available collected volumes. / Arts, Faculty of / Music, School of / Graduate

柳立言. / 手稿本 (cops. 2-3 複印本) / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學. / Shou gao ben (cops. 2-3 fu yin ben) / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 504-531). / Liu Liyan. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue. / 提要 / 自序 --- p.1-5 / 前言 --- p.6-10 / Chapter 第一章 --- 北洋大臣職權的發展 --- p.11-94 / Chapter 第一節 --- 北洋大臣的前身与職權 --- p.12-19 / Chapter 1 --- 上諭給予的限制 / Chapter 2 --- 通商大臣的早期任務 / Chapter 第二節 --- 職權轉變的經過及原因 --- p.19-30 / Chapter 1 --- 總署的態度及天津地位的重要 / Chapter 2 --- 自強新政与天津 / Chapter 3 --- 外交活動的展開 / Chapter 第三節 --- 總理衙門与北洋大臣 --- p.30-42 / Chapter 1 --- 「奏而不咨」的原則与折衷方法 / Chapter 2 --- 總署与北洋大臣：通商、洋務 / Chapter 3 --- 總署与北洋大臣：外交 / Chapter 第四節 --- 總理衙門与北洋大臣：權力関係的轉変 --- p.42-57 / Chapter 第二章 --- 李鴻章的才性与外交觀念 --- p.94-143 / Chapter 第一節 --- 李鴻章對洋務与外交的接觸与承担 --- p.96-100 / Chapter 第二節 --- 李鴻章的才性 --- p.100-109 / Chapter 第三節 --- 李鴻章外交觀念的形成 --- p.109-121 / Chapter 第三章 --- 李鴻章与《中日修好條規》的締定 --- p.149-194 / Chapter 第一節 --- 中國朝廷与疆吏對日本的態度 --- p.151-157 / Chapter 第二節 --- 李鴻章与中日近代外交的序幕 --- p.157-172 / Chapter 1 --- 中日聯結的構想 / Chapter 2 --- 對日、西聯為一氣的預防 / Chapter 3 --- 中日自強新政的比較 / Chapter 第四章 --- 李鴻章与台灣事件 --- p.197-332 / Chapter 第一節 --- 台灣事件与中日交涉 --- p.203-218 / Chapter 1 --- 日本的預謀 / Chapter 2 --- 總署与柳原之交涉 / Chapter 第二節 --- 李鴻章对台灣事件的態度和政策 --- p.219-243 / Chapter 1 --- 李鴻章對「牡丹社事件」的態度 / Chapter 2 --- 李鴻章對日本出兵的反應 / Chapter 3 --- 李鴻章處理台案的原則 / Chapter 4 --- 李鴻章主和的原因 / Chapter 第三節 --- 李鴻章解決台案的經過 --- p.243-253 / Chapter 第四節 --- 對李鴻章策畧的評論 / Chapter 第五節 --- 台事对中國的刺激 --- p.260-268 / Chapter 1 --- 籌議海防 / Chapter 2 --- 台事後李鴻章对日本外交的設計 / Chapter 第五章 --- 李鴻章与「江華島事件」 --- p.333-379 / Chapter 第一節 --- 中國的宗藩¨Œ念与中、日交涉 --- p.337-343 / Chapter 第二節 --- 李鴻章与「江華島事件」的處理 --- p.343-362 / Chapter 1 --- 李鴻章對中、日、韓關係的了解 / Chapter 2 --- 李鴻章的不干涉態度与日韓《江華條約》 / Chapter 3 --- 李鴻章对中、日、韓関係的期望 / Chapter 第六章 --- 李鴻章与琉球事件 --- p.380-486 / Chapter 第一節 --- 日本逐步併吞琉球与中國的反應 --- p.385-396 / Chapter 第二節 --- 駐日使團的建議与李鴻章的反應 --- p.396-406 / Chapter 第三節 --- 總署与李鴻章對日本廢琉球為縣的對策 --- p.407-414 / Chapter 第四節 --- 李鴻章對分島及修約之議的态度 --- p.414-422 / Chapter 第五節 --- 議論紛紜 --- p.423-435 / Chapter 第六節 --- 球案对中國的影响 --- p.435-444 / 結論 --- p.487-501