published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture

This dissertation investigates Chinese women's rhetorical practices in the early twentieth century. Tracing the formation and development of a new rhetoric in China, I examine women's writings that were denigrated in the May Fourth period. I argue that as an important part of the new rhetoric, women's texts explored women's issues and created the modern self in the May Fourth period by critiquing a patriarchal tradition that excluded women's experiences from its articulation.I begin by challenging the assumptions that rhetoric is a Western male phenomenon. Situating my study in the area of comparative rhetoric, I critique the previous scholarship in the field and delineate the research methodologies used in this dissertation. In Chapter 2 I locate women's rhetorical practices within the specific social and historical contexts of the May Fourth period. I contend that the May Fourth women's literary texts are rhetorical, considering the different conception of rhetoric in the Chinese rhetorical tradition as well as the social impact these texts created at that historical juncture. In Chapter 3 I extrapolate Lu Yin's feminist rhetorical theory and practice from her sanwen (essays) and fiction. I argue that by emphasizing tongqing (sympathy) in her literary theory, Lu Yin's discourse offers an example of how gendered and culturally specific rhetorical concepts and strategies influence the reader and exert social changes. Chapter 4 provides a case study of Bing Xin, another well-known woman writer in the May Fourth period. I argue that by advocating a "philosophy of love" throughout her lyrical essays and fiction, Bing Xin injected a distinctive female voice in the male-dominated discourse in which women and children were either belittled or silenced. Bing Xin's view of writing as expressing the writer's individuality as well as her unique feminine prose style transformed this classical genre into a more vigorous rhetorical form. Using my case studies as reference, I conclude by drawing out the implications of Chinese women's rhetorical experiences for the studies of rhetoric and comparative rhetoric. I show how such a cross-cultural study of particular rhetorics can help further our exploration of human rhetorical practices in general.

by Lai Ming. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-73).

Having written over 449 pieces of Cantonese opera works, Tang Di-sheng (1917-1959) is considered to be one of the most outstanding and influential librettists and playwrights of Hong Kong Cantonese opera in the 1950s. His Cantonese operas such as Liu Yue Xue (Snow in June; 1956), Di Nu Hua (The Floral Princess; 1957) and Zi Chai Ji (The Purple Hairpin; 1957), Shuang Xian Bai Yue Ting (Two Immortals at the Pavilion of the Moon; 1958), Bai Tao Hui (Madam Lee Sam Neung; 1958), and Zai Shi Hong Mel Ji (The Reincarnation of Plum Blossom; 1959) are well known to be Tang's masterpieces. / In chapters three and four, the study applies the Merriam's model "concept", "behavior" and "music sound". First, the thesis examines the classical plays, the historical story, pre-existed Cantonese opera and other plays and discusses these "concepts" in relation to Tang's creation. His "behavior", behavior of performers, musicians, audiences and listeners constitutes in the stage performances, the movies and the recordings became the "music sound" of the works of Tang. Finally, it also attempts to understand the works of Tang against the social and cultural background in Hong Kong. The analysis of the selected works shows that Tang attempted to change the creative idea of the works, performing practice, the female role in the 1950s, and how Tang cultivated a unique Hong Kong flavor in his own works. / The theoretical framework is based on Merriam's research model, "concept", "behavior", and "music sound" itself, and has referred to Timothy Rice the revision model which developed a three-dimensional model ("historical construction", "social maintenance", and "individual creation and experience") for ethnomusicological research. Chapter two examines "individual creation and experience", which discusses the biography and the works of Tang Di-sheng, analyses his creativity and experience. Moreover, it is a macroscopic research to correlations in the Hong Kong society and Cantonese Opera. For "historical construction", this chapter studies the social background of Hong Kong's historical development, the development and changes of the social cultural contexts of Hong Kong society and a how did Tang receive "social maintenance" from 1950 to 1959. / 戴淑茵. / Adviser: Chan Sau Yan. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 2942. / Submitted: November 2007. / Thesis (doctoral)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-399). / 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. / Dai Shuyin.

洪娟. / "2001年6月" / 論文 (哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2001. / 參考文獻 (leaves [65-71]) / 附中英文摘要. / "2001 nian 6 yue" / Hong Juan. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2001. / Can kao wen xian (leaves [65-71]) / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / Chapter 第一章 --- 緒言 / Chapter 第一節 --- 簡牘硏究槪況 / Chapter 一 --- 出土情況 --- p.1 / Chapter 二 --- 簡牘書法硏究成果 / Chapter (一) --- 中國學者的簡牘書法研究 / Chapter 1. --- 八十年代及以前的硏究 --- p.2 / Chapter 2. --- 九十年代及以後的硏究 --- p.7 / Chapter (二) --- 曰本及西方學者的簡牘書法研究 --- p.10 / Chapter 第二節 --- 走馬樓吳簡書法硏究前瞻 / Chapter 一 --- 走馬樓吳簡的性質 --- p.14 / Chapter 二 --- 吳簡書法的研究方法 --- p.15 / Chapter 第二章 --- 走馬樓吳簡書法硏究 / Chapter 第一節 --- 三國書體發展槪況 --- p.22 / Chapter 第二節 --- 從偏旁分析探討吳簡的書體 / Chapter 一 --- 篆書 --- p.25 / Chapter 二 --- 隸書 --- p.26 / Chapter (一) --- 受碑別字影響的寫法 --- p.27 / Chapter (二) --- 相對於碑別字較統一的字形 --- p.30 / Chapter (三) --- 對於字形的改造 --- p.31 / Chapter 三 --- 楷書 / Chapter (一) --- 改造隸書字形 --- p.32 / Chapter (二) --- 對於隸書筆法的改造 --- p.33 / Chapter 四 --- 草書 --- p.36 / Chapter 第三章 --- 從吳簡看三國書風 / Chapter 第一節 --- 與鍾繇書跡的比較 / Chapter 一 --- 鍾繇書風 --- p.40 / Chapter 二 --- 吳簡的書手 --- p.41 / Chapter 三 --- 吳簡與鍾書比較 --- p.43 / Chapter 第二節 --- 三國書風的展現 / Chapter 一 --- 三國書風綜述 --- p.47 / Chapter 二 --- 吳簡對於三國書法面貌的展現 --- p.51 / 結語 / Chapter 一 --- 走馬樓吳簡書法研究的意義 --- p.58 / Chapter 二 --- 相關問題的探討 --- p.60 / Chapter 三 --- 硏究展望 --- p.61 / 參考書目 / 附錄一：近世簡牘帛書出土年表 / 附錄二：吳簡對照字形表 / 圖版

published_or_final_version / Literary and Cultural Studies / Master / Master of Arts

Clinical evidence suggested patients with lower plasma C-reactive protein (CRP) levels after statin therapy could have better clinical outcome. The last part of the study was to measure on-treatment high sensitivity CRP (hsCRP) levels among 229 Chinese patients with hyperlipidaemia undergoing treatment with simvastatin 40 mg daily. The patients were genotyped for 15 SNPs or haplotypes in 11 candidate genes that would have significant allele frequency among Chinese patients and may be linked to statin efficacy or hsCRP levels. The analysis suggested BMI is the largest single contributing factor of 15.0% of the variation in hsCRP levels, followed by plasma triglycerides levels contributing 4.7% and male gender 1.6% (all P<0.05). However comparisons of hsCRP levels among genotype groups did not reveal any significant findings, with or without adjustment with covariate genotypic or phenotypic factors. To further categorize individuals as high or medium risk, we set a threshold hsCRP level of 1 mg/L as the benchmark for evaluation. The CRPc.3872G>A SNP was related to lower risk compared to the homozygous wild-type genotype (adjusted odds ratio AOR = 0.289; P = 0.014) after adjusting for phenotypic factors of age, gender, smoking status, BMI, waist circumference, hip circumference, plasma lipid profiles, co-existing disease and co-medications. Another marginal finding included the HNF1A c.79A>C SNP (AOR = 0.575; P = 0.118). / Polymorphisms in the drug transporters are likely to be more important with hydrophilic statins such as pitavastatin, which undergoes transporter mediated distribution. The SLCO1B1 c.388A>G polymorphism in the gene encoding the uptake transporter organic anion transporting polypeptide (OATP1B1) is common in Chinese and the variant was associated with increases of 63--68% in maximum plasma concentration and 44--47% in systemic exposure of both the lactone and acid compared to wild-type subjects (P<0.05). Co-administration of pitavastatin with grapefruit juice (GFJ) resulted in a small increase of the area under the plasma concentration time curve (AVC) by 15--16% for both the acid and lactone (P<0.05). However, there was no significant effect on the drug-food interaction in relation to relevant SNPs in the enzymes and transporters examined. / The SNPs examined included those in the genes for the enzymes and transporters involved in the metabolic pathway or the distribution of simvastatin. Cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes are involved in hepatic and intestinal metabolism of several statins and simvastatin is known to undergo extensive metabolism via the CYP3A4/3A5 pathway. The common candidate SNPs in the CYP3A4/3A5 enzymes found in Chinese populations include CYP3A4*1G, CYP3AP1*3 and CYP3A5*3 , which are associated with altered enzyme expression and activity. However, no statistically significant relationship was found between these SNPs and a potential phenotypic marker of enzyme activity, the urinary ratio of 6beta-hydroxy-cortisol/cortisol (6beta-OHC/C) concentrations. The analysis of lipid lowering responses in relation to individual SNPs or combinations from gene-gene interactions also revealed no statistically significant findings. In the subgroup of patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia, the CYP3A4*1G, CYP3AP1*3 and CYP3A5*3 polymorphisms appeared to have a small effect on the changes in LDL-C and total cholesterol with the subjects with the CYP3A5*3 and CYP3AP1*3 variants showing less reduction and those with the CYP3A4*1G variant showing more reduction than subjects with the wild-type genotype with a tendency for a gene-dose effect. It is difficult to interpret these findings and the significance may be related to multiple testing. / The statins, or 3-hydroxymethyl-3-glutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors, act on the rate limiting step in endogenous cholesterol synthesis. Their primary action results in reduction of plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels and this is thought to be the major mechanism by which they reduce cardiovascular events. There are considerable differences between subjects in both the plasma levels of the statins and in their effects on LDL-C and other lipid parameters and some of this variation appears to be related to genetic differences in the pathways of drug metabolism and distribution and in the pathways involved in lipid metabolism. / The variation in response may be related to variations in systemic or hepatic exposure to the drug, which in turn will be related to the pharmacokinetics. This is also likely to play a role in the adverse effects of myopathy and therapeutic tolerance. In a pharmacokinetic study in healthy male Chinese subjects, the common polymorphism of CYP2D6*10 was analyzed in relation to the pharmacokinetics of lovastatin and simvastatin. There was a tendency for reduced clearance of simvastatin lactone by 30% (P>0.05) in subjects with the CYP2D6*10/*10 genotype. With lovastatin, there were similar findings with 38.5--84.9% decrease in clearance which appeared to be related to enzyme activity according to genotype, with *5 carriers showing a greater decline in clearance than *10 carriers (P<0.05). / These results provide some insights into the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of statins and the pharamacogenetic relationships to candidate SNPs. Future research in this field should help to facilitate safer and more effective treatment with these commonly used medications, resulting in personalized therapy and optimal clinical benefits for patients with cardiovascular disease. / This thesis describes a study of 270 patients recruited from the outpatient clinics at the Prince of Wales Hospital who were treated with simvastatin 40 mg daily for at least 4 weeks. Their mean (+/-SD) LDL-C baseline level was 5.38+/-1.68 mmol/L and the reduction in LDL-C after simvastatin treatment was 2.81+/-0.99 mmol/L or -47.1+/-12.5%. / Mak, Wah Lun Valiant. / Adviser: Brian Tomlinson. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-06, Section: B, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 253-289). / 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, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese.

A mixed-methods design consisting of two phases was adopted. In Phase I, a purposive sample of 31 older Clnnese people with KOA was invited for a semi-structured interview to explore their perceptions and experiences of exercise. Five major categories emerged: typical living pattern with KOA, self-management of KOA, the practice of exercise, views about exercise, and preferences for learning exercise. The findings were used in the development of an exercise programme for this client group. / Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is prevalent in the growing older Chinese population in Hong Kong. Therapeutic exercise for KOA has strong empirical evidence of its effectiveness on reducing knee pain and physical disability in people with KOA provided that they persists in practising the recommended exercise regimen. However, few previous studies have incorporated the client's perspectives into the design of an exercise programme for promoting continual practice of exercise. This study aimed to develop a new therapeutic exercise programme and pilot its acceptability to promote continual practice for older Chinese people with KOA. / The Phase II study used both quantitative and qualitative approaches to examine participants' satisfaction with the new exercise programme, adherence to the prescribed exercises, mastering of the exercise movements and health outcomes (knee pain, stiffness and range-of-motion, physical function, muscle strength and endurance of the lower extremities, and quality of life). A convenience sample of 33 older Chinese people with KOA participated in the programme. Seven measurement tools in Chinese versions (if applicable) were used to collect quantitative data from the participants: the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC), the 12-item Short Form of the Medical Outcome Study Questionnaire (SF-12), a goniometer, the Timed-Stands Test (TST), a satisfaction questionnaire, an exercise diary, and a return-demonstration performance record sheet. Six of the participants were invited for a semi-structured interview to explore their experience of the programme. / The quantitative results showed that the participants were highly satisfied with the exercise programme with a mean score of 90.15 out of 100 (SD = 8.05). Their average exercise adherence was high with a mean percentage of 91.04% (SD = 14.54) and their overall performance in mastering of the exercise movements was good with a mean score of 76.71 out of 100 (SD = 21.75). Most participants' health outcomes significantly improved at three months after the exercise programme, except for the SF-12 physical health summary score. The qualitative findings revealed four major categories: satisfaction with the exercise programme, mastering of the exercise movements, experience of the exercise's effects, and integration of the exercises into the daily routine. These findings were mainly consistent with the quantitative results of the study. / The results of this study showed that the exercise programme was acceptable to the participants in terms of satisfaction with the programme, adherence to the prescribed exercises and mastering of the exercise movements. Therefore, adopting a client-centred approach is likely to be a way forward in the development of exercise programmes for promoting continual practice of therapeutic exercise regimens by older Chinese people with KOA. / Lee, Fung Kam. / Advisers: Tak Ying Ann Shiu; Tze Fan Diana Lee; Kwok Wei Winnie So. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-06, Section: B, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 332-369). / 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, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese; some appendixes in Chinese.