Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學. / MS. / Includes bibliographical references (l. 288-303). / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue. / 緒 言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一章 --- 揚雄與莊遵 --- p.5 / Chapter 第一節 --- 揚雄的出身 --- p.5 / Chapter 第二節 --- 莊遵的德業 --- p.8 / Chapter 第三節 --- 莊遵的著述 --- p.17 / Chapter 第四節 --- 蜀莊沉冥與揚雄立默 --- p.20 / Chapter 第五節 --- 莊遵對揚雄治學的影响 --- p.30 / Chapter 第二章 --- 揚雄與司馬相如 --- p.46 / Chapter 第一節 --- 揚雄賦之模擬相如 --- p.46 / Chapter 第二節 --- 揚雄與相如遭際之異 --- p.56 / Chapter 第三節 --- 宣帝時文人的地位 --- p.67 / Chapter 第四節 --- 揚與巴蜀文學 --- p.74 / Chapter 第五節 --- 揚馬與音樂 --- p.80 / Chapter 第三章 --- 揚雄與劉歆行誼之異 --- p.94 / Chapter 第一節 --- 揚雄與劉歆同任黃門侍郎 --- p.94 / Chapter 第二節 --- 揚劉二人之交誼 --- p.101 / Chapter 第三節 --- 揚雄心路抉微 --- p.111 / Chapter 第四節 --- 揚雄在著述中所表現的心迹 --- p.118 / Chapter 第五節 --- 劉歆與王莽之關係 --- p.134 / Chapter 第四章 --- 揚雄之著述及其成就 --- p.151 / Chapter 第一節 --- 揚雄的著作與專集 --- p.151 / Chapter 第二節 --- 揚雄在文學上的成就 --- p.169 / Chapter 第五章 --- 從法言分析揚雄之文學思想 --- p.189 / Chapter 第一節 --- 論文章法度 --- p.190 / Chapter 第二節 --- 論文道合一 --- p.198 / Chapter 第三節 --- 論文質消長 --- p.203 / Chapter 第四節 --- 論賦之諷諫 --- p.213 / Chapter 第五節 --- 論作賦之方法 --- p.223 / 附羅根澤「賦神論」質疑 / Chapter 甲 --- 司馬相如之「賦心」 --- p.223 / Chapter 乙 --- 揚雄「賦神論」質疑 --- p.227 / Chapter 丙 --- 揚雄「神」之觀念探原 --- p.232 / Chapter 第六章 --- 揚雄對巴蜀文學之貢獻 --- p.247 / Chapter 第一節 --- 文翁與巴蜀文教之關係 --- p.247 / Chapter 第二節 --- 揚雄對巴蜀文學之貢獻 --- p.263 / 參考書目 --- p.288

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / In 2008, grassroots NGOs formed 13 alliances in response to the need for emergency relief and post-disaster recovery after the Sichuan Earthquake that occurred in West China and killed approximately 87,000 people. These alliances served to raise and deliver relief materials, train and supervise volunteers, promote information sharing, and assist victims with mental health and livelihood recovery. However, all alliances were terminated within less than four years. Although plenty of scholarship discusses how corporate alliances evolve or fail, few studies focus on interorganizational collaboration among nonprofits. To explore how NGOs developed collective actions in China’s adverse sociopolitical environment, the author performed three years of observation in four coalitions and interviewed 60 alliance leaders, employees, and volunteers. This paper identifies four types of termination these NGO alliances experienced: three of them failed at their very births, five self-disbanded shortly after the end of emergency aid, three dissolved due to failed institutionalization, and the remaining two evolved into independent organizations. Tracking their life cycles, this study finds four main factors accountable for their terminations: political pressure, funding shortage, short-term orientation, and leadership failure. In particular, the repressive NGO regulation regime and limited funding sources fundamentally restricted all alliances’ capacity and sustainability. Further, the transient nature of disaster relief efforts and the conflict between disaster management and planned work areas contributed to the short-term orientation among alliance members and, thus, led to the closure of some alliances shortly after they provided emergency relief. In addition, though generally exempt from internal rivalry that often undermines inter-firm partnerships, NGO alliances of all types were confronted with leadership challenges—partner misfits concerning resources, strategy, and mission; flawed governing structures, and undesired individual leadership. The four factors interplayed and led to alliance dissolution through different combinations. The paper points out that, in addition to environmental uncertainty, leadership failure has become a major challenge for nonprofit collaborations.

Inspired by critiques of controlled elections under “single-party rule,” this dissertation explores the performance, implications and potentials of China’s village elections. It first reviews the most important studies on the progress of China’s grassroots democracy and then analyzes the social-political background of village self-management which to date has been neglected in the academic literature. Based on empirical studies conducted in Sichuan, this dissertation investigates the roles and attitudes of various participatory groups in village elections and in the course of electoral reforms. It also discusses the failure of the existing law to set out fundamental rules for village elections and to effectively guide people’s behavior. Further, this dissertation offers detailed recommendations to improve the existing law in order to guarantee the accessibility, authenticity and competitiveness of village elections. / Graduate / 0398 / 0616 / aloeke@gmail.com

This study explores the changing nature of filial piety in contemporary society in rural China. With the economic, social and political upheavals that followed the Revolution, can 'great peace under heaven' still be found for the rural Chinese family as in the traditional Confucian proverb,"make yourself useful, look after your family, look after your country, and all is peaceful under heaven"? This study explores this question, in terms not so much of financial prosperity, but of non-tangible cultural values of filial piety, changing familial and gender roles, and economic migration. In particular, it examines how macro level changes in economic, social and demographic policies have affected family life in rural China. The primary policies examined were collectivisation, the hukou registration system, marketization, and the One-Child policy. Ethnographic interviews reveal how migration has affected rural family structures beyond the usual quantifiable economic measures. Using the village of Meijia, Sichuan province, as a paradigmatic sample of family, where members have moved to work in the cities, leaving their children behind with the grandparents, the study demonstrates how migration and modernization are reshaping familial roles, changing filial expectations, reshuffling notions of care-taking, and transforming traditional views on the value of daughters and daughters-in-law. The study concludes that the choices families make around migration, child-rearing and elder-care cannot be fully explained by either an income diversification model or a survival model, but rather through notions of filial piety. Yet the concept of filial piety itself is changing, particularly in relation to gender and perceptions about the worth of daughters and the mother/ daughter-in-law relationship. Understanding these new family dynamics will be important for both policy planners and economic analysts.