Thesis (M. CM)--Hong Kong Baptist University, 2006. / Dissertation submitted to the School of Chinese Medicine. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 30-32).

Extract This article studies the Mind and Nature View of Chuan Shan, using this realistic emotional content presenting: exquisite subtle; unequivocal mind; nature; feelings and so forth in relation. Moreover, this article uses ether and mind connecting the entire context, discovering the emphasis of Chuan Shan Mind and Nature View that is the utilization of mind and nature. Hence the author raises propriety and education which both pose contemporary significance in this morality ethics, analysis of the morality ethics thus arises the basis of mind and nature. In discussion sequence, according to Chuan Shan using ether as the first perception, initially view mind and nature as the originality - - ether, mind, nature, lastly the art of cultivating mind and nature , including ¡V cultivating skills already achieved and morality ethics as secondary objective . Now presenting following chapter as below: There are six sections of this article. The first chapter, introduction, explained the research motive of this article, research scope, research methods and the writer¡¦s biography. Second chapter explained the originality and relations of mind and nature, raising ether; heaven; principle and way. Third chapter discussed themes about sensibility; heart and mind uniting; body and feelings uniting and subjects of so forth. Fourth chapter regarded nature; discussing feelings and talents; originality of ill-intentions. Fifth chapter discussed about an individual¡¦s self-cultivation with the two items of morality ethics: propriety and education. Sixth chapter concluded. From beginning to the end of this literacy, manly it is using the means of analysis; comparison; deduction; induction; in addition, the author classifies some complex concepts together, using diagrams method as presentation, which is also part of his significant research.

In recent years, the progress of medical care has increased the longevity much. Hence, the aged people hold a growing proportion of total population in developed countries. Besides, people in Taiwan have more spare time because the authority regulates workers in Taiwan own two holidays per week. And under such trend, people put sports recreation and health care at a premium. Among a lot of sports that aged people engage in, Tai Chi Chuan is considered to benefit our health. At this moment, over 100 countries have established Tai Chi Chuan associations and some activities of them call more than 10 thousand people to participate in. However, most of present researches just focus on the advantages that Tai Chi Chuan do for physical and mental functions. But there is still in lack of research about their participative motives. Hence, this research is making efforts to find out the primary motives that influence the silver-haired people to participate in Tai Chi Chuan, and then separate the aged people into different groups by their motives. And the promoters will be able to work out their marketing strategy toward these aged participants. About the research methods, this research adopts in-depth interview first. By abundant experience of Tai Chi Chuan masters, the participative motives of their students and the features of Tai Chi Chuan are found out. Later, through a focus group interview, the motives of Tai Chi Chuan participants are also discussed. Then, these found motives are used to make the questionnaire. Because of lack of member book of the participants the questionnaires are distributed on a convenient basis. In the research, 380 questionnaires are distributed to silver-haired participants who are over 50 years old. 280 questionnaires are received and the valid samples attain to 259. After factor analysis, five factors are extracted, including ¡§Extrinsic behavior and identity¡¨, ¡§Improving physical and mental health¡¨, ¡§Pursuit of Tai Chi Chuan philosophy and skills¡¨, ¡§Recreation, escape from pressure, and making friends¡¨, ¡§Longevity and soul inspiration¡¨, and ¡§Body shaping¡¨. And then according to cluster analysis, three groups are separated on the basis of the five factors. Each of them is named ¡§Pursuit of extrinsic identity¡¨, ¡§Pursuit of soul inspiration and mental health¡¨, and ¡§Pursuit of balanced physical and mental health¡¨. Finally, by Chi-square test and ANOVA analysis, this research discovers that the average years of practice is significant related to ¡§Extrinsic behavior and identity¡¨, ¡§Improving physical and mental health¡¨, ¡§Longevity and soul inspiration¡¨. Therefore, promoters can find the needs of the silver-haired Tai Chi Chuan participants by these chief motives and design unique activities for each segment to make their promotion more effective.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Educação Física, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Física, 2016. / Submitted by Fernanda Percia França (fernandafranca@bce.unb.br) on 2017-04-19T15:40:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_JunhitiNagazawa.pdf: 2733093 bytes, checksum: 03c160df755d72e680d11e67ab691ad3 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Guimaraes Jacqueline(jacqueline.guimaraes@bce.unb.br) on 2017-04-20T11:12:12Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_JunhitiNagazawa.pdf: 2733093 bytes, checksum: 03c160df755d72e680d11e67ab691ad3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-20T11:12:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_JunhitiNagazawa.pdf: 2733093 bytes, checksum: 03c160df755d72e680d11e67ab691ad3 (MD5) / Pessoas com Doença de Parkinson (DP) geralmente são acometidas por prejuízos na mobilidade e equilíbrio, pois quando submetidas às condições desafiadoras, sua coordenação para ajustar o equilíbrio torna-se mais complexa. A prática regular de Tai Chi Chuan (TCC) demanda movimentos em múltiplas direções, concentração e mentalização do controle da base de sustentação, bem como seu deslocamento (lento) com controle respiratório e manutenção da postura, favorecendo o aumento da força muscular de membros inferiores e aumentando a atenção à estabilidade durante a mudança de posição dos pés. Embora a prática de TCC demonstre melhora no equilíbrio de pessoas com DP, esta melhora precisa ser demonstrada através de avaliações sensíveis que analisem a resposta autonômica postural pela margem de estabilidade, a qual é prejudicada pela postura curvada na DP. Desta forma, com o intuito de verificar os benefícios do TCC para esta população, foi realizado um estudo quase experimental visando aferir o efeito de 12 semanas de treinamento de Tai Chi Chuan estilo Yang no equilíbrio dinâmico e na estabilidade postural de idosos com doença de Parkinson. Participaram da pesquisa 39 indivíduos com diagnóstico clínico de DP, sendo divididos em grupo experimental (Grupo TCC) com n = 23 e média de idade de 67,17 ± 10,299, e grupo controle (GC) com n = 16 e média de idade de 68,94 ± 10,421. Todos os participantes foram submetidos à avaliação dos sintomas motores, do nível de severidade da doença, equilíbrio estático e dinâmico. Na análise estatística foi verificada a normalidade da amostra dos dois grupos pelo teste de Shapiro-Wilk e em seguida foi aplicada a ANOVA fatorial 2 way (pré e pós) X 2 grupos (controle e TCC) para verificar possíveis diferenças entre grupos e intra grupos, adotando um nível de significância de p ≤ 0,05. O Grupo TCC realizou 12 semanas de treinamento e o GC manteve suas atividades habituais; após este período, todos foram avaliados novamente e não houve diferença estatisticamente significativa entre o GC e o Grupo TCC, mas houve diferença no equilíbrio estático e dinâmico no Grupo TCC após o treinamento (F= 6,110 e p = 0,02). Verificou-se que após o treinamento com TCC houve uma melhora nas amplitudes de deslocamento do centro de pressão (COP) e na velocidade do COP. Houve uma melhora das amplitudes AP (p = 0,006) quando o equilíbrio é testado sem estímulo visual e ML (p = 0,027) com base de apoio fechada e estímulo visual. A melhora na velocidade do COP foi verificada em todas as condições testadas. Conclui-se então, que o treinamento de TCC em 12 semanas é capaz de alterar positivamente o equilíbrio estático e dinâmico em indivíduos com DP. Diante disso, podemos afirmar que a prática do TCC não foi significativamente melhor quando comparada ao grupo controle; no entanto, mais ensaios clínicos com mais tempo de seguimento são necessários para confirmar os resultados atuais dos benefícios da prática do TCC para indivíduos com Doença de Parkinson. Devido à existência de poucos estudos abordando esta metodologia, são necessárias novas pesquisas nessa área. / Usually people with Parkinson's disease (PD) are affected by impairments in mobility and balance, on this account when are subjected to challenging conditions, the more complex coordination becomes to adjust the balance. The regular practice of Tai Chi Chuan (TCC) demands movements in multiple directions, concentration and mentalization of the control of the base of support as well as its (slow) displacement with respiratory control and maintenance of the posture, favoring the increase of muscular strength of lower limbs, And increasing attention to stability during changing of foot position. Although the practice of TCC demonstrates an improvement in balance of people with PD, this improvement needs to be demonstrated through sensitive assessments through the analysis of postural autonomic response by the margin of stability which is imparired by the curved posture in Dini order to verify the benefits of TCC, a quasi-experimental study was carried out to verify the effect of 12 weeks of Yang Tai Chi Chuan training on the dynamic balance and postural stability of elderly patients with Parkinson's disease. A total of 39 individuals with clinical diagnosis of PD were divided into experimental group (TCC Group) with n = 23 and mean age of 67.17 ± 10.299, and control group (CG) with n = 16 and mean age of 68.94 ± 10.421. All participants were submitted to evaluation of motor symptoms, level of disease severity, static and dynamic balance. In the statistical analysis, the normality of the sample of the two groups was verified by the Shapiro-Wilk test and then the 2-way factorial ANOVA (pre and post) X 2 groups (control and TCC) was applied to verify possible differences between groups and intra groups Adopting a significance level of p ≤ 0.05. The TCC Group performed 12 weeks of training and the CG maintained it usual activities, after this period all were reassessed and there was no statistically significant difference between the CG and the TCC Group, but there was a difference in the static and dynamic balance in the TCC Group after Training (F = 6.110 and p = 0.02). There was an improvement in the pressure center displacement amplitudes (COP) and COP velocity after TCC training. There was an improvement in AP amplitudes (p = 0.006) when the balance was tested without visual stimulus and ML (p = 0.027) with closed support base and visual stimulus. The improvement in COP speed was verified under all conditions tested. It is concluded that the training of TCC in 12 weeks is able to positively alter the static and dynamic balance in individuals with PD. Therefore, we can say that the practice of TCC was not significantly better when compared to the control group, however, more clinical trials with longer follow-up are necessary to confirm the current results of Tai Chi for Parkinson's disease. Due to few studies addressing this methodology, further research is needed in this area.

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong Baptist University, 2003. / Thesis submitted to Dept. of Communication Studies. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 150-157).

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2017-07-31T13:43:11Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) versão final Dissertação Giedre.pdf: 2491754 bytes, checksum: 569a88ee143897787538239546178cf8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-31T13:43:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) versão final Dissertação Giedre.pdf: 2491754 bytes, checksum: 569a88ee143897787538239546178cf8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-13 / CAPES / Essa pesquisa aborda a relação entre educação, corpo e cultura através do estudo e observação dos idosos da Associação Brasileira de Práticas Corporais Chinesas (APPCC) na prática de Tai Chi Chuan. O objetivo principal é mostrar, considerando o curso de vida dos membros do grupo, que o corpo incorpora saberes e aprendizagens acionados pela cultura e, uma vez trazidos à tona pela prática da arte marcial, promovem mudanças não só relacionadas à saúde – como por vezes são consideradas exclusivamente numa perspectiva reducionista de pesquisadores da gerontologia. As mudanças são também cognitivas, sociais, psicológicas, econômicas, afetivas etc. Dessa forma, nossa abordagem está epistemologicamente esteada nos entrelaçamentos multidimensionais do fenômeno à luz da transdisciplinaridade, do pensamento complexo e pela proposição paradigmática do “terceiro incluído”. A abordagem metodológica adotada é qualitativo-descritiva de caráter etnográfico. Os dados foram reunidos a partir de observação participante e de entrevistas não estruturadas. Uma vez identificados os turning points na trajetória de vida dos idosos, foi possível compreender as referidas mudanças dentro de uma linha que divisa - e também dialoga-, “um antes” e “um depois”, de maneira recursiva, em termos de benefícios para a vida dos velhos com a prática do Tai Chi Chuan. Utilizamos a técnica de análise do discurso nas entrevistas individuais e em grupo. Espera-se, com esse trabalho, contribuir para o aprofundamento da compreensão multidimensional da experiência corporal, seus reflexos sobre o envelhecimento e seus desdobramentos, em detrimento da postura dualista, fragmentada e excessivamente especializada que marca a ciência moderna no trato com o conhecimento e os saberes adquiridos e produzidos na velhice. / This research addresses the relationship between education, body and culture through the study and observation of the elderly from Associação Brasileira de Práticas Corporais Chinesas (ABPCC) in the practice of Tai Chi Chuan. The main goal is to show, considering the life course of some members of the group, that the body incorporates knowledge and learnings triggered by culture and, once brought to light by the practice of this martial art, they promote changes not only related to health - as sometimes they are exclusively considered through a reductionist perspective of researchers in gerontology. The changes are also cognitive, social, psychological, economic, affective etc. Thus, our approach is epistemologically supported by the multidimensional interweaving of the phenomenon in the light of transdisciplinarity, the complex thought and the paradigmatic proposition of the "third included". The methodological approach adopted is qualitative-descriptive of ethnographic character. Data were gathered from participant observation and unstructured interviews. Once the turning points were identified in the life course of the elderly, it was possible to understand such changes within a line that divides - and also dialogues-, a "before" and an "after", recursively, in terms of benefits to the life of the elderly with the practice of Tai Chi Chuan. We used the discourse analysis technique in individual and group interviews. We hope that this work contributes to the deepening of the multidimensional understanding of the body experience, its reflections on aging and its developments, to the detriment of the dualistic, fragmented and overly specialized approach that marks modern science as to dealing with the knowledge and the learning acquired and produced in old age.

University of Macau / Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences

本論文全一冊，約九萬字，除緒論、結論外，計分三章十節。全文旨在探討明末大儒 王船山（１６１９∼１６９２）論禮之根據、功效與特色進而彰明船山論禮之涵義與 價值。故其重點不在船山於禮記一書諸般禮制、儀節之考辨，而在船山之禮學思想本 身也。茲略述各卓之內容如下： 首為「緒論」，分「研究動機、方法與內容」、「船山禮學著作評介」二節。 第一章「船山論禮之大本」，闡明船山論禮所以運行天下而使之各得其宜之根據，分 「禮必有本」、「禮之大本總論」、「禮之大本分論」三節。 第二章「船山論禮之達用」，闡明船山論禮行於天下之功效，分「禮重達用」、「禮 以立人道」、「君子秉禮以修己應物」、「聖王制禮以治人用物」四節。 第三章「船山論禮之本末通貫」，闡明船山論禮之互為體用與本末不二，分「禮必本 末通貫」、「天道人情不二」、「心物交盡」三節。 最後為結論「船山論禮之涵義與價值」，闡明船山論禮之多重涵義與□常價值，以點 出船山禮學之特色與價值。

Submitted by Sara Ribeiro (sara.ribeiro@ucb.br) on 2018-03-19T21:17:30Z No. of bitstreams: 1 NicoleBacellarZanetiTese2017.pdf: 3968663 bytes, checksum: ec2715db7ea51e10be127e391f9299ee (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Sara Ribeiro (sara.ribeiro@ucb.br) on 2018-03-19T21:17:59Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 NicoleBacellarZanetiTese2017.pdf: 3968663 bytes, checksum: ec2715db7ea51e10be127e391f9299ee (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-19T21:17:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 NicoleBacellarZanetiTese2017.pdf: 3968663 bytes, checksum: ec2715db7ea51e10be127e391f9299ee (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-09 / This thesis discusses spirituality and sexuality, linking them to femininity, in a study of the familiarity of both phenomena by women practitioners of Tai Chi Chuan, also for investigating how they undergo and establish relationships between them. The study was grounded on the husserlian and merleaupontyan phenomenology and foucaultian approach. The methodology was inspired by phenomenology, allowing an exercise of understanding the convergences and divergences in the experiences of six Brazilian women and six British women practitioners of Tai Chi Chuan, whose semi-structured interviews were recorded and later transcribed. In the face of a comprehensive, contextualized and comparative perspective between the two groups, the results were systematized and analyzed according to the empirical-phenomenological method proposed by Amedeu Giorgi. It was possible to understand that the practices of the interviewees in Tai Chi Chuan are related to the search for meaning, as they attach a greater sense of integration to their existence after practicing it than previously reported. The body plays a key role in this integration. According to the merleaupontyan approach, it is a totality, a commonplace in which sexuality and spirituality express themselves. The modulating role of religiosity in the experience of sexuality was also verified. The empirical investigation allowed, therefore, one to investigate and understand how the interviewees meet the dimensions of sexuality and spirituality and establish relations between these two aspects of their psychic life in an in-depth way. Tai Chi Chuan has proved to be a practice capable of assisting the development of a harmonious and balanced coexistence between sexuality and spirituality. / Esta tese discute espiritualidade e sexualidade, relacionando-as com a feminilidade, num estudo da viv??ncia de ambos os fen??menos por parte de mulheres praticantes de Tai Chi Chuan, investigando o modo como elas os experimentam e estabelecem rela????es entre eles. O estudo fundamentou-se na fenomenologia husserliana e merleaupontyana e na abordagem foucaultiana. A metodologia foi inspirada na fenomenologia, permitindo exerc??cio de compreens??o das converg??ncias e diverg??ncias nas experi??ncias de seis mulheres brasileiras e seis mulheres brit??nicas que praticam Tai Chi Chuan, com as quais realizou-se entrevistas semiestruturadas, gravadas e posteriormente transcritas. Os resultados foram sistematizados e analisados segundo o m??todo emp??rico-fenomenol??gico proposto por Amedeu Giorgi, numa perspectiva compreensiva, contextualizada e comparativa entre os dois grupos. Foi poss??vel compreender que as viv??ncias das entrevistadas no Tai Chi Chuan est??o relacionadas ?? busca de sentido, pois elas atribuem um sentido maior de integra????o ?? sua exist??ncia depois de pratic??-lo do que atribu??am antes. O corpo desempenha papel fundamental nesta integra????o. Segundo a perspectiva merleaupontyana, ?? uma totalidade, lugar comum em que a sexualidade e a espiritualidade se expressam. Verificou-se tamb??m o papel modulador da religiosidade na viv??ncia da sexualidade. A investiga????o emp??rica permitiu, portanto, conhecer como as entrevistadas experimentam as dimens??es da sexualidade e da espiritualidade e estabelecem rela????es entre esses dois aspectos de sua vida ps??quica de maneira aprofundada. O Tai Chia Chuan mostrou-se como uma pr??tica capaz de auxiliar o desenvolvimento de uma conviv??ncia harmoniosa e equilibrada entre sexualidade e espiritualidade.

Under the tensions of nationalization and globalization, mainland Chinese cinema has undergone tremendous changes in terms of industrial transformations, diversification of film language, style and genre, revenues, etc. in the new century. This is epitomized in a new surge of commercial entertainment cinema. This dissertation examines Lu Chuan and his films among this surge and as a representative of the new development of Chinese popular cinema. The study reveals a new political regime and a new popular imagination in China with its greater integration into the international system of global capitalism in in the first decade of the twenty-first century. I apply Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of the field of cultural production to explore structural transformations in the field of Chinese cinema, and trace these changes to the shaping forces in the larger fields of Chinese power and economy. This structural examination is related to the agency of individuals as cultural entrepreneurs maneuvering their way within the state system through alliance of power, capital and talent, and forming their own voices and a public space. Theories of popular cultural studies help me analyze Lu Chuan’s films as a site where different international and domestic social, political, and cultural forces contend and negotiate with each other. I also draw upon theories of film studies to illustrate Lu Chuan’s application of international film language and styles including classical Hollywood cinema and the art film in rendering Chinese socialist stories in the age of globalization. Instead of treating Lu Chuan as an auteur or artistic creator, I look into his authorship as a site of different discourses and a technique of the self, which helps him distinguish his films from others and establish his position in the field. Trauma studies provide a useful tool in discussing Chinese cinematic representations of the national trauma, the Nanjing Massacre, during different historical periods, and Chinese nation’s continuing effort in grappling with this trauma. This textual analysis is to illustrate the newest development in Chinese cinema. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the historical transformation of Chinese society and to identify the forces that shaped Chinese cinema, which took form in a new alliance amongst power, capital, and art, and contributed to a post-socialist popular imagination in China in the first decade of the new century. / text