This is a case study of the administration and organization of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), a prominent Chinese university operating under the State Education Commission of China. The prime objective of the research was to understand how a modern Chinese university is governed at the cultural level---what are the implicit governing assumptions of the upper level administrators? An objective of the completed study is to promote international understanding of Chinese higher education in light of China's 1985 education reform. / Data was gathered during eight months of fieldwork conducted in the 1995 academic year. More than one hundred interviews were conducted. Documents in the University Archives were searched. My prior experience was drawn upon, as I had studied and worked at HUST for eleven years. / After a brief description of the history and the campus of the university, the study includes selected major aspects of the administration of HUST including: student affairs, quality control in teaching, the academic echelon (a form of research team), academic personnel, social services, finance, and the Chinese Communist Party role in management. / The concluding chapter presents an ideal-type framework to describe HUST's administration. It has three concepts: institutionalized elitism, the danwei system, and a collectivism vision of management. The institutionalized elitism refers to the institutions for selection, training, utilizing, and honoring the best. The danwei system is defined as a working/living community under a single authority. Organizationally, it supports the institutions of elitism. Both concepts are based upon a collectivism vision, that is, a collective should take care of the interests of both the collective and its members, and the collective interests are supreme over individual interests. These ideas strongly conform to the Grand Union (datong), a utopian ideal of Confucianism. Although many changes have occurred in HUST since 1985, the features mentioned are unlikely to disappear in the near future. Knowing these features should help people in working with people in China, and monitoring the changes should be a help in predicting the progress of China.

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong Baptist University, 1998. / Thesis submitted to the Dept. of Government and International Studies. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-82).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Also available in print.

The main objectives of this dissertation are: to research the theatrical term “artistic director”; and to investigate how an artistic director of a theatre troupe performs as an “auteur in contexts”. Through the case study of Dr. Joanna Chan (Chan), the second-ever artistic director of the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (“the Rep / HKRep” / the Theatre), this dissertation examines the execution of her artistic directorship while she worked for a theatre company established and operated by the British colonial government. Auteur theories, Andrew Sarris’ in particular, are applied to investigate Chan’s creative works. “Artistic director” is a relatively new term in drama history. No serious or special studies have been conducted on the position, despite the fact that the job-holder is the creative force of a theatre company – by no means a meagre role. This dissertation closely studies the artistic directorship of Chan as an “auteur in contexts” when she took up the position at HKRep during Hong Kong’s final decade under British rule, particularly after the Sino-British Joint Declaration had been signed. Taking advantage of special political and social contexts, and as a Catholic nun with a broadly exposed, overseas educational background and an established career in theatre, Chan created local discourses in Hong Kong as an “auteur in contexts” by writing original plays and setting up the Rep’s first-ever theme for its drama season – Facing Deadlines. The bold and unique offerings of the drama season she designed, along with her other artistic works, all explored individuals’ dilemmas, social anxieties, and the Hong Kong people’s conflicting identity, induced by “the 1997 deadline”. Her emphasis on writing and promoting original plays had greatly contributed to the shift in the Rep’s programming from purely artistic offerings to productions tinted with social agendas. Through first-hand information obtained by interviewing Chan, other industry insiders and drama critics; through close study of Chan’s plays for textual analyses; and through research carried out particularly in the Rep’s news clippings library, this case study investigates how Chan as an artistic director managed to carve out a space for herself, to display her own style as an “auteur in contexts” of the text of HKRep, and to influence the local drama scene while working under a system replete with governmental constraints as well as facing larger political, social and cultural changes in society

No description available.

Syftet med denna studie är att hjälpa den svenskkinesiska föreningen Kang Le Hua Ren i Göteborg att utveckla sina kulturmötesplatser genom att ta fram riktlinjer som stöd för utformning av kulturmötesplatser i det offentliga stadsrummet. Studiens geografiska avgräsning är Angered i Göteborgs nordöstra områden där Kang Le utövar sina aktiviteter. Avsikten är att ta fram ett första utkast på ett kreativt förslagsunderlag innefattandes visualiseringsbilder och förklarande texter som kan utgöra stöd vid utveckling av befintliga mötesplatser.Studien baseras på kvalitativa undersökningsmetoder med en fallstudie av Kang Le som kompletteras med enkätundersökning med föreningens medlemmar. Resultaten visar att tai-chi är den mest uppskattade aktiviteten bland Kang Les styrelse och medlemmar. Tai-chi och andra former av motionering, tillsammans med mat och musik utgör de allmänt betydande elementen som kan bidra till att skapa en offentlig mötesplats för kinesiskt kulturutbyte som kan tilltala fler än de som har anknytning till den kinesiska kulturen. Utöver de allmänt betydande elementen, är det nödvändigt att platsen bland annat är flexibel och något odefinierad vilket utmanar användarnas kreativitet. Det är också viktigt att varje plats undersöks grundligt för att utnyttja dess förutsättningar på bäst sätt samt att användarna involveras i skapandeprocessen.Nyckelord: Offentlig mötesplats, kulturmötesplats, kultur, kinesisk kultur, Kang Le Hua Ren, interkulturell, användardeltagande. / The aim of this thesis is to help the Swedish-Chinese association Kang Le Hua Ren in Gothenburg to develop their cultural venues by formulating guidelines to support the design of cultural venues in the public space. The study’s geographical concentrating is Angered in Gothenburg’s northeastern areas where Kang Le exercise their activities. The intention is to produce a creative proposal including visualizations and explanatory texts that can constitute support for developing existing venues.The study is based on qualitative research methods with a case study of Kang Le supplemented with a survey with members of the association. The results show that tai-chi is the most valued activity among Kang Les board and members. Tai-chi and other forms of exercise, along with food and music are the generally significant elements that can contribute to creating a public forum for Chinese cultural exchange that can appeal to more than those related to the Chinese culture. In addition to the generally significant elements, it is necessary that the venue is somewhat flexible and undefined, which challenges the users creativity. It is also important that each site is examined thoroughly in order to exploit its potential in the best way, and that users are involved in the creative process.Keywords: Public place, cultural venue, culture, Chinese culture, Kang Le Hua Ren, intercultural, user involvement.

No description available.

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Chinese

內容扼要說明： 第一章：緒論 第一節：研究背景與動機說明 第二節：研究目的 第三節：研究範圍、方法與過程 第二章：理論架構 第一節：政策執行的意義 第二節：我國農業政策過程─一個由上而下（TOP-DOWN）的過程 第三節：政策內容（CONTENT ）因素與執行 第四節：政策綱路（CONTEXT ）因素與執行 第五節：小結─總結以上討論，並以一圖示說明本文之分析架構 第三章：「加強基層建設，提高農民所得方案」問題背景與執行過程 第一節：台灣之農業發展與農業問題之發生 第二節：政策之政策─從「農業十四點綱領」到「加強基層建設，提高農民所得方案 」；剖析我國農業政策演變，並詳述「加案」之緣起、內容、目標 第三節：花蓮縣政府對「農杓建設計劃」之具體化措施 第四節：執行過程中之參與者與互動關係 第五節：方案執行之績交。問題與解決 第四章：理論架構對本方案執行過程的解釋 第一節：政策衝突對執行之影響 第二節：政策內容因素對執行之影響 第三節：政策網絡因素對執行之影響 第四節：參與者互動關係對執行績效之影響 第五章：結論與建議 第一節：研究結論 第二節：研究建議

說唐家將小說包括《說唐後傳》、《說唐三傳》、《反唐演義》與《粉妝樓》四部小說。系列小說前承說唐系列小說，書寫題材由「君王」轉向「家將」，呈現了講史小說發展脈絡本身由「國」而「家」主題更迭的動態移轉過程。又說唐家將小說之題材於史有據，再依民間想像改編創想，承衍脈絡淵遠流長、橫跨古今，其間的家／國想像或合乎正統、或顛覆遊戲，形成官／民、虛／實等等多元對話空間。 論文第二章先討論「前之所承」，梳理小說成書之前，由官方史傳而至民間之平話、詞話、雜劇、傳奇等作品。民間說唱曲藝受官方史傳影響甚深，保持了系列小說國家宏偉敘述的「講史」特色；戲曲搬演深入民間，促成了「離家／榮歸」的情節結構，講史系統與民間戲曲的特色雜揉、交融於小說文本之中，形成說唐家將小說的獨特體質。 論文之第三、第四章進入核心論題，分從「情感關係」與「空間配置」探討小說文本之家／國想像，呼應影響家／國認同之血緣與地緣概念。第三章剖析小說中親子代際、男女性別與敵我陣營關係，發現看似穩固的倫理規範之下，其實隱藏了諸多不盡平靜的衝突與角力。第四章探察系列小說「家、國間遭到架空、戰場空間卻誇張膨脹」的空間配置情形。發現「寒窯」等破碎的家屋意象充斥文本，國朝空間更遭擠壓，只枯澀地擔負故事之間的串場任務；倒是邊境戰場含納各種家、國互動的情感因子，成為民間自掌定義、恣意戲耍的狂歡空間。 第五章再論「後之所衍」，以「個案研究」方式觀察臺灣戒嚴時期由楊麗花領銜主演之電視歌仔戲《薛剛》、二十一世紀初國光劇團創作之新編京劇《新編樊梨花》與本論文寫作當下於東森電視臺上映之電視連續劇《薛仁貴傳奇》三種現代承衍作品，探察系列小說進入現代之後，如何透過情節改編新詮改造家／國想像內涵，使更切合現代人的生命處境，故事持續傳講搬演。 第六章為總結，提出「完成承衍脈絡探討」、「深化家／國想像內涵」與「重估系列小說於小說發展史脈絡中的定位」等三項研究成果。 / The “Novels about family of warriors in Tang dynasty”(說唐家將小說) include “Shou Tang Hou Zhuan”(說唐後傳), ”Shuo Tang San Zhuan”(說唐三傳), “Fan Tang Yian Yi”(反唐演義), “Fen Zhuang Lou”(粉妝樓). Although those novels were combined with folk tales, they were also based on history facts. Thus, there are some opposite views in those novels, such as official vision verses folk culture, reality faces unreality. They inherit the “Novels about Tang dynasty”(說唐系列小說), but the subject matter transforms from the emperor to the family warriors, which reflects the theme transformation flow in history-based-novels. It leaves state and get closer to home. Related texts before the novels have been composed were collated in chapter 2. We can see those stories appeared in folk art “Quyi” (曲藝) were deeply effected by official history story. History vision still remains. At the same time, some Chinese operas have formed the basic structure of these novels, which is “leaving family/ coming home proudly”. Chinese opera and Quyi are two important sources of those novels we referred. Relationship and space arrangement are discussed in chapter 3 and chapter 4 to analyze the imagination of state and of family in the novels. In the study of chapter 3, it seems that conflicts in the novels happen under a stable requirement of ethic. However, code of ethics are shown only in appearance. In chapter 4, we will find out that war spaces are almost overstated, while space of home and state are ignored. Three case studies are put in Chapter 5. They have one thing in common: they are three modern works of art which inherits the series of novels. In Chapter 5, the study focus on how those novels has been revised to adapt nowadays culture. The essay is trying to achieve the following statement from the ” Novels of family warriors in Tang Dynasty”(說唐家將小說): further study to the heritage of tradition Chinese novels; further understanding of the imagination of family and state; revaluate the position of these novels in the history of Chinese traditional novels.