Between 1950s and 1990s, Hong Kong had a frenzy for writing and re-writing materials from classical literature and myths. The myth of Madame White Snake is one of the most well known stories that survived a long period of time. The earliest known version of Madame White Snake was a supernatural story in 1550, which later became a prototype of numerous subsequent versions starting in 1624. This prototype was repeatedly re-written throughout history and was also made into different genres including plays, playlets, novels, films and television dramas. One of the latest versions was written by Li Pikwah, a popular novelist in Hong Kong, in 1993, titled, Green Snake. Green Snake is a parody of Madame White Snake written from the perspective of Little Green, the servant of Madame White and an auxiliary figure in the tradition. The novel is also an autobiography of Little Green, who satirically criticizes the story of Madame White Snake in retrospect. Little Green’s autobiography is a nostalgic reflection of the past as well as a critique of the structure of the story that has survived throughout history. These implications made in the story hint at the author’s personal yearning for traditional China as a Chinese resident in Hong Kong. Her nostalgia for traditional China is not idealistic but paradoxical, because her re-writing of the story was an avenue to understand and re-negotiate her identity. Li is also well-known for her other novels, which are parodies of classical literature, traditional myth and legend. Many of these works were also made into films in the 80’s and 90’s. These novels and films were part of a phenomenon in contemporary Hong Kong literary and popular culture that tried to grasp a cultural connection with traditional China in order to embrace the return to mainland China in 1997 after a hundred years of British colonial rule.

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-85).

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 153-166). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 323-342). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

Diss. : Philosophische Fakultät : Freiburg, Schweiz : 1981. - Bibliogr. p. 196-203. -

O presente trabalho testa uma alternativa de ajuste da estrutura a termo da taxa de juros brasileira bem como a sua previsão através de uma variação do modelo Diebold e Li (2006) focando principalmente em seu fator de decaimento exponencial. Esta variação do fator de decaimento ocorre distintamente em dois momentos do trabalho, primeiramente no ajuste da curva e após quando da previsão desta. No ajuste, o encontro deste parâmetro é feito através de ferramenta computacional, buscando o fator de decaimento que reduz a diferença de mínimos quadrados em relação aos pontos originais capturados no mercado de juros futuro brasileiro em conjunto dos três outros fatores do modelo. A previsão da estrutura a termo utiliza modelos auto regressivos para estimar as próximas curvas no horizonte de um período. A importância deste estudo reside em conhecer a aderência do modelo proposto à curva de juros brasileira testando sua eficiência quando utilizados os pressupostos enunciados. / This study tests an alternative adjustment of the term structure of Brazilian interest rate and its prediction through a variation of the Diebold and Li (2006) model focusing mainly on his exponential decay factor. The variation of the decay factor occurs in two distinct moments of this work, in the curve fitting and after this in the forecasting. During the setting, this parameter is mesured through computational tool, seeking the decay factor that reduces the difference in least squares relative to the original points captured in the Brazilian market future interest together the other three factors of the model. To Forecast the term structure is used auto regressive models to estimate the upcoming curves. The importance of this study lies in knowing the adherence of the proposed to the Brazilian yield curve testing its efficiency when utilized the assumptions listed in the model.

This dissertation is a history of interpretation and interlinear commentary translation of the "Li Sao," an allegorical poem attributed to the late Warring States (475-221 BCE) poet Qu Yuan. I argue that the significance of the poem is an historically constituted and changing interpretation produced in a sequence of editions, and that insofar as translation is the necessary tool of Sinology, our scholarship and teaching should rest on a translation practice that visibly reflects the particularly Chinese material and reception histories of our texts. I analyze the rhetorical strategies by which specific interpreters, including Sima Qian, Wang Yi, Hong Xingzu, Zhu Xi, and Guo Moruo, "translate" the "Li Sao" through history, constructing personas of Qu Yuan that speak to the politics of their own respective eras. The last chapter is a new translation of the "Li Sao" based on my investigation of the poem's history. It contains multiple English renderings and diverse selections of historical commentary, presented in interlinear form, in order to facilitate historically critical understanding of the "Li Sao" and demonstrate the breadth of interpretation that it is possible to derive from the text. The translation offers not a single interpretation of the poem but rather an image of the historical dialogue that has produced and disputed it in interpretations from the Han dynasty to the present.

From the late nineteenth century, works inspired by Western art spread to China and Korea through Japan. Thus, Western art came to be accepted in China and Korea as a reinterpretation of Japan’s development of Western art, rather than a direct transmission from Western sources. This act of reinterpretation went on to have a lasting effect on the practice of Western-style painters in East Asia with their own acceptance modes. This thesis provides a study of self-portraits and nude paintings, two categories of painting without precedent in East Asia prior to the late nineteenth century, created by Kuroda Seiki, Li Shutong, Go Hui-dong, and Kim Gwan-ho in order to illustrate how East Asian countries established their own versions of modern art.

Submitted by Roberth Novaes (roberth.novaes@live.com) on 2018-07-17T12:54:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE - LETÍCIA TELLES DA CRUZ - UFBa 2017.pdf: 1732644 bytes, checksum: db1dbf943c82c4248fcba9f24bef048b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Setor de Periódicos (per_macedocosta@ufba.br) on 2018-07-19T19:12:00Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE - LETÍCIA TELLES DA CRUZ - UFBa 2017.pdf: 1732644 bytes, checksum: db1dbf943c82c4248fcba9f24bef048b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-19T19:12:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE - LETÍCIA TELLES DA CRUZ - UFBa 2017.pdf: 1732644 bytes, checksum: db1dbf943c82c4248fcba9f24bef048b (MD5) / Esse trabalho de Tese apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa longitudinal, do tipo etnográfica e de natureza qualitativa, realizada com alunos do curso de Letras/Inglês da UNEB, Campus XIV, através do componente curricular Estágio Supervisionado, no período de 02 anos (2014 e 2015), motivada pela seguinte questão-problema: qual o efeito que o engajamento de professores de LI em formação, em um processo coletivo de reflexão, promove em suas crenças e, por consequência, em suas práticas? Com o objetivo de ajudá-los a rever as suas concepções de ensino/aprendizagem de Língua Inglesa (LI), a partir da investigação do que eles acreditavam (suas crenças) e como eles se comportavam (a influência das crenças no comportamento), “momentos catalisadores de reflexão” (BARCELOS, 2006c) permearam toda a pesquisa, ajudando-os a compreender as suas atitudes em sala de aula, as suas escolhas em termos de abordagem, metodologia e atividade, a partir do reconhecimento de suas crenças. A utilização de uma variedade de procedimentos/instrumentos para geração de dados, tais como questionários, oficinas/encontros, entrevistas, narrativas, observação de aulas dadas pelos participantes, forneceu informações que revelaram incongruências entre o dizer e o fazer desses professores em formação, movidos por crenças que são formadas ao longo da experiência de vida de cada um e que podem ser bem centrais e estáveis / This thesis brings the results of a longitudinal, qualitative and ethnographic research, conducted with students at the Bachelor's degree in Arts of the State University of Bahia (UNEB), Campus XIV, who were attending Estágio Supervisionado classes, for two years (2014 and 2015). It was motivated by the following research question: what‟s the effect that the engagement of pre-service English teachers in a collective process of reflection promotes in their beliefs and, consequently, in their practice? In order to help those students to review their conceptions in terms of English language teaching and learning, by researching what they believed (their beliefs) and how they‟ve behaved (the influence of beliefs on behavior), "catalysts moments of reflection" (BARCELOS, 2006c) took place along the research, helping them to understand their attitudes in the classroom, their choices in terms of approach, methodology and activities, from the recognition of their beliefs. The use of a variety of procedures / instruments for data generation, such as questionnaires, workshops/meetings, interviews, narratives, class observations, allowed wide access to the information that revealed inconsistencies between the saying and the doing of those pre-service teachers, driven by beliefs that are formed throughout one's life experience and that can be very central and stable.