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abstract: As many modern scholars have warned, the complexity of Tang narratives is far beyond the reach of Lu Xun’s twentieth-century generic labels. Therefore, we should have an acute awareness of the earlier limiting view of these categorizations, and our research should transcend the limitations of these views in regard to this extensive corpus or to being confined to rigid and meager reading of the richness of the stories. This dissertation will use a transdisciplinary methodology that incorporates both history and literature in close reading of seven Tang tales composed in the mid-to-late Tang eras (780s–early 900s), to break the boundaries between the two generic labels, chuanqi and zhiguai, and unearth significant configurations within these literary texts that become apparent only through stepping across genre. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation East Asian Languages and Civilizations 2017

published_or_final_version / Chinese / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Chinese / Master / Master of Arts

published_or_final_version / abstract / Chinese / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Chinese / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

在民初西南政局中，唐繼堯曾一度扮演主導的角色，並於他當權的歲月□，屢次出兵 川黔，意圖囊括西南半壁江山，隱然成為西南的盟主；但終因連年用兵，實力耗損， 伏下敗亡之機。唐氏一生環扣著整個西南的局勢，因此本文寫作之目的，即在於透過 對唐氏生平的探討，以尋求民初西南政局發展之脈絡。全文除緒論、結論外，共分五 章： 第一章「唐繼堯的崛起」：敘述唐氏的早年經歷，說明唐氏在鼎革之際，攀昇權力高 峰的過程。 第二章「護國時期」：記述雲南發動護國之役的始末，探究唐氏反袁的真正原因，並 對唐氏做一客觀之平議。 第三章「靖國時期」：探討雲南對外擴張的背景，西南各省衝突的因素，唐氏對護法 的態度，以及唐氏出亡之經緯。 第四章「『建國』時期」：說明唐氏二次回滇的經過，探討「建國」時期唐的政治主 張，最後則分析倒唐政變的前因後果。 第五章「建設雲南」：敘述唐氏建設雲南的動機、經過及成果。 通過以上各章節，不但探討了唐氏的人生歷程，也清楚說明了唐氏與西南政局的互動 關係。

李家祥. / 手稿本(cops. 2 & 3 複印本) / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學硏究院哲學學部. / Shou gao ben (cops. 2 & 3 fu yin ben) / Includes bibliographical references: leaves 170. / Li Jiaxiang. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue yan jiu yuan zhe xue xue bu. / Chapter 第一章 --- 前言 --- p.1 / Chapter a --- 序 --- p.1 / Chapter b --- 關於唐君毅先生著作的分歧問題 --- p.7 / Chapter c --- 唐君毅先生早年形上學要略 --- p.14 / Chapter 第二章 --- 証立心之本體之道路 --- p.20 / Chapter a --- 世間悲情之現起 --- p.23 / Chapter b --- 超越要求之出現 --- p.28 / Chapter c --- 從用見體 --- p.37 / Chapter d --- 本體之証立 --- p.49 / Chapter 第三章 --- 心之本體的特種特性 --- p.59 / Chapter a --- 本體之在其自身 --- p.59 / Chapter b --- 本體之表現 --- p.63 / Chapter c --- 本體之無限性 --- p.68 / Chapter d --- 本體之至善 --- p.74 / Chapter 第四章 --- 現實世界之存有上之形上根據 --- p.78 / Chapter a --- 世界之顯現 --- p.79 / Chapter b --- 物質之存有性 --- p.86 / Chapter 第五章 --- 人之存有性 --- p.96 / Chapter a --- 「人」是什麼? --- p.98 / Chapter 第六章 --- 心之本體之自我回歸 --- p.106 / Chapter a --- 罪惡 --- p.112 / Chapter b --- 道德 --- p.115 / Chapter c --- 本體回歸之途程 --- p.119 / Chapter d --- 餘論 --- p.135 / Chapter 第七章 --- 評論 --- p.140 / Chapter a --- 唐先生對哲學的態度 --- p.141 / Chapter b --- 對唐先生哲學相干的批評 --- p.144 / Chapter c --- 唐先生早年形上學所提供的世界觀對人生活動之指向 --- p.145 / Chapter d --- 契入這個世界觀的道路 --- p.151 / Chapter e --- 唐先生晚年對這一型形上學之安頓 --- p.156 / Chapter f --- 總結 --- p.168 / 參考書目 --- p.170

This dissertation examines a technologically specialized officialdom of Manchu called bondservants (or booi) that thrived in the eighteenth century. Through a case study of Tang Ying (1682--1756), a supervisor of the Imperial Porcelain Manufacture and a prolific playwright, I demonstrate the formation of what I call a "technocratic epistemology" across disparate fields of technical, artistic, and literary production. One of my key arguments is that bondservants differed from traditional Han scholar-officials in their practical approach to technological knowledge and their expanded literary representation of intercultural experiences in the multiethnic empire. Both contributed to the practice of statecraft that is modern in nature. In research questions and method, this project lies at the intersection of the history of technology, literature, and material culture. Tang Ying's case not only provides a vintage point for observing a technocrat's lineage, training, and career path, it also allows us to view the Qing empire from such previously little-studied vantage points as manufacture, technical knowledge, and fiscal management. This case study adopts a mobile perspective, following Tang's multiple journeys across the empire, often traversing social and ethnic boundaries. By closely analyzing Tang Ying's technical treatises, literary compositions and extant porcelains, I show a two-fold principle governing three aspects of technocratic cultural production. First, Tang Ying's illustrated treatise shows how bondservants appropriated non-textual knowledge of craftsmen and merchants into statecraft by means of writing and images. Second, Tang Ying's development of porcelain technology showcases how technocrats experimented with knowledge encoded in texts, images and tools. Third, documentary and experimental imperatives governed the literary and artistic compositions of bondservants. For Tang Ying, to document meant not only to record information but also to compartmentalize, to count, and to order information systematically. This dissertation sheds light on the central institutionalization of practical expertise in the expanding multiethnic empire of China. Trained for the projects of empire building, bondservants integrated the skills and practices of scholar-officials, artisans and merchants to give birth to a technocratic culture.

abstract: This is a comparative study of two advanced ordination rituals, Daoist chuanshou (conferral of ordination rank) and Buddhist abhiṣeka (guanding) in the mid-late Tang and Five Dynasties (763-979). I analyzed a number of not-well-studied Daoist ritual protocols in the early medieval period, and revealed that rituals recast gender and fostered monastic relations. On the other hand, relying on both canonical materials and a manuscript preserved in Japan that recorded an abhiṣeka performed during the Tang dynasty in 839 C.E., I demonstrated how the canonical prescriptions of Indian origin, with modified actions and reinterpreted meaning, were transformed to respond to the Chinese religious and social environment. Having examined the language of the texts and the step of the rituals, I interpreted how these rituals were made sense in their own religious context, and compared their frame, structure, modality, symbol, and meaning. Ordination rite concerns the transmission of religious knowledge and authority, and the establishment of religious identity. It is in the relationship between the individual body and the community that Daoists and Buddhists found the form of apprenticeship that led to the embodiment of the community. The mastery of religious knowledge within the community––scriptures, register, mantras, and precepts, etc., was known only through the actual ritual practice. In other words, the ritual body became the locus for coordination of all levels of bodily, social, and cosmological experience via the dialectic of objectification and embodiment in the ordination rites. As the ritualized bodies, those who were ordained coherently comprised the community, which in turn remolded them with dynamically and diversely shaped identities. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation East Asian Languages and Civilizations 2019