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Womens body writing in Pan Yutong and Shang Wanyuns short stories

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Pan Yutong and Shang Wanyun are the Mahua writers who concern about women’s issue. They have a lot of similar experiences, but they are sexually different. Will this obvious distinction affected the way they describe women characters? Feminist theory are still argued on this issue. Although gender issue has always been the subject of feminists, but it is a product of patriarchy. Pan Yutong and Shang Wanyun who live in the patriarchy society may been affected by the patriarchy ideology. Therefore, this study will compare the method they describe women's body, try to find out the similarity or differences between male and female writer. Finally, this study will also try to respond on the argument regarding this issue...

Article Published 2022 1174 hits Available

Where nature and women meet in an ecofeminist reading of ezra pounds selected poems

Shang, Jiangmei

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This study aims to explore the intersections between nature and femininity in Pound_s poetic work. This qualitative study employs ecocriticism and ecofeminist literary theories to investigate how Pound utilizes the forms of nature to construct the literary perspective of ecofeminism in the selected poems. There are three main findings. First, the combination of female images and natural elements, the representations of the symbiotic interconnectedness between nature and women, the embodiment of women_s sense of place. Second, Pound_s poetic language and imagery reflect a deeper, concern for ecological and feminine subjectivities. Third, Pound_s usage of ecofeminist writing explores the interconnectedness of ecological and feminist concern, the weak and marginalized groups, and all the vulnerable groups all over the world, which transboundaries different groups, genders in different countries. how the female_s sense of place is embodied in the selected poems of the study. Fourth, the po.....

Thesis Published 2025 178 hits Available

The analysis self concept achievement goals and learning environment on students motivation among fine art undergraduates in the Shandong China

Yan, Shang Li

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This study investigates the relationship between self-concept, achievement goals, and learning environment on motivation among fine art undergraduates in Shandong, China. It fills an identified gap by exploring how self-concept, achievement goals, and learning environment interact to shape motivation in fine art contexts academically, which has received limited empirical and practical focus. Self-concept, comprising self-perception and self-efficacy, was measured to assess its influence on motivation. Achievement goals, which included mastery and performance, were evaluated for their effects on persistence and engagement in artistic tasks. Learning environment factors, including classroom climate and resource availability, were analyzed for their support or hindrance of motivation. The mixed-methods design utilized surveys with 373 respondents for quantitative correlations and semistructured interviews with 20 respondents. The surveys were administered between January and March 2025, i.....

Thesis Published 2025 119 hits Available

Embracing nature: ecocritical insights into the harmonious world of Ezra Pound’s The Canto XLIX

Shang, Jingmei

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This study is aimed to explore the harmonious world of Ezra Pound_s poetry with special reference to his notorious long poem deprived from the version of The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1975), the Canto XLIX, which is part of The Fifth Decad of Cantos (1937). The authors employ the recent theory of ecocriticism as a reading lens in the current study engaging three key ecocritical concepts, namely, the harmony with nature, nature as a symbol and the unity with nature. Through a close ecocritical reading the simple but beautiful verses of the long poem, the authors find a strong ecological concern and involvement of the human and natural worlds. The analysis of the selected poem reveals that Pound conceived a great deal of conception and thought on the description of ecological vision, including the harmonious unity of human and nature throughout the poem. On the one hand, the vision of his writing is ecologically rich, as reflected in his realistic living environment and the poem_s depiction .....

Article Published 2025 137 hits Available

A study on honors titles and medals of the Sabah Chinese

Tsao, Shu-yao

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In traditional China, the social hierarchical structure consisted of shi(scholars), nung(peasants), kung(laborers) and shang(merchants). The laborers and merchants had been regarded as lower peoples. Since the mid-19th century, many so-called lower people went to the British Malaya for living. Following the upwards social mobility in homeland, rich Chinese in Malaya began to earn as well as purchase honorary titles and medals to express their different status in society. In 1963, Sabah became a state in Malaysia, many Sabah Chinese, by various ways, received honorary titles and medals from the Heads of Sabah State and Malaysia. This is a paper to study the titles and medals of the Sabah Chinese. ..

Article Published 2020 988 hits Available

Artist exploration on Media and materials towards environmental issues

Ming, Zhu Xiao

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This paper explores the materials and media in environmental issues through the production of artworks. Due to our destructive behaviors to environment, we are facing many environmental issues, such as climate change, ocean pollution, Industrial waste pollution and many other problems. Environmental issues are not only causing a great concern of scientists, but also attracting the interest of visual artists. Artists all around the world are taking the opportunity to express their views through visual interpretation. These issues have been a prominent concern expressed in the theme of artworks. Through the exploration of media and materials, they construct a visual form representing environmental issues. Furthermore, by using descriptive analysis, all relevant artworks are examined to reveal the meaning behind their practices. Artists such as Néle Azevedo，Tomas Saraceno , Chris Jordan Marina DeBris, Jason DeCaires Taylor, Benjamin Von Wong , Shang Yang and Yao Lu will be discussed la.....

Article Published 2021 1187 hits Available

Dua space dance theatre of malaysia: Exploring wheelchair dance

Gee, Leng Poh

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Dua Space Dance Theatre, founded by Anthony Meh and Aman Yap in 1998, is a full-time contemporary dance company emphasising technical virtuosity and narrative choreography and often selecting themes centred on the local Chinese community. The dance company is highly associated with highlighting intercultural collaboration and embracing diversity. In 2006, with the nebular concept of Shang Jian Yi Jia (one family regardless of whether disabled or normal), Anthony and Aman were invited to establish a wheelchair dance troupe, Shuang Fu Performing Arts Troupe. This article explores the interaction between Dua Space Dance Theatre and Shuang Fu Performing Arts Troupe in terms of dance training, performance, artistic development, and its contribution to the collaboration of international disabled dance practitioners and producers. Their collaboration promotes innovation in dance-making, advocates accessibility to dance appreciation, and challenges disability stereotypes. Through interviews an.....

Article Published 2024 511 hits Available

The estimation of Cobb-Douglas production function parameter through a robust partial least squares

Enaami, Maryouma

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The Cobb-Douglas production function (Cobb and Douglas, 1928) is still today the most ubiquitous form in theoretical and empirical analyses of growth and productivity. The estimation of the parameters of aggregate production functions is central to much of today_s work on growth, technological change, productivity, and labour. Empirical estimates of aggregate production functions are a tool of analysis essential in macroeconomics, and important theoretical constructs, such as potential output, technical change, or the demand for labour, are based on them. It is usually fitted by first linearizing the models through logarithmic transformation and then applying method of least squares (Prajneshu, 2008), but the ordinary least squares (OLS) is not the best estimation method (Kahane , 2001). In statistics and econometrics, more and more attention is paid to techniques that can deal with data containing atypical observations, which can arise from outliers, miscoding, or heterogeneity and no.....

Article Published 2011 276 hits Available

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