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Publication Grammatical roles, Coherence Relations, and the interpretation of pronouns in Chinese(Springer Verlag, 2016-12) Simpson, Andrew; Wu, Zoe; Li, YanThis paper reports on an experimental study of the interpretation of pronouns in Chinese which provides additional support for the proposal in Yang et al. (1999, 2003) that the resolution of pronominal reference in Chinese is more influenced by syntactic information than often assumed in approaches to discourse anaphora in Chinese such as Li and Thompson (1979), Givon (1983), Chen (1986), Christensen (2000), and Pu (2011), where the interpretation of such elements is solely attributed to semantic, pragmatic, and discourse structure-related factors. The paper makes use of a series of sentence completion tasks, adapted from Kehler and Rohde (2013) for Chinese, to try to tease apart the often complex roles played by syntactic position, Coherence Relations, and discourse structure.Publication Kyōgen-kigo: Love stories as Buddhist sermons.(Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, 1985-03) Childs, Margaret H.Publication The influence of the Buddhist practice of sange on literary form: Revelatory tales(Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, 1987-03) Childs, Margaret H.Publication A Case for Confucian Sexuality: The Eighteeth-Century Novel Yesou Puyan(The John Hopkins University Press, 1988-12) McMahon, KeithPublication Fleecing the Male Customer in Shanghai Brothels of the 1890's(The John Hopkins University Press, 2002-12) McMahon, KeithPublication Lessons from the Kokugo (National Language) Readers(The University of Chicago Press, 1993-05) Gerbert, ElaineKokusaika, or "internationalization," has been one of the most frequently used words in the Japanese media since the early eighties. Japan's increasingly active presence in the world economy has given rise to an active debate over the ways in which the citizenry of Japan will function as participants on an international stage in the twenty-first century. In Japan, as in other countries, awareness of the growing importance of international relations in national life has refocused attention on education. Official initiatives to meet the challenge began in August 1984 when Yasuhiro Nakasone, the prime minister at the time, established an ad hoc Council on Educational Reform to review existing educational practices and make recommendations for their reform. 1 Since then, efforts to enhance internationalization have focused largely on absorbing the increase in the numbers of foreign students, mostly from Asia, studying in Japan; providing for the education of Japanese children living overseas; instituting study abroad for upper secondary school students; and improving communication skills in foreign languages, primarily English.Publication The Value of Vulnerability: Sexual Coercion and the Nature of Love in Japanese Court Literature(Association for Asian Studies, 1999-11) Childs, Margaret H.Margaret H. Childs analyzes the attributes of "love" in the world of premodern Japanese literature. She concentrates on the emotional dynamics of love affairs in The Taile of Genji and other Heian tales in order to highlight the high value that both men and women placed on vulnerability. By linking love to pity or compassion, the author makes a case for what she terms "the erotic potential of powerlessness."Publication 由溫縣盟書最新研究成果再談侯馬盟書的年代問題(Society for the Study of Early China, 2013) Williams, Crispin; 魏克彬This paper reconsiders the dating of the Houma covenant texts in light of new findings from the Wenxian covenant texts. Dating of the Houma covenants has focused on matching certain names found in the Houma covenants to names and events in historical texts. These include the name of the sanctioning spirit invoked in the covenants, and that of the covenant lord overseeing the covenants. I argue that the sanctioning spirit is not, as is often proposed, a former lord of Jin, but a mountain spirit called Lord Yue, and, as such, has no bearing on the dating of the texts. I further argue that the use of the personal name of a Han lineage leader in the Wenxian covenants strongly supports the identification of the figure referred to as jia 嘉 in the Houma texts as the historical Zhao Jia (Zhao Huan Zi). I suggest that the mention of Zhao Jia in the recently published Chu-slips Xinian implies that Zhao Jia came to the leadership of the Zhao lineage around 442 B.C.E., well before 424 B.C.E., the date of his single-year reign reported in the Shi ji. I conclude that the Houma covenants include materials that may be linked to the Zhao Wu incident of the early fifth-century B.C.E., but that those materials in which Zhao Jia is named as the covenant lord probably date to sometime between 442 and 424 B.C.E.Publication Androgynous Beauty, Virtual Community: Stardom, Fandom and Chinese Reality Shows under Globalization(Syracuse University Press, 2012-01-01) Xiao, Hui FayePublication Interiorized Feminism and Gendered Nostalgia of The ‘Daughter Generation’ in Ning Ying's Perpetual Motion(Intellect, 2011-11-07) Xiao, Hui FayeNing Ying’s 2006 film Wuqiong dong/Perpetual Motion can be regarded as her first attempt to explore the genre of ‘women’s film’. Deviating from her previous neo-realist style, this film seeks to cultivate an alternative cinematic practice through developing a heavy-handed negative aesthetics. Ning Ying interiorizes the filmic exploration of female subjectivity in an enclosed time and space, which is constantly haunted by a spectral aesthetics characterized by audio-visual allusions to loss, grave, ruins and ghosts. However, the film’s radical content and alternative aesthetics are, ironically, packaged in prevailing consumer aesthetics and commodity fetishism on and off the silver screen. All these competing drives and accounts render the film a contested narrative constantly oscillating between avant-garde feminism and domestic melodrama, and between a register of disintegrating sisterhood and a celebrity scandal of adultery. This article examines the discursive and aesthetic innovations, contradictions and limits of Ning Ying’s cinematic feminism.Publication Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles: Redeeming the Father by Way of Japan?(British Film Institute, 2008-01-01) Xiao, Hui FayeIncludes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography. ix, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Publication Cross-Cultural Nostalgia and Visual Consumption: On the Literary Adaptation and Japanese Reception of Huo Jianqi’s 2003 Film Nuan(Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006-01-01) Xiao, Hui FayeAlthough not warmly welcomed by audiences in modernizing China, Huo Jianqi’s nostalgic melodrama Nuan has proven hugely popular and been critically acclaimed in thoroughly modernized Japan. This contrastive reception invites investigation into the basis for the popularity of Huo’s rural films in Japan. Clearly we should situate it in social and discursive conditions. In the face of problems caused by its modernization, a cultural discourse of imaginary nostalgia can create an idyllic past that provides psychological refuge for anxiety-stricken Japanese. Thus, furusato has arisen as the embodiment of the eternal “Japanese hometown.” Drawing on Linda Williams’s theories of melodrama, I underline the melodramatic structure of both Japanese furusato movement and the Chinese film Nuan to argue that the melodramatic adaptation from the original story into the current film plays a central role in assuring a smooth assimilation of the cinematic representation of Chinese ethnicity into current Japanese discourses of nostalgia. Moreover, Japanese visual consumption of cross-cultural nostalgia in the form of Chinese film melodrama further echoes the trends of internationalizing and feminizing furusato tradition evident in Japan.Publication The Institution of Polygamy in the Chinese Imperial Palace(Cambridge University Press, 2013) McMahon, KeithThis study examines Chinese imperial polygamy under two aspects, as institution and actual practice. Institution refers to its existence as a set of rules and expectations, practice to the actual ways in which imperial people carried out polygamy as recorded in both historical and fictional sources. The key to the institutionalization of polygamy had to do with the idea that a ruler did not engage in polygamy because he wanted to, but because he had to in order to fulfill his role as Son of Heaven. He was obligated to extend the patriline and was as if following a hallowed directive. Practice had to do with what rules and expectations could not control or predict, including how a man justified his role as polygamist, his polygamous transgressions, and how he dealt with the main challenge to polygamous harmony, women’s jealousy and rivalry.Publication An empirical study on the production of dou: Is native like performance attainable?(World Chinese Language Association, 2013) Li, YanThis study examines the production data of dou in a controlled elicitation task performed by English-speaking learners of Chinese. The results show that post-intermediate learners produced dou at a similar rate regardless of the type of NP that is intended to be quantified by dou , which indicates that learners in this group have not fully acquired or understood the use of dou. The advanced learners produced dou at a comparable rate to that of native speakers, and the production rate of dou by advanced learners varied in a similar way to that of the native controls, which indicates that, although advanced learners have not fully used dou in a native-like way, they are approaching greater understanding of dou's use. The results show that the syntactically obligatory dou is harder to acquire for English-speaking learners of Chinese than the syntactically optional dou. Based on subjects' performance, it is suggested that more emphasis be placed on the syntactically obligatory use of "dou" in CFL teaching.Publication Acquisition of the Aspectual Meanings of Negation Markers in Mandarin Chinese by English-speaking L2 Chinese Learners(Chinese Language Teachers Association, 2011) Li, YanPublication Understanding quantifiers and scope interpretations in a second language(The Editorial Office of Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2012) Li, YanPublication What English-speaking Learners of Chinese Don’t Know about Dou: -- A Study on the Acquisition of ‘都’(Chinese Language Teachers Association, 2012) Li, YanPublication 《与范围副词“都”相关的一个问题》 [A note on the Scope Adverb “dou”](Oxford University Press, 2000) Li, YanPublication Negotiating a Korean National Myth: Dialogic Interplay and Entextualization in an Ethnographic Encounter(American Folklore Society, 2011-09-01) Yun, KyoimThis article examines a discordant, collaborative telling of Korea’s founding myth, one accomplished by a traditional singer and two native folklorists, including myself. Highlighting the discursive and intertextual construction of talk, I demonstrate how the event’s participants coped with different agendas as we evaluated each other and negotiated our expectations regarding the myth’s content and performance. I argue that dissonant ethnographer-performer interactions such as this one warrant more study. Scholarly attention to the ways specific events and texts develop can help us better understand negotiations of power, authority, and participant roles, as well as the intertextual and intersubjective relations that constitute ethnographic encounters.Publication Science and Poetry: Narrativizing Marital Crisis in Reform-Era Rural China(Ohio State University, 2011-10-01) Xiao, Hui Faye