World Association for Chinese Studies

Dr. Martin Warnke - Leuphana University Lüneburg, Professor

EN: "Scoring – how the social credit system and disease prevention go hand in hand"

Abstract: The goal of a fully functional social credit system and the COVID prevention in the VRC have incidentally met in the last year. The paper discusses a research project that will investigate digital scoring strategies in the VRC and how they support each other.

Burcin Bedel - RTE University, Turkey, Research Assistant

EN: "'Chinese Thought' as Philosophy"

Abstract: The undetermined status of 'Chinese thought' has made it a margin phenomenon in Western academia. This paper explores why the term "philosophy" can be applied to Chinese thought, and how this would be helpful for comparative studies...

George T. Crane (关人杰) - Williams College, Professor

EN: "The Stability Dilemma of the Confucian-Legalist State"

Abstract: Confucianism and Legalism both endorse highly centralized monarchy as the best means for political stability. Ironically, however, the consistent preservation of centralized monarchy creates conditions and incentives that undermine the very political stability it seeks...

Thomas Weyrauch - German China Association, Dr. (LLD)

EN: "Kong Xiangxi's Pre-War Diplomacy"

Abstract: One of the most controversial figures in the Republic of China between 1928 and 1945 was the banker and financial politician Kong Xiangxi, who was related by marriage to Jiang Jieshi. His foreign policy activities are reduced in today's historiography to his contacts with the Axis powers...

Luo Huiling (罗慧玲) - Complutense University of Madrid, Dr. Associate Professor

EN: "China's Smart Power in the Actual Grand Chessboard"

中: 当今国际棋局下的中国巧实力

Abstract: 在当今世界"百年未有之大变局"的新秩序下，中国的"巧实力"战略也在逐渐发展之中。但客观看来，西方世界对于中国战略思维认识仍显片面...

Karl-Heinz Pohl (卜松山) - Trier University, Professor emeritus

EN: "The Contribution of Mencius on Chinese Thought"

中: 孟子对中国思想之贡献

Abstract: 本文论述孟子思想在中国思想史上有相当影响的三个论题：1.人性（性善；人与天的关系）；2.修养（心；"好然之气"），3.政治（民本思想；仁政）...

Sabina Knight (桑禀华) - Smith College, Professor

EN: "Translation and the Cultural Subconscious"

中: 翻譯與文化潛意識

Abstract: Translation is a love affair – however fraught – with language, but also a quest for knowledge, truth and beauty. Many talk about the ethics of translation, but what might translation bring to ethics in return?...

Yu Chengfa (余承法) - Hunan Normal University, Professor

EN: "Qian Zhongshu's Huajing Shuo [Theory of Sublimity] to Hua [Sublimation] and Jing [Realm]"

中: 钱锺书"化境说"考镜源流

Abstract: "化境"最初作为一个文艺美学术语，指文艺创作达到的出神入化境界。钱锺书将其挪移为翻译学范畴...

Jiang Lihua (蒋莉华) - Hunan Normal University, Professor

EN: "Cultural Communication through Multimodal Audio Description"

中: 多模态口述影像的文化传播

Liu Yunyan (刘云雁) - Hunan Normal University, Lecturer

EN: "The Dilemma of Translating Wei Yuan into English: Understanding Chinese Intellectual Self-retrospection"

中: 从英译魏源的困境理解中文知识分子的"自省"

Abstract: 魏源是晚清知识分子的代表之一，他的政论文中的"自省"突破了自孟子以来局限于道德话题的特质...

Fang Lu (吕芳) - Boston College, Associate Professor

EN: "Unlocking the Mysteries of Ren Hongyuan's Poetry and Poetics --An Interpretation of poet Ren Hongyuan's Memoir"

中: 解开任洪渊诗与诗学奥秘的一把钥匙 --读诗人任洪渊自传《他从几代人身边走过》

Abstract: 诗人、学者、教授任洪渊（1937-2020）是活跃于当代中国文坛愈半个世纪的一个独特存在...

Carole Ho Yan (何杏楓) - Chinese University of Hong Kong, Associate Professor

EN: "Global Foodscape in the Essays of Eileen Chang"

中: 張愛玲散文中的全球食景

Abstract: 張愛玲外型纖瘦，予人不食人間煙火之感，唯其筆下中西食事紛陳、敘寫細緻，構成了豐富的全球食物景觀...

Bo Cao (曹波) - Hunan Normal University, Professor

EN: "Chinese Music in Dream of Fair to Middling Women: Adaptation, Misreading and Back Translation"

中: 贝克特《庸女梦》中的中国音乐：改写、误读与回译

Abstract: 爱尔兰诺贝尔奖作家萨缪尔•贝克特的长篇小说处女作《庸女梦》是"引文、典故及元小说片段的拼缀物"...

Nakagawa Satoshi (中川諭) - Risshō University, Professor

EN: "About the Edition of 'Sanguo-Yingxiong zhizhuan' published by Zhihetang"

中: 关于致和堂本《三国英雄志传》

Abstract: 最近发现的《三国英雄志传》版本中，有一本叫做《新刻按鉴演义京本三国英雄志传》，是二十卷本...

Chen Shiru (陳室如) - Taiwan Normal University, Associate Professor

EN: "Positive or negative? The image of London in the travel notes and poems of overseas traveling in the late Qing Dynasty"

中: 光明或黑暗？晚清海外旅行詩文中的倫敦形象

Abstract: 倫敦為英國首都，晚清旅人造訪之際，正是英國國力鼎盛時期...

Lo Hsiu-Mei (羅秀美) - National Chung Hsing University, Associate Professor

EN: "Classical Poems, Translation Literature, and Ancient Jade Collections: The Late Period of Modern Female Poet Zhang Mojun in Taiwan (1949-1965)"

中: 古典詩文、翻譯文學與古玉收藏—近代女詩人張默君晚期的台灣歲月(1949-1965)

Abstract: 近代女詩人張默君於1949年搬到台灣定居後，關於其生活與創作面貌的資料並不太多...

Kuok Kei U (郭祺宇), Bo-En Chang (張柏恩), Pao Hon Lam (鮑翰林) - Pui Ching Middle School, Macao

EN: "On the Meaning of Literature Transmission: A Case Study of the Rhyming Poems Inscribed on Stones of the Temple of Mazu in Macao"

中: 文學傳播的意義----以澳門媽祖閣石刻題詩步韻為例

Abstract: 清朝乾隆五十二年，時任廣州知府的山西人張道源因公務來澳門，在媽祖閣石壁上題了一首五言律詩，後之來者紛紛題詩步韻...

Zhang Ji (张霁) - Donghua University of Technology, Associate Professor

EN: "A Study on the Interactive Relationship between Syntactic Construction and Semantic Meaning in the Structure of Verb as Attributive in Ancient Chinese"

中: 古代汉语动词作定语的句法语义互动关系分析

Abstract: 古汉语动词作定语结构中，句法语义是相互制约相互影响的...

Luo Shihan (罗时汉) - Yangtze River Daily, Chief Editor

中: 论汉口城根汉正街及其嬗变或消亡

Abstract: 据80年代末出版的《武汉地名志》描述，明清之季形成的汉正街是汉口的城市之根...