Disillusionment with Chinese culture in the 1880s : Wang Tao\u27s Three classical tales

Leading scholars of modern Chinese literature have long discussed how the May Fourth became a hegemonic force and have sought to uncover the “burdens of May Fourth”; that is, those discourses eclipsed by the May Fourth intellectuals as they promoted the goal of openness and pluralism in the New Culture Movement. They have discovered Chinese modernity in the Late Qing writings as early as the mid-nineteenth century, decades before the May Fourth movement. Particularly, some scholars have argued that features of modernity might have stemmed from indigenous genres or classical language. My study of how the West is portrayed in three classical tales written by the pioneering Late Qing thinker Wang Tao 王韜 in the 1880s contributes to this discussion. These three classical tales, “Biography of Mary” 媚梨小傳, “Travel Overseas” 海外壯遊, and “Wonderland under the Sea” 海底奇境, were first published as literary supplements in Dianshizhai Pictorial 點石齋畫報 and later reprinted in Wang Tao’s story collection Songyin manlu 淞隱漫錄. They are notable because they represent the first tales in Chinese literary history to imagine Western cities and Western women—as opposed to any other places or races or ethnicities—in a period when Chinese intellectuals had begun looking to the West for ways to modernize their nation.5 I argue that these three tales reveal signs of disillusionment with traditional Chinese culture surfacing as early as the 1880s, a time when most reformers were advocating solely for technological and institutional changes. Even more interesting, modern sentiments are expressed in classical Chinese. Wang Tao utilized the traditional narrative form of the classical tale to lament the degeneration of the very civilization in which it had flourished

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京都大学新制・課程博士博士(経済学)甲第24775号経博第670号新制||経||303(附属図書館)京都大学大学院経済学研究科経済学専攻(主査)教授 久野 秀二, 教授 田中 彰, 准教授 WANG Tao学位規則第4条第1項該当Doctor of EconomicsKyoto UniversityDGA

現場の制度的メカニズム：場所、個人、と実践

京都大学新制・課程博士博士(経済学)甲第24307号経博第659号新制||経||302(附属図書館)京都大学大学院経済学研究科経済学専攻(主査)准教授 WANG Tao, 教授 澤邉 紀生, 教授 山内 裕, 准教授 Thinley Tharchen学位規則第4条第1項該当Doctor of EconomicsKyoto UniversityDGA

Light subgraphs in graphs with average degree at most four

A graph $H$ is said to be {\em light} in a family $\mathfrak{G}$ of graphs if at least one member of $\mathfrak{G}$ contains a copy of $H$ and there exists an integer $\lambda(H, \mathfrak{G})$ such that each member $G$ of $\mathfrak{G}$ with a copy of $H$ also has a copy $K$ of $H$ such that $\deg_{G}(v) \leq \lambda(H, \mathfrak{G})$ for all $v \in V(K)$. In this paper, we study the light graphs in the class of graphs with small average degree, including the plane graphs with some restrictions on girth.Comment: 12 pages, 18 figure

Minimal counterexamples and discharging method

Recently, the author found that there is a common mistake in some papers by using minimal counterexample and discharging method. We first discuss how the mistake is generated, and give a method to fix the mistake. As an illustration, we consider total coloring of planar or toroidal graphs, and show that: if $G$ is a planar or toroidal graph with maximum degree at most $\kappa - 1$, where $\kappa \geq 11$, then the total chromatic number is at most $\kappa$.Comment: 8 pages. Preliminary version, comments are welcom