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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Chinese Philosophy"”.
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Evaluation of kindness tourism adopted from Chinese philosophy and its impact on sustainable tourism.
… into account the benefits of tourists. The Chinese philosophy-based concept “Kindness Tourism” (KT) is possibly one such solution. Since the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) 60th Anniversary & Conference in 2011, Kindness Tourism has received significant attention from many Chinese …
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Literary creation and cultural understanding: Reflections on Chinese culture in Andre Malraux's works and its influence on Malraux's career
… between Andre Malraux's literary creation and Chinese culture, especially Chinese philosophy and art. Malraux's appreciation of Chinese art was closely related to his knowledge of Chinese philosophies. For instance, in Chinese painting, he saw a philosophy of communion between man and the …
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Taoism and Contemporary Environmental Literature
… modern environmental problems to ancient Chinese philosophy. The thesis contains a preface that describes the historic roots of Taoism as well as an explanation of the Chinese terminology in the paper. The environmental literature is divided into three major groups and discussed in the …
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Nanjing Library: A Study of Intangible Contents of Architecture
… for our time(2005) while respecting traditional Chinese culture and philosophy. It proposes a solution to the conflict between traditional Chinese architecture and modernization patterned after the West. It is an attempt to respond to the question: how can these two different cultural and …
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Chinese instruments in a western contemporary idiom selected works of Chen Yi
… Points, Ancient Dances, Ning, Song in Winter, Chinese Fables and Ancient Beauty, which all contain Chinese instruments. Technical issues of combining Chinese and Western instruments are discussed, as well as Chinese philosophy and the arts that inspire the pieces. In addition, examples are made …
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Celebrating the Feminine: Daoist Connections to Contemporary Feminism in China
… masterpieces, known as the Daodejing. Classical Chinese philosophy has influenced and helped shape what feminism is today in China. For this project, I analyzed the use of language in the Daodejing to demonstrate the feminine imagery throughout the text. Secondly, the characters having …
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Chinese Voyages: Travels, Studies, Collections in the Pursuit of Organic Architecture
This study primarily investigates the Chinese voyages of the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) in his quest for organic architecture. While extensive research has been conducted on Wright's influence from Japan, his connections with China have been largely overlooked in scholarly …
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A New Perspective to Consider Rationality in Business Negotiation: Dao and the Doctrine of the Mean
… analyzes several significant ancient Chinese literary works to provide business negotiators with valuable insights and a new perspective to consider business negotiation. Negotiation theory often focuses on analyzing cases, experience, or doing simulations, experiments, surveys. There …
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Shanshuihua: ‘Mountain-water-painting’ for an ecological age
… painting’, within broader traditions of Chinese ink painting, or shuimohua, and, through links with ancient Chinese philosophies, considers its continuing relevance to contemporary painting, and modern ecological themes, both in China and beyond. The research initially assesses historical …
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Chinese Scholar Garden Detail with Grace of Rainwater
… This detail reflects the water principles of Chinese garden design with the wholesome idea of respecting water and thus treating it with grace. This detail transforms the stain of weathering into a graceful architectural detail embracing the aesthetics of rainwater in 18th century Chinese …
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The Heart Has Its Own Order: The Phenomenology of Value and Feeling in Confucian Philosophy
… for research in both phenomenology and Chinese philosophy, and the experiential analysis made possible by this approach offers greater possibilities for mutual understanding among various cultures in the world.
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Accountability in the context of civilization change in China
… continuum based on harmony ideas in ancient Chinese philosophy. As a result there are strong grounds for predicting that new forms of accountability will be based around groupings of organizations in provinces, geographical areas (river basins) and regions, feeding up to accountability for …
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Over the Desolation of Wildness Caresses the April Breeze
… of pacifism, drawing inspiration from ancient Chinese philosophy and the ongoing chaos caused by contemporary international conflicts. This work progresses through five movements, structured in an arch form that journeys from disturbing undercurrents of the opening, pushes to a climactic middle …
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Cultural perspectives of mental health beliefs and treatment expectations within the Chinese immigrant community
… the context of cultural perspectives within the Chinese immigrant community in the UK. Using a constructivist grounded theory methodology, intensive interviews were used to collect data from twelve participants. The participants were all first generation Chinese immigrants who had experience of …
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Encountering the nonhuman: body and ecological thinking in contemporary Chinese literature and vsual culture
… scrutinizes ecological imaginaries portrayed in Chinese literature, film, and art of the twenty-first century. I contend that comprehending the interconnectedness between human and nonhuman entities is paramount for fostering ecological awareness amid the unfolding climate crisis. My research …
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The First Child in a Chinese Family Who Could Read Prior to Entry into Elementary School: A Qualitative Intrinsic Case Study
… of the literacy-related human environment a Chinese girl experienced as the first person in the history of her family who was able to read prior to entry into elementary school. Temporally speaking, the study spanned more than a decade from the initial, tentative research question to the …
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Processing of proper names in Mandarin Chinese : a behavioral and neuroimaging study
… several thousand years in ancient Greek and in Chinese philosophy of language (e.g., Kripke, 1972; Wu, 1997). Furthermore, this dissociation has been supported by experimental data (e.g., Müller & Kutas, 1996) and case studies (e.g., Lyons, 2002). This dissertation explores the processing of …
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“Dancing in shackles”: How the professional knowledge of university-based teacher educators develops in a complex authority dynamic in China
… and associated activities—unique phenomena in Chinese teacher education shaped by a top-down system in which national policies exert significant influence over educational practices. The central research question is: What is the nature of university-based teacher educator knowledge in the …
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Re-appropriating Chinese Art in the Context of Digital Media: From the Chinese Past into a Mediated ‘Presence’ through Creative Practice
In this thesis, I argue that traditional Chinese thinking and its manner of approaching art can be successfully expanded onto a different platform: digital media art. My research (both in theory and practice) shows how this transformation expands the notions of time and space and forges new …
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