For this special issue on “New Generation Women's Fiction from Taiwan,” we have specially invited Professor Lee Kuei Yun of the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature at Taiwan's Tsing Hua University to be guest editor and take responsibility for the selections. Because of space limitations it has been possible only to select twelve short stories by eleven woman writers. These writers were all born in the 1970s or later and their works were published in the year 2000 or later. Thus, they represent a period of social change in twenty-first century Taiwan and the spirit of the new generation. The introduction that we asked Professor Lee to provide is entitled “Trauma, esire, Contemporary Women's Voices.” Aside from giving a brief account of the eleven writers and their works, Professor Lee sketches “a number of writerly qualities that become perceptible… [that] represent the internal trauma, female consciousness, physical lust, cat-uman metaphors, and everyday life, etc.” In her introdu
地形學被稱為地質學的最後一章，也是地理學的第一章，是探討地表的起伏、成因與人們如何利用的學門。地形學對自然地理而言，是主要的知識架構之一，提供我們系統研究地球科學與人地互動的基礎概念。地表的地形作用改變了地形，產生變遷。這是地表的自然作用，然而也對人類社會有許多的影響。當超過人們可以承擔的限度時，就形成災害，因此人們需要面對地形災害的成因與如何減少災害的損失。【關於臺灣地形研究室】成立於1992年的「臺灣地形研究室」，過去30年來致力於臺灣地景的保育工作，從概念的推廣到推動地質公園的入法，都是我們努力的方向。研究室持續提供相關政府部門地景保育研習與環境教育的課程，並協助相關國家公園、國家風景區、地質公園等調查與規劃研究。研究室每年出版兩期《地景保育通訊》，並陸續進行合作出版《Geoparks of Taiwan》（Springer）、《臺灣的國土監測報告》、《地形圖中的福爾摩沙》、《氣候變遷中的國家發展藍圖》、《臺灣的天然災害》、《臺灣的十大地理議題》等書。近年研究室除了持續沖蝕監測、高精度航空攝影等相關地形變遷研究外，並致力於推動臺灣地質公園與國際地質公園及保育運動接軌、解說員的培訓與認證、讀景運動等地景保育工作。
書系名稱：East-West Cultural Encounters in Literature & Cultural StudiesTHE TAO OF S is an engaging study of American racialization of Chinese and Asians, Asian American writing, and contemporary Chinese cultural production, stretching from the nineteenth century to the present. Sheng-mei Ma examines the work of nineteenth-century “Sinophobic” American writers, such as Bret Harte, Jack London, and Frank Norris, and twentieth-century “Sinophiliac” authors, such as John Steinbeck and Philip K. Dick, as well as the movies Crazy Rich Asians and Disney’s Mulan and a host of contemporary Chinese authors, to illuminate how cultural stereotypes have swung from fearmongering to an overcompensating exultation of everything Asian. Within this framework Ma employs the Taoist principle of yin and yang to illuminate how roles of the once-dominant American hegemony—the yang—and the once-declining Asian civilization—the yin—are now, in the twenty-first century, turned upside down as China rises to writ
本書在自然與身體感受性的脈絡下，思考禮儀中的象徵在修身及教化中所扮演的關鍵地位。本書溯源到文化源頭的先秦、兩漢時期，說明自然節氣如何影響身體經驗，在對天道的體察中，從而形構物的象徵與身體隱喻。本書透過秦漢禮儀中象徵的細部分析，說明象徵符號與自我的形構、身心轉化，人我關係定義以及倫理的秩序有密不可分的關係。「象徵」既反映著自然風土與物之質性，同時也反映著不同的地方文化所形成的文化心理及身體經驗。修身與教化的理想在體察自然節氣和風土、透過象徵以調節人情中亦得到實踐。This book investigates the key role of symbolism in self-cultivation and moral education in the context of nature and bodily senses. Through detailed analysis of symbols in the etiquette of Qin and Han China, this book illustrates the inseparable relationship between symbolism and self-construction, transformation of body and mind, the definition of human-self relationship, and the order of ethics. “Symbol” not only reflects the landscapes and things, but also reflects the cultural psychology and physical experience formed by different local knowledge. The practice of self-cultivation and morality is also in the process of interpreting nature and regulating human sentiments through symbols.
