In this talk, I revisit the empirical domains that are initially taken to support the PSC. Regarding verb doubling, I propose that the phenomenon is not a repair strategy that amnesties potential PSC violations. Rather, verb doubling arises as a side effect of an optional syntactic operation that fronts VP to a clausal position in the preverbal field, in line with robust crosslinguistic correlations reported in Hein (2018). Data that apparently indicate that verb doubling is obligatory merely reflect independent interpretive constraints on object scrambling, which is known to exist in the language (Soh 1998). Time permitting, I will also go into external possession and ‘breakable compounds’, and demonstrate that the relevant restrictions that these constructions observe follow readily from the limited number of nominal licensors within the postverbal field (as inspired by Li 1985, 1990). 

The overall conclusion, then, is that there is nothing special about the Mandarin postverbal field. More specifically, under more recent theoretical contexts, the relevant word order phenomena can be captured under the same algorithms that linearise verbal dependents in head-initial languages like English.

 

Speaker 
Dr. Jackie Yan Ki LAI (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Jackie Yan-Ki Lai received his PhD in linguistics from The University of Chicago. Prior to his doctoral studies, he received his BA degree with First Class Honours and his MPhil degree from the University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong respectively. He is primarily interested in syntax, morphology, and the syntax–semantics interface, with specific focus on Chinese languages like Mandarin and Cantonese. Jackie works on dislocation, ellipsis, phrase structure, compounding, as well as topics of interest to researchers specialising in other subfields of linguistics. Currently, he is examining the syntax and semantics of the inner aspect -le in Chinese, a collaborative project being undertaken together with faculty members at CUHK.

Philosophical narrative is also a piece of philosophical meditation about what my generation has witnessed.. At the end of 1936, Karl Löwith (1897–1973), one of the “Children of Heidegger,” went into exile in Japan when Hitler came to power to persecute the Jews. He stopped at Keelung during his voyage and visited Taipei. Hung Yao-hsun (1903–1986), an assistant in the philosophy department of the colonial Taihoku Imperial University at that time, was enlightened by the Kyoto School’s contact with the existential philosophy in early Heidegger, and had already responded to the philosophy of early Heidegger and his Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics. Unfortunately, the two missed the chance to meet. After the war, I bought and read Mou Tsung-san’s Intellectual Intuition and Chinese Philosophy (1971) when I was in my fourth year of college, and began to understand the interpretation of Heidegger’s philosophy in the Chinese philosophical circle. In the 1970s, Mou and Tang came to Taiwan to give lectures when I was doing my master’s degree. They had a great influence on Taiwan’s philosophical circles. After half a century, from the diasporic perspective of the East Asian waters and islands, let us go back to Europe (Germany) and East Asia (Japan, colonial Taiwan and Hong Kong) in the 1930s, re-narrate how Löwith, Hung, Mou and Tang—all of whom had once sailed past the island—responded to the philosophy of early Heidegger, especially Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, and ask in this narrative context: What is a human being? How can one be in peaceful dwelling?

 

Speaker
Prof. Lin Chen-kuo
Professor Emeritus of the Department of Philosophy, National Chengchi University
Prof. Lin Chen-kuo is the Professor Emeritus of the Department of Philosophy, National Chengchi University. He was the former chairman of the Taiwan Philosophical Association and the convener of the Philosophy Division of the Ministry of Science and Technology. Prof. Lin has held various visiting positions at Leiden University (1999–2000), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2005), and Harvard University (2012), and has long presided over a number of integrated cultivation programs and research programs. Prof. Lin has published books and articles in Chinese, English, and Japanese, including Emptiness and Methods: Explorations in Cross-Cultural Buddhist Philosophy (in Chinese; Taipei: The NCCU Press, 2012); Emptiness and Modernity: From the Kyoto School, Modern Neo-Confucianism to Multivocal Hermeneutics (in Chinese; Taipei: New Century Publication, 1999); A Passage of Dialectics (in Chinese; Taipei: New Century Publication, 2002); and several articles in Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Journal of Indian Philosophy, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, and Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies.

The densely illustrated lecture will begin in the 4th Millennium BCE and run through to the Roman Period. The intent is to familiarise you with the major sites, the distinctive architecture for each period, burial systems and the approach to decoration. We will chart political developments that begin with unification through the Old, Middle, New Kingdoms and Late Period that include breakdowns, usurpations, conquests, and religious heresy. You will receive a basic understanding of the development and codification of the decorative schemes (Votive versus Funerary), the reading of datable iconographic stages and the technological developments in the production of the arts. Two intact tombs will be studied and compared: one private, the other royal. The salient characteristics of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods will demonstrate the final flowering of Egyptian art.
 

Speaker 
Dr. Eleni VASSILIKA
Keeper of Antiquities, The Fitzwilliam Museum (1990-2000); Director and CEO of the Romer-und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim Germany (2000-2005); Director of the Museo Egizio Turin Italy (2005-2014); Curatorial Director, The National Trust UK (2014-2016); Consultant and Researcher.

ZOOM Meeting ID: 990 8868 4183
Meeting link: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/99088684183

The intelligence gathering systems of the early modern European empires in Asia remain largely unearthed, as studies comparable to C. A. Bayly's Empire and Information (1997) lack for the period prior to the late eighteenth century. The Portuguese Estado da Índia, with its capital in the city of Goa, is certainly no exception: we know very little about the agents, networks, and technologies of information put in place by the Portuguese in the vast geographical area stretching from East Africa to East Asia. This paper seeks to contribute to fill this gap by suggesting a comparative analysis of two relevant cases involving indigenous informants who provided the Portuguese with intelligence about two distinct political landscapes in the second quarter of the seventeenth century. The first one refers to a report dated 1626 and offered to the authorities of Macau by the Chinese convert Salvador Dias on the situation of Taiwan. The second consists of a detailed picture about the situation in the Deccan sultanate of Bijapur in 1634 (on the eve of its submission to the Mughal Empire) prepared by an anonymous Hindu Brahman upon the request of the viceroy of Goa. Considered together, these two pieces open a window into the world of spies and political ethnography in "Portuguese Asia."

 

Speaker
Prof. Jorge FLORES
Department of History and Philosophy of Sciences, University of Lisbon
A major specialist in the social and cultural history of the early modern Portuguese empire in Asia, with a special focus on Mughal India, Sri Lanka, and the Malay Peninsula, Jorge Flores is the author of many publications, including the recent book Unwanted Neighbors: The Mughals, the Portuguese, and Their Frontier Zones (OUP, 2018). His future plans include a project about pictorial forms of political dissent and insult in Portuguese India, as well as a volume on Iberian Asia for Routledge.

ZOOM Meeting ID: 990 8868 4183
Meeting link: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/99088684183

講者
妙光法師
星云大师首席英文翻译、佛光山人間佛教研究院副院長、《佛光大辭典》英譯總召集人
妙光法師現任《佛光大辭典》英譯總召集人、佛光山人間佛教研究院副院長。妙光法師是星雲大師於世界弘法的隨侍英文翻譯，足跡遍及全球，曾在大師與教宗本篤十六世、馬來西亞兩任總理馬哈迪、納吉等世界宗教及國家領袖等人見面時擔任翻譯。同時著力於佛典翻譯、星雲大師全集、人間佛教研究專書等文獻的筆譯工作，旨在應用電腦輔助翻譯系統(CAT)、深度學習演算法(Deep Learning)與線上協作翻譯平台(Online Collaboration)等工具，加強佛典翻譯的品質與效率。

ZOOM及微信視頻號同步直播
ZOOM ID：910 6024 1050（無須密碼）

Completed in 2007, the project was launched by the mosque’s namesake, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding father of the UAE, who had a vision to establish an Islamic monument that would unite the cultural diversity across the Islamic world with the universal aesthetics of architecture and art. Thus the design of the mosque combines Fatimid, Mamluk and Ottoman styles as well as modern techniques, personifying the concept of beauty in diversity.

As a testament to Sheikh Zayed’s dedication to promoting tolerance, the Grand Mosque is not only a place of worship but also a message of love and peace to the world.

Speaker
Prof. James Frankel, Director, Centre for the Study of Islamic Culture
His Excellency Shaikh Saoud Ali Almualla (Consul General, UAE Consulate)
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque tour guide

(Open to CUHK faculty, students & members of the public)

The tour will be conducted by live guides, focusing on the history and architecture of the mosque, with an opportunity for Q&A towards the end of the session.

In this talk, Dr. Wagner will sketch how, in legal historical literature, Digital Humanities develop a profile distinct from literary, historical and empirical legal studies. In comparison to other literary genres, the law's emphasis on proven efficiency and predictability, rather than on originality, means that text re-use strategies are paramount. However, different legal contexts employ different terminology (what one English-language constitution calls a chamber, another may call a house) posing significant challenges. In contrast to ‘general’ historical studies, legal history is interested in extracting normative motives – prescriptions, conditions, roles – from sources directly rather than extracting events, persons, places and perhaps extrapolating historical regimes of normativity from that basis. Finally, compared with applied legal and empirical legal studies, the formulaic style that is common in legal sources (and convenient for processing) contrasts with the less-resourced and non-regular character of historical languages.

Speaker
Dr. Andreas Wagner, Digital Humanities Coordinator, Max-Planck-Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (Frankfurt)
Dr. Andreas Wagner is Digital Humanities Coordinator at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt, and collaborator of the project "The School of Salamanca" of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. He has obtained a PhD in philosophy in 2008, and has worked with digital methods and digital editions since 2013. In terms of DH, his main areas of interest are Digital Editions, NLP and Knowledge Graphs; however, he is also still studying and publishing on early modern political and legal thought. Topics of his recent publications include early modern international law, data modelling with uncertain knowledge, and text mining in legal history.

Digital humanities means many things to many people – we talk of DH as being a range of methods, technologies, theoretical approaches to ask and answer research questions. But unlike traditional forms of humanities research, the research projects is not often one that can be tackled alone. DH nearly always requires collaboration with people from different subject domains, with technical experts and often with non-academic staff such as librarians, museum staff or administrative support. This paper explores the impact of this growth in collaboration – and some of the questions it raises about the nature of DH research – who ‘owns’ the research, who is credited for it, how are collaborative research outputs sustained? But perhaps more fundamental is the question of the ‘soft’ and most definitely human skills that are needed to engage in a fundamentally digital mode of research.

Speaker
Dr. Megan Gooch, Head of the Centre for Digital Scholarship, University of OxfordDr Megan Gooch is the Head of the Centre for Digital Scholarship at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School. She works in the Bodleian Libraries and University administration service to support digital scholarship across the University. Megan previously worked in the museums sector and held jobs at Historic Royal Palaces and the British Museum in curatorial, public engagement and research roles.

Speaker
Chong HO (Art Director, CHONG HO ART JEWELRY)
WU, Ching-chih (Founder and Director, CC Gallery)
Yang Zhifeng (Guangdong Province Senior Arts and Crafts Artist, Provincial Arts and Crafts Master, Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Bearer, Creative Director of Guangzhou Chengfeng Enamel Art Studio)

17世紀晚期，來自西洋的畫琺瑯技術伴隨海禁的解除而傳入中國，廣東、北京清宮造辦處成為清代（1644－1911）金屬胎畫琺瑯的兩個重要製作中心。18世紀上半葉，廣琺瑯不僅借鑒明清外銷瓷及西洋藝術圖案，形成自身獨特的裝飾語言，製作外銷、內銷畫琺瑯產品，還為造辦處琺瑯作提供人員、技 術、原料等支持。乾隆二十年（1755）前後開始，乾隆帝經粵海關定期傳做廣琺瑯，用於清宮、圓明園、熱河、盛京的陳設以及日用、賞賜。宮廷成為廣琺瑯的重要消費者之一。廣琺瑯的技術與成本優勢更促使乾隆帝於1776年前後將金屬胎畫琺瑯生產主要交由廣東承辦，而造辦處琺瑯作轉而專注掐絲琺瑯製作。乾隆年間的廣琺瑯因此發展出更多的面貌，如除白地之外，松石地、寶藍 地、黃地畫琺瑯的興起，仿掐絲、仿古畫琺瑯器的製作，透明琺瑯的出現等等。與此同時，廣琺瑯更遠銷歐洲、中東，並因應目的地市場不同的需求和審美習慣，製作千面萬向的作品。18世紀晚期開始，伴隨清宮傳做的銳減、歐洲市場的萎縮、廣彩產量的飆升，廣琺瑯在延續18世紀藝術特色的同時，借鑒廣彩的造型和紋樣，積極開拓東南亞市場，並創建商業品牌。19世紀40年代特別是60年代以後，帶商號名款廣琺瑯盛行，見證近代商業的發展。講座旨在呈現清代廣琺瑯近二百年的發展歷程、藝術風貌、其所體現的不同地域或文化間技術與藝術的交流，及其因應市場變遷的調適。
 

講者
許曉東教授 (香港中文大學文物館副館長)
許曉東博士，香港中文大學文物館副館長。主要研究興趣為中國古代玉器、金銀器、琥珀及明清宮廷工藝、中西古代藝術交流。出版《遼代玉器》《中國古代琥珀藝術》《故宮玉器經典》等專著，發表學術論文五十餘篇，策劃展覽十餘個，並任展覽圖錄主編、撰寫專文及展品說明。