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In this CIHK webinar, we will discuss the material conditions of and historical background to the use of Classical Chinese or Literary Sinitic in writing-mediated brush conversation between literati of Sinitic engaged in cross-border communication within Sinographic East Asia or the Sinographic cosmopolis, which corresponds with today’s China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan (including Okinawa, formerly the Ryukyu Kingdom) and Vietnam. Compared with speech as a modality of communication, real-time writing-mediated interaction between talking humans, synchronously face-to-face, seems uncommon. In any society, speaking is premised on one condition: the interlocutors must have at least one shared spoken language at their disposal, but even then, there are circumstances under which speaking is either physically not feasible or socially inappropriate. Could writing function as an alternative modality of communication when speaking is not an option due to the absence of a shared spoken language, as in cross-border communication settings? Whereas real-time writing-mediated face-to-face interaction is rare where a regional lingua franca was known to exist (e.g., Latin and Arabic), there is ample historical evidence of literati of Classical Chinese or Literary Sinitic from different parts of Sinographic East Asia conducting ‘silent conversation’, synchronously and interactively in writing mode using brush, ink, and paper. Such a pattern of writing-assisted interaction is still practiced and observable in pen-assisted conversation – pen-talk – between Chinese and Japanese speakers today, thanks to the pragma-linguistic affordance of morphographic, non-phonographic sinograms (i.e., Chinese characters and Japanese kanji). We will outline the historical spread of Classical Chinese or Sinitic texts from the ‘center’ to the ‘peripheries’, and the historical background to the acquisition of literacy in Sinitic by the people there. Their shared knowledge of Sinitic helps explain why, for well over a thousand years until the 1900s, literati from these places were able to speak their mind by engaging in ‘Sinitic brush-talk’ 漢文筆談 in cross-border communication.
Event date: 13/5/2022
Speaker: Prof. David C. S. Li
Hosted by: Confucius Institute of Hong Kong, Department of Chinese Culture
- Subjects:
- Language and Languages and Chinese Language
- Keywords:
- History China Written communication Chinese characters Chinese language -- Written Chinese East Asia
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- Video
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Focusing on tensions and links between national formation and international outlooks, this talk shows how classical world visions persist as China’s modernizers and revolutionaries adopted and revised the Western nation-state and cosmopolitanism. The concepts of tianxia (all under heaven) and datong (great harmony) have been updated into outlooks of global harmony that value unity, equality, and reciprocity as strategies of overcoming interstate conflict, national divides, and social fragmentation. The talk will delve into two debates: the embrace of the West vs. aspirations for a common world, and the difference between liberal cosmopolitanism and socialist internationalism.
Event date: 16/9/2022
Speaker: Prof. Ban Wang
Hosted by: Confucius Institute of Hong Kong, Department of Chinese Culture
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- Diplomatic relations World politics China Civilization
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- Video
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During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the relaxation of the Ming sea ban, along with the arrival of the Europeans, generated a multipolar environment in East Asia. It revolved around the intra-Asian exchange centered upon Chinese silk and Japanese silver, and a nascent global flow of New World bullion to China and spices for Western Europe. The situation changed during the mid-seventeenth century amid mounting restrictions on overseas contacts from the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan and the consolidation and militarization of Chinese merchants under the Zheng family. By 1683, when the Qing forced the Zheng to surrender and occupied their bastion of Taiwan, China had achieved naval preeminence in the East Asian sea lanes. Other than a few outposts, the Europeans had largely withdrawn from the area north of island Southeast Asia, which remained under the hegemony of the Dutch East India Company. In 1684, the Qing court legalized private trade and travel abroad, prompting another wave of overseas migration. Authorities in China and across eastern maritime Asia enacted policies that kept the Qing merchants and immigrants separate from the earlier Ming loyalists. Additionally, both groups of Chinese were accorded significant political, economic, and legal privileges. This infrastructure, backed by Qing naval power, paved the way for the “Chinese century” in maritime Asia.
Event date: 09/11/2022
Speaker: Dr. Xing Hang
Hosted by: Confucius Institute of Hong Kong
- Subjects:
- Area Studies and Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- Chinese diaspora Chinese Qing Dynasty (China) Southeast Asia
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- Video
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In this lecture, Prof. Sifakis will discuss the relevance of existing criteria for comparing human and machine intelligence and show some notable analogies and differences between scientific knowledge and that produced by neural networks. Emphasising that autonomy is an important step towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), he will present a characterisation of autonomous systems, and showing key differences with mental systems equipped with common sense knowledge and reasoning, and advocate challenging work directions, including the development of a new foundation for systems engineering and scientific knowledge, and the joint exploration of physical and mental phenomena that embody human intelligence.
Event date: 3/3/2023
Speaker: Prof. Joseph Sifakis
Hosted by: PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research
- Subjects:
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Keywords:
- Artificial intelligence
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- Video
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This study explained how it combined RV travel and camping, popular overseas, to create a brand that focuses on RVs' unique and personalized experience. It also analyzes how to create a new concept of RV travel and its financial benefits.
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- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
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- Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing Recreational vehicle camping Target marketing
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This study discusses a new concept of co-branding between a hotel and a tea brand, which has given both parties a unique understanding of IP cooperation, providing differentiated and personalized services to customers.
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- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- Strategic alliances (Business) Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing
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- Others
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This study discusses a new concept of afternoon tea takeaway with a stylish box design - a calendar box and a Christmas bear developed by Conrad Hotels and its revenue outcomes.
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- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- COVID-19 (Disease) -- Economic aspects Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing Restaurant management
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- Others
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This study analyzes how Shangri-La Hotel worked on the live-streaming room through platform promotion, increased live-streaming popularity, and order conversion rate.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing Internet marketing Live streaming
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- Others
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This study discussed a new hotel package, "Study+vocation," a marketing program of Shanghai Pudong Mandarin Oriental Hotel during the CO-VID 19 epidemic. It takes the stress out of families with working parents and provides a comfortable and reliable learning environment.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing Hotels -- Pet accommodations Family vacations Target marketing
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- Others
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This study discussed a new hotel package, "Study+vocation," a marketing program of Shanghai Pudong Mandarin Oriental Hotel during the CO-VID 19 epidemic. It takes the stress out of families with working parents and provides a comfortable and reliable learning environment.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- COVID-19 (Disease) -- Economic aspects Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing Target marketing
- Resource Type:
- Others