Esmail Khoi: The Poet as Observer and Creative Explorer

This article focuses on how Esmail Hkoi poetically inhabits the world of his poetry as an observer and visionary explorer. Its aim is to make manifest how he engages his readers in reciprocal poetic dialogues to communicate his unique vision of the lived world. The dialogic function of his poetry is then examined as the ground of emergence of an experiential poetic mode of knowledge of the human condition. The article also considers Khoi's poetry as work done in the fields of language, alchemically transmuting everyday language of communication into poetic discourse. Finally, an analysis of his poem “To the Aged Mulberry Branch” explicates how Khoi can create a world of imagination whole and entire unto itself by his minimalist approach to poetry.     

孔子：战后美国华人餐饮的文化标记——基于美国主要报纸的考察

本文引用美国报纸上对华人餐馆的宣传报道,介绍了美国中餐馆注重建立与中国文化圣人孔子的联系、将孔子融人餐馆品牌之中的特色宣传策略,认为中餐能一直吸引着成千上万的消费者,不仅因为华人餐饮以中国为源的表面现象,而是有着更深层次的文化共识。孔子就是这一共识的核心。华人餐饮以孔子为品牌魅力,抓住美国民众熟悉孔子的现象,积极渗入美国非华裔社会的饮食文化。研究餐饮文化中的孔子是我们考察华人群体心理变化、现实处境和美国族裔关系变迁的独特视角,值得学术界利用跨学科方法进一步探讨。     

賈島之詩人形象:在虛與實之間

今天,賈島的詩人形象包括三個要素:還俗詩人、韓門弟子、苦吟派詩人。著名的"推敲"故事更是增强了這些要素的影響力。本文對有關賈島的早期傳記資料進行了詳細考察和比較整理,以此追尋傳統賈島形象的構成要素的來歷。本文着眼於賈島和韓愈到了《鑑誡録》纔被緊密聯繫起來的事實,以及賈島殁後下層士大夫階層亦即寒士間擴散的尊崇賈島之風和近於悲壯的苦吟詩派的流行,力圖在其中尋找賈島詩人形象形成的原動力。     

Poet as politician: Venantius Fortunatus' panegyric to King Chilperic

In August 580 the Italian poet, Venantius Fortunatus, delivered a panegyric before King Chilperic and a synod of bishops assembled at Berny-Rivière to hear the poet's friend and patron, Bishop Gregory of Tours, arraigned on a charge of treason. The poem has long and widely been interpreted as a dishonourable and opportunistic betrayal of the bishop, as the poet looked for more convenient patronage. This article argues that the poem must be analysed in its historical context and in its place in the poet's development of the genre of addressing the Merovingian kings. Such an analysis shows that the poet is using the panegyric with subtlety and political acumen to offer a formula for rapprochement between the king and his bishops, thus protecting his friend Gregory; and that more generally he is playing the traditional active role of a panegyrist in mediating between the ruler and his people, developing a distinctive image of Merovingian kingship as he does so.     

一个尼姑和一个女人

好多年以前，我写过一篇文章，题目叫《一个老尼的自述》，虽然那时候的想法很幼稚，但现在再翻一翻，我依旧觉得那个以第一人称自述的“我”是一个自己喜欢的人物，我喜欢她在生命中遇到的一切：包括做尼姑的经历、没有浪漫邂逅的婚姻、生活中积累的爱和感激、很多的孩子、以及能在小庙里侍佛颂经的晚年。     

近代河湟诗人谢铭与其诗

19世纪末到20世纪间,河湟地区涌现出了十多位对中华传统诗词有造诣、有成就的文人,他们创作并留下了数千首诗词作品,成为青海历史文化的宝贵财富。谢铭就是他们中的一员。他