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SUSS Humanities Series

Chief Editor: Professor Eddie C. Y. Kuo

The SUSS Humanities Series of books aims broadly to examine trends in Cultural China. The notion of Cultural China transcends political or geographical boundaries. While its point of origin is China, Cultural China includes scholarship across different parts of the world where ethnic Chinese have resided. In this context, the issues that it covers range from the concerns of Chinese society in Southeast Asia; the grassroots movements in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan; Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese literatures, to the transnational phenomenon of Chinese popular culture.

All publications are available for sale on World Scientific's website. For enquiries, please email ccs@suss.edu.sg.

 

新跃人文丛书

总主编:郭振羽教授

《新跃中华人文丛书》是以“文化中华”为主轴的学术系列专著。“文化中华”中的“中华”不以政治实体或者地理位置来定义,而是以起源于中华大地、流播到五洋七洲的今日华夏文明为定位。《新跃中华人文丛书》涵盖的课题包括东南亚华社研究;中国、香港和台湾的基层运动;新马华文文学以及华语流行文化的跨国现象。

丛书可在世界科技出版集团网站上购买。若有疑问,请通过ccs@suss.edu.sg与我们联系。

第一册:《新马华文文学研究新观察》Volume 1: Contemporary Chinese Literature in Singapore and Malaysia

Editor: Luo Futeng

This volume contains nine theses written by graduates of SUSS Chinese Bachelor and Master programmes. The contents are divided into two broad categories. The first category examines the thoughts and developments of the different genres of Chinese literature in Singapore and Malaysia. Examples include the influence of the Nanyang University Poetry Society on Singapore Chinese literature, and the struggle of the 'left-wing' Malayan Chinese literature. The second category covers the analysis of Chinese literature written by authors from Singapore and Malaysia. These authors include Yeng Pway Ngon, Chen Qing Shan, Shang Wan Yun, Xi Ni'er, Lim Lian Geok, Ly Sing Ko and Tham Yew Chin. The writers are novice critics who present a refreshing perspective to the analysis.

 

第一册:《新马华文文学研究新观察》

主编:罗福腾

收入本册的九篇论文,几乎全部选自新加坡社科大学中文课程毕业生的学士和硕士学位论文。根据内容大致可以分为两类。

一类是有关新马文学流派、思潮与发展的宏观描述。包括“南大诗社”与新华文艺、马华左翼文学的奋斗经历等论题。

另一类论文是有关新马华文作家作品的解读和分析的。讨论的作家英培安、陈晴山、林参天、商晚筠、希尼尔、林连玉、李星可、尤今等。论文作者都是初出茅庐的文学评论新手,对新马文学作家作品的分析与解读也体现了作者们独有的全新观察。

第二册:《新加坡华语应用研究新进展》Volume 2: Chinese Language Usages in Singapore

Editor: Luo Futeng

The eight theses in this volume delve into the usage of Chinese language in Singapore’s context. The topics discussed include conversational Chinese, Chinese nomenclature for residential buildings and signage; complimentary and condolence messages in Chinese newspapers; Chinese language broadcasting; as well as assessment of translation.

In what ways do Mandarin or Chinese-dialect speaking patients converse with doctors? What are the characteristics of the Chinese nomenclature of residential buildings in Singapore? What sociolinguistics can you observe from the Chinese names used by hawker stalls? How has the usage of the congratulatory and condolence messages in Chinese newspapers changed over the years? How should the English-Chinese translation in Singapore be assessed? The explanations and answers to the above questions can all be found in this volume. These articles have not only expanded the extent of applied research on Chinese language in Singapore but also provided useful suggestions on its usages.

 

第二册:《新加坡华语应用研究新进展》

主编:罗福腾

收进该册的八篇论文讨论的都是本地华语、华文实用课题,涉及口语交际、住宅和招牌命名、报章挽词贺词、广播语言、翻译评估等多个方面。

本地医患之间的语言交际情况是怎样的?本地公寓住宅的华文名称有什么特色?本地华人食品摊位的命名有哪些特征?几十年来华文报刊上的贺词、挽词有什么发展变化?中英翻译语言该如何评估?上述问题都可以在本论文集中找到解释和答案。这些论文不仅拓宽了本地华语应用的研究领域,而且对华语华文的使用提出了积极的建议。

第三册:《新加坡华文教材研究新视角》Volume 3: Chinese Language Education in Singapore

Editor: Luo Futeng

The main research theme of the eight dissertations in this volume is the developments and changes of the policies, curriculum, and assessment of Chinese language textbooks used in primary schools, secondary schools, and junior colleges over the past decades.

The compilation of local Chinese language textbooks is an important component of the Chinese language teaching system. What changes have primary schools' general Chinese language and higher Chinese language textbooks undergone over the past decades? How did secondary school Chinese language textbooks evolve in tandem with the changes in the government's language policies? What are the changes in the classical Chinese essays used in junior colleges? The authors have put in immense efforts in the compilation and research of Chinese language, and we trust you will be able to obtain a clearer picture of the answers to the above questions after reading this volume.

The authors of this volume have all gone through the local education system and have a good grasp of the developments of the Chinese language textbooks in Singapore.

 

第三册:《新加坡华文教材研究新视角》

主编:罗福腾

收入该册的八篇论文,重点研究的是新加坡统编小学普通华文教材、小学高级华文教材、中学华文教材以及高中文言文教材数十年来的方针政策、课程纲要、考核评鉴等的发展与变迁。

本地华文教材编写,是华文教学体系里极其重要的组成部分。几十年来,本地的小学普通华文和高级华文教材经历了怎样的变迁?中学华文教材是如何跟随政府的政策而演变的?高中华文教材的文言文篇章有哪些变动?本地从事教材编写、研究、实践的老师们在这方面倾注了大量的精力。相信读者们在阅读本论文集之后,一定会对上述有关问题得出清晰的印象。

该册论文的作者全部来自本地教育系统,因此对华文教材的感知、把握、分析十分到位。

第四冊:《新马华人的中国观之研究(1949-1965)》Volume 4: A Study of the Changing Perceptions of China in Singapore and Malaysia, 1949-1965

Author: Lu Hu

Singapore/Malaysia and China experienced political transformations during the period of 1949 to 1965. The flow of migrants, investment, goods, and printings declined significantly while the exchange of ideas and concepts assumed an unprecedented vitality and became the main form of interaction. The emergence of various changing perceptions of China such as 'New China', 'Communist China' and 'Rising Asian Power' among the Chinese in Singapore/Malaysia became a prominent element of such phenomena. The presence, changes, and conflicts of these perceptions of China were internalised as dynamic forces, influencing to varying extents racial relations, political evolution, cultural integration, foreign policy, and even the formation of Malaysia in 1963. This book suggests new understandings of the role of the China factor in the post-war history of Singapore and Malaysia.

 

第四冊:《新马华人的中国观之研究(1949-1965)》

作者:鲁虎

1949到1965年期间,新马和中国都经历着政治巨变。两地外交、移民、投资、货物、书刊等方面的交流,与1949年前相比明显减少,而思想观念的冲击却相应上升为主要的互动方式。从新马华人来看,“新中国”、“共产主义中国”、“崛起的亚洲大国”等各种类型的中国观的出现和冲突,成为这一现象的突出表征。各类中国观交错纷呈,相互作用,内化成为促成新马变革的动因,对新马的族群关系、政治演进、文化融合、对华政策甚至国家组成形式都带来了不同程度的影响。本著尝试通过对新马华人中国观的历史研究,呈现新马、中国互动的变迁和活力,并重新审视这段时期中国对于新马的意义。

第五册:《“无上”文明古国:郭实猎笔下的大英》Volume 5: The Old Supreme and Civilised Empire: Images of Great Britain as Portrayed by Karl F. A. Gützlaff (1803-1851)

Author: David K Y Chng

Karl F. A. Gützlaff (1803-1851) was by far the most colourful and controversial Protestant missionary. He played an important role in Sino-Western relations during the first half of the nineteenth century, as a historian put it, "for two decades, [he] had a part in almost every major event on the China coast". He was a prolific writer. Besides works written in English, Dutch, and German, he produced 63 Chinese religious and secular works.

In 1867 Alexander Wylie produced a comprehensive bibliography of Protestant writings in Chinese entitled Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese. The bibliography lists a Chinese title Da Yingguo tongzhi (A history of Great England) written by Gützlaff. Almost one and a half century later we realised that this piece of information needed to be rectified. As a matter of fact, Gützlaff wrote two separate works with the identical title Da Yingguo tongzhi. One, written in the form of fiction, depicts governmental, religious, and other aspects of England in the 1830s, while the other, written in the form of prose, chronicles the history of England from the conquest of Britannia by the Romans to the times of William IV (reigned 1830-37). A copy of the former is available in the Harvard-Yenching Library while the only copy of the latter believed to exist in the world is housed at the Leeds University Library.

The monograph consists of two parts. Part I deals with dates of composition, and years and places of publication of both Da Yingguo tongzhi. It also examines the politics of the translation of the two terms which appear in both History of Great England. Under the Qing Celestial Empire institution, Great Britain, together with other tributary countries such as Korea, Ryukyu, and Vietnam, was regarded as a small country, and her ruler was deemed equivalent to a Chinese courtier of the second rank. In order to uphold its honour and prestige, Gützlaff adopted the referent "Da-Ying (guo)", literally "Great England", to place England on an equal footing with the Da-Qing (Great Qing) discursively. He also translates the title of the British monarch "king" as "huangdi 皇帝" (emperor) in Chinese. It then discusses the political implications and impact of the uses of both translated terms that eventually contributed to the demise of the Qing Celestial Empire discourse. Part II presents readers with modern punctuated editions of the two Da Yingguo tongzhi with annotations.

 

第五册:《“无上”文明古国:郭实猎笔下的大英》

编著:庄钦永

在中国近代史上,普鲁士新教传教士郭实猎(Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff,1803-1851)是个颇为重要和具争议性的人物。其后半生"二十年里几乎参与过中国沿海每一个重大事件",对中英两国的外交纷争扮演着举足轻重的角色。他一生译著中文书刊凡63种,对晚清经世学者的世界史地,以及太平天国的宗教思想有着显著的影响。1867年刊行的伟烈亞力《基督教新教在华传教士名录》记载郭实猎著有《大英国统志》一种。将近一个半世纪后,我们始发现这则信息必须修正。其实,郭氏著有二种同名异书《大英国统志》:一是学界均知道的,以小说体裁写成、记述英国概况,目前庋藏于美国哈佛大学哈佛燕京图书馆;另一是以散文撰写,今天仍静荡荡躺卧在英国利兹大学图书馆里。后一种由新嘉坡坚夏书院于1838/39年印刷问世,是世界上第一部以中文书写的英国史地书。唯自刊行后177年,就被尘埋,学者未知未闻,今日所见殆海内外仅有之孤本。是书之重现对新加坡中文印刷出版史,意义重大;它帮助我们厘清郭实猎译著的一些疑问。本书即是对这二部异书同名《大英国统志》进行较为深入的研究。

书分上下二篇:上篇是导论,先考证二书的写作背景、书稿杀青、刊行年份、印刷地等问题,次论其互文性创作技巧与书中信息之可靠真实性,后将它们置于晚清中英外交冲突场景中,对书中汉语译词"大英(国)"、"皇帝"的使用,及它们如何最终导致大清天朝体制的崩溃。下篇为二书之点校、注释本。有鉴于一般学者鲜有机会目睹这二书之全貌,所以笔者不厌其烦校定其文字、诠释其词语、疏通其内容、指明其失误,方便来日学者做进一步之研究。

第六册:《新华当代文学中的现代主义》Volume 6: Modernism in Singapore Chinese Literature

Author: Liw Pei Kien

Modernism in Singapore Chinese Literature authored by Dr Liw Pei Kien is an adaptation from her Ph.D. thesis. It is an investigation of the history and development of modernism in the field of Singapore Chinese Literature by various Singapore Chinese authors between the years 1965 to 2000.

This book examines the construction of a pluralistic paradigm and changes in the modernism of Singapore Chinese literature. In doing so, it contributes to a new understanding in the construction of modernity in Singapore Chinese literature.

 

第六册:《新华当代文学中的现代主义》

作者:刘碧娟

本书是作者收集梳理了大量而多元化的原始材料,展示在过往论述中被掩埋或遗忘的历史面貌。是经由历史脉络的重新梳理与理论的阐述,为已知或新出现的材料提出新的视角,让读者与研究者对于新华文学作品与文学史,有新的理解与认知。

全书分两个部分。上编“文学史与文学场”,这部分特色是以文学场域为方法,以文学社团与刊物为关注重点,建构新华现代主义文学的历史脉络与时代特征。

下编“作家专论”,从现代主义前期的“六八世代”作家群到60年代后的中生代作家,结合时代、思潮、经历、作品等编织而成的繁复网络,突出新华现代主义在文学史上的意义与重要性。

第七册:《万国地理全集校注》Volume 7: Wanguo dili quanji jiaozhu (The Annotated Universal Geography)

Editor/Annotator: Chng Khin Yong
Author: Karl F. A. Gützlaff

In the 1830s and 40s, Karl F. A. Gützlaff (1803-1851) was the most prolific Protestant missionary writer. Among his 60 odd Chinese works, Wanguo dili quanji (Universal Geography) was the most outstanding. Published in 1844 by the Chinese Union in Hong Kong, it occupies an important place in the history of Sino-Western cultural exchange. Late Qing scholar-officials Wei Yuan (1794-1857) and Xu Jiyu (1795-1873), authors of the Haiguo tuzhi (Illustrated Gazetteer of the Maritime Countries) and Yinghuan zhilüe (A Short Account of the Maritime Circuit) respectively, based their writings on this rare book. However, for the last three decades, academics believed it was not extant in any libraries. However, in 2003, a copy was discovered by this annotator in Leeds University Library in United Kingdom and hence The Annotated Universal Geography is produced. The preceding introduction in this annotated edition deals with the significant place of the Universal Geography in the histories of geography and thoughts in Modern China; the Chinese new terms that Gützlaff coined; and the misread and misinterpretations Wei Yuan and Xu Jiyu made while reading it.

 

第七册:《万国地理全集校注》

编辑:庄钦永

普鲁士新教传教士郭实猎(Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff,1803~1851)曾高喊「中国已经开放」(China opened)的口号,掀起西方商业界以及欧洲,特别是英国以及北美洲的美国传教界对中国宣教事业的热潮。

这部1844年由香港刊行、「世所鲜见」的世界地理书,在清廷被迫签下《南京条约》二三年后,闯进儒家典籍牢固统治的晚清士人学者的阅读世界里,成为一扇轩敞的窗牖。它带来了知识世界的冲击,开启了中国近代地理学的先河,推动了清代地理学的发展,其影响是极大且深远的。

这部《全集》校注本,为研究中西文化交流史、中国世界地理思想史提供第了一手素材。

第八册:《我们的电影,我们的家— 厦语电影与新马厦语身份的渐变(1948-1966)》

Volume 8: Our Films, Our Home – Amoy Films and the Changing Amoy Identity in Singapore and Malaysia (1948-1966)

Author: Yeo Min Hui

Amoy-dialect cinema is an understudied fragment of the past that is slowly fading away in our shared collective memory.

By examining extensive first-hand materials and drawing theoretical inspiration from the concept of music and territory by Deleuze and Guattari, as well as from Sinophone Studies, the author maps out the historical development of Amoy-dialect cinema and its ever-changing relationship with the ancestral home village, filling in narrative gaps in Amoy-dialect film history, and engages with the discourse of Sinophone Studies.

The book records the history of Amoy-dialect cinema in three main periods, taking readers on a journey back to the celebrated era of Amoy-dialect cinema from the 1940's to 1960's.

 

第八册:《我们的电影,我们的家— 厦语电影与新马厦语身份的渐变(1948-1966)》

作者:杨明慧

厦语电影是个鲜少人记得的华语电影片种,长久以来静默在逐渐老去的民间记忆里。

作者深入拷掘新马第一手原始材料与重访历史现场方法,援引德勒兹(Deleuze)与伽塔利(Guattari)的音乐和"畛域" (territory)的概念,以及史书美等人主张的华语语系理论,力图解构作为一个全然在祖籍地以外萌芽生长的方言影业的发展,及其与祖籍地之间不断变动着的关系,由此补充厦语电影的历史叙事,也借机反思华语语系研究的话语建构。

书中梳理了厦语电影三个不同发展阶段的演变:"南音与胶卷闽南乡土(1948-1957)""摩登福建歌曲与现代性大宇宙(1957-1962)""芗剧与三合一体的胶卷畛域(1962-1966)",把读者带回厦语电影在新马曾经风光一时的40至50年代,重新发现与了解那个时代脉络中的活跃生命力。

ccs publication humanities volume 9 book coverVolume 9: Building and Strengthening Singapore's Early Childhood Education Research

Edited by Sin Joo Ee

This book is a compilation of the best nine theses from the inaugural batch of students in the Master of Education in Early Childhood Education (Chinese) programme, a collaboration between Beijing Normal University (BNU) and SUSS. It is also the first book published on this topic, that is, early childhood Chinese education in the Singapore context.

Topics covered by these experienced teachers in early childhood education include: 1) professional development, identity, and teaching amongst early childhood Chinese teachers in Singapore and 2) the effects of teaching methods, curriculum, and tools on the development of children.

 

第九册:《根植与共建——新加坡学前教育研究》

主编:陈如意

新加坡是一个多元种族、语言、文化、宗教的国家,在这种多元文化背景之下,新加坡的学前教育也形成了独特的风格。

书中收录了新加坡社科大学与北京师范大学联办的第一届学前教育方向教育硕士专业课程的九篇毕业生论文,可说是新加坡首本有关学前教育的华文研究论文集。

这些论文分为“专业发展”和“实践研究” 两大主题,取材都一一体现了新加坡幼儿教育在革新与发展中具有研究与实践价值的实质问题。

ccs publication humanities volume 10 book coverVolume 10: Towards an Environmental Ethics: a Study of Ecology Writing in Malaysia and Singapore's Chinese Poetry and Proses (1976-2016)

Author: Teo Sum Lim

This book aims to raise concern and awareness about the ecological environment of the land we live in by using the method of ecological criticism. With ecological criticism, people worldwide will continue to defend our landscape of rivers and mountains, rethink the organic connections between ecology and nationalities, ecology and humanities, and globalisation and modernisation.

The author disassembles "environmental ethics" into four categories: political ethics, humanistic ethics, social ethics and scientific ethics. Along these lines, this book summarises Malaysia and Singapore’s Chinese ecological writing into four major areas, and these four areas of ethics not only constitute the ultimate environmental ethics of man and nature, but also form the core of this thesis, that is, "towards an environmental ethics".

 

第十册:《朝向环境伦理:新马华文诗文中的生态书写(1976-2016)》

作者:张森林

本书从政治伦理、人文伦理、社会伦理、科技伦理的角度,探析新加坡和马来西亚华文诗文中的生态书写,冀望人类能够从多元视角来探讨生态环境。全书共分六章。书中结合创作文本和时代背景,运用自然学科的知识,深入思考文学创作中的人与人、人与环境之间的相互关系。

作者尝试以这种新的视角,探索现代化和全球化情境下人类与大自然的共存关系,交织成人与自然界最终的环境伦理,也构成了本书的论述核心,即“朝向环境伦理”。

ccs publication humanities volume 11 book coverVolume 11: Unity in Diversity: Language and Society in Singapore

Authors: Eddie C. Y. Kuo, Luo Futeng

The authors present a holistic observation of the implementation and progress of Singapore’s language planning and bilingual education policies since the nation’s independence. This is done through analysing data gleaned from years of national census and large amounts of historical facts, and setting the research from sociolinguistic perspectives.

The authors explore the current state of languages used by the four main local ethnic groups, and analyse linguistic attitudes, language of choice within the household, and the related cultural, educational, and economic factors. They also discuss important social sciences issues such as national consciousness, racial consciousness, and self-identity.

 

第十一册:《多元和统一:新加坡的语言与社会》

作者:郭振羽,罗福腾

本书借助历届人口普查数据以及大量史实资料,从社会语言学视角出发,全面观察新加坡自独立以来国家语言规划、双语教育政策的实施与发展,探讨四大族群的语言现状,分析各族群的语言态度、家庭用语选择以及与之相关的文化、教育、经济因素等,进而讨论国家意识、族群意识、身份认同等重要社会学课题。

ccs publication humanities volume 12 book coverVolume 12: Protestant Missionaries and Chinese New Terms: Da-Ying and Other Translated Chinese Names

Author: Chng Khin Yong

This book comprises five dissertations by the author on his research into vocabularies used in Chinese writings and translations by Protestant missionaries during the first half of the 19th century.

The first thesis presented in the book discusses the translated Chinese name for “Great Britain” – “da-ying-(guo)”, which is widely seen in publications and news media nowadays. Through the study of history, diplomatic paperwork of the Qing imperial government, history of ideas, and lexicology, the author meticulously traces the origin of the translated name, and events related to its use in early years.

The other four dissertations explore the Chinese terms used by Protestant missionaries namely Robert Morrison, William Milne, Karl Fiedrich August Gutzlaff, and Divie Bethune McCartee. Such terms span across a vast number of subjects that include names of places, religions, astronomy, geography, politics, and names of animals. The author sheds light on the sources of some of these terms and the creation of new terms by the missionaries.

第十二册:《四不像“大英(国)”及其它:新教传教士译笔下的新词》

作者:庄钦永

本书收录论文五篇,内容均是考察19世纪前半期基督新教传教士中文著译中的词语。

第一篇探讨的是一个今天常见于书刊、报章上,我们习以为常的汉译专名“大英(国)”。通过历史、清廷外交文书制度、思想史、词汇学等视角,著者细致深入追溯鲜为人知有关它的诞生历史背景、早期书写实践等等。

本书后四篇即对新教传教士马礼逊、米怜、郭实猎及麦嘉缔著译中一些汉译地名、宗教、天文、地理、政治、动物等词语求源溯本,厘清它们的“词籍”与诞生年份。

CCS Publication Humanities Volume 13 Book CoverVolume 13: Building and Strengthening Singapore's Early Childhood Education Research II

Edited by Sin Joo Ee

This book is a compilation of eight theses by the students from the first and second cohorts of the Master of Education in Early Childhood Education (in Chinese) programme, a collaboration between SUSS and Beijing Normal University. The theses are on early childhood education in the Singapore context.

Topics covered by the theses include the speech, psychological and behavioural aspects of preschoolers, children’s books and curriculum implementation, impact of COVID-19 on preschools, guardians’ selection of enrichment classes for toddlers, and last but not least, adaptabilities of preschoolers on first days of school. These theses aim to explore substantive issues in Singapore’s early childhood education and offer practical value to the reader.


第十三册:《根植与共建2——新加坡学前教育研究》

主编:陈如意

本书为新加坡学前教育研究论文集,共收录八篇论文,作者为新加坡社科大学和北京师范大学联办的学前教育方向的教育硕士专业学位课程第一和第二届的学生。

收录的八篇论文中,有三篇是面向幼儿的言语、心理和行为来开展;有两篇是探究读本以及课程的实施;有一篇探讨冠病疫情对园所的影响;还有两篇,分别是调查家长对幼儿兴趣班的选择,以及幼儿入园适应性的研究。这些论文的取材,都根植于本土,旨在探究新加坡学前教育存在的实质问题,具有实践价值。

CCS Publication Humanities Volume 14 Book Cover

Volume 14: Research on Central Provident Fund System of Singapore —Based on Historical Institutionalism

Author: Xiao Jinxi

This book offers a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the CPF system from a historical institutionalism perspective. It examines the system's institutional framework, management and operations, security plans and operational mechanisms, underlying core concepts, patterns and mechanisms of development and change, driving forces behind its evolution, system efficacy, external environment for its continued operation, existing issues, and challenges faced since its establishment in 1955. 

This pioneering study enriches and develops the theoretical research on the CPF system from a historical institutionalism perspective and has achieved some innovative research outcomes.

第十四册:《新加坡中央公积金制度研究——基于历史制度主义的视角》

作者:肖金喜

本书从历史制度主义的视角对中央公积金制度从1955年建立以来的制度体系、管理运营、保障计划和运行机制、背后的核心理念、发展变迁的模式与机制、发展变迁的动力机制、制度的效能、制度持续运行的外部环境、存在的问题与面临的挑战等方面进行了较为全面与深入的分析研究,开创了从历史制度主义的视角来分析研究中央公积金制度的先河,对中央公积金制度的理论研究进行了丰富和发展,并取得了一些创新性的研究成果。


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