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From Divine Discourse to Interpretations of the Classics

Research Article
1. From Cultural Renaissance to Cultural Reconstruction: Transition and Transformation of the Textbooks Writing of “History of Chinese Culture” for Junior High Schools in Postwar Taiwan
Long-Hsin Liu (Associate Professor, Department of History, Soochow University)

Introduction
Jing-Jong Luh (Professor, Graduation Institute of Philosophy, National Central University)

Special Issue Article
2. Spirit and Dialectics: The Effective History of Reformation to Classical European Continental Philosophy
Jing-Jong Luh (Professor, Graduation Institute of Philosophy, National Central University)

3. On the Metaphor and Figuring of Confessions: the Religious Dimension in Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics
Cristal Huang (Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Soochow University)

4. On the Reasons for Confucianism to Express Its Thoughts with the “Language Features of Moral Types”: An Analysis from the Reflection of “Scientific Knowledge” by Mr. Mou Zongsan
Hsin-Er Huang (Professor, Center for General Education, Chung Yuan Christian University)

5. The Philosophical Implications of the “Yin-Xun” in the Huai-Nan-Zi
Ming-Chao Lin (Professor, Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

6. The Influence of Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa on Zhiyi’s Interpretation of Chan
Wei-Hung Yen (Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Tunghai University)

7. Lê Quý Đôn’s Thought of Sympathy and the Concerned Integration of Three Teachings
Wei-Chieh Lin (Research Fellow, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica)

Research Note
8. “The Absolute” Eliminating all Contradictions: Cusanus’s View of God in Of Learned Ignorance
Yun-Ping Sun (Professor, Graduation Institute of Philosophy, National Central University)


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Research Article
1. The Sacred and the Profane: Preliminary Study of Masculinity in Buddhism Mission
Shwu-Wen Chiou (Department of International Affairs and Business, Nanhua University)

2. The Changing Identities and Ethnic Relationship in the Case of “Pingpu-Hakka”
Ming-Hui Chen (Ph.D. Student, Department of Hakka Languages and Social Sciences, National Central University)
Li-Jung Wang (Professor, Department of Hakka Languages and Social Sciences, National Central University)

3. A Study of Huainanzi Pingyi in Yuyue’s Zhuzi Pingyi
Pang-Fei Kwok (Professor, Department of Chinese and History, City University of Hong Kong)
Ting Choi (Senior Research Assistant, Department of Chinese, Hong Kong Nang Yan College of Higher Education)

4. On Wang Fu Zhi’s Li Ji Zhan Ju and the Related Issues of the Book of Rites in Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Chinese and Graduate Insitute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages)

Research Note
5. The Philosophical Origins of Buddhist Psychology and its Relevance to Modern-day Explorations of Mind: Taking the “Axial Breakthrough” as a Clue
Chien-Te Lin (Professor, Institute of Religion and Humanity, Tzu Chi University)


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Research Article
1. Political Discourse in the Renaissance: Brandolini’s Theory of Comparative Polity
Kuo-Hsien Hsu (Distinguished Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy, National Taipei University)

2. The Limits of Reflexive Love, Or A Zoepolitical Challenge
Kuo-Kuei Kao (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National Chengchi University)

3. David Bloor’s Philosophical Stance and His Case Study of Robert Boyle
Dong-Yuan Tai (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Center for General Education, National Tsing Hua University)

4. The Rising of Cat-town: The Formation of Cat-tourism Landscape at Houtong, New Taipei City
Wen-Chi Yeh (Master, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University)
Chih-Hung Wang (Professor, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University)


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Abstraction Vol.55, No.2

The Cultural Memories in Hong Kong

Introduction
Nicholas L. Chan (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Special Issue Article
1. A Study on Hou Wong Temple in Kowloon City with Reference to Song Wong Toi
To-Sang Yiu (Ph.D., Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Chin-Leung Wong (M.Phil., Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

2. The Identity Formation and Value Realization of a Eurasian: Canon George Zimmern in and out of the Hong Kong Periodicals
Nicholas L. Chan (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

3. Junior Secondary History and Chinese History Textbooks and the Historical Memory of the Second World War in Hong Kong since the 1960s
Wai-Li Chu (MPhil Student, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University)

4. Legalization of Politics: The Geopolitical Situations of Hong Kong and the Consolidation of Its Rule of Law in the Cold War
Sam C.W. Choi (Lecturer, Department of Asian and Policy Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong)
Nelson K. Lee (Lecturer, Department of Government and Public Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)


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Research Article
1. Pas de Deux of Climate Change and Water Consumption Industry: A Path Dependence Analysis on Water Resource Governance
Kuei-Tien Chou (Professor, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University)
Wen-Hsueh Zeng (Master, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University)

2. Land Regime and Economic Development in Qing Taiwan and Early Modern England: a Comparative Institutional Analysis of Governmentality
Wen-Kai Lin (Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica)

3. A “zhenyukuo” Confucian: on Ye Shi’s Shi Gong School
Jhih-Ching Liu (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, Hubei University Of Economics)

4. Catherine Malabou on Trauma: The General Theory of Trauma and the Reconfiguration of Traumatized Subject
Hsing-Yi Chiang (Appointment Assistant Professor, Center for General Education, National Tsing Hua University)
Chien-Kuo Wei (Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, National Chengchi University)

5. An OT Analysis of the Wh-Questions in Old Chinese
Yi-Chen Lin (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Chinese, National Taiwan Normal University)


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Academic Contribution of Ronald H. Coase

Introduction
Cheng-Ping Cheng (Associate Professor, Department of Finance, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology)

Special Issue Article
1. Coase Theory of the Firm: Property RightsIntegration and Corporate Governance
Alfred Li-Ping Cheng (Associate Professor, Department of Information Management and Finance, National Chiao Tung University; Policy Research Consultant, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research)

2. Transaction Cost Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategies: An Illustration
Using Two Taiwanese Firms
Shan-Yu Chen (Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Feng Chia University)
Chyong-Ling Judy Chen (Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Feng Chia University)
Ho-Don Yan (Professor, Department of Economics, Feng Chia University)

3. How New Institutional Economists Interpret China’s Great Transformation: Coase’s Book as an Example
Cheng-Ping Cheng (Associate Professor, Department of Finance, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology)

4. Remembering Ronald Coase and the University of Chicago Law School: From Transaction Cost to the Marketplace of Ideas
Ching-Yi Liu (Professor, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University)

5. HENA, Appreciation, and Coase
Steven S. Kan (Law and Economics Scholar without Academic Affiliation)

Research Note
6. In Memoriam: Ronald H. Coase and My Immersion in Law and Economics
Lawrence S. Liu (Chairman, CDIB Venture Capital Corporation)

7. Ronald H. Coase: A Wholesome Economist
Ruey-Hua Liu (Professor, Department of Economics, National Tsing Hua University)

Research Article
8. “Withered Tree” and “Lightness of Body”: An Interdisciplinary Discussion of Zhuangzi Commentaries, the Poet’s Embodied Cognition, and the Dialectical Diagnosis of the School of Physicians
Bi-Ming Tsai (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University)

9. Assimilation or Domestication? Historical Analysis on the Japanese Colonial Policies and Elderly Welfare in Taiwan
Hubert Liu (Assistant Professor, Department of Gerontological Care and Management, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology)


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Casino

Introduction
Cheng-Ping Cheng (Associate Professor, Department of Finance, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology)

Special Issue Article
1. The Cost and Benefit of Developing Integrated Resort and Gaming Industry in Matsu
Jiann-Chyuan Wang (Research Fellow and Vice President, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research)
Ching-Pin Fu (Senior Researcher, Industrial Economics & Knowledge Center, Industrial Technology Research Institute)
Tsung-Che Wei (Associate Research Fellow, The Third Research Division, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research)

2. The Arguments and Facts Against “Legalizing Casino Gambling in Designated Tourism Districts”
Chih-Kuei Yeh (Professor, Department of Tourism, Recreation and Leisure Studies, National Dong Hwa University)
I-Yin Yen (Corresponding author) (Assistant Professor, Department of Leisure Management, I-Shou University)

3. David Versus Goliath: A Comparison on the Mobilization of Supporters and Opponents in the 2009 Penghu Casino Referendum
I-Lun Tsai (Associate Professor, General Education Center, National Penghu University of Science and Technology)

4. Discuss Decriminalization of Gambling in the Social Change Perspective
Chia-Hua Wu (Ph.D. Student, College of Law, National Taiwan University; Judge, Taiwan Taipei District Court)

Policy Review
5. Offering a Developing Opportunity to Matsu
Suei-Sheng Yang (Doctor, Bureau of Health & Welfare; Pre-County Magistrate, Lienchiang County)

6. Inspecting Matsu’s Referendum on Setting Casino
Tsung-Hsun Ho (Convener, Alliance Against the Legalization of Gambling)

7. The Symposium on Taiwan’s Casino Industry
Chien-Feng Wei et. al.

Research Article
8. Levinas’ Criticism on Heidegger’s Ontology, from the Disparity of Dying and Death to Ethic: An Example on Being and Time
Wan-I Yang (Associate Professor, Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University)

9. Democracy, Equality, and Dialogue: The Ideal and Practice of Liberal Arts Education
Yu-Cheng Liu (Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Sociology, Nanhua University)


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