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)
Research Article
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)
This study investigates the transition management problems of water resource
under the water scarcity induced by climate change in Taiwan. From the
reflexive perspective, the authors examine the path dependence related to
governmental water resource governance contextually. By the disputable cases of
Jiji Dam, which supplies primarily to the most water-consumed petrochemical
industry, and Dadu Dam under planning, the authors analyze how the society
could go toward a sustainable transition and innovation. Through detailed
reading of malpractices in water resource governance and decision-making of
institutional rationality, decision-making science knowledge, economic mode,
social cognition, environmental and health cost and democratic participation,
the authors point out these structural path dependences would set the social
transformation in Taiwan locked into unsustainable knowledge, values and
institutions and delay the social transformation and innovation gravely. So the
authors suggest that Taiwan needs to reconfigure the long-term and innovative
social transition path, to establish dynamic values of water resource
management and institutional paradigms, and to redraft the path and blueprint
for social and economic development.
Keywords:
Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Transition Management, Reflexive
Governance, Path Dependence
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)
Taking land regime and economic development in Qing Taiwan and early
modern England as its point of comparison, this paper restudies “the great
divergence debate” incited by Pomeranz’s book. This paper agrees with Pomeranz
that there was a similar development on market economy and economic level in
late Ming/Qing China and early modern England, and that these two economies
underwent great divergence after England’s industrial revolution in late 18th
century. But it challenges Pomeranz’s explanation that industrial revolution
occurred because of exogenous and contingent factors. It demonstrates how
different institutions underlying the development of market economy in the two
regions gave rise to the great divergence. This paper provides a comparison of
land regime and governmentality in two regions. It suggests that the
development of English land regime and modern governmentality not only
facilitated the great expansion of commercialized agriculture, but also formed
the institutional basis for the Industrial Revolution. In contrast, Qing
Taiwan’s land regime and traditional governmentality could allow for the
development of commercialized agriculture and a market economy, but it could
not pave the way for industrial development.
Keywords:
Great Divergence, Land Regime, Traditional Governmentality, Modern
Governmentality
A “zhenyukuo” Confucian: on Ye Shi’s Shi Gong School
Jhih-Ching
Liu (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, Hubei University Of
Economics)
Ye Shi is considered to be the representative figure of the Yongjia School
whose research approach is often characterized by the so-called “Shi Gong”
preoccupation emphasizing some practical issues such as statecraft. This essay
intends to point out that his “Shi Gong School” is no less than the combination
of the method of statecraft and the way of inner quest, both pursued and
espoused by the traditional Confucianism. While this viewpoint is present
almost everywhere in Ye Shi’s thoughts, it is interesting to see in which ways
his “Shi Gong” is connected with the Confucian inner quest and to define what
this quest is to him. The interest, therefore, lies in bridging the exterior
statecraft and the interior pursuit. And since Ye Shi’s understanding of this
pursuit differs from that of his contemporaries from the school of principle,
this essay would also like to scrutinize this difference, a difference that,
according to Ye Shi himself, distinguishes exactly himself from his
contemporaries. Based on these observations, this essay attempts to elucidate
the ways how Ye Shi appropriates the Confucian tradition to construct his own
Shi Gong School.
Keywords:
Ye Shi, Yongjia School, Shi Gong School, Statecraft, Confucian Tradition
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)
This essay elucidates Malabou’s general theory of trauma that
redefines the essence of trauma and explains trauma’s constitutive function
within the traumatized subject. This essay is composed of three parts. Firstly,
the link between trauma and pathology is removed. Present trauma doesn’t reactivate
the early sexual trauma. Trauma is neither determined by the pathological
discourse of etiology nor identified as an object of therapeutic treatment.
Secondly, this essay clarifies the accidental character of trauma that is not
mediated by subject’s past but comes from the outside. Thirdly, Catherine
Malabou explains the accident’s impact on the subject. The event of accident
causes the immediate destruction of subject’s identity. It is because the
subject is deprived of his status as the subject of experience who undergoes
the traumatic accident that the subject can survive his or her own destruction.
General theory of trauma reveals how traumatized subject is constituted by that
which destroys him or her.
Keywords:
Catherine Malabou, Ttrauma, Accident, Slavoj Žižek, Subjectivity
An OT Analysis of the Wh-Questions in Old Chinese
Yi-Chen
Lin (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Chinese, National Taiwan Normal University)
In Old Chinese, wh-words are usually put before verbs or
prepositions and after subjects in wh-questions, such as “Wú shuí qī ? Qī tiān
hū ? (Lùn Yǔ “Zǐ Hǎn”)” and “Bǎi xìng bù zú, jūn shú yǔ zú ? (Lùn Yǔ “Yán
Yuan”)”. Previous researches (Wáng Lì, 1980/2004; Féng Lì, 1994) regarded the phenomenon
as the remains of primitive Chinese from the diachronic evolution viewpoint.
Instead, we attemptto directly analyze the formation of syntax from the
synchronic perspective. According to the Optimality Theory, we set up a group
of conditions and the sequence is: OP- SPEC >> STAY = OB- HD = PRE-
STRAND >> CASE-AD (PRO) >> CASE-AD(WH). Grimshaw (1997) and Cuī Hǎi
Yīng (2010) had respectively used OPSPEC, STAY and OB- HD to analyze
wh-questions in English and modern Chinese, and we set up CASE-AD(WH) and
CASE-AD (PRO) based on Case-assigner and Case Adjacency in Case Theory. As for
PRE- STRAND, we set it up in accordance with preposition stranding proposed by
Pei-Chuan Wei (1999). We use the group of conditions to explain arrangement of
whwords and to show the flexibility and convenience of Optimality Theory for syntax
analysis.
Keywords:
Optimality Theory, Wh-Question, Wh-Word, Inversion
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