The Unbroken Chain: An Anthology of Taiwan Fiction since 1926

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Lau
Keyword(s):  
Unbroken Chain

Making the Colonial State Work for You: The Modern Beginnings of the Ancient Kumbh Mela in Allahabad

2003 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 873-905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kama Maclean
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
The Press ◽  
Free Development ◽  
Religious Festival ◽  
Unbroken Chain

It is widely believed that the Allahabad Kumbh Mela is an ancient religious festival or that it is “ageless”, that its roots lie obscured in time immemorial. Editorials and articles in the press at mela time (every twelve years) lyrically emphasize the continuity of the pilgrimage throughout India's past, find inspiration in its durability and changeless character, and marvel at the anachronism of an ancient festival thriving in the modern world (“The Kumbh Mela”, Pioneer, 17 February 1918; “Editorial”, Leader, 16 January 1942; “Pilgrim's Process”, Times of India, 24 January 2001). There is no better example of this than the oft-quoted section of Jawaharlal Nehru's will and testament, in which the avowedly secular modernist explains his desire to have a portion of his ashes scattered at the triveni sangam, the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna Rivers and the site of the Kumbh in Allahabad:I have been attached to the Ganga and the Jumna rivers ever since my childhood and, as I have grown older, this attachment has also grown. The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people. … She has been a symbol of India's age-long culture and civilization, ever-changing, ever-flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga. … And though I have discarded much of past tradition and custom, and am anxious that India should rid herself of all shackles that bind and constrain her and divide her people, and suppress vast numbers of them, and prevent the free development of the body and the spirit; though I seek all this, yet I do not wish to cut myself off from that past completely. I am proud of that great inheritance that it has been, and is, ours, and I am conscious that I too, like all of us, am a link in that unbroken chain which goes back to the dawn of history in the immemorial past of India. That chain I would not break, for I treasure it and seek inspiration from it.(2000, 612–13)

scholarly journals N. F. S. Grundtvig: Blik på poesiens historie og Bernhard Severin Ingemann. Udg. af Flemming Lundgreen-Nielsen

1986 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-86
Author(s):  
Gustav Albeck
Keyword(s):  
Unsolved Problem ◽  
Primary Interest ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Original Title ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Preparatory Work ◽  
Unbroken Chain

N . F. S. Grundtvig: View of the History of Poetry and Bernhard Severin Ingemann. MS in the Grundtvig Archives, Fasc. 179, 1, from 1822.Edited by Flemming Lundgreen-Nielsen. Museum Tusculanum, Copenhagen 1985.Reviewed by Gustav AlbeckThis is a manuscript that deserves to have been edited and published before now. The poet’s son, Svend Grundtvig, did the preparatory work but never got his edition published. The cover of the present edition depicts W. E. Parry’s two ships in the polar darkness during his attempt to discover the North-West Passage in 1819-20. The reviewer informs us that in the manuscript Grundtvig describes the development of poetry as an unbroken chain of voyages of discovery, in which the contemporary, unsolved problem of the North-West Passage appears as a recurrent metaphor in various contexts.The editor, the excellent Grundtvig scholar, Dr. Lundgreen-Nielsen, has supplied a compact and scholarly preface and a commentary that is almost too thorough. Yet it must be admitted that the text requires both empathy and notes. It is not easy tofollow the poet’s image-filled presentation. It has previously been employed by Fr. R.nning in a little piece on Grundtvig as an aesthete (1883) and in the anthology Towards a Characterisation of N . F. S. Grundtvig (1915). Dr AlfHenriques has advanced some important reflections on this in his doctorate Shakespeare and Denmark (1941), as has Dr Helge Toldberg in his doctorate Grundtvig’s Symbolism (1950). Most recently Helge Grell has made use of some of the views expressed therein in his book The Creative Word and the Figurative Word (1980).The text is an interesting link in the development of Grundtvig’s view of the nature and mission of poetry. It does not tell us much about the poet Ingemann, even though it is evident from the manuscript that his name was the original title; comment on him fills a mere eight of the manuscript’s forty pages. In a kind of epilogue Grundtvig himself recognises that the essay assumes a knowledge of “the poetry and achievements of the strangest peoples” and the ability to “gather what they know”, an art which is far from common. But it is the hope of both editor and reviewer that it will find a varied group of readers.The introduction offers an outline of Grundtvig as an aesthete, a full and stimulating contribution to a work that is still waiting to be written. It does demand, however, “a systematic publication of the posthumous papers concerned with aesthetic matters,” and “a special Grundtvig dictionary”: two wishes that the reviewer shares with the editor. But there are other areas where Professor Albeck disagrees with, and is critical of, Dr Lundgreen-Nielsen.For example, the reviewer does not believe the essays were written with foreigners in mind. In his epilogue Grundtvig writes that here he “had strangers in mind” (nb. the Danish word fremmed means both ‘strange’ and ‘foreign’). The question is, What does he mean by ‘strangers’? Both the content and the language point to him addressing a domestic audience, but one that is distanced from him. He presupposes an acquaintance with the Danish language and history as well as a love of Denmark that could scarcely be expected of any but his compatriots. It is possible that originally he did have a foreign audience in mind, but changes his direction. Professor Albeck imagines that Grundtvig has originally thought of a Danish periodical (or possibly the Danish newspaper LatestPictures of Copenhagen, where he has found one of the essay’s main images, the North-West Passage). The title suggests that Grundtvig’s primary interest has been to introduce his poet-friend Ingemann to a wider public, but that the introduction to this has swollen out of all proportion into a strongly subjective survey of the history of poetry in the world.

5. Persistence and change

2019 ◽  
pp. 82-95
Author(s):  
Jeroen Duindam
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scale Change ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Unbroken Chain

The never-ending lists of kings imparted the view of an unbroken chain extending into the past, but they also suggested the repeated rise and fall of ruling houses. Did dynasties necessarily follow the organic trajectory of birth, growth, maturity, old age, and death? ‘Persistence and change’ compares cyclical views of dynastic power throughout history and across the globe. It also asks how scale, change over time, and regional variety impacted dynasties. Finally, it considers the rise of Europe: royalty worldwide would undergo the impact of modernization first and foremost in the shape of European military and commercial dominance.

scholarly journals INORGANIC CHEMISTRY PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-73
Author(s):  
G.T. Balykbaeva ◽  
◽  
A.S. Tapalova ◽  
G.M. Abyzbekova ◽  
Sh.O. Espenbetova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inorganic Chemistry ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
State Standards ◽  
Problem Situations ◽  
Unbroken Chain ◽  
Chemistry Problem

The resolution of problem situations under the teacher’s guidance makes students compare, generalize, analyze phenomena, and not only memorize them mechanically. The processes of advancing and resolving problem situations are an unbroken chain, since when a problem is advanced, its solution begins simultaneously, which leads to the formulation of new problems. That is, a contradictory and continuous process of new scientific concepts active cognition is carried out. We see from the experience that using the methods of problem-based learning in the lessons that they promote development of cognitive activity, creative students’ independence, the formation of their worldview, intellectual development, and as a result, the improvement of the knowledge’s quality. Today, it is necessary when learning future specialists, in addition to the implementation of existing educational state standards in this specialty, to focus on the development of their creative qualities, creative thinking, which, ultimately, will promote to the formation of highly professional competent personnel.

Part III Towards a Jurisprudence Constante in Investment Arbitration Decision-Making on Corruption, 9 Proving Corruption

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Llamzon Aloysius P
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
International Courts ◽  
Investment Arbitration ◽  
Rules Of Evidence ◽  
Unbroken Chain

This chapter discusses the challenge faced by arbitrators in proving corruption. The absence of an unbroken chain of facts leading to a morally certain conclusion that corruption did occur necessitates reliance on longstanding legal tools familiar to national and international courts and tribunals concerning rules of evidence on standards and burdens of proof, presumptions, and inferences.

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