中文領域第一本研究波斯大詩人奧瑪．珈音(Omar Khayyam)《魯拜集》(Rubaiyat)的專著，重在比較研究珈音的思想及其四行詩的詩意與中國文化或隱或顯的關係。作者對珈音的作品與中國儒道釋三家思想，屈原、李白、杜甫、邵雍、蘇軾的詩詞，《紅樓夢》的文化意蘊，以及文化大師陳寅恪的獨立精神和自由思想等各個方面詳加比較分析。對於那些囿於費茲傑羅英譯及其中譯的讀者來說，本書足以顛覆對《魯拜集》的傳統理解，引發新的審美陶醉。 About the BookThis book is the first monograph in Chinese that searches for the Rubaiyat of the great Persian poet Omar Khayyam. It focuses on the comparative study and the implicit or explicit relationship between the thoughts and quarains of Khayyam and the Chinese culture. The author has made a broad comparative analysis of the similarities and the differences between Khayyam’s works and the thoughts of Chinese Confucianism, Taoism, and Zen, as well as the poems of Qu Yuan, Li Bai, Du Fu, Shao Yong, and Su Shi, the cultural connotation of Cao Xueqin's novel Dream of the Red Chamber and the independent spirit and free thoughts of Chen Yinke, a master of Chinese learning. For the readers who are confined to Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat and and the old Chinese translations, this book
A series of shots of Shanghai, the river, people. A young woman, MEI-LIN, walks through the crowd, separates herself from it. The car is parked on a lonely street near the East River. We HEAR MEI-LIN SINGING "THE END IS SILENCE."
這本書主要是想分享給兩種讀者，一種是在做遷移研究的人，另一種是本身即為遷移者，也許您可以參考與閱讀本書。作者稱，本書不是完整的回憶錄，而是把在臺灣居住五十年中，聚焦於描繪出在臺灣大學的學術角色，也是把自己人生最寶貴的歲月做個記錄。本書所要呈現的，不是只有關於移民生活成功的一面，其實在此過程也夾雜了挫折與失意，以及適應上的躑躅與徬徨。 【各界推薦】Lee Chack Fan/ 李焯芬President, Chu Hai College of Higher EducationEmeritus Professor and Former Vice-President, HKUNora is well respected as a diligent and highly productive scholar, and a very able organizer of academic conferences and international scientific exchange programs. Nora reminds me of my late teacher, Professor Jao Tsung-I, who officially retired at the age of 70 but continued his scholarly research studies until he was close to a hundred years old. John LidstoneProfessor of Geography, Queensland University of TechnologyAs my own life continues, my reading of Nora’s “Memoir” both educates me on the unfolding of an academic career across the US and Asia vastly different from my own in England and Australia. We started in very different places and although we lived through the same historical period, we o
LOVE AND SURVIVALThough not easy to find loveWith endurance of the faraway spiritI come close to finding you in my down timeSo lucky and so fortunateYour appearance is the Heavenly Glory
我一生有很多不尋常的遭遇，每件發生的事情都面對選擇的決定，就是TO BE OR NOT TO BE。 巫本添單槍匹馬在異鄉拼搏，與知名人士周夢蝶、謝東閔、鳳飛飛、張毅的交往情誼記錄，發生的事情，有過生死一瞬間，因緣際會，亦謂Happening正在發生的事情。 本書有十七篇發生的事情，沒有特意照作者人生的歲月先後順序去寫，不是年代史。未來當然會有「發生的事情 Happening」之二的續集，之三，之四……。
