The Greatest lover: a post-colonial rewriting of My Fair Lady

INTRODUCTION The popular Hong Kong comedy, The Greatest Lover, re-incarnates one of the most popular western musicals, My Fair Lady. OBJECTIVES 1. To find out in what major ways My Fair Lady was rewritten as the Hong Kong Cantonese movie, Gungzi Docing (The Greatest Lover). 2. To find out the socio-political, socio-linguistic, and gender ideology behind the rewriting. METHODOLOGY 1. To note the similarity of the themes for both works – a creator falling in love with his/her creation, and class prejudice and cross-class romance. 2. To note how the times of The Greatest Lover differ from that of My Fair Lady. 3. To note how the main characters in The Greatest Lover differ from My Fair Lady in terms of profession, gender, etc. 4. To note how the plot of The Greatest Lover differs from that of My Fair Lady. 5. To note how focus on language in The Greatest Lover compares with that in My Fair Lady. 6. To discuss the ideological implications of the differences noted above, e.g. women in Hong Kong today have much higher status than women in Victorian England; the conflict between local Hong Kong people and both legal and illegal immigrants from Mainland China is even more serious than that between the British upper middle class and the lower class during the Victorian period. 7. Andre Lefevere (1992) argues that translation and adaptation are rewriting informed and influenced by the rewriter’s ideology, among other things. 8. Both Aline Remael (1995) and Patrick Cattrysse (1992) think that film adaptation is a kind of translation. 9. Sirkkus Aaltonen (2000) argues that drama translation mirrors the ideologies of the target society. CONCLUSION 1. The Greatest Lover projects local cultural significance onto My Fair Lady by helping us to appreciate an important Western work of art through the Hong Kong Cantonese perspective. 2. Broader issues in translation and intercultural studies are also considered.

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Trabalho de projeto apresentado à Escola Superior de Comunicação Social como parte dos requisitos para obtenção de grau de mestre em Jornalismo.

Projecto de uma câmara em rede em FPGA

Trabalho Final de Mestrado para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia de Electrónica e Telecomunicações

Custeio baseado em atividades: concepção e implementação numa empresa de serviços

Trabalho de Projeto apresentado ao Instituto de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Contabilidade e Finanças, sob orientação de Paulino Manuel Leite da Silva

Perspetivas de professores, pais e alunos sobre a prática dos trabalhos para casa

Relatório Final apresentado à Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa para obtenção de grau de mestre em Ensino do 1.º e do 2.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico

"Lazarillo de Tormes": melhoria da mobilidade em Salamanca

Trabalho Final de Mestrado para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Civil na Área de Especialização de Vias de Comunicação e Transportes

O papel do homem na educação de infância: construção de uma identidade profissional no masculino

Relatório da Prática Profissional Supervisionada Mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar

A Subversão do Discurso Colonial em Wide Sargasso Sea

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas, Área de Especialização em Estudos Ingleses e Norte-Americanos

Para uma compreensão da segregação residencial: o plano especial de realojamento e o (anti-racismo)

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Migrações, Interetnicidades e Transnacionalismo

Visões do Império : a 1ª EXposição Colonial de 1934 e alguns dos seus álbuns

A Primeira Exposição Colonial Portuguesa realizada no Porto em 1934 foi a consequência visível do impulso que Salazar quis dar à «política colonial» portuguesa e a uma orientação imperial em que colonizar e civilizar as populações indígenas eram as palavras de ordem. Como corolário da exposição foram produzidos, entre outros, dois importantes álbuns, hoje documentos de inegável interesse histórico, não só enquanto discurso de propaganda do regime do Estado Novo, mas também enquanto narrativas visuais ou “visões do Império”. São eles, o Álbum Fotográfico da autoria do fotógrafo Domingos Alvão e o Álbum Comemorativo, com reproduções de pinturas e desenhos do pintor Eduardo Malta. Neste trabalho pretendemos reflectir sobre essas “visões do Império”, pois elas expressam uma visualidade e um imaginário que se traduz em práticas sociais, em valores e em relações de dominação que definem uma política do olhar, onde o corpo se torna um espaço de inscrição, bem como de categorização racial e cultural. Em suma, é através dessas imagens que vemos as relações de poder e as formas de dominação sobre o outro, que impregnaram a exposição.

Pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenomics of once-daily raltegravir and atazanavir in healthy volunteers.

Atazanavir inhibits UDP-glucuronyl-transferase-1A1 (UGT1A1), which metabolizes raltegravir, but the magnitude of steady-state inhibition and role of the UGT1A1 genotype are unknown. Sufficient inhibition could lead to reduced-dose and -cost raltegravir regimens. Nineteen healthy volunteers, age 24 to 51 years, took raltegravir 400 mg twice daily (arm A) and 400 mg plus atazanavir 400 mg once daily (arm B), separated by ?3 days, in a crossover design. After 1 week on each regimen, raltegravir and raltegravir-glucuronide plasma and urine concentrations were measured by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry in multiple samples obtained over 12 h (arm A) or 24 h (arm B) and analyzed by noncompartmental methods. UGT1A1 promoter variants were detected with a commercially available kit and published primers. The primary outcome was the ratio of plasma raltegravir C(tau), or concentration at the end of the dosing interval, for arm B (24 h) versus arm A (12 h). The arm B-to-arm A geometric mean ratios (95% confidence interval, P value) for plasma raltegravir C(tau), area under the concentration-time curve from 0 to 12 h (AUC(0-12)), and raltegravir-glucuronide/raltegravir AUC(0-12) were 0.38 (0.22 to 0.65, 0.001), 1.32 (0.62 to 2.81, 0.45), and 0.47 (0.38 to 0.59, <0.001), respectively. Nine volunteers were heterozygous and one was homozygous for a UGT1A1 reduction-of-function allele, but these were not associated with metabolite formation. Although atazanavir significantly reduced the formation of the glucuronide metabolite, its steady-state boosting of plasma raltegravir did not render the C(tau) with a once-daily raltegravir dose of 400 mg similar to the C(tau) with the standard twice-daily dose. UGT1A1 promoter variants did not significantly influence this interaction.

Perceived discrimination against diabetics in the workplace and in work-related insurances in Switzerland.

To investigate the prevalence and risk factors of perceived diabetes-related discrimination in the workplace and in work-related insurances in persons with diabetes mellitus in Switzerland. 509 insulin-treated diabetic subjects representative of the northwestern Swiss population responded to a self-report questionnaire on perceived diabetes-related discrimination in the workplace and in work-related insurances (salary loss insurance, supplementary occupational plan). Discrimination was defined as being treated differently at least once in relation to diabetes. The reported rates of different aspects of discrimination in the workplace and in work-related insurances ranged between 5-11% and 4-15% respectively. Risk factors that independently increased the risk of not being hired due to diabetes were the presence of at least two severe hypoglycaemic events/year and relevant diabetic complications (OR 5.6 and OR 2.6 respectively; both<0.05). The presence of at least two severe hypoglycaemic events/year was also associated with an increased risk of losing one's job (OR 6.5, <0.01). Overweight or obesity were related to increased discrimination in work-related insurances (OR for denial 2.1-2.4; OR for reserve 3.9-4.4; all<0.05). Perceived diabetes-related discrimination in the workplace and by work-related insurances is a common problem. In the light of our findings the introduction of effective non-discrimination legislation for patients with chronic illnesses appears to be desirable.

Identification and ethnic diversity underlie support for multicultural rights : a multilevel analysis in Bulgaria

Bulgaria is historically a multicultural society, composed of the Bulgarian (ethnic) majority and a number of ethnic minorities among which Bulgarian Turks and Roma are the largest. Both minority communities are stigmatized in contemporary Bulgaria, though to different degrees and for different reasons. Ethnic minorities' rights to preserve their culture, customs, and language are a topic of contentious debate. The purpose of this study was to examine individual- and context-level antecedents of the ethnic Bulgarian majority's support for multicultural rights of ethnic minorities. Multilevel regression analyses were conducted with International Social Survey Programme ISSP 2003 data (N = 920 in 28 Bulgarian districts). At the individual-level, an ethnic conception of the nation and anti-Roma symbolic prejudice were negatively related to support for multicultural rights, whereas national identification was positively related to the support of these rights. Over and above individual-level effects, and in line with recent extensions of intergroup contact theory, thepercentage ofBulgarianTurks withindistricts was positively related to support for multicultural rights. Importantly, support for multicultural rights was particularly high in districts characterized by ethnic diversity, that is, in districts with high proportions of both Bulgarian Turks and Roma. The beneficial effects of ethnic diversity and theoretical implications of findings are discussed.

Quest/ion of Identities in African American Feminist Postmodern Drama: A Study of Selected Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks

Innovative and unconventional, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks belongs to the continuum of African American playwrights who have contributed to the quest/ion – the quest for and question – of identities for African Americans. Her plays are sites in which the quest/ion of identities for African Americans is pursued, raised and enacted. She makes use of both page and stage to emphasize the exigency of reshaping African Americans’ identities through questioning the dominant ideologies and metanarratives, delegitimizing some of the prevailing stereotypes imposed on them, drawing out the complicity of the media in perpetuating racism, evoking slavery, lynching and their aftereffects, rehistoricizing African American history, catalyzing reflections on the various intersections of sex, race, class and gender orientations, and proffering alternative perspectives to help readers think more critically about issues facing African Americans. In my dissertation, I approach three plays by Parks – The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (1990), Venus (1996) and Fucking A (2000) – from the standpoints of postmodern drama and African American feminism with a focus on the terrains that reflect the quest/ion of identities for African Americans, especially African American women. I argue that postmodern drama and African American feminism provide the ground for Parks to promote the development of a political agenda in order to call into question a number of dominant ideologies and metanarratives with regard to African Americans and draw upon the roles of those metanarratives as a powerful apparatus of racial and sexual oppressions. I also explore how Parks engages with postmodern drama and African American feminism to incorporate her own mininarratives in the dominant discourses. I argue that Parks in these plays uses postmodern drama and African American feminism to encourage reflections on intersectionality in order to reveal the concerns of African Americans, particularly African American women. Her plays challenge the dominant order of hierarchy and patriarchy, while in some cases urging unity and solidarity between African American men and women by showing how unity and solidarity can help them confront race, class and gender oppressions. Furthermore, I discuss how the utilization of postmodern techniques and devices helps Parks to transform the conventional features of playwriting, to create incredulity toward the dominant systems of oppression and to incorporate her mininarratives within the context of dominant discourses.

Recueil de copies de pièces concernant les amortissements, le règlement des finances, la chambre des comptes, de Philippe le Hardi à Louis XI.

Contient : 1 « Extraict fait en la chambre des comptes du roy nostre sire de certaines ordonnance et articles faisans mencion des admortissemens faitz par gens de (sic) glise, soubz certaines condicions, ledit extraict fait de plusieurs registres et livres des memoriaulx estans en icelle chambre, par le commandement et ordonnances d'icelle, en la manière qui s'ensuit » ; a « Premièrement s'ensuit la teneur d'unes lectres d'ordonnances du roy » CHARLES V, « par lesquelles il mande et enjoinct expressement aux audiencier et contrerolleur de son audience à Paris, non delivrer lectres d'admortissemens se elles ne sont passées et delivrées par la chambre des comptes ; icelles lectres enregistrées » et adressées à « Me Eustace de Moicens » et à « Jehan de Colombes ». Paris, 21 juillet 1368 ; b « Item s'ensuit la teneur d'un article contenu en certaines ordonnances faictes par le roy CHARLES Ve, données à Paris le Ve jour de novembre 1370, enregistrées en lad. chambre, le fol. CII, par lesquelles il ordonna que toutes gens de glise (sic) pour leur (sic) acquisitions faictes depuis XL ans, quocumque titulo, feussent contrains à les mectre hors de leurs mains, dedans ung an, à paier finance » ; c « Item autres lectres du roy CHARLES Ve, enregistrées en lad. chambre » des comptes « le O fol. VXXXV, données à S. Denis, le 24e jour de fevrier l'an 1372, par lesquelles led. seigneur avoit mandé que toutes possessions acquises par gens de (sic) glise depuis XL ans sans avoir esté admorties par lectres de luy ou de ses predecesseurs, veriffiées en la chambre des comptes, feussent mises en la main dud. seigneur et les fruiz d'iceulx levez à son prouffit » ; d « Autres lectres du roy CHARLES Ve, données à Paris, ou castel du Louvre, le 25e jour de nouvembre, l'an ... 1372, enregistrées libro O fol. VIXXXII, par lesquelles il avoit declairé et declairoit que pour quelque composicion ou finance qui ont esté faicte (sic) ou temps passé des acquisicions faictes par gens de glise (sic) et communaultez les choses ainsi acquises ne soient tenues pour admorties se des acquisicions ilz n'ont lectres de admortissemens passées, expediées et veriffiées par la chambre des comptes » ; e « Item s'ensuit autres ordonnances sur le fait des fiefz, des acquitz » : e. 1. « Ordinacio vetus super feudis acquisitis facta in parlamento omnium sanctorum... post natale Domini » 1275. Acte de PHILIPPE LE HARDI. En latin. (Fol. 4.) e. 2. Acte de PHILIPPE LE BEL. « In parlamento omnium sanctorum, anno Nativitatis Domini » 1291. En latin. (Fol. 5) ; f « Instructions sur les finances des acquestz par les eglises et personnes non nobles en France. Et est l'entente que les plus grans finances qui pourront estre prinses soient prinses non pas mendrées que celles qui s'ensuivent en nulle manière » ; g « Ou livre signé A est enregistrée certaine renonciacion faicte par le roy PHELIPPE LE BEL de tous commissaires sur le fait des nouveaulx acquestz, excepté ceulx qui depuis au paravant y avoient esté commis, fol. VIII°, dont la teneur s'ensuit... ». Paris, 25 juillet 1310. En latin ; h « Item oud. livre signé : A, fol. CV, sont enregistrées autres lectres du roy PHILIPPE, dit LE LONG, par lesquelles il mande que toutes manières de gens de (sic) glise qui n'auroient mis hors de leurs mains dedans l'an les acquisicions qu'ilz possidoient, comme par autres ordonnances leur avoit esté autresfois enjoinct et ilz n'avoient riens fait, feussent contrains reaulment et de fait à luy rendre les fruiz qu'ilz avoient prins et receuz, depuis les commandemens à eulx faiz, desquelles lectres la teneur s'ensuit... ». Paris, 24 fevrier 1316-1317. En latin ; i « Item ou livre signé : E, fol. IIIIXX XIII est enregistré ce qui s'ensuit... ». Acte de CHARLES VI du 11 février 1385-1386 ; j « Item ou livre des memoriaulx, signé : G., fol. XX°, en certaines instructions et ordonnances sur le fait des fiefz est escript et contenu les articles qui s'ensuivent : Item et ne pourront les commissaires sur ce ordonnez ou à ordonner, lever ne exiger finances quelxconques desd. gens de (sic) glise pour leursd. acquisicions non admorties, mais seront contrains à les mectre hors de leurs mains... » ; 2 « Touchant les admortissemens », mémoire ; 3 « La table des fiefz des bailliaiges de Rouen et Caen » ; 4-8 Actes de CHARLES VII ; 4 « Ordonnances faictes par le roy, sur le fait de la distribucion et gouvernement de toutes ses finances », tant ordinaires que extraordinaires, « de Languedoil et de Languedoc ». Saumur, 25 septembre 1443 ; 5 « Autres ordonnances adjouxtées au devant escriptes ». Nancy, 11 février 1444-1445 ; 6 « Autres ordonnances faictes à Bourges », le 26 novembre 1447 ; 7 « Ordinaciones per regem edite Maduni supra Ebram », le 23 décembre 1454, « super ordine et regimine camere compotorum et officiariorum ibi » ; 7 bis Ordonnance portant : « que se doresnavant aucuns dons d'amendes, forfaictures, aubenaiges, confiscacions, quintz, arrierequintz, rachaptz ou autres choses quelzconques appartenans à noz receptes ordinaires estoient par vous faictz, soient lectres signées de nostre main, ou autrement en quelque manière que se soit, ilz ne soient donnez sinon que premierement gaiges d'officiers, fiefz et aumosnes et autres charges ordinaires soient entièrement fourniz et payez sur les receptes ausquelles » appartiendront « lesdictes choses ainsi par nous données ... Donné près Sainct Pourçain, le XXXe jour de janvier » 1455-1456 ; 8 Ordonnance portant défense aux trésorier de France et changeur du Trésor de ne lever ni souffrir être levées « aucunes descharges » audit trésorier, « pour quelque cas ne occasion que se soit », sur aucune des recettes ordinaires trop chargées de fiefs et aumônes. « Donné aux Roches Tranche Lion », le 22 avril après Pâques 1460 ; 9 « Ordinatio pro necessitatibus camere » compotorum « solvendis, facta per dominos ad burellum », 16 février 1459-1460 ; 10 « Ou livre T, fol. IIII V°, est escript ce qui s'ensuit : Du vendredi VIe jour d'avril » 1491 « avant Pasques, ou conseil du roy, tenu au bureau, en sa chambre des comptes, à Paris, ouquel monseigneur le chancellier, messieurs desd. comptes, tresoriers, Me Pierre Sacierges, esleu evesque de Lusson... sur ce qui a esté mis en deliberacion et pour le bien du roy, de sa justice et de ses finances, et pour obvier aux abuz qui par cy devant ont esté faiz touchant plusieurs lectres tant reliefvemens en cas d'appel que autres qui souventesfoiz et au desceu de mond. Sr le chancellier, comme il est vraysemblable, se baillent en la chancellerie ou prejudice et diminucion des droiz et demaine et des deniers des finances dud. Sr et de l'auctorité et jurisdicion de lad. chambre... a esté par mesd. Srs conclud, advisé et determiné les points et articles cy après escrips, et ordonné iceulx estre doresenavant entretenuz... en la manière qui s'ensuit... Lesquelles ordonnances ont esté veues et publiées en la chancellerie par l'ordonnance et en la presence de mond. Sr le chancellier, moy Jehan de Reilhac, maistre desd. comptes cy dessoubz soubzscript present et envoyé par mesd. Sgrs des comptes devers mond. seigneur le chancellier pour lad. cause. Fait le IXe jour d'avril M.CCCC. IIII XX XI. Ainsi signé : de Reilhac »