...Jonathan Hay Clunas Craig , Chinese Painting and Its Audiences ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2017 ), 320 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...

...Barry Allen Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Wang Ban , ed., Chinese Visions of World Order: Tianxia, Culture, and World Politics ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 ), 330 pp. ...

...: Deconstruction in Chinese, trans. Philippa Hurd (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017), 91 pp. The expression shanzhai, literally mountain stronghold, is a modern Chinese neologism meaning fake. But this fake is different, genuine, a genuinely Chinese phenomenon. Originally the expression applied to forged cell...

...J. G. A. Pocock This piece is an essay review of Wang Hui's book China from Empire to Nation-State (2014), which is a translation of the introduction to Wang's four-volume Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2004). According to the reviewer, Wang studies less the modern history of China than its...

.... I’ve given you only the pit of the peach. —Wayne Andersen Shigeshisa Kuriyama, The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek 418 and Chinese Medicine (New York: Zone, 1999), 340 pp. Pulse is one of those concepts in human physiology that appears...

... China in 1983 as a scholar of comparative literature. This account is meant to illustrate and reinforce Lloyd's cautions regarding the hazards of intercultural—here, Chinese-Western—comparisons in studies of culture and cognition. Examination of a foundational study in East-West cultural/cognitive...

...Barry Allen Gloria Davies, Worrying about China: The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 312 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Aviad Kleinberg, Flesh Made Word: Saints’ Stories and the Western Imagination...

... approaches to blur, he contrasts the ecstatically amorphous “Blur building” (on Switzerland's Lake Neuchâtel) with examples of classical Chinese landscape painting. Elizabeth Diller and Richard Scofidio, in their book blur: the making of nothing , chronicle the development of their plans for the Blur...

...Barry Allen In this monograph-length article, which inaugurates a multipart symposium titled “Fuzzy Studies,” the significance and virtues of blur are investigated through the whole history of Chinese intellectual tradition. In the Western tradition, the blur of becoming seems to disqualify...

...Orville Schell This essay, written in memory of the Chinese astrophysicist and dissident Fang Lizhi, reexamines the period in Fang's life when he was vice president of the University of Science and Technology of China and, because of his activities as an educational and political reformer, came...

...), respectively, many of the lessons from one Chinese classroom are applicable to any context in which students are asked to grapple with unfamiliar textual and visual material. This teaching experience proved to be not only about communicating material, skills, and ideas to the students but also also...

... in it the entire text of the 1984 Joint Declaration of the Chinese and British governments on the question of Hong Kong. The declaration’s guarantees of autonomy and civil rights appear in bold italics. The editor concludes by suggesting that it falls to the United Nations Security Council to enforce the terms...

... as differences are observed in ancient Chinese and ancient Greek responses to cultural difference; also the significantly different views of these matters among the Greek philosophers. In the same vein, discussing studies of cultural/linguistic variability or counterclaimed universality among humans in color...

... explains these principles in terms of traditional Chinese thought, Daoist and Confucian: wei we wei , or “doing-not-doing,” means effective inaction. What makes such wisdom possible is not mystical insight, he argues, but discipline in a certain kind of art. The sage has no need of reasons (let alone...

... the debates between these and more activist tendencies. Raz goes on to show how these became unified in a nondualist approach in the writings and teachings of prominent Chinese and Japanese teachers from the beginning of Zen (Chan) in China down to the twentieth century. Duke University Press 2010...

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..., Manichean, and Zoroastrian texts from Dunhuang are written predominantly in Chinese and Tibetan but also in Brahmi, Hebrew, Khotanese, Old Turkic, Sogdian, Tangut, Uygur, and other languages, including over two hundred bilingual documents. Their contents are varied: religious, commercial, scientific...

... for promotions and CV-burnishing. So is Chinese thinking dead? No, actually. Quite a few historians, literary scholars, and others, away from the spotlights, are doing serious thinking and writing—more than one might imagine. Xu Jilin, an intellectual historian at East China Normal University, is one...

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