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Chinese Painting and Its Audiences by Craig Clunas
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 444–445.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Jonathan Hay Clunas Craig , Chinese Painting and Its Audiences ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2017 ), 320 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...
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Chinese Visions of World Order: Tianxia, Culture, and World Politics ed. by Ban Wang
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 443.
Published: 01 August 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. ...
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Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese by Byung-Chul Han
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 186.
Published: 01 January 2020
...: 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...
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Worrying About China: The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 219–220.
Published: 01 April 2009
...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...
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CHINESE COMPARISONS AND QUESTIONABLE ACTS
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 42–47.
Published: 01 January 2011
... 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...
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CHINESE HISTORICITY
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 327–330.
Published: 01 May 2016
...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...
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The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (2): 418.
Published: 01 April 2002
.... 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...
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Introduction: Bland Blur
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 411–423.
Published: 01 August 2013
... 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...
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THE CLOUD OF KNOWING: Blurring the Difference with China
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 450–532.
Published: 01 August 2011
...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...
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China in the Lottocratic Turn: Three Interpretations
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (3): 312–319.
Published: 01 September 2024
... on Chinese governance: China as an orthodox authoritarian state, or a progressive and deliberative authoritarian state, or a kind of social science laboratory. Each perspective has its intellectual advantages and disadvantages, and the three are intricately interconnected. To consider the issue of China's...
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CHINA'S SAKHAROV AND HAVEL: Fang Lizhi, 1936 – 2012
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2013
...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...
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Two Classrooms in China
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 375–388.
Published: 01 August 2018
...), 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...
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Hong Kong: Wake-Up Call
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 197–211.
Published: 01 April 2020
... 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...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 417–423.
Published: 01 August 2010
... 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...
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“KILL the Buddha”: Quietism in Action and Quietism as Action in Zen Buddhist Thought and Practice
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 439–456.
Published: 01 August 2010
... 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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MULTIDIMENSIONAL REALITY
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 27–30.
Published: 01 January 2011
... 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...
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The Confucian Notion of Ren : A Response to Daniel Boyarin's Question, “If That's Not Love, What Is It?”
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (3): 299–311.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Yinghua Lu Abstract This guest column replies to an article, “If That's Not Love, What Is It?” by Daniel Boyarin, published in Common Knowledge 26, no. 3. Boyarin examines an “unknown affect” related to love that is observable in the Babylonian Talmud, and Lu responds by examining a Chinese affect...
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ON THE MILITARIZATION OF CULTURE IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY QING EMPIRE
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Common Knowledge (2006) 12 (1): 96–106.
Published: 01 January 2006
... to emperorwished the that was more important, and more compelling both son, secondrea- The Jesuits. court from skill the laterrelearned only and copper in how toengrave forgotten had artists Chinese overseas; only found tobe was this work if even available best notemperor...
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Rethinking China's Rise: A Liberal Critique
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (3): 492–493.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., because empty patriotism serves its power, attracting popular support without introducing values that might lead people in other directions. Although he writes as a modern university professor, Xu resembles the classic Chinese scholar in his assumption that the recommendations of intellectuals have...
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Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China’s Silk Road ed. by Neville Agnew, Marcia Reed, and Tevvy Ball
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 185–186.
Published: 01 January 2020
..., 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...
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