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... from which they were drawn. While Guo Xi was not the first person in China to employ the principles of Daoist philosophy in their discourse on landscape painting, his ability to synthesize them into a cohesive representation of the invisible gaze of the Dao led to his becoming one of the most eminent...

...Grace S. Fong Abstract This article engages the ekphrastic mode—the literary representation of visual representation—to examine the female gaze instantiated in women's poetry on paintings of beautiful women in the Ming and Qing periods. Through four case studies, it shows how women poets...

... analysis. Feminist theory was never monolithic, even when it was Eurocentric; theories were drawn from a plurality of different disciplines and schools. Concepts that came into currency—gender, gaze, voice, agency, subjectivity, authorship, and so on—from poststructuralist, postcolonial, cultural, and film...

... the picture. In particular its inner space is studiously removed from our vision, although the outer setting is presented before the public gaze. Lest we be unaware of his manipulation, the ci writer brings a swallow's gaze into this effaced space. The effacement is spotted by this tiny spy, whereupon we...

... to both body language and facial expression, another important indicator revealing the figure's thoughts is her gaze. Except for a few entries that call attention to the figure's bodily image, she rarely gazes toward the reader but, rather, away, as if in the direction of her distant desire, hence Ding...

... and constant effort to speak about China from the point of view of China; a gaze coming from the inside,” as well as those from the West who insist on the universality of their perspective, seeing “China from the point of view of the West,” Barthes writes: “These two gazes are, for me, wrong. The right gaze...

... and touching the ground with its forearms, the animal is gazing into the void with serenity. Anyone who is familiar with the pictorial traditions of East Asia would not fail to notice the unusual characteristic of this work in every respect, from the subject matter to the pictorial quality. No other painting...

... lady in a family and as a versatile participant in gendered cultural interactions. Women's agency as a capacity to negotiate subjection and subjectivity is best reflected in Grace S. Fong's contribution, “From Convention to Subversion: Case Studies on the Female Gaze in Premodern China.” Fong...

...? When I was a little older, elders sometimes told the story of the Female Knight-errant of Mirror Lake sacrificing her life for the nation. When I heard it, I was so grief stricken I could have died. Alas, my dear mother who toiled so! Not having received her loving care, I could only gaze upon her...

... and the landscape in which he wanders. He appears as well in the painting that opens the Nanjing Falling Blossoms scroll ( figures 1 , 9 ). Here, however, once coupled with Shen's inscription, this simple figure transforms and gains complexity. His intent gaze leads directly to the inscription and poems...

..., and multimedia communication. It encompasses not only representation in visual media (painting, prints, and photography) but also visual code, metaphor, and the mental image, as well as the concept of the gaze, wherever these themes have appeared in literary texts and writing. Su Shi, the key figure...

... the flowers. The other four stanzas represent a continuous progression of what the poet sees, feels, and does. As the persona moves further into the scenery, his viewing and experiencing become more immersive, sensation changing as he shifts his gaze. He describes the morning dew and dim light...

...: Southern Dynasty Folk Songs and Palace-Style Poetry .” Tamkang Review 25 , no. 1 ( 1994 ): 101 – 15 . Hu Yinglin 胡應麟 (1551–1602). Shisou 詩藪 ( The Coppice of Poetry ). Shanghai : Shanghai guji chubanshe , 1979 . Huang, Harrison Tse-chang . “ Excursion, Estates, and the Kingly Gaze...

... is also an ironic evocation of the persistent motif in the illusionistic paintings of the time: an enigmatic woman occupies the liminal zone of a doorway, gazing upon the viewers from behind the curtain, or else appears to be stepping out of the door frame and thus the frame of the mural while moving...

... demarcation between the culture of the central plains and that of the barbaric land emerges: He crossed the Wild Fox Range the next day. Looking back southward, we got a good view of the Taihang and other mountains. The mist on the hills was very agreeable. Gazing northward, there was nothing but wintry...

... Gao 丁臯 (?–1761) or Jiang Ji 蔣驥 (act. 1713–1727). This recovery of the theme of the portrait in the eighteenth century turns its gaze to the treatises that we already find in the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), such as those of Wang Yi 王繹 (1333–1368), from which Shen Zongqian retrieves several principles...

... had a halo, 昨夜生月暈 10 On the morn a stormy gale swept through the town. 飚風朝滿城 Awake from a dream, I listened on the pillow— 夢醒枕上聽 12 The lone sword rattled in its case. 孤劍匣底鳴 My heart full, I shook out my coat and rose; 慨然振衣起 14 Up I went on the tower and gazed at the forward...

... surveyed all under Heaven, they were sure to follow the transformations of the four seasons, set the rules of the calendars, study the script of heaven, estimate seasonal change, and ascend the spiritual terrace and thereby gaze at the vapors and ethers. 易曰：仰以觀於天文，俯以察於地理，是故知幽明之故。夫天文地理、人情之效存於心，則聖智之府。是故古者聖王...

..., “Ch’ü Yüan Studies.” While Republican period Chinese scholars often expressed doubts about Qu Yuan's historical existence or authorship, more recent Chinese scholarship has moved into the opposite direction. 47. Kern, “Du Fu's Long Gaze Back” ; Kern, “ Shiji li de ‘zuozhe’ gainian.” 48...

... by his placement of the painting screen right at the center of the pictorial space and by his rendering of Han Yu's attentive gaze on it, which in turn guides our own perspective as we view Du's painting. And essential to this metapicture is Du Jin's representation of the singular moment when Han Yu...