Search Results for Chinese literary theory

... in the first half of 2025, soon after the publication of this first English monograph. It will take somewhat more time to bring out the remaining monographs in the English series. As works treating Chinese theories of literature, literary creation, interpretation, and aesthetic judgment, respectively, they're...

... Chinese thinking about literary creation in this book. By the late Warring States era, the philosophical import of three concepts, yi , xiang , and yan , had evolved into a protocosmological theory in The Commentary on Appended Phrases (§§14–15, 20–22). Subsequently the Wei philosopher Wang Bi would...

... characters, and readers or critics, 7 Liu deviated from the mainstream of contemporary Chinese literary theory, the basic viewpoint of which was that “literature is a figurative reflection of reality.” He rejected the prescriptions that literature is subordinated to politics or that selfhood...

... interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives and encourages an integration of theoretical inquiry with empirical research. It strives to foster in-depth dialogue between Western and Chinese literary theories in ways that illuminate the unique features of each, as well as their shared insights into issues...

... services, erection of a monument, and publication of tribute books. Applying the theories of French historian Pierre Nora, this article discusses how the ensuing les lieux de mémoire (sites of memory) formed through the sacrifices of CLHS teachers and students, inscribing the plight of literary lineage...

...Cosima Bruno; Lianjun Yan Abstract This article explores a contemporary Chinese poem, Zhang Zao's “Dadi zhi ge,” as an intermedial translation of an intermedial source text—Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (musical and verbal). The article's aim is threefold: to enhance appreciation of the Chinese...

... all of us who call ourselves literary scholars. Copyright © 2020 Lingnan University 2020 theory Chinese studies Tiananmen Bruno Latour fiction In this article, I revisit a controversy that initially unfolded three decades ago. The immediate impetus for revisiting the controversy...

... and homosexual desire as manifested in varied social, familial, and sexual relations, suggesting a productive approach to examining the text as a model of early modern queer Chinese literary traditions. Current scholarship in Sinology and Asian studies has embraced the notion of the “early modern” in diverse...

.... As a former director of the Institute of Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and editor in chief of the Literary Review (Wenxue pinglun 文學評論), he refused to simply amplify or epitomize the dominant literary policy, favoring the theory of literature as a figurative reflection of reality...

..., Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons 文心雕龍 (hereafter Literary Mind ). 1 Written shortly before his death in 303, Lu Ji's Exposition occupies a pivotal position in the historical development of Chinese literary theory. Looking backward, it forms a good complement to Cao Pi's 曹丕 (187–226...

...Zong-qi Cai [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Lingnan University 2023 In an interesting way, the historical development of Chinese theorizing about literary creation—and, arguably, Chinese literary theory as a whole—appears to follow a counterintuitive path. Instead...

... theoretical significance of some major qing reconceptualizations. Copyright © 2020 Lingnan University 2020 qing (emotion) qing (nature) cognitive theory of emotion Chinese literary theory Mao Shi xu The term qing 情 (emotion) has lain at the core of Chinese thinking about literature...

... the City Red ; Scheen, Shanghai Literary Imaginings ; Song, Mapping Beijing ; Zhang, City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film . 11 This shift is described in detail by Robin Visser in her brilliant work Cities Surround the Countryside . 12 I use the term time-space...

... in various ways. To my mind, no critical text has a broader and longer-lasting influence on later eras than Yan's Canglang's Remarks on Poetry . [email protected] 1. See Pollard, “ Ch'I in Chinese Literary Theory.” 2. Lau, Mencius , 1:57; with modifications. 3. Dong...

... wiped out personhood once and for all. Moreover, Marx's radical vision of humanity has fundamentally shaped twentieth-century Chinese leftist literary theory. As the individual ( geren 個人) was always associated with vacillation, narrow-mindedness, and selfishness, collective subjects from the nation...

... or afterlife of Chinese poetry beyond the geographical boundary of China and, in so doing, examine the politics and poetics of world literature. The special issue joins and contributes to current debates and discussions on theories and histories of world literature by mapping Chinese poetry onto what Pascale...

...; a review written for a certain audience must take sides in the battle between area studies and comparative literature. This tension comes to a head in reviewing Jacob Edmond's Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media for a journal addressing “theory and modern Chinese literature.” In covering...

... approaches in the fields of Western ethics, sociology, psychology, and archetypal criticism to shed new light on the epic. 58 Still new to these literary approaches, the authors tested various theories without questioning the inner links among them. Overall, Chinese scholars strove to provide a new...

... a great poet's compositional process with his precomposition mental flight. Of all the traditional Chinese literary theory I've read, I can find no more innovative, systematic, or compelling explanation of how the transcendent mind makes the leap to literary composition. According to Zhu, when a poet...

... work that is gendered, political, and daily, work that makes his access to the archive of Chinese literary texts possible in the first place. He dedicates dozens of poems to his wife, Li Jing 李婧, including the poem “Us” 我們, in which the “you” of the poem helps the speaker finish sentences, performs...