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...Nick Admussen Abstract This article attempts to conceptualize and encourage an already extant conceptual turn right now taking place in China studies: a turn toward poetry composition, in which transcultural critical scholars also compose their own original poetry. The reason for the phenomenon...

...David Der-wei Wang Abstract Liu Zaifu is one of the most influential critics in the New Era after the Cultural Revolution. His works, such as On Literary Subjectivity (1985) and A Treatise of Character Composition (1986), inspired a generation of Chinese youth yearning for intellectual...

..., Liu shifted his scholarly interests to the composition of and dialogues between multiple subjectivities and examined the complex relationship between subjects and objects, self and others, as well as the individual's psychological relationship with the self. By reframing Liu's theories on subjectivity...

..., El tramo final (The Final Stretch). From offering new ideas of what it means to be Chinese to rewriting the history of China's red legacies, Siu's work represents a needed intervention in Chinese literary studies that would otherwise be excluded owing to its language of composition. 59 I would...

... premium Huang sets on the establishment of yi in poetic composition. Following Fan Ye's line of thought, many Qing critics offered more detailed and cogent discussions on the importance of establishing yi (sublimated emotion) in the compositional process. For example, the early Qing critic Huang...

... . At the same time, Wang Wei's poetry, steeped in Chan Buddhism, is fully in accord with Zong Bing's “Preface” on the level of practical composition. Wang Changling's ingress from tranquil contemplation of the object-inscape to a transcendent dimension offers a perfect theoretical recapitulation of Wang Wei's...

... transcendent mental activity to literary composition. The establishment of yi- centered discourse in the Ming-Qing period is immensely significant because it successfully infuses transcendent spirit-thinking, along with the interaction between emotions, scenery, and objects it incites, into every step...

... transcends his contemporaries’ petty concerns with technical rules of composition to make the creative process the central topic of discussion. 10 Elaborating on the impact of yi , he writes: §76 If a poet transcends ancients in using yi , the vision of heaven and earth may be keenly observed...

... that you go to the 100th floor. It is purely for composition.” 12 The rooftopping selfie is akin to other genres of self-photography at dangerous heights, such as those described in Winfried Gerling's history of parachuters and aerial divers, culminating in GoPro videos. 13 In particular many rooftop...

... 易 (Change). Rather, in the ancient writings of Yi , yang is indicated with the number 9 and yin with the number 6. It clearly indicates that yin and yang are numbers. That yin and yang are numbers is also implied in the way the signs are interpreted. To interpret gua 卦, a composite...

... prefaces his Exposition with a personal reflection on the yi-yan relationship: §37 Whenever I observe compositions by men of talent, I feel I have a way of grasping the strenuous efforts of their minds. Though there are many divergences in the ways they articulate their words and deploy phrases...

... that it was produced by some later artist working in the Fan Kuan style. In particular, while Sitting Alone by a Stream shares compositional elements with Travelers among Mountains and Streams , other elements, such as the brushwork used for the rocks and for the human figure in the foreground, are incompatible...

... criticism in the 1980s. Published in 1986, Liu's highly acclaimed book Xinge zuhe lun 性格組合論 (On the Composition of Human Character) set out to restore the profundity and complexity of the literary configuration of human character against crude socialist paradigms. Challenging the binary opposition...

... that flirts with the Sinographic imaginary. Concrete poetry as a literary genre is continuous with a nonliterary mode of aesthetic expression, namely Chinese text-based art. As with concrete poetry, the Sinograph figures here as a visual-verbal composite, or what W. J. T. Mitchell would call an imagetext...

...-Singing Stream” and Wallace Stevens's “Of Mere Being”]. . . . In Wang Wei, the scenery speaks and acts . The poet has become, even before the act of composition, Phenomenon itself and can allow the things in it to emerge as they are without being contaminated by intellectuality. The poet does...

... affected by their mothers in their literary compositions and their commitment to gender equality. Tang explored in his work issues like the relationship between women's education and the unbinding of their feet, a relationship that Zhan Xi's novel poses less explicitly, while women figures in Zhan Kai's...

... on the physical “scraping and rinsing” 磨洗 as on the poet's dutifully performing his task of poetic composition. “Suppose the east wind had not given the young Master Zhou a chance” 東風不與周郎便, Du Fu asks in his iconic poem. Readers today, as in Du Fu's time, will come to their own conclusions. “Thus, the Three...

... missing the clear bibliographic categories we find in other forms of writing. This is a clear downstream effect of the lack of distinct form markers, which leads bibliographers to divide prose into categories centered on “content, function, or context of composition” (3). Given this reality, Cai proposes...

... questioned such a campaign of spiritual nationalization and regarded it as the loss of personal dignity and literary liberty. Consequently, in the 1980s, I began to write my book Xingge zuhe lun 性格組合論 (On the Composition of Human Character), which actually discussed the theory of humanity composition...

... paradigm for Lu Xun studies. In the 1980s, commonly known as the New Era because of its massive projects of modernization and enlightenment, Liu Zaifu was the leading literary theorist, best known for his three theories ( san lun 三論), characterized by the scholar Xia Zhongyi as “on the composition...