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... of this nascent belletristic literature and elevating its authors’ status. At the pinnacle of these critical writings are China's first and only comprehensive theories of literary creation, in Lu Ji's 陸機 (261–303) Fu Exposition on Literature (hereafter Exposition ) and Liu Xie's 劉勰 (ca. 465–532?) magnum opus...

... sparingly. But with Wang Changling, yi becomes a kind of all-purpose term, through which he conceptualizes and describes all phases of literary creation. Its new paradigmatic significance is made clear at the very beginning of “Lun Wen Yi”: §75 With regard to the nature of poetic composition, yi...

... Xie left ample room for later generations to develop a Confucian theory of literary creation. Han Yu would make perfect use of this space to successfully connect Confucian sages and literary creation. To my mind, Han Yu owes a good deal of this success to his creative adoption of Mencius's notion...

... or inspired interest—to the faint but lingering sound of a struck bell, and lauding its union with Creation. All these hyperbolic metaphors and superlatives resemble panegyrics of the Dao in the Daoist classics. Yuan, Ming, and Qing poetry criticism witnesses a frequent recurrence and steady...

...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...

... and capricious habits of expression in order to furnish food for fickle tastes and fickle appetites of their own creation. 8 Although Eliot is also highly intent on linking emotion to external object, he believes the latter—like the former—should be wholly distinct from the poet's personal life. In his...

...Zong-qi Cai [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Lingnan University 2023 Like their predecessors, many late Qing critics continued to place emotion at the center of their discussions of literary creation. Their views, however, were now forged in a radically different cultural...

... 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...

... rule in Manchukuo. Moreover, this colonial experience was in fact highlighted to make it play an important role in the creation and fortification of a Korean-Chinese identity. The Korean-Chinese stories from this period focus exclusively on the local to conjure an image of community. Local problems...

... before it was translated, Bei Dao's work developed through translation, through both his reading of translated texts and his connecting of translation to literary creation. Bei Dao's career illustrates how translation is not secondary to the creation and reception of a literary work in its home language...

... and genetic reconstruction of humanoids undermines the human self-image and blurs the boundaries between human and machine. The creation of AI humanoids cancels out as well as foregrounds the essential needs of human emotional reciprocity and the ritual of working through the trauma of sickness and death...

... suicide of Guo Moruo and the Creation Society, (2) the failure of humanity, (3) the elimination of individuality and personality, (4) the reversal of the enlightenment subject, (5) the devastation of the world vision, and (6) the failure of aesthetic practice. Liu also shares his two struggles. The first...

... of an artist's individualism, which is inspired by Anwar, and the impetus of responding to nationalism manifests in his meta-fictional short stories that reflect on the varying motivations behind art creation. His works offer a productive perspective to reconsider the modernist artist's role during revolution...

...Yanshuo Zhang Abstract This article investigates the underexamined ethnic motifs of the modern literary master Shen Congwen's 沈從文 fictional creations. In the field of Chinese literary scholarship, Shen is widely recognized as a leading figure of the May Fourth “native soil” literary tradition...

... literatures and the politics of resistance to language hegemony. By demonstrating the Tibetan language's capacity for literary creation, the story effectively resists the hegemony it depicts, even while it suggests that the Tibetan literary text itself is in the process of being fundamentally redefined by its...

..., is revealed to be a more contemporary creation, emerging after pastoral and biblical archetypes of the shepherdess were introduced to China in the late Qing and modern periods. Prior to Tang Qi, the image had already been shaped and transformed by intellectuals. Therefore, when Tang Qi encountered this motif...

... on the writer's creation of a V city—a fictional counterpart of modern Hong Kong. This article questions how textual narratives of places in Dung's four novellas rebuild collective cultural memory with a historical tradition of Chinese literary geography. As the founding text for the series, the first volume...

... they have been taught that “only Martians are free” (178). They are free from worries about necessities of life and free to work in a workshop or atelier of their own, and never have to sell their thoughts, talent, and creations for money or to compete with others. Before the trip, home to Luoying...

... in a workshop or atelier of their own, and never have to sell their thoughts, talent, and creations for money or to compete with others. Before the trip, home to Luoying was a place of comfort and warmth. But the professor's diatribe “ripped away her skin and flesh to reveal the white bone beneath...