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...Jacob Edmond Abstract The term world literature is often used to name the small subset of literary texts that are translated into many languages and circulate globally. One might see the work of the widely translated, globe-trotting poet Bei Dao 北島 (pen name of Zhao Zhenkai 趙振開) as epitomizing...

...Xiaobing Tang Abstract “The Answer,” a poem by Bei Dao first published in 1978, marks the emergence of a defiant voice in contemporary Chinese poetry and asserts skepticism as the political stance of a young generation in post–Cultural Revolution China. It also heralds a historic transition from...

... on the Propagation and Clarification of Buddhism) compiled by Sengyou 僧祐 (445–518), in the debate between Zhou Yong and Zhang Rong over the differences and similarities between Buddhism and Daoism, Zhang Rong employed a phrase he borrowed from Zhuangzi 莊子, “a piercing glance reveals the Dao here” 目擊道斯存, to explain...

... is used to differentiate actualities. Phrase is that which combines differentiating names to elucidate one meaning. Argumentative discourse is that which does not merely differentiate actualities but also makes known the Dao of alternating movement and inaction. 7 名聞而實 喻,名之用也。累而成文,名之麗也。用、麗俱得,謂之知名。名也者...

... intellectuals’ idealizations of masculinity and femininity. 37 On first glance, the plot of “Beijing zhedie” reproduces some of caizi jiaren 's familiar elements: protagonist Lao Dao 老刀, who works for paltry wages as a waste processer in Third Space, accepts an illegal smuggling job to earn kindergarten...

... of transcendent initiation of the creative process per se (see §§43–44), which are in turn rooted in Zhuangzi's idea of “letting the mind roam.” “Cosmic Creation” or just “Creation” ( zaohua 造化) as used here refers to the Dao of the Supreme Ultimate or the One that generates the Two (Heaven or qian , and Earth...

... provocative 1990 review of Bei Dao's poetry, Stephen Owen spends a few pages elaborating on the powerful place of new media that lies beyond the purview of traditional print culture: “In place of the cultural establishments of nation-states, charged with defining literary history and canon (these have...

... in China. Three diverging urban spaces unfold in a predetermined cycle and separate the 80 million inhabitants by social strata—the upper, middle, and lower classes. Against this backdrop, a subjective narrator describes the life of the blue-collar worker Lao Dao 老刀, who lives in Third Space. With a focus...

... and Zhuangzi insist that language cannot represent the highest cosmic principle, Dao, they concede the necessity of using it to describe Dao. This amounts to a tacit admission of language's capacity to reveal a metaphysical meaning beyond itself, so that “forgetting language after grasping conception” can...

... ‘shenti xinyang’” 論穆旦的「身體信仰」 (On Mu Dan's “Belief in the Body”). Wenxue pinglun 文學評論 (Literary Review) 5 ( 2019 ): 214 – 23 . Li Yuzhe 李煜哲 . “Cong ‘kunan’ dao ‘jige’: Mu Dan de Mianzhan jingli xushu zhi bian—cong Mu Dan jiwaiwen ‘Kunan de lücheng—yao ji shengzhe he jinian sizhe’ shuo qi” 從「苦難...

... Lunshishu” 與郭價夫論詩書 (Letter to Guo Jiafu to Discuss Poetry), 163 Yu Ji 虞集 (1272–1348), 8, 146–47, 158–60, 191–93, 224 Yuan Hongdao 袁宏道 (1568–1610), 194, 196 Yuan Mei 袁枚 (1716–1798), 148, 224 Yuan Zhongdao 袁中道 (1570–1623), 194 “Yuandao” 原道 (Tracing the Dao as the Source), 67, 77, 123, 144, 185...

... is xianggu 像姑; see Lu Xun, Zhongguo xiaoshuoshi lue , 269 . 16 Wang, “Cong Pinhua baojian dao Shijimo shaonian'ai duben ,” 344 . 54 Wang, “Cong Pinhua baojian dao Shijimo shaonian'ai duben ,” 343 . 55 Sang, “From Flowers to Boys,” 75 . 56 Chen S., Pinhua baojian...

... by Zhuangzi's 莊子 (369–298 BCE) idea of transcendent roaming, neither strives for a no-return transcendence and eternal union with Dao. Instead, they emphasize that their mind-roaming or spirit-thinking is a two-way journey: after transcending time and space in a spiritual flight beyond the world's boundaries...

... 器, apparently denoting tool or instrument, is integral to dao 道, as in the phrase dao qi he yi 道器合一(combining means with ends), premised on the unity of technical instrumentality and moral purpose. As the all-encompassing and vital totality of Heaven and Earth, dao is associated with de 德...

... the multitude are an inexhaustible mass. The master of the multitude, who is neither the Dao nor the Ultimate, calls itself “I.” The light of the “I” has made the sun and the moon. The force of the “I” has made mountains and rivers. The evolution of the “I” has made birds and insects. The reason of “I” has made...

... rules and regulations. The purpose was to rectify man's natural disposition and set it straight and to improve people's natural disposition through guidance. All this began with the need of governance and adhered to the Dao. 古者聖王以人性惡,以為偏險而不正,悖亂而不治,是以為之起禮義,制法度,以矯飾人之情性而正之,以擾化人之情性而導之也。始皆出於治,合於道者也。 22...

... connected to the Dao and the order of the heavens. 59 Given the rise of the conception of the modern nation-state, the usage of shijie after 1895 drastically increased, surpassing the use of wanguo 萬國 (ten thousand countries) and tianxia at the turn of the twentieth century. Among the terms...

... Zhongguo bazhong shehui sichao . Also see Ge, “Cong wenhuashi, xueshushi, dao sixaingshi.” 11 D. Wang, Fin-de-Siècle Splendor , 301–9 . 10 Many things forced Liang to abandon the writing of the novel, including his changing political agenda. See Xia, Jueshi yu chuanshi , 71–72...

... poetry. Bei Dao also makes this point in his tribute essay to Zhang Zao, when he states: “With his deep grasp of Western literature and culture, Zhang Zao looks back and understands the broad and profound oriental aesthetic system. He aims at finding a new tension and a melting point between the two...

.... Life is good, comfortable, and facilitated by high-tech robots. Second Space seems to be a middle passage for social mobility. Third Space at the bottom is the garbage dump for the other two spaces, and waste workers there engage in the dehumanizing job of recycling trash. The protagonist, Lao Dao...