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... and ponders the contradictions and confluences of its narrative and intellectual paradigms. It proposes that we engage with “dark consciousness,” an idea that deals with the polemics of crisis and contingency ingrained in Chinese thought, in light of modern Chinese literary sources. The last part turns...

... compulsion for meaning is deeply rooted in the dark continent of human consciousness, prelinguistic, even preemergent, such as the so-called seeds ( zhongzi 種子, Skt. bija ), which are impressions of previous experiences stored in the alaiya consciousness (or the storage consciousness), 28...

... a similar epistemological concern: the mind is an architect of phenomena. This commonality reflects the revival of Yogācāra Buddhism (consciousness only) in the early twentieth century. 3 The seemingly metaphysical focus on the mind in fact has a secular and revolutionary implication. For instance, Lu...

... interiority, a deep understanding of the self, Liu turns himself from an enlightener, who in the 1980s reclaimed the individuality of the May Fourth legacy, into a self-savior with a conspicuous awareness of the limitations or darkness of the subjects. 3 In this way, Liu reexamines the overarching...

.... Freudian psychoanalysis, a hermeneutic process of interpretation, plumbs the dark and unknown depths of the psyche embedded in family, social, and cultural contexts, fully aware of the limits of consciousness to reach out to the obscure but dynamic recesses of the unconscious body. But the AI analyst...

... Perceptionist Movement 新感覺派, 1 a literary tendency that focused on cosmopolitan, urban life and made use of stream-of-consciousness techniques. Less well known and seldom reread are Hei Ying's Nanyang 南洋 (South Seas) works, though they arguably occupy the dominant place in his oeuvre. These stories...

..., 2008. Cai, Zong-qi. Weishi sanleijing yu Wang Changling shixue sanjing shuo (Three Types of Inscape in Consciousness-Only Budd­ hism and the 236 CAI Three Types of Inscape in Wang Changling s Writ­ings on Poetry). Wenxue yichan (Literary Heritage), no. 1 (2018): 49 59. Chan, Wing-tsit. A Source...

... specializes in speculative fiction and queer fiction—would be inclined to take the risk. At first glance, the Filipino Chinese consciousness in Lauriat seems to be evinced by the Filipino Chinese personae in the stories, the sporadic use of ethnic historical events in the narrative (e.g...

... of thinking and negotiating their relationships with nature by drawing on the wisdom and practices of their cultural and communal traditions. In industrialized and Western societies, environmental consciousness emerged as a Romantic revolt within the context of industrialization and modernization. In contrast...

.... As “old youth,” this vanguard generation held up the “Gate of Darkness” through which the younger generation might escape the old society and enter the new. Song vividly retells this story of national origins with fresh details, including those of lesser-known actors, such as Yung Wing 容閎 (1828–1912...

... of settlement, civilization, and technology) is responsible for the Anthropocene, because it conceptualizes nature as separate from humans. 41 Morton's thesis in Dark Ecology is that agrilogistics arose 12,500 years ago at the end of the Ice Age, when a climate shift experienced by hunter-gatherers...

...” Romantic poets as he not only embraced their sociopolitical views but also shared their fascination with darkness, death, destruction, and tales of supernatural phenomena. For an analysis of the dark, morbid side of Lu Xun's psyche, see Hsia, “Aspects of the Power of Darkness in Lu Hsün.” 16...

... In the Chinese literary scene, scholars are increasingly acknowledging the value of science fiction and celebrating the rise of a new wave in Chinese science fiction writing. As Mingwei Song points out, the new wave has a dark and subversive side that “speaks either to the invisible dimensions of the reality...

.... 39 In the specific historical context of the poem, this recasting of the recent past as “dark night” agreed with the growing consensus that the Cultural Revolution had been a senseless chaos, a consensus that in effect rendered inaudible an extraordinarily loud and vociferous era. A poem by Mang Ke...

... . “ Urban Archaeologies: Embodied Viewership in Recent Media Art .” Visual Resources 26 , no. 1 ( 2010 ): 51 – 59 . Cork, Richard . “ Not Waving but Drowning .” New Statesman , October 6 , 2003 , 43 – 44 . Darke, Chris . “ Territories: The Tell-Tale Trajectory of Isaac Julien...

... endeavors stretching from the heyday of the New Culture Movement of the 1920s to the dark days of the Cultural Revolution embody the “interpretative mechanism intrinsic to the Chinese Revolution, imaginatively communicating between the national and the foreign and proactively coalescing different historical...

... ( yin lifebreath), 207 yinxun 音訓 (phonological gloss), 18 Yipu cangtan 藝圃傖談 (A Vulgar Country Man's Talk in the Garden of Arts), 199 yishi 意識 ( vijñāna yishi , consciousness or continuing mind), 96, 113–14, 117 yixiang 臆想 (an act of conjuring up or imagining something absent), 26...

... as the Liu-Song dynasty (420–479), writers already went beyond the limitations of the native Chinese conception of “image” ( xiang 象) and consciously applied Buddhist concepts to come to new understandings of the objects, methods, and effects of the visual sense and to probe their transcendental religious...

...-garde smog art counterpart. What has undergirded smog life is a collective ecological unconsciousness—the premodern “mist” consciousness—that is suppressed in “smog modernity,” of which scientific discourse pertaining to topics such as toxic smog ( mai ) has become the predominant way of conceptualizing...

.... In a public lecture, an American professor lambasts Mars's political culture in front of the interplanetary guests, who are eager to learn about Earth civilization. He condemns the Red Planet as a dark dystopia akin to that in George Orwell's 1984 and as an “Age of Machines” ruled by a dictator...