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...Min Qiao Abstract This article delves into Liu Zaifu's theoretical construction of subjectivity and his reflections on the dominant paradigm of revolution and enlightenment in twentieth-century China. Realizing the incompleteness and insufficiency of his contemplation on individual subjectivity...

...Ban Wang Abstract As a champion of May Fourth enlightenment and a critic of Chinese tradition, Lu Xun is less understood as a prescient critic of the myth of science and technological rationality. Walter Benjamin invoked the utopian reconciliation of humans and nature from premodern culture...

... 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...

...Jianmei Liu Abstract This article aims to investigate the roles Liu Zaifu has played in his three voyages of life. As an outspoken writer and public intellectual who rose to prominence in China during the early 1980s, Liu was a typical pioneer and enlightener, as well as a leading literary theorist...

... of fictional genre to enlighten the reading public. Yet their “education of the novel” was far from complete, as New Literature writers found fictional expressions primarily in the form of the short story, with strong undertones of individualism, subjective lyricism, and elitism. By focusing on Mao Dun's 茅盾...

..., and enlightenment generates entropic desire and self-reflexive ambivalence; the dream threatens to become the nightmare at any moment. Lu Xun describes himself as “lover of night” 愛夜的人 and suggests that if he is seized by the light bestowed by night, that is because he “has ears to hear the night and eyes to see...

... the ancients’ feelings or become enlightened regarding their morality or aesthetics but to engage in literary creation for self-expression, the “self” naturally becomes the subject in this exchange, the ancients shifting to object position. Only by integrating the ancients’ spirit with one's own—in other words...

... not impede each other, / This view I beg you to consider.” Su Shi's claim that “poetry and dharma do not impede each other” marks the formal entry of Buddhism into Chinese literary thought, especially with respect to theorizing literary creation. Soon Chan , the term for samadhi (enlightenment...

.... 4 Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment , 3. 5 Ibid., 2. 6 Benjamin, Illuminations , 236. 7 Ibid., 223. 8 Ibid., 242. 9 Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment , 1. 10 Benjamin, Illuminations , 156–57. 11 Ibid., 156...

... on this-worldly pleasure and otherworldly sin have merged in exorcising the myth of Mao's revolutionary utopia. Copyright © 2020 Lingnan University 2020 Li Zehou Liu Zaifu religion transcendence aesthetics The unfolding of the 1980s New Enlightenment is often narrated as a rationalization process...

... of emotions. In the same vein, ancient-style masters Han Yu 韓愈 (768–824) and Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037–1101) set store by the overflow of qi or vital breath, and Yan Yu 嚴羽 (?–ca. 1245) and other Buddhist-minded critics championed Chan-style enlightenment as a way of writing great poetry. Chapters 6–9 comb through...

... and humanist environment, at the core of which is the ‘cultural mentality’ of the reformers.” As such, Liu was pushing himself toward an unpredictable future. In 1986, Li Zehou 李澤厚 (1930–), the leading philosopher of the New Era, published “The Symbiotic Variations of ‘Enlightenment’ and ‘Saving the Nation...

... of passions, Shen elevates l’état primitif , or the “primitive state” that was considered by European Enlightenment thinkers like Rousseau as the genuine, essential human state “conceived without recourse to an absolute creator or the alterations wrought upon the human by humanity's own progress.” 49...

... treats the practice of “going to the countryside” as intersecting with three major discourses between the May Fourth Movement and the eve of the Cultural Revolution: enlightenment, revolution, and socialist industrialization. The six chapters of the book are chronologically organized into three parts...

... efforts in the United States, the Soviet Union, and Europe. 9 Both capitalist and socialist societies had similar, if not identical, strategic reasons for promoting, building, and constructing happiness as the most acceptable public emotion. Emerging from the Enlightenment, socialism and capitalism...

..., intelligence, labor, and technology. Yuk Hui quotes The Book of Change ( Yijing 易經): “The Heavens are in motion ceaselessly; the enlightened exert themselves constantly. While the Earth is supportive and natural, only the virtuous can bear the utmost” 天行健, 君子以自強不息. 地勢坤, 君子以厚德載物. 16 In this light...

... (spurious forms), 206 wen 文 (patterning), 124, 201 wen 文 (writing), 97 Wen fu 文賦 (An Exposition on Literature), 2, 78, 108 wen xing 聞性 (seeking enlightenment by means of listening), 193 Wenbo Xuezi 溫伯雪子, 63 wenren 文人 (men of letters), 42 wenrou dunhou 溫柔敦厚 (mild, gentle...

... were all inheritors of Wang's legacy—specifically, of his “piercing glance and tranquil contemplation.” Each, however, developed his own theory of enlightenment through deliberating on the natural landscape, by which one purifies one's mind and instantaneously comprehends the absolute reality...

... ( 2017 ): 1 – 33 . Horkheimer, Max . Eclipse of Reason . New York : Continuum , 1947 . Horkheimer, Max , and Theodor W. Adorno . Dialectic of Enlightenment . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2002 . Hsiao, Kung-Chuan . A History of Chinese Political Thought , vol...

... have reached the Buddhist Pure Land and entered Nirvana, will have transformed their minds into a state of purity and achieved a state of enlightened perspicacity through which they can “achieve a state of complete communion with the absolute.” They then dissolve into the myriad things, illuminating...