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...Pang Laikwan Abstract This article analyzes the meanings and problematics of China's heavy reliance on sovereignty as the state's governing principle in recent years. It also invites us to think with and beyond the concept to envisage the state-people relation. [email protected] Copyright...

.... By contrast, Wang Changling stresses the primacy of yi at every creative phase and introduces a rich array of yi -compounds: zuoyi for initiating transcendent contemplation, yixiang for the ideal outcome of envisaging, and qiyi for the dynamic mental process behind compositional execution, among...

... within the yi → xiang → yan paradigm, Lu and Liu carefully examine all five major phases of literary creation: (1) the writer's cultivation of optimal physical and mental conditions, (2) emotional response to external stimuli, (3) a two-way flight of imagination, (4) the envisaging (of the work...

.... The adoption of this paradigm is obviously a conscious decision, as both Lu and Liu explicitly identify literary creation as a process of transforming yi (inward conception) into yan (words) and give a poetic description of xiang (envisagement), the intermediary of this transformation. Thus, Lu Ji...

... landscape poetry—not restricted to observation of object and scenes but representing a leap from the particular objects or scenes to the ultimate of all phenomena, dharma nature, tathātā , dharma body, nirvana, and Buddha nature. Compared to what we've seen with “image” or envisagement, Chinese...

... necessary for distinguishing complex mental and linguistic activities at different stages of literary creation. The term yi 意 captures a broad array of preexpressive mental experiences, ranging from clear ideas to artistic envisagement that defies conceptualization. Meanwhile yan 言 encompasses all...

... culture in balance with nature. Humanized technology implies the possibility of “good” cyborgs and reflects the utopian desire for the organic mediation of human and nature through labor. The idea of “humanization of nature and naturalization of humanity” envisages an ecological union of human...

..., the writers “must write envisaging audiences who will read their work in translation.” 5 The notion that authors must be “envisaging audiences” when they write may of course be contested by writers who often claim not, at least not intentionally, to be writing for anyone but themselves. 6 If we can...

... on such rationalism often lack legitimacy precisely because they do not satisfy the meaning-seeking aspect of human experience.” 18 This study takes cues from this romantic journey of “back to the future” by invoking the past ideals to envisage alternative futures. My analyses of films under socialism serve...

... the cosmological and ecological motifs inherent in the concept of moral virtue. Bringing humans into “harmony with larger patterns of change in the cosmos” and envisaging a “dynamic triad” of Heaven, humans, and Earth, Confucian thinkers perceive humans as forming a vast, extended body in consanguinity with myriad...

... have mirrored the bleak prospects of same-sex relationships in the 1990s, when no one could envisage that marriage equality would become a reality in Taiwan in 2019. At the same time, the impossibility may have also signaled that the enchantment of commodification—the prospects of recognition...

... 象 (image, envisagement), 4, 6, 14, 60, 65, 71 xiangshu pai 象數派 (Images and Numbers school), 29 xiangwang 象罔 (Image Shadowy, a fictional character in the Zhuangzi ), 25, 76 xianliang 現量 (direct perception, Skt. pratyakṣasamyak ), 147 xianyi 現意 (making yi manifest), 99 xiao...

..., calligraphy does not seem to be a great match for a digital screen: brush, ink, and paper ( wenfang sibao 文房四寶) are so quintessentially analog that it is challenging to envisage a calligraphy practiced online. But a multitude of apps allow calligraphy enthusiasts to upload handwritten pieces...

... upon the value of China's problematic historical past and envisaging the future development of Chinese society and culture. The juxtaposition of “outer universe” ( wai yuzhou 外宇宙) and “inner universe” ( nei yuzhou 內宇宙) is a special form of representation he frequently uses. The outer universe—images...

... uncertainties, and a sense of dislocation. 29 This feeling of estrangement is conveyed through the chronotope of the city. In this way, the story displays a distinct characteristic of contemporary Chinese SF, which, “in its general envisaging of the city, is even more willing to emphasize both the enveloping...

... Kong citizenship is growing within the HKSAR, in China national politics remains dominated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which strategically depoliticizes Hong Kong residents as the constituents of an economic city. Such political seclusion was envisaged in the “one country, two systems” design...

... “three standards” ( sanzhui 三准), he is still unable to elucidate the relation between spirit-thinking and the practice of the three standards. The Tang critic Wang Changling makes innovative use of yi in the third sense (dynamic “envisagement” as used in calligraphic discourse) to describe...

..., the leftist internationalism of the League of Left-Wing Writers was more “inter-national” than cosmopolitan (in that “Chinese writers envisaged a family of nations in which each country contributed in its own unique way to a world culture”), 47 then Ai Wu's Travels in the South presents a vision in which...

... are always already subjective projections of humans. Just as the wartime landscape is inevitably envisaged symbolically from political and national perspectives, the pastoral landscape is not politically free either but instead is imagined as such mainly through the prism of aristocratic and intellectualized...

... and a consolidated financial position like the Western middle class, which arose within the Western industrial revolution, along with the impact of religious ideas of individualism, political ideas of humanitarian revolution, and commercial development. 48 Therefore, he envisaged that shi would have to go...