... to transcend political and cultural boundaries. Liu's three distinct roles at three different stages of life—a Chinese scholar, an exile, a cosmopolitan—exemplify a fluctuating spiritual odyssey of a Chinese intellectual whose profoundly multifarious oeuvre is intertwined with his quest for personal freedom...

... of Thirdspace through which to ensure a spirit of tolerance, independence of individuals, and freedom of criticism. The article investigates Zhang Dongsun's philosophical system, his political thought and commentary, and his cultural criticism in the Republic of China, discussing the motivations that compelled...

..., and the balance between society and nature. Earth, boasting freedom and technology, is on the brink of ecological catastrophes. Driven by the anthropocentric conquest of nature, the planet has become an exhaustively built environment, choked with overbuilding, environmental degradation, and depletion of nature...

... . Badiou, Alain . “ What Is Love?, ” translated by J. Clemens . In Jacques Lacan , vol. 4 , edited by Slavoj Žižek , 51 – 67 . New York : Routledge , 2003 . Gao Xingjian 高行健 . Ziyou yu wenxue 自由與文學 [ Freedom and Literature ]. Taipei : Linking Publications , 2014 . Gu Dayong 古大勇...

... “Iron Curtain” speech delivered in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, the proclamation of the Truman Doctrine in 1947, and the launch of the Marshall Plan the same year. Insinuating a mutually exclusive polarity between freedom and tyranny, between liberal democracy and totalitarianism, and between...

... Ronchi would love the novel Mama wrote for Hina because it embraces her destiny and the destiny of all the women on her maternal line. For them hearing “voices of light” is precisely “the inevitability of what takes place.” There's no getting around it. The cat novel celebrates finding freedom within...

... individuality and freedom. It is a spark of victory amid failures, a glimmer of hope amid desperation. This article, translated by Yijiao Guo, is Liu Zaifu's speech at the international conference “Three Tendencies for Contemporary Humanities after the May Fourth: C. T. HSIA, LEE Ou-fan Leo, and LIU...

... (HKTV) steered public opinion to support its cause of media freedom. 4 Ricky Wong, the founder of HKTV, remarked that Tian yu di had a novel theme (cannibalism) but fell short of the serious and quality TV programming that Hong Kong people deserved and that HKTV aspired to produce. 5 Central...

.... Scientific, natural laws lay the ground for human laws, and human institutions must fit into the lawful texture and rhythm of nature. Yet natural laws impose necessary limits, and human laws desire freedom and innovation. Recognizing the split between humans and nature, Kang concludes that the public...

... dogmas, such as Norms of Boudoir ( Gui Fan 閨範) and Admonition of Boudoir ( Gui Xun 閨訓), address women's seclusion and devotion within the family as a virtue. The boudoir, an inner and feminine living space, mirrors the Confucian patriarchal regulation of women's behavior and limits women's freedom...

... and by unleashing intellectual freedom and scientific revolution. But the Enlightenment project quickly reversed to the roles of its enemies. Enlightenment “aimed at liberating humans from fear and installing them as masters. Yet the wholly enlightened earth is radiant with triumphant calamity.” 6...

..., and cultures. The various political and economic projects that have sought to extend freedom and equality to individuals and communities by modifying living conditions are deemed guilty of endangering the planet. This prevents critics from inquiring into the political and socioeconomic origins of environmental...

... and arrest the discourse of freedom, flows, movements, and deterritorialization. They unravel an important contradiction: although globalization is characterized by the freedom of movement of capital, commodities, codes, and images, the freedom of movement of labor is severely restricted, and in some cases...

... of emotion constitutes an attempt not only to revitalize the literary tradition but also, more important, to challenge the social establishment as a whole. Like Li Zhi, Gong Zizhen fought against the entrenched Cheng-Zhu neo-Confucian orthodoxy and advocated freedom of expression for individual emotion...

... folks and village life and customs, especially the natives of Caucasus, a region that had risen in arms against Russia to achieve its own freedom.” 40 Two stories in Lu Xun's collection Gushi xinbian 故事新編 (Old Tales Retold) address mythology, cosmology, and human-nature resonance. Instead...

... that same-sex couples were guaranteed the right to marry by virtue of the Constitution's Article 22 protecting freedom of marriage and Article 7 protecting the right to equality. The court gave the Legislative Yuan a maximum of two years to bring all relevant laws into compliance. Two years later, on May 17...

... the homogeneous, sublime literary figures created in a revolutionary utopia, he instead invented an artistic utopia in which subjects were also romanticized as being endowed with purity, self-determination, and complete freedom. The paradox lies in the fact that Lu Xun's notions of cannibalism and eating oneself...

... external reality to the linguistic structures.” 2 These linguistic codes authorize the observing mind and enable it to aspire to a privileged platform from which to register and document slices of reality—with an objective distance. In doing so the mind discovers its independence and freedom, yet its...

.... While he contributed to the formation of the humanist subject in search of freedom and modernity, Shen did as much to disperse the human self by grounding it in an ecological context and by recovering human roots in the nonhuman environment. Chinese traditions of thought also fed into Shen's...

... development on society and highlights the helplessness of ordinary Chinese individuals as the protagonist personifies an anti-hero who has lost his freedom of choice. In line with what Luo Xiaoming observes in contemporary Chinese SF stories that engage with the “urban,” the protagonists of both “Beijing...