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... fiction on both textual and extratextual levels. The author argues that Hao Jingfang's 郝景芳 “Beijing zhedie” 北京折疊 (Folding Beijing) and Xia Jia's 夏笳 “Baigui yexing jie” 百鬼夜行街 (One Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight) combine, subvert, and reinterpret tropes of premodern Chinese literary genres like caizi jiaren...

... of the digital technique of dance that “Chineseness” in modern dance can be based not only on the “spirit of the arts,” which haunts dance like a ghost, but also on digital technique as the technique of the body. For research on Chinese modern dance, it is the body that counts. [email protected]...

... for illustrating how Chinese writers like Zhou took pains to embrace the world of Romanticism beyond China through traditional Chinese sensual and sentimental lyricism. Through an examination of Zhou's selection and discussion of the poems and stories, as well as the paratextual materials included...

... grounds it in the microanalysis of influential and representative statements on qing made since antiquity. Through careful contextualization, it seeks to determine which particular meaning(s) of qing is most likely intended in each instance and if and how an author has reconceptualized the term to present...

... the cruelties of biopolitics but nevertheless celebrate the fact that “life” is never bare. For them, ionizing radiation acts like the COVID cough did for many of us: not as an invitation to critique the state but as a material intrusion that forces an awareness of what Rocco Ronchi, in his response to Agamben...

... humans and nonhumans while simultaneously contemplating the reality of human extinction events. Riddled with such contradictions, The Three-Body Problem thus represents the experience of hope and cynicism in the face of radically transforming human/nonhuman relationships—a sentiment likely shared by many...

... You Like Some World Music with Your Latte? Starbucks, Putumayo, and Distributed Tourism .” Twentieth-Century Music 1 , no. 2 ( 2004 ): 209 – 23 . Lash, Scott , and John Urry . Economies of Signs and Space . London : Sage , 1993 . Park, Crystal L. , Tosca Braun...

... of yangqi 養氣 (nourishing lifebreath). When asked what he is good at, Mencius says, “I have an insight into words. I am good at cultivating my ‘flood-like qi .’ . . . There is qi which, in the highest degree, is vast and unyielding. Nourish it with integrity and place no obstacle in its path...

... by the trilogy itself. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Lingnan University 2024 gender Chinese science fiction Three-Body Trilogy cultural evolution deep time Do you understand that the universe is masculine? Feminine civilizations, like yours, are fragile, fine and delicate...

... turn at the site of a theoretical ‘what if?’ They open up the possibility of a new map or orientation for thinking and organizing reality not by fixing thought on an object but by opening a new route for thinking to traverse and christening it with a name.” 43 What if we turned like this? [B...

... relationships, making the definition and characterization of a caring person more open-ended. From this outlook, this evolution aligns perfectly with the development of care ethics over the past decades, which has expanded from intimate relationships like mothering and parenting to encompass care for distant...

...Zong-qi Cai §77 Ancient writings adhere to a lofty norm. The workings of yi can be observed in a single line such as “Good like his own flesh and blood,” in two lines such as “’Guan, guan,’ cry the ospreys / On the islet in the river,” or in four lines such as “Green, green is the cypress...

...-novel-size successes make her the best-selling poet alive. 1 Kaur and her fellow “Instapoets”—poets who first publish their works on popular social media platforms like Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), Tumblr, or TikTok—have arguably defeated, once again, the tired prophecy that poetry is dead. While...

... coverage initially concluded that this sort of measure was only possible in an authoritarian state like China, by the time the Wuhan lockdown was lifted two months later, over seventy countries around the world (representing all of the world's continents except Antarctica) had implemented national...

... slower than workers do. Vegetating under this therapy, the capitalists show no vital signs, like mummies: they appear to be “the living dead” (163). The living dead, as Mark Neocleous reminds us, is a consistent metaphor throughout Marx's critique of capitalism concerning the corporeal rift...

..., was born and bred in Third Space, but his father, a construction worker, and millions of others like him have built First Space. “They had swung their hammers and wielded their adze.” 1 Brick by brick, they have constructed the paradisal center of Beijing. When the city stands before them in its...

... and further away from anything like individual feeling or consciousness: because it involves the “transmuting” of emotion, it is one where all individual feeling or consciousness finally completely disappears. And here he offers the ingenious analogy of a chemical catalyst: “When the two gases previously...

..., Sentiments Like Water suggests that this criminalization was, in fact, a two-edged sword, in that even as it was nominally restricting and penalizing same-sex activity, it was simultaneously underscoring the existence and legibility of that activity itself. Copyright © 2020 Lingnan University 2020...

... between the original straight characters from the media franchise. Like BL, slash is also primarily a practice by women and for women. Henry Jenkins in his classic study on television fans, Textual Poachers , documents fans' debates about slash and the critiques of its basic conventions. Some fans point...

...悟意也。( QSHXB , 1588–89) 8 Here Yu Ji tries to mystify and “metaphysicize” yi or artistic conception in four steps: comparing it to intangible phenomena like wind and springtime, identifying it with the metaphysical process of change, likening its aesthetic effect—which he calls qu...