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... of this nascent belletristic literature and elevating its authors’ status. At the pinnacle of these critical writings are China's first and only comprehensive theories of literary creation, in Lu Ji's 陸機 (261–303) Fu Exposition on Literature (hereafter Exposition ) and Liu Xie's 劉勰 (ca. 465–532?) magnum opus...

...Hang Tu Abstract This article offers a reconstruction of the intellectual dialogue between Kantian aesthetician Li Zehou 李澤厚 (1930–) and humanist literary critic Liu Zaifu 劉再復 (1941–). By comparing Li's ruminations on “cultures of pleasure” ( legan wenhua 樂感文化) and Liu's treatises on “literatures...

...David Der-wei Wang Abstract Liu Zaifu is one of the most influential critics in the New Era after the Cultural Revolution. His works, such as On Literary Subjectivity (1985) and A Treatise of Character Composition (1986), inspired a generation of Chinese youth yearning for intellectual...

...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...

...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...

... poetry. The texts come from Shenqing shi 深情史 (Histories of Affection) by Liu Liduo 劉麗朵 (1979–); The Banished Immortal , Chinese-American poet and novelist Ha Jin's 哈金 (1956–) biography of Li Bai; the book-length poem-sequence Tang 唐, by Yi Sha 伊沙 (1966–); and poet Xi Chuan's 西川 (1963–) scholarly book...

...Melissa A. Hosek Abstract This article reads Liu Cixin's award-winning Chinese science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem (2007, in English 2014) as a work of climate fiction. By analyzing the novel's portrayal of ecological crisis, dystopian outlook, and inexplicable dream sequences...

...Huang Yingying Abstract Gender in Liu Cixin's fiction is hardly considered a promising topic, given the flat portrayal of his men and women, while his gendering of nonhuman lives, objects, and worlds receives little attention. This article examines the gendering of conventional and alternative...

...Liu Zaifu; Yijiao Guo Abstract In this speech, Liu Zaifu thoroughly discusses the history of the May Fourth movement and the New Culture movement in the whole last century and the circumstances of humanity in China. In his explanation, May Fourth could be conceptualized through three different...

...Jianmei Liu Abstract This article contributes to the study of the cultural politics of Thirdspace in modern China, which exerted a far-reaching influence on Chinese intellectual history, literature, and culture. Although the term the third space was coined by Homi K. Bhabha, the leading figure...

...Xinmin Liu Abstract As a critical term, greenwashing refers derogatorily to the “perfect” images of green and lush scenery presented by corporate-led publicity campaigns to promote their environment-friendly postures while they continue their toxic and harmful business operations. This critique...

...Petrus Liu Abstract This essay proposes a reconceptualization of the Cold War as a critical methodology for the study of contemporary Chinese-language cultures and literatures. Arguing that the Cold War is not over but simply transformed, the author redefines it as an enduring “problematic...

... production, the article proposes to understand popular forms such as romance fiction as arising from and coconstituting a regional Sinosphere that can only be understood, following Laura Doyle's recent study, as inter-imperial. Offering a reading of the Hong Kong writer Liu Yichang's romantic fiction...

... Communist Party. This essay attempts to take the PRC's revolutionary historical fiction as a reference point to reinvestigate Malayan Communist fiction, which was characterized as “historical fiction” by left-wing writers. Examples include Jin Zhimang's Hunger , Liu Jun's Wind Blowing in the Woods , and Tuo...

... maneuvers in 1860s Qing China, the article clarifies the paratextual chronology of the translations, analyzes the translators’ manipulations of poetic form, and draws on Lawrence Venuti's theorization of foreignizing translation and Lydia H. Liu's concept of the supersign to expose Wade's foreignizing...

... analysis of the digital techniques of dance begins with the notation developed by Rudolf Laban for the Western modern dance and that developed by Zhu Zai-yu for the ancient Chinese dance. These notations were once researched by one of the most important dance researchers and choreographers, Liu Feng-hsueh...

...Carlos Rojas [email protected] The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus . Petrus Liu . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2023 . 239 pp. Copyright © 2024 Lingnan University 2024 In the preface to her 1993 book Bodies...

... to this topic. In contrast to the plethora of books on Chinese poetry, fiction, and drama, publications on Chinese literary theory are exceedingly scarce. The only comprehensive treatment in English, James J. Y. Liu's Chinese Theories of Literature (1979), is now nearly half a century old. Stephen Owen's...

... for confusion and misunderstanding. As a result, some take the beginning scene as evidence that Liu Peiqiang, a state-chosen astronaut, has the “privilege” to guarantee his family members subterranean residency. 32 38 Liaowang zhiku , “ Liulang diqiu kao ‘taikong zhanlang’ cai huo qilai?” 39...