... and nature. banwang@stanford.edu Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 medicine biopolitics mass line elitism barefoot doctor Poplar and willows, Gust in the spring wind, Swelling to a million. The six hundred millions Of this sacred land, All as great as the gods Shun...

... campaign deploys mass-line health policy by relying on the initiatives, energy, and experience of the masses. The transitional era of reform and opening saw worsening rifts among labor, technology, and the environment. From the early 1980s through the beginning of the twenty-first century, the raging...

... the revolutionary tradition of intellectuals integrating with the masses and of specialists disseminating knowledge by learning from the masses. In his “Talks on Yan'an Forum,” Mao Zedong articulated this mass line in terms of “practice.” Evoking a metaphor from his own experience, Mao said that peasants...

... and emotional investment), and politics (e.g., the rise of mass politics and participatory publics)—that worked together in shaping the modern Chinese crowd discourse. One of the well-known storylines that dominates modern Chinese studies is that the rise of the individual during the May Fourth period...

...Emma J. Teng Abstract This article asks how the category of “mixed race” can help us think through the recent spate of violence against Asian Americans, culminating in the Atlanta mass shootings of March 2021. It further reflects on a tension within mixed-race studies: whereas mixed-race theory...

... to address Liang in Love Eterne . 4 The mass women's gathering to deliver their passionate affection to a woman, Ling Po, was a remarkable scene, as public assemblies and parades were at risk of violating martial law, and homosexual passion was stigmatized and neglected in 1960s Taiwan. This article...

...), and Daniel Bell's The China Model (2015) have also been freighted with controversies. 6 The fault lines in these controversies are never simply between theory and reality, yet the use or abuse of “Western theory” is usually at the crux. Instead of taking stock of the vicissitudes of theory in Chinese...

... literary scene during the 1950s, let us look at the short story “Taowang” 逃亡 (The Escape), 46 which can be read as an allegory of the relationship between the masses and the artists who create art to represent them, as often discussed in the discourses of left-wing realism. After hearing news about...

... my hands are now part of the assembly line, my body signed over to a contract, hair gone from black to grey, what's left is the racket and the rush and the overtime and the wages . . . through the white-hot lamplight I see my tired shadow projected on the machine, slowly shifting, turning...

... as a manifesto from the emerging Sixth Generation to define themselves against the resourceful Fifth Generation and the establishment, the dual credits in Mr. Six showcase yet another of the former Sixth Generation's attempts to walk a fine line between “commerce and a critical edge,” namely, between...

... as polygamous and (often polysexual) philanderer or as a modern monogamous head of a family line, typically enjoys the sanction of a familist state? And while in light of modern and/or Western conceptions of queerness we may be conditioned to think that queer renditions are necessarily disruptive...

... seven stanzas, and each stanza contains four lines. 19 In his poem, Shi Zhi maintains a more rigorous rhyme scheme and addresses the reader or listener as a friend. In the first three stanzas, the speaker or the “I” expresses his steadfast belief in the future regardless of what life may throw his...

... differ from source to source—from 1970 to 1969 or 1967, from a congressional testimony to a White House visit or a groundbreaking ceremony—but the line is so resonant that it has been cited in countless textbooks, journal and magazine articles, public health documents, and scholarly monographs, by CDC...

... of public, private, economic, and social life. The narrative surrounding the effects of mass stay-at-home orders, travel bans, and various work stoppages was one of universal impact. We are all in this together, and as such, the motto of the moment became “stay safe”—though what safety and precaution...

... groups of concepts: the cultural May Fourth and the political May Fourth, the New Culture movement and the New Literature movement, and the masculine May Fourth and the feminine May Fourth. Liu regards the May Fourth spirit as a complete failure, in terms of six symbolic signs: (1) the mass spiritual...

... as well as human ills. Their reduction and removal is liberation of life. —Herbert Marcuse The masses have boundless creative energy. They can organize themselves and concentrate on places and branches of work where they can give full play to their energy. They can concentrate on production...

... is the proletarian prospective on class, labor, the masses, and communal subjectivity. Yu recognizes the difficult balance of the material aspects of happiness with the intangibles collected under the concept of the spiritual—the highest happiness of which is suggested by the behavior of martyrs—and implies...

... Lingnan University 2022 animism natural beauty biology sexuality Caught up in a mass of abstractions, our attention hypnotized by a host of human-made technologies that only reflect us back to ourselves, it is all too easy for us to forget our carnal inheritance in a more-than-human matrix...

... will utilize popular literature as a wedge to pry open some foundational critical discourses that inform existing locality-focused literary histories. This new line of inquiry aims to make way for a more robust discourse of cultural politics in tandem with a regional conceptualization of Sinophone cultural...

... could a nation built on revolutionary idealism become a cannibalistic machine, using “revolution” as the pretext to facilitate oppressions, movements, and purges? How could someone love China, only to be exiled and forced to give up his nationality? The famous line in Lao She's 老舍 (1899–1966) play...