... and is usually labeled as a “regionalist” writer. Yet as an ethnically hybrid author, Shen's ethnographically inspired, mythologizing accounts of indigenous non-Han tribes place him in a long tradition of searching for moral truths in borderland societies in Chinese literary and cultural history. The article...

... as enchanted with religious significance, Lu Xun goes on: Those who are not satisfied by material life alone will inevitably have spiritual needs. . . . Although our men of ambition in China regard this as superstition, I would say that such things [mythology and religion] are indicative of the desires...

... shangxi,” July 4, 2016. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 Yang Mu Greek mythology Pindar Virgil intertextuality When it comes to Greece, we actually hold a great deal of imagination—or, to put it in a different way, memories. 關於希臘，我們其實保有很多想像，或者就說是回憶。 —Yang Mu Yang Mu 楊牧...

... as to facilitate its homebound voyage. A diplomatic mission presupposed a favorable wind. We now turn to the modern mesological and mythological inscriptions of the Southeast Asian Sinophone community. Take, for example, beliefs about Tua Pek Kong (大伯公, Grand Uncle or the God of Prosperity), the most popular...

.... . . . Myth is already Enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology. For Enlightenment, anything that does not conform to the standards of calculability and utility must be viewed with suspicion. The urge to rescue the past as something living, instead of using it as material for progress, has been...

... provocation aims at not so much denouncing any beliefs, religious and otherwise, thus falling into the pitfall of atheism, as challenging any attempts to idolize, dogmatize, and mythologize modern thoughts and doctrines. In other words, he seeks to point out the enchanting powers looming in the modernist...

... in the soil of everyday life and society—imagination, allegory, mythology, legend, dream, fantasy, magic, and transference are the means through which mythorealism arrives at the real and reality. (162) In sum, this book provides a valuable contribution to the study of cultural memory and of the post...

... India, consisting of eight states, is home to over two hundred Indigenous groups (some classified as “tribals”), the majority of which speak Tibeto-Burman languages (Khasi, spoken in Meghalaya, is an example of another family, Austroasiatic). For some of these peoples, mythology and migration legends...

..., and their materials are retrieved from the forgotten caves and hollows of Philippine mythology and folklore. Many of these writings have been published abroad or online, appearing in international anthologies or e-zines, and have their own specialized circles of readers and followers. By virtue of its position within...

... and taxonomy. In one revealing entry, the narrator draws on Greek mythology to attempt to characterize her queer identity: Take a person like me. In the eyes of the average person, I was a woman, but that vague semblance was an illusion, an easy category. In my own mind, I was like a strange being right out...

... Technological rationality persists in the contemporary ideology of development and growth and in the faith in the technical fix for energy crises and climate change. In contrast, Chinese mythological figures come across not so much as technological agents and more as moral and political figures. The goddess Nü...

..., 60–63. 37 Paradijs, Boekoe sair “park , ” 7, 13. 38 Ibid., 20. 39 Keppy, Tales of Southeast Asia's Jazz Age , 143 . 40 The word barongsaij is a mixture in itself, blending Javanese barong (mythological animal) and Hokkien sai 獅 (dance). Elsewhere...

... natural barrier has long barred the village from battling the harsh terrain. A sentiment of awe before the Dragon King, the mythological god who controls oceans, waters, and rain, and feeling of resignation to nature have kept the community impoverished and miserable for generations. But the young...

... that he held regarding life and art, out of a tireless search for spiritual freedom and communion with nature, a lively imagination and a deep sensitivity to the beauties of language” (Burton Watson); “An active participant in the making of his own mythology and in the creation of a poetic category...

... Mythology .” In Milestones in Sino-Western Literary Confrontation, 1898–1979 , 73 – 99 . Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz , 1986 . Harvey, David . The Urban Experience . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1989 . Hsia, C. T. A History of Modern Chinese Fiction , 3rd ed...

..., this mode of criticism echoes Ernst Cassirer's reflections on the cultural roots of Nazism in premodern mythologies. In The Myth of the State (1945), the exiled philosopher traced the racial and political myth of totalitarian ideology to the Greek tradition. In Cassirer's view, while myth and religion...

... is that they incorporate an array of different voices, including voices of children, peasants, bureaucrats, and intellectuals, and a wide array of discursive styles, including Biblical discourse, mythological discourse, historiographic discourse, revolutionary discourse, and a form of “Mao-speak” that tropes on Chairman...

..., the nucleus of Nazism and fascism is the aesthetic paraphernalia of the Aryan race and its promise of ecstatic unity with the Fatherland. The ideological appeals of Marxism and socialism have been configured around mythologies of the natural equality of men and the universal community of their productive...

... the strictly physical in a radical multiverse phenomenology, where star-space, mental space, dream space, and mythological space are all fundamentally temporal and part of the same multilayered fictional experience. I want to thank Winnie L. M. Yee and Dorothy Tse for suggesting and providing several...

... claims of socialized labor and its metabolism with nature, whereby productive practice is enmeshed with the ecological dynamics of interdependence, exchange, and human-nature coevolution. Mercury , the messenger of the gods in Greek mythology, names the Mercury Group, the student team sent...