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... to a different but equally strong version of poetic autonomy. Like Wordsworth and Eliot, Ming-Qing criticism can also be assessed by looking at precisely the same critical issues: the origin and nature of poetic emotion, the mode of lyrical expression, the interplay of emotion and imagery, the usefulness...

...Zong-qi Cai [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Lingnan University 2023 Like their predecessors, many late Qing critics continued to place emotion at the center of their discussions of literary creation. Their views, however, were now forged in a radically different cultural...

...Cheng Li Abstract By engaging with and bringing together Chinese environmental humanities and science fiction studies, this article argues that the narratives of weather and climate revealed in late Qing science fiction serve as a metonymic vehicle and a medium for addressing China's social...

...Chun-Ting Chang Fiction's Family: Zhan Xi and Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late Qing China Ellen Widmer Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2016 . 329 pp. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 In this book examining the transition from traditional...

...Zong-qi Cai Abstract The term qing 情 (emotion) has lain at the core of Chinese thinking about literature from antiquity through modern times. It is of profound paradigmatic significance because each major reconceptualization of qing by literary writers and scholars almost invariably signifies...

...Shengqing Wu Abstract Focusing on two sets of classical-style poems describing the experience of climbing up the Eiffel Tower and gazing upon the moon in exploratory overseas voyages, this contribution explores the visual imagination of the world ( shijie ) found in late Qing poetry. Instead...

...Chris Song Abstract This article provides a fresh reading of British diplomat Thomas Francis Wade's translation and Qing foreign-affairs official Dong Xun's rewrite of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's “A Psalm of Life.” Situating its analyses in the context of Sino-Western diplomatic...

... of Empire, 1902–1910 convincingly argues that the brief flourishing of utopian fiction ( wutuobang xiaoshuo 烏托邦小說) in the last decade of the Qing dynasty should be read as the ultimate proving ground for the arduous development of modern Chinese identity in the face of fin-de-siècle China's semicolonial...

...David Der-wei Wang Abstract This article seeks to analyze the contested conditions of modern and contemporary Chinese utopia, as a political treatise, a literary genre, and a social imaginary. It takes a historical perspective from which to describe the rise of utopia in the late Qing era...

... century. Based on the Qing author Chen Sen's novel Precious Mirror for the Appreciation of Flowers (Pinhua baojian), Wu's version resorts to the figure of the male dan , often referred to as xianggong , to explore male same-sex intimacies, which were gaining increasing visibility in the 1990s Sinophone...

... in conversation with a wide array of other sources, first and foremost the middle and late Qing literary heritage that so greatly occupied and influenced Chang's own literary universe and pursuits, as well as the westernized literary milieu in which she lived and operated in 1940s Shanghai. 23 Needham...

..., is revealed to be a more contemporary creation, emerging after pastoral and biblical archetypes of the shepherdess were introduced to China in the late Qing and modern periods. Prior to Tang Qi, the image had already been shaped and transformed by intellectuals. Therefore, when Tang Qi encountered this motif...

... premium Huang sets on the establishment of yi in poetic composition. Following Fan Ye's line of thought, many Qing critics offered more detailed and cogent discussions on the importance of establishing yi (sublimated emotion) in the compositional process. For example, the early Qing critic Huang...

... transcendent mental activity to literary composition. The establishment of yi- centered discourse in the Ming-Qing period is immensely significant because it successfully infuses transcendent spirit-thinking, along with the interaction between emotions, scenery, and objects it incites, into every step...

... as interconnected strands in a world literature” (5). It is also an important resource because it showcases a large number of texts from the late Qing, which further deepens our understanding of the diversity and creativity of literary imagination at this time. To trace the creative cultural hybridity that gave...

.... 1 Z. Yang, “Sinophone Classicism,” 659–60 . 2 Zhongguo wenhua bao , “Yueju dianying Baishezhuan · qing heyi ‘poquan’?” 3 Ibid. 4 Mair, “What Is a Chinese ‘Dialect/Topolect’?” [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Lingnan University 2023 digital classicism...

..., but expressed in letters or extended entries rather than well-rounded essays. The Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties (1279–1911) display yet another interesting shift: even fewer sustained expositions regarding literary creation by a single critic, but an abundance of scattered insights from different sources...

... as xianglian 香奩 (the style of the perfumed cosmetic case), yan ti 艷體 (the erotic style), or other variants. From the last decades of the Qing (1644–1911) on, a new variant, xiangyan , became more popularly associated with sensual poetry. Combining the two sensory morphemes xiang (fragrant) and yan...

... to the monopolizer's external threats and prone to collapse into possessive claims to the penetrated. In fact, Ruilang has resorted to a gender role that the state authorities have long celebrated and that has gained significant prominence during the Ming-Qing transition and beyond. 80 Indeed, the title gaoming...

... Taiwanese literature and writing about Taiwan from the position of a colonial literature. Tsai focuses on the connection between Taiwanese literati, the majority of whom are of Hakka background, and a series of Chinese political formations, including the Ming, the Qing, the short-lived Republic of Taiwan...