Search Results for qing (nature)

... representations and environmental ideas surrounding topics on the air, this article makes three contributions. First, it compels us to reconsider the promises and pitfalls of evading the narrative of nature's decline. The imagination of the air in late Qing science fiction is characterized by its global scale...

... theoretical significance of some major qing reconceptualizations. Copyright © 2020 Lingnan University 2020 qing (emotion) qing (nature) cognitive theory of emotion Chinese literary theory Mao Shi xu The term qing 情 (emotion) has lain at the core of Chinese thinking about literature...

... 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...

..., the late Qing critic Zhu Tingzhen 朱庭珍 (1841–1903) adds to it an ethical dimension unseen in earlier discussions like Huang Sheng's: §141 Poetry is that which expresses the heart's intent and also that which gives expression to our inner nature. Inner nature is still and resides inside. It moves when...

... of transcendent mental activity. Thinking along this line, I have discovered that Yuan and Ming-Qing critics conceived four distinct types of transcendent mental activity, induced respectively by meditating nature's formless process of change, physical landscapes, written texts, and human emotions. In describing...

... “Equipped with Mahêśvara's eye in Chan” indicates Yan Yu's influence over Yu Ji and Ming-Qing poetry critics: when discussing poetry in terms of “wondrous enlightenment,” they tend to emphasize “enlightenment” over “deliberation” in contemplating natural landscapes. Following the Buddhist canon...

... novel situated within the reform of governance? By defining the context during which most late Qing political novels emerged, Yeh especially highlights the nature of the edicts issued in 1901 and 1906 and the ways in which authors of political novels responded by writing advocacy fiction. She emphasizes...

.... For example, a piece of the costuming for White Snake's sister/maid, Green Snake (Xiao Qing 小青), was first dyed blue using true indigo ( landian 藍靛), then dyed yellow using cape jasmine ( zhizi 梔子). The resulting color is a gentler and more natural light green, close to the color effect of rock blue...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

.... By exploring the sociohistorical context that gives rise to such modern narratives, this article draws links between Han's pioneering experimentations with Haishanghua and the rise of literary naturalism in the West. In this way, the author sheds light on the significance of this atypical novel...

... 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...

... area of northeastern China that borders Inner Mongolia and was occupied by Japan in the early 1930s. The novel has been read by many as a realistic portrait of the natural and social landscape of the grassland and as an autobiographical account of the author's family history. This article disagrees...

... landscape poetry—not restricted to observation of object and scenes but representing a leap from the particular objects or scenes to the ultimate of all phenomena, dharma nature, tathātā , dharma body, nirvana, and Buddha nature. Compared to what we've seen with “image” or envisagement, Chinese...

...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...

... terms Confucian moralists in the Ming and Qing dynasties condemned same-sex relations and characterized them as “reversal of yin and yang ” 顛倒陰陽, “against the law of human nature” 乖人道之常理, and “filthily licentiousness” 穢淫. 17 Regarding the Confucianist perspective on homosexuality, I have made two...

... with a creative energy and moral power that complicated the very nature of Chinese-ness. This article offers an in-depth analysis of the previously underexamined ethnic motifs of Shen Congwen's literary experimentations in the 1920s and 1930s. It asks the following questions: How do Shen Congwen's ethnic...