...” by a hypocritical gentry, a technocratic elite that sought power, status, and profit in the name of enlightenment and rationality. He proclaimed that it is urgent to “rid of ourselves of this hypocrite gentry; ‘superstition’ may remain.” Invoking Benjamin's insight and affinity with Lu Xun, this article explores...

..., we might even go on to construct an ecocritical tradition in Hong Kong literature. In their common debts to Romantic idealism, Lu Xun's embrace of “superstition” corresponds in many ways to the endorsement of substantial rationality by Benjamin. Lu Xun's ecocritical stance does not constitute...

... traditions and superstitions. But the tension between political religiosity and enlightenment reason can hardly be overcome through a normative program of cultural modernization. Although the ethos of the post-Mao literary and intellectual culture was ostensibly secular in orientation, its literary...

...-jumbo. The locals are very big on their superstition. This is another reason I don't like them, as well as one of the many reasons I sometimes feel ashamed of being Tibetan. ངས “བར་དོ་བ” ཞེས་པ་འདིའི་ནང་དོན་མི་གོ་བས་ཨ་ཅེ་ལ་དྲིས་པ་ན་མོས“ལུས་རྟེན་འདི་ཤོར་ཟིན་ལ། ལུས་རྟེན་ཕྱི་མ་ད་རུང་མ་རྙེད་པར་འཁྱམ་བཞིན་པའི...

... that promote promiscuity or depict violence and superstition disappeared after various tabloid publications were shut down, the self-congratulatory Hong Kong stories that used to be published in major newspapers have also become scarcer. This type of urban legend used to come out once a day. Sometimes when...

... stance in realist fiction. As a dominant legacy of China's May Fourth New Culture, realism, according to Marston Anderson, is “anchored in the capacity of human beings to free themselves from superstition and prejudice through the exercise of their faculty of reason.” 1 In approaching human reality...

... medical student. He once confided in Xu Shoushang his “hesitation,” “uneasiness,” and “feeling of not willing to destroy” when dissecting dead bodies, especially those of young women and children. 33 His uneasiness was not caused by any superstition regarding the dead but awe for life. Xu recounts how...

... a “rural idealism” 6 to contest the urban-driven modernity in Republican China places him as a distinct “native” writer. Indeed, the majority of the May Fourth native soil writers preoccupied themselves with such “negative” themes as “poverty, women's oppression, feudal morality, superstition, and clan...

... with as a student of history. More broadly, the pursuit of scientific truth and the criticism of superstition, or even religion, were among the Enlightenment values that Chinese intellectuals had embraced since the May Fourth movement, which they believed to be the intellectual foundation for the modernization...

... symbolically the institutions it might have had, if its interests and superstitions did not stand in the way” 一個社會渴望要找到一種象徵,來表達出此社會可能或可以擁有的制度,但這個制度卻因利益和迷信的阻礙而無法擁有. 23 In other words, Lévi-Strauss argues that the Caduveo use body marking to affirm their humanity and also to express their yearning...

..., Zhiwei . “ Constructing a New National Culture: Film Censorship and the Issue of Cantonese Dialect, Superstition and Sex in the Nanjing Decade .” In Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922–1943 , edited by Zhang Yingjin , 183 – 99 . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 1999...