...” 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...

... of “malevolent voices” by a “hypocrite gentry”—the technocratic elite who 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” ( weishi dangqu, mixin ke chun 偽士當去,迷信可存). 1...

...-saving project to modify nature by exercising sovereign agency, intelligence, and labor power. The laborers seek to remodel natural landscapes and use natural resources wisely for community and human survival. The Dragon King indeed represents a superstition. But as we saw in Lu Xun's mythoecological...

... “Moluo shili shuo” 摩羅詩力說 (On the Power of Mara Poetry) and seems also to undergird the unabashed celebration of “superstition” in his essay “Po e'sheng lun” 破惡聲論 (On the Refutation of Malevolent Voices). In their common debts to Romantic idealism, Lu Xun's embrace of “superstition” corresponds...

... secular, 14, 44–45, 55–56, 76, 122, 186 self-realization, 106, 167–68, 170–71, 174–75 sentient ecology, 4–5, 12, 27, 57. See also qi . Shapiro, Judith, 75–76, 85n17 socialism, 31, 76, 78, 108, 186 substantive rationality, 5, 14, 20, 44, 185–86 superstition, 11, 14, 35–36, 38, 40, 42–45...

... of feudal 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...

... and rationality. On the other hand, Lu Xun delved into mythical and ecological images of the ancient world where rural folks lived in resonance with nature, worshiped supernatural beings, and observed rituals. Urging that “superstition” may remain, he recovers ecological motifs from the past in the critique...

... in artworks.” 12 Although modern tourism and market logic have destroyed medieval romanticism and archaic aura, we can still derive some pleasure that survives the intellectual suspicion of “romantic myth” or “superstition.” The pleasure stems from a recognition of the lingering aesthetic aura suggestive...

...-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...

... of yellow culture is rather specific: [In 1959], not only have writings 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...

... of China's May Fourth New Culture, realism, according 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 and the nonhuman world of nature, “the mind assimilates...

... 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...

... 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 Lu Xun's choice of medicine originated from “a grand vow to respect and protect life.” 34 Xu further draws attention...

... 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...

..., it resonates with the status of a Han-dominated multiethnic frontier as a scientific truth in multiple disciplines of the social sciences that Duanmu would have been familiar with as a student of history. More broadly, the pursuit of scientific truth and the criticism of superstition, or even religion, were...

... Radio Drama Archives (1960s–1970s) .” Report submitted to Lord Wilson Heritage Trust, Hong Kong , 2019 . Xiao, 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...

... argues that this body marking has a more specific significance for the Caduveo, in that the elaborate patterns symbolically express the locals' yearning for an earlier golden age of Caduveo society, “expressing symbolically the institutions it might have had, if its interests and superstitions did...