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... that the mobilization of digital performance technologies in Zhici qinglü and other contemporary large-scale performance in the PRC generates what might be termed “surface classicism”—an engagement with the past that sublimates elements of classical art and literature into the realm of digitally enhanced visuality...

.... With digitally produced “ink painting–style Chinese aesthetics,” it arguably becomes a “musical with Chinese characteristics.” But perhaps the correlation is not that simple: ultimately, what separates “deep classicism” from “surface classicism” is more than a matter of money. As Tarryn Li-Min Chun's article...

... languages and cultures, the change that exists from one version of a text to another can occur even when the vocabulary, on the surface level, does not change. Certain phrases of Hermit Yu Jian's show up verbatim in Liu's text, but with an added classicism or elegance in her version. Conversely, luopo...

.... Calligraphy, then, is employed for a haptic reconnecting with the past through movements of brush and wrist by restoring and reenacting an (imagined) classical Chinese culture on digital screens. This article focuses specifically on the affective modes of writing the Heart Sutra (Xin Jing 心經) in the online...

... phenomenal recalls phenomenology, an aesthetic appreciation of humans' experiential, sensuous, and vital affinity with the world. As Terry Eagleton puts it, the aesthetic probes how “the world strikes the body on is sensory surfaces, of that which takes root in the gaze and the guts and all that arises from...

... of their positionality in the windless Doldrums. On the other hand, when considered in seriality, they show sustained morphings due to the slow but invisible passage of time, which channel one's attention back to each print, enabling insights into how surface serenity can belie interior turmoil. By indexing...

...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...

...Rossella Ferrari Abstract Xiqu 2.0 designates an experimental approach to adapting and updating the classical theaters of the Sinophone region ( xiqu ) and a form of expanded Chinese opera in digital times. It highlights strategies of versioning and serialization of classical texts and tropes...

... by swallowing a piece of gold, a motif from the classical Dream of the Red Chamber and probably an act of defiance against the arranged marriage. The story leaps from the psychological narrative to rise to a nonhuman, supernatural realm. The tofu seller takes action to realize his dream and, by transcending...

... that these analyses of critical ecology contribute to the debate on world literature. Ecocritical discourse has the potential to go beyond and challenge the world-renowned humanist tradition, which has anthropocentric, nationalistic, and Eurocentric underpinnings. Take the example of the classical realist novel...

... on emotion ( qing ) in the context of the historical development of the theater is pathbreaking. The work of more than a decade, it combines wide-ranging readings of vernacular plays and novels, canonical texts and their commentaries, classical tales, letters, notebook jottings, poetry, and classical prose...

..., inclusive of the surface, but imperial in nature. Second, it illustrates that Chinese domestication of modern environmental ideas is not a one-way street when Chinese intellectuals appropriated Western notions for their own discursive maneuvering. Third, it suggests that the defamiliarization of the air...

... of the avant-garde's radical revolutionism and shields itself under a more sophisticated and adaptable aestheticism. In engaging with China's classical past, particularly in his imagined history of Dream of the Red Chamber in a fictitious forty-ninth century where futuristic digital motifs abound, the young...

... into the classic type of “the Chinese poem.” Without having the space to do anything like demonstrate it, I will simply put forth a hunch that the tendency toward brevity and impersonality that Weinberger's Nineteen Ways exhibits as a journey toward enlightenment prolongs an anthologizing tendency that began...

... floods and extreme cold weather engulf Earth's surface. Those left outside the subterranean cities have no chance of survival. On the spectrum between the Earth Faction and the Spaceship Faction, this change positions the film in the middle. On the one hand, Earth in the film still functions...

... and the soteriological. The first level, or the obvious or surface level, is where the theme of nihility in a gong'an narrative can be identified and analyzed like any given secular text. This is the level where we can exercise a Buddhist critical nihilism, akin to its Western cousin, and use a narratorial strategy...

... in the collection, this article illustrates how classical Chinese xiangyan poetry was evolving in the global context at the turn of the twentieth century. Although Zhou was not a poet engaging in the genre itself, through critical intervention, he connected Chinese xiangyan poetry to the global discourse of love...

...Liang Luo Abstract This article examines the 2019 Cantonese opera film White Snake as an important case of an evolving “digital classicism,” making use of audience-based digitally produced and transmitted Chinese-language materials, among other sources. The article contextualizes the Cantonese...

... constitutes. I pay special attention to how HoK performs what Zhiyi Yang calls “Sinophone classicism” in this milieu and demonstrate how “goodness” can be a matter of performativity. 12 Last, I discuss the potential of skin as a yet-theorized differentiator that anchors “Chineseness” in the world...

... cleaned her father's body in the mortuary would resurface, and the splits and cracks in the bark seemed to turn into old scars, and new wounds covered her father. . . . Ye gently caressed the freshly exposed cross section of the felled trunk. She did this often, as though such surfaces were giant wounds...