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...Zhaokun Xin Abstract Li Yu's two huaben stories, “A Male Mencius's Mother Raises Her Son Properly by Moving House Three Times” and “House of Gathered Refinements,” stand out from the writer's brief yet highly novel dabbling in the genre thanks to their similar concern with male same-sex desire...

...Zong-qi Cai Finally, a personal note of profound thanks to my wife, Changfen Zheng, for her kind tolerance of my countless evenings, weekends, and extended leaves devoted to this and other projects instead of her and the family. I owe a debt of gratitude to Lingnan University for funding...

... Gerald Ding, Aaron Gilkison, Melissa Hosek, Yuanyuan Hua (a visiting scholar from China), Maciej Kurzynski, Thomas McDonald, Natasha K. Mnonatau, Yawen Tan, Shiya Wang, Kristin Wilson, and Lingjia Xu. I also wanted to give my thanks to Enshia Li and Linda Zhou—two brilliant undergraduate students I have...

..., thanks to the Spring and Autumn–period practice of performing Shijing poems as analogs to state politics, the term zhi (heart's intent) gradually evolved to denote an emotive category with deep sociopolitical and moral implications. “Records of Music” (Yue ji 樂記) in the Book of Rites (Li ji 禮記...

... alongside Malay, Batak, Gayo, and Javanese accounts of the same history of labor unrest and revolt against plantation estate foremen and owners. This essay evolved out of a conversation with David Xu Borgonjon and notes by Matthew Shutzer. I thank them, as well as the Society of Fellows...

... also enhance the noncoercive livability of queer and other lives in the Chinese-speaking world and elsewhere. 1 On “heuristic device,” see Freccero, Queer/Early/Modern ; my thanks to Li Guo for bringing this book to my attention. On “aesthetic force,” see Muñoz, Cruising Utopia ; my...

... classicism in digital times,” is the focus of a collaborative investigation in this special issue. Second, thanks to China's giant strides in digital commerce and the global logistics network that online retailers can tap into, Lee further substantiates this cultural identity with physical objects...

...] 2015 book, Queer Marxism in Two Chinas ,” and he offers his thanks to “those who have prompted me to rethink and rewrite its arguments” (x). Although it is not unusual for an author to open one monograph by specifying that it builds on arguments developed in an earlier work, other parallels...

... conceptions of the environment but also come up with the means to creatively manipulate it according to their own methods. This manipulation of the air becomes pivotal for managing the land and fostering an agenda of national revival. Thanks to artificial methods of adjusting the climate, after the air...

... of celebrity status thanks to social media and the Internet. First published on personal platforms as well as within poetry communities ( shige luntan 詩歌論壇), Yu's poetry as internet literature depended upon “the practices of communities that employ internet technologies in order to produce, distribute...

... superiority.” 34 In this line of critique, sinologists have by and large failed, thanks to their liberal ideological blinkers, to acknowledge the full alterity of Chinese reality. Take the case of the 1989 Tiananmen incident again: mainstream sinologists have overwhelmingly interpreted it as China's failed...

... Sinclair thanks Xiao for her “beautiful gift which Agnes Smedley brought to me” and tells her that with the letter he encloses “a copy of my book” as well as “some of my recent pamphlets” (25). Following this strikingly material evidence of literary exchange, Iwasaki explores the literary networks formed...

..., it is thanks to water.” 20 In his autobiography, Shen recalled that in his childhood he chafed under the burden of parental and traditional tutors of classics and was driven by the impulse to go outdoors. He was eager to touch “this world of myriads things under the sun—the exquisite lights...

... in thankful ignorance until her trip home restores repressed memories. It is in this restoration that the oceanic nature of Mi'an plays a key role. Kaya is shocked by the radically altered environment of Mi'an: “The planet surface of Mi'an had no dry land, it was always a planet of water, though now...

... or man's disposition is the substance of this endowed nature. Desire is a response of this natural disposition. Thanks to this working of qing , striving to satisfy this desire cannot be avoided. 性者,天之就也;情者,性之質也;欲者,情之應也。以所欲為可得而求之,情之所必不免也。 17 Spelling out the most immediate objects of this desire...

..., expressions to get into the age-old forms, which will be explored more deeply in the third section of this essay. This, I argue, is largely thanks to the internet, used via computers and, in recent years, increasingly via smartphones—even though smartphone users and social media users may not be aware...

... process was long and gradual, beginning with the clash between Confucian essentialist and Daoist nonessentialist views on language and realities. The yi-yan dyad, a protoform of the yi → xiang → yan paradigm, evolved into the later triadic paradigm thanks to the Daoist introduction of xiang 象...

... . 1 Zhang et al., “Tale of Two Communities.” I wish to thank Jason Blum for inviting me to speak to content creators at Blumhouse Productions and Karim Boughida for inviting me to deliver the Dean of Libraries' Lecture at the University of Rhode Island. This essay is based on my...

..., a Hong Kong writer currently based in Beijing. The novel starts with a global economic crash in 2011 that paralyzes all leading countries except China. Thanks to shrewd national leadership, we are told, China is able to take advantage of the crisis and further its economic development and sociopolitical...

...一種大境界). The next image shows an adult female, also wearing a mask, with the caption “Thanks to taiji , they enjoy themselves in the smog.” Then another satirical but on-target message: “One day the foggy smog will end, but not ever-enduring taiji !” In the penultimate image, the caption's tone...