Search Results for the third route

... him to undertake the third route, as he attempted to transcend binary oppositions, which ultimately led to his downfall in the New China. The case of Zhang Dongsun, who exemplifies a group of liberal Chinese intellectuals, not only indicates the predicament of the discourse of Thirdspace in modern...

... to challenge Cao Pi's 曹丕 (187–226) statement, made some six hundred years earlier, that “ qi or lifebreath is of primary importance to writing.” Judging by its context, Du Mu's yi belongs to the third sense noted above, denoting artistic conception that precedes the act of composition. While the term yi...

... and convey a “correct” version of revolutionary history, and the archnemesis of this type of fiction is probably the MCP members' memoirs. Third, history requires critical reflection, which applies not only to historical texts but also to history itself—especially the histories that have not been, or cannot...

... took advantage of the peripheries of both Western and Chinese cultures to discover the location of the “third zone” from which to return to the original self and the pure heart influenced by Zen Buddhism. In his third life journey, he completely identified with a cosmopolitan status, which enabled him...

... regional borders. That said, several of the contributions exceed the editorial framework and venture into a myriad of centrifugal routes, in turn channeled into four sections. The first, “Beyond Boundaries: Theorizing Aesthetics in East Asia since 1945,” encompassing essays by Naoki Sakai, Petrus...

... in a particular text. By sorting out the interconnections among these concepts, I have mapped out the complex routes taken by traditional critics to probe different aspects and phases of literary creation. Persistent practice of this inductive close reading has yielded three important discoveries. First, many...

... coexisting in stadial fashion with later ones, particularly the dreamscape and theatricality. Comparisons with Europe enter the discussion. Lam sees a convergence between China and Europe in the advent of the proscenium stage but argues that it arrived by different routes. She shen chu di (approximated...

... environmental and cultural shifts with imagery delivered in very personal terms. Mutual awareness of these cross-border poetries is slowly emerging, revealing that themes of poems from within these border areas often share common concerns, while retaining their local characteristics. The third module...

... Trevor Parfitt's “Are the Third World Poor Homines Sacri ?” 46 Davis, “Planet of Slums,” 19 . 47 Krstic, Slums on Screen , 141 . 48 Ibid., 143. 49 Other films that portray the urban success of rural migrants include Wan'er 碗兒 (The Bowl, dir. Li Guanhong 李灌洪, 2006...

.... This project is devoted to a wide range of discussion and investigation of how Chinese poetry interacts with the world via the crisscrossing routes of translation, dissemination, diaspora, mediation, transmission, reception, reincarnation, return, and so on. Contributors to the issue discuss the life...

... and version of modernity. 12 Earlier competing visions of Singapore's modernization route are now increasingly foreign to young Singaporean Chinese immersed in an English-dominant schooling system. Many of them were born in the 1990s after the closure of Chinese-medium schools and thus have not heard...

.... The literature in those thirty years was a complete failure. Most works possessed no aesthetic value, being merely footnotes for politics. As for the third group of concepts, we must distinguish the masculine May Fourth ( gangxing wusi 剛性五四) and the feminine May Fourth ( rouxing wusi 柔性五四). The masculine...

... be to consider late-empire intellectual formations in light of nonnational, “disintegrative” frontier economies: the Dutch, British, and French trying to gain a foothold over seventeenth-century Phuket's tin trade, overland and sea routes of the tin trade in northern Malaya and southern Siam, details...

... to his “ Sandu fu ” at the end of the third century, the fu had been a cherished genre for at least four hundred years, and it is Zuo's attempt, although no doubt biased and anachronistic, at a historical overview of fu poetics that makes his preface such a valuable source for my purposes. 43...

... to the route charted by Lu and Liu, with eyes set on the ideal fusion of yi and yan . In thinking about literary creation, many Chinese critics take the writer's physical and psychological preparedness as the starting point. This body-mind approach to literary creation stands in sharp contrast...

... and be replaced directly with Esperanto. 4 Entering into the Republican period, these two orientations of the phonetic approach persisted. On one hand, there were intellectuals like Li Jinxi 黎錦熙 (1890–1978), who followed the route of the first group of reformers in advocating the establishment...

.... The long tradition of valorizing silk in Chinese history is set against the background of the silk trade and the various sea trade routes of sixteenth century. By referencing the complex trajectories of the silk trade and its wide circulation, Chow suggests that identity is formed not by searching...

...-enshrouded mountains, respectively. Curiously, he ends this discussion with a quote from a third poem, a hokku (haiku) about mist-veiled flowers and pines by the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō (1630–1696) to further hone the theme of intuitive attainment through what he calls access ( accès ). 5...

..., whereby various parties congregate against the rule breaker. In the third stage of “redressive action,” the body politic seeks to contain the crisis by deploying “certain adjustive and redressive” steps. 12 Social actors at this stage often resort to the performance of a public ritual that eases...

... turn at the site of a theoretical ‘what if?’ They open up the possibility of a new map or orientation for thinking and organizing reality not by fixing thought on an object but by opening a new route for thinking to traverse and christening it with a name.” 43 What if we turned like this? [B...