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... in contemporary social life. While Mao Dun embraced naturalism in both theory and practice to advocate his claims on the modern novel and its social function, he possibly had no encounter with the criticism of Joyce or Dos Passos. 18 But when it comes to the practice of novelistic composition, his creative...

...Zong-qi Cai [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Lingnan University 2023 En route to the next major theory of literary creation, by the Tang poet-critic Wang Changling 王昌齡 (ca. 698–ca. 756), this chapter makes a detour to examine Zhou Yong's 周顒 (?–493) and Zong Bing's 宗炳 (375...

... multivalence provides a unique opportunity to discover the coherent theory of literary creation hidden in “Lun Wen Yi.” To probe Wang's exploiting of yi 's multivalence for this purpose, I carefully read both textually and intertextually. First I contextualize all noteworthy occurrences of yi within “Lun...

...” 無意. It is often used to differentiate self-conscious from spontaneous acts of literary creation. Of all the theories of literary creation produced during the Ming and Qing, the yi -centered theory is the most significant in volume and coherence. In Ming-Qing poetry criticism we find...

...Zong-qi Cai [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Lingnan University 2023 In an interesting way, the historical development of Chinese theorizing about literary creation—and, arguably, Chinese literary theory as a whole—appears to follow a counterintuitive path. Instead...

...Paola Iovene [email protected] Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theories of Art and Politics in East Asia . Edited by Mayumo Inoue and Steve Choe . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2019 . 308 pp. Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 This inspiring...

... of this nascent belletristic literature and elevating its authors’ status. At the pinnacle of these critical writings are China's first and only comprehensive theories of literary creation, in Lu Ji's 陸機 (261–303) Fu Exposition on Literature (hereafter Exposition ) and Liu Xie's 劉勰 (ca. 465–532?) magnum opus...

... Xie left ample room for later generations to develop a Confucian theory of literary creation. Han Yu would make perfect use of this space to successfully connect Confucian sages and literary creation. To my mind, Han Yu owes a good deal of this success to his creative adoption of Mencius's notion...

..., and seeking intertextual resonance with Tang masters by imitating their poetic craft. Their theory of poetic emotion can be called a “patterning-focused theory of emotion” ( qingwen shuo 情文說). Conversely, the Ming Anti-Archaist position on emotion displays a critical stance akin to Wordsworth...

... valuable insights into the genesis of Lu Xun's literary theories and practices in Lee “Genesis of a Writer”; and Lee, Voices from the Iron House , chaps. 1–2. See also Lyell, Lu Hsün's Vision of Reality . 15. LXQJ , 58. It is quite natural that Lu Xun found kindred spirits in the “demonic...

... in the first half of 2025, soon after the publication of this first English monograph. It will take somewhat more time to bring out the remaining monographs in the English series. As works treating Chinese theories of literature, literary creation, interpretation, and aesthetic judgment, respectively, they're...

... Chinese thinking about literary creation in this book. By the late Warring States era, the philosophical import of three concepts, yi , xiang , and yan , had evolved into a protocosmological theory in The Commentary on Appended Phrases (§§14–15, 20–22). Subsequently the Wei philosopher Wang Bi would...

... the methodological questions at the heart of that controversy are still very much alive as the protean field of Chinese studies continues reinventing itself in relation to theory. A still deeper reason is to rethink, via Bruno Latour, the status of fiction in the age of posttruth and fake news—a task incumbent upon...

...Emma J. Teng Abstract This article asks how the category of “mixed race” can help us think through the recent spate of violence against Asian Americans, culminating in the Atlanta mass shootings of March 2021. It further reflects on a tension within mixed-race studies: whereas mixed-race theory...

...David Der-wei Wang Abstract This essay seeks to reconsider the current paradigm of Sinophone studies, which is largely based on theories from postcolonialism to empire critique. While Sinophone studies derives its critical thrust from confronting China as a hegemonic force, some approaches have...

...Robin Visser Abstract This article primarily considers the possibility of translating between Indigenous and settler modes of ecological thought and praxis. The former often manifest analogously to quantum field theory, where, as Indigene Linda Yarrowin states, “it's all connected,” while...

..., Liu shifted his scholarly interests to the composition of and dialogues between multiple subjectivities and examined the complex relationship between subjects and objects, self and others, as well as the individual's psychological relationship with the self. By reframing Liu's theories on subjectivity...

...Liang Shi Abstract At the turn of the twentieth century Chinese sexuality underwent a metamorphosis, resulting in the replacement of a rich indigenous discourse by imported Western theories. This article traces the evolution of a modern subject and episteme emerging from the historical...

... of rhetorical strategies but with different emphases. A reading of one in light of the others reveals new information about Chinese and Western theories of representation and metaphoricity. For example, Homer makes his audience alternate between belief and disbelief in the scenes engraved on Achilles's shield...

... , and demonstrate queer identifications beyond heteronormative relations. Reading women's tanci through the intersectional lenses of early modernity, queer theory, and narrativity, this study examines such narratives as an inspiration to initiate a more contextualized epistemological, historical, and methodical...