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... aesthetics, economics, and ecosystem. The rapid transformations of Chinese cyberspace make it a digital sand beach in which the poets write. This situation creates a curious paradox: while the internet is supposed to “remember forever” words indifferently, the death of platforms and digital censorship can...

...James Shea Abstract This article examines the Hong Kong writer Gu Cangwu 古蒼梧 (1945–) and his grassroots activism during the Cold War, namely, his appropriation of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program (IWP). At the IWP from 1970 to 1971, Gu grew critical of US foreign policy...

... directions and build solidarity among diverse thinkers united by the needs of survival under empire. The future of the turn toward poetry composition is not limited to those who write or read poetry; the space it can open is for everybody in China studies. “Improvisational and highly contingent, turns...

...Xiaofei Tian Abstract What is the politics of form in the changing political climate? How does the writing of old-style poetry ( jiuti shi ) and new-style or modern vernacular poetry ( xin shi ) fare in digital times? As the internet, computers, smartphones, and Chinese internet poetry continue...

.... 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...

... myth,” because the ways the Chinese people dealt with the Japanese occupation in Manchuria in reality were far more complicated than straightforward military resistance. 18 Duanmu, in his writing, infuses this resistance myth with a mythical atmosphere, conjuring up a vision of Chinese rejuvenation...

...Ban Wang Abstract Sensitive to modernity's estrangement of human bonds to nature and the rural lifeworld, Shen Congwen affirms an ecological understanding of writing and life. The writing self sinks its roots into nature and enmeshes with nonhuman worlds. Animistic language immerses bodily...

... explicates the distinctions between Han writers' and Mongol intellectuals' nationalist writings, in order to theorize the dual oppression of the Mongol minority culture under Japanese colonialism and Chinese despotism. Despite the mission of this so-called Mongolian nation-state to write in a Mongolian style...

... evinces a biological perspective and affirms an ecological understanding of life in which the writing self must trace its roots to and reciprocate with other organisms and all-encompassing nature. The animistic language of Shen's writing delves into the ecological and bodily foundation of beauty and arts...

...Kenny K. K. Ng Abstract This article examines the promises and predicaments of May Fourth writers in their experimental writing of the “long novel” ( changpian xiaoshuo 長篇小說) as a Chinese brand of the modern epic. May Fourth intellectuals showed a conscious effort to institute a new brand...

... of Chinese revolutionary culture, including some Hei Ying would write later. The sensuality of the tropics thus operates as a foil for passions correctly channeled—toward nation (and eventually also party-state). Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 7 Field, Mu Shiying , xx. 8 Yang...

...Boon Eng Khor Abstract Since independence, the ethnic Chinese community in Malaysia has lamented its marginalization by the Malay-Bumiputra elite, a theme that is often reflected in writings by ethnically Chinese Malaysian authors. This article, however, examines how ethnic Chinese authors depict...

...-educated to bridge local self-understandings with extralocal modes of interpretation, in order to better illuminate place-specific writing practices. As a salient category of both lived experience and analysis by local researchers, the category of the Chinese-educated occasions a form of “off-center...

... writings about the great world community. Kang regarded nature as the foundation for culture and civilization, valorized the public principles of common goods and equality over private property, and linked women to a vital, regenerative nature. Kang heralded the eco-socialist notions of public economy...

...Tong King Lee Abstract This article ponders writing and art that leverage the written script in Sinitic contexts, specifically where Sinographs are fetishized for creative and/or critical purposes—that is to say, they are turned into a spectacle as well as a method. The article analyzes various...