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"In The Sentimental Past": Cultural Identity Through Film Music Before And After The Hong Kong Handover, Kasady Liu

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Hong Kong: a city characterized by Jackie Chan, kung fu, and its surprising “in-betweenness.” Not quite Eastern and not quite Western, Hong Kong has been placed in a unique position due to its recent handover from Great Britain to China. As a result of this handover, the people of Hong Kong have displayed various attitudes towards their previous, foreign system of democratic government and their new, Communist system of government. Hong Kong’s cultural identity is closely tied with the handover, and in this paper, I analyze how the film music of Hong Kong movies have conveyed ideas about their cultural …

Four Poems By Yao Nai, Andrew Gudgel

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“詩言志”之本義謭論 : 讀朱自清先生《詩言志辨》札記, Fengyi Zhang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

朱自清先生《詩言志辨》，認為“詩言志”之基本内涵是言説思想意志用以教化，强調其思想旨趣在於政教。這個學術影響巨大的認知，其實是對漢代詩學思想的整理和提煉,與“詩言志”之本義不完全相符。本文從先秦“詩言志”之實踐和闡説、詩人自道“詩言志”之内涵以及“詩言志”訓詁三個方面，重新梳理“詩言志”之本義，以為其不僅包含“表達思想意志”之義，也包含“抒發情感”和“紀事論理”之義。

In Shiyanzhibian, Zhu Ziqing believes that the essence of shiyanzhi is that the purpose of expressing thoughts and ideas is to emphasize the significance of official propaganda. This conviction, which has major academic influence, is actually an induction of the overall poetic thoughts of Han Dynasty, rather than aiming at the essence of shiyanzhi. This essay holds this argument from three aspects: the practice and interpretation of shiyanzhi of pre-Qin period, the illustrations of shiyanzhi of poets themselves, and exegetical studies (xungu) of shiyanzhi. In doing so, this essay reevaluates the very essence of shiyanzhi, and proposes that shiyanzhi …

《史記》忌諱叙事與《春秋》書法 : 以征伐匈奴之相關人事為例, Kao-Ping Chang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

忌諱叙事，緣於“切當世之文而罔褒”,有所刺譏褒諱挹損之文辭，不可以書見”，故推見至隱，筆削見義，寓微辭以譏諷之。忌諱叙事之焦點，在關注如何為尊者諱恥、為長者諱過。司馬遷《史記》叙武帝征討匈奴事，本文選取相關史傳四篇：《李將軍列傳》，叙討伐匈奴之功過，太史公詭辭謬稱，刺譏褒諱有功不賞。《衛將軍驃騎列傳》，叙衛青、霍去病征討匈奴，所獲不如所亡；衛、霍將略，太史公所不取。言外褒贬，實與而文不與。《匈奴列傳》，不敢斥言武帝窮兵黷武，乃托辭擇任將相。《平準書》，直書為邊費耗財而興利平準，因平準而滋長鬻爵酷吏。聚斂攘奪不可以書見，故或筆或削以見義。司馬遷擅長“於叙事中寓論斷”，以屬辭比事為脈絡，體現或書或不書之筆削去取。主體論文分為三部分：一，《史記》叙征伐興利與《春秋》筆削：（一）《春秋》書法與《史記》之筆削見義。（二）征戰興利，或書或不書，筆削以見義。二，征戰匈奴與《史記》之《春秋》書法、忌諱叙事：（一）《平準書》據事直書，寓論斷於叙事之中。(二）《李將軍列傳》於叙事中即見其指。（三）比事屬辭與《匈奴列傳》之忌諱叙事。三，征伐匈奴與《史記》之曲筆諱書、詭辭謬稱：（一）曲筆諱書，微婉顯晦，推見以至隱。（二）詭辭謬稱，實與而文不與。

Why is there such a thing as taboo narrative? Because according to The Analects, Confucius wrote Chun Qiu in accordance with the incidents of the time when sarcasm, praises, and criticism were taboos and cannot be written, therefore authors appropriated writing skills and hidden words to satirize. The main point of taboo narrative is to show how the authority taboos shame or mistakes of the elders. Sima Qian wrote four essays on the war between Emperor Wu of Han and Xiongnu in Shi Ji, which I will discuss in this paper. Among these four, Biography of General Lee describes …

長慶體、梅村體與“本事詩” : 略論中國詩體的叙事形態, Yinpeng Zhang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

本文以中國詩學中的“赋”、“本事”、“記事”等概念為據，區分了唐人新樂府“諷諫”之旨與元白長慶體“叙事”之旨的不同；又據徐銑《本事詩》，析出長慶體在明代的餘波，以及清初“梅村體”的成功。此體並貫穿於清中葉，直至民初，成為吾國叙事詩的主型。

Based on the concepts of fa, benshi and jishi in Chinese poetry, this paper distinguishes the difference between the purpose of irony of Tang Dynasty’s xin yuefu and the narratives of changqing style by Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi. This paper will further analyze the aftermath of the poetic style of changqing in the Ming Dynasty and the success of the poetic style of meicun in early Qing Dynasty according to Xu Qiu’s benshishi. This poetic style was practiced through the middle of the Qing Dynasty until the early years of the Republic of China, becoming the major style …

論馮秋雪在澳門詞學上之貢獻, Chon-Chit Tang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

民國年間，澳門“雪社”包括“雪堂”詩社的馮秋雪，不僅創作了大量的詩詞作品，還在詞學的推廣和研究方面卓有建樹。秋雪在《詩聲一雪堂月刊》上編撰“莽蒼室詞譜”、“冰簃詞話”，又請人為宋詞製作西式樂譜。此外，他編著有《宋詞绪》一書，除選詞編集外，在詞譜考訂、詞的批評上亦多有己見。馮秋雪的詞學上承嶺南詞家陳洵，進而接通清代常州詞派的脈絡。對於秋雪詞學的探討不僅可以填補澳門民國詞學研究中的一個重要的空白，而且可為澳門與嶺南以至整個清代至民國詞學關係的尋繹，提供一個較有學術價值的例證。

During the Republican era, Feng Qiuxue of Macao Xue She (snow poetry society, which include Xue Tang, snow poetry institute) not only created large number of poems and ci, but also made outstanding achievement in promoting and researching cf studies. Qiuxue compiled “Mang Cang Shi Ci Pu” and “Bing Yi Ci Hua” in Voice Of Poetry--Xue Tang Monfhy and composed ci in Western style. Furthermore, he compiled Song Ci Xu (preface to ci of Song Dynasty), with unique views on the textual study of cipu and ci criticism. Feng Qiuxue’s ci study links the Lingnan ci writer Chen Xun …

論叙事與抒情的邊界, Longsun Rao

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

通觀中國古代各體文學發展演進的種種情形可知，叙事與抒情經由共生、分化、消長、互渗的歷程，兩者邊界是流動變化的，非一次劃定而截然清晰。從原始宗教到《詩》演述時期，叙事與抒情本來是一體共生的；春秋戰國以至兩漢時期，《詩》的赋與比興分開，赋的手法與赋的體式分開，赋體文學與他體文學分開，叙事與抒情分化，其邊界日益清晰；魏晉以後以詩歌為代表的抒情文類、以説部為代表的叙事文類分途發展，其抒情、叙事所占份额此消彼長，兩者邊界主要表徵在文體分類上；及至明清時期，兩者有時含混，叙事與抒情諸要素在此消彼長的同時，竟在某些特定的文類中出現互渗現象。是知，叙事與抒情並非静止而截然二分，兩者邊界一直處於流動變化之中。

From a comprehensive perspective of the development and evolution of Chinese literature, we can see that narration and lyricism have gone through the course of commensalism, divisions, growth and decline, and mutual permeation. The boundary between narration and lyricism is constantly fluxing and changing, without a clear-cut definition. From primitive religions to performative writings such as The Book of Songs, narration and lyricism were originally co-existing. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period and the Han Dynasty, the narration in The Book of Songs began to separate from analogies and symbols. To be more precise, narration …

獨抒性情與文本互涉的辯證 : 袁宏道的詩論與詩歌, Jen-Nien Chai

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

文學作為文化的一環，其在當世的傳播或者後世的流傳勢必要依賴口語或文字。語文作為一種符徵，是傳播者的工具，但文學作品是作家個性與心靈的表現，因此表現作品的文字自然講求獨特性，纔能突顯作家之一空依傍，露才呈性；其次，文學中各種文類也有其傳统，作家不可能自外於文學傳统，作家作品必須放在文學傳统中纔能評估其作品的價值與個人才性。這就為作家帶來一個兩難處境，一方面作家要獨抒性情，一方面又要兼顧繼承傳统，如何可能？明代公安派詩人袁宏道可能是這種現象中最值的探討的詩人之一，他生在明代前後七子的擬古與復古的文學風氣之後，不滿於前七子李夢陽、何景明等與後七子李攀龍、王世貞等“文必秦漢，詩必盛唐”之詩文理論，於是提出“獨抒性情”之説。問題是前後七子主張“文必秦漢，詩必盛唐”，漢唐詩文確實是傳统中的經典，袁宏道真的能一空依傍，字字從心中湧出，篇篇都是獨創嗎？這是本文所欲探究的主題。

Literature is not only a matter of personal creation but also a matter of tradition and heritage. This essay intends to explore the relationship between creation and tradition, especially in the case of Yuan Huang-tao, a man of letter in Ming dynasty. Yuan was born after the prime time of the imitation and restoration of the ancient style when poems were only the reflection of those written by the masters of Han and Tang dynasties. The so-called imitation school was composed of a group of poets such as Li Meng-yang, Ho Ching-ming, Li Pan-lung, and Wang Shih-chen. Yuan was …

杜亞泉的啟蒙理性與生態意識 : 兼及生態時代的東西方文化交流, Shuyuan Lu

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

杜亞泉是中國近現代思想史上一位被長期塵封的學者，他不但是一位普及科學、呼籲民主、開發民智、變革社會的“百科全書”式的啟蒙者，同時又是一位尊重自然生命、宣導身心和諧、統整傳统與現代、致力平衡接續發展的卓越思想家。在激進主義潮流的遮蔽下，杜亞泉長期以來被國人遺忘，直到上世紀末纔被“發掘出土”，並受到學界重視。本文試圖立足於啟蒙理性的複雜性、啟蒙人格的多面性，並在與西方啟蒙思想家比較研究的基礎上，悉心探究被衆多論者忽視的杜亞泉啟蒙理性中的生態意識，進而追溯全球生態災難的起因與衍變，探索生態時代東西方文化交流的新維度、新走向，為地球人類樹立生態型世界觀、走出生態困境、創建生態文明提供一點參考意見。

Du Yaquan was a scholar in the history of modem Chinese thought, who has long been neglected and not been rediscovered until recently. He was not only an encyclopedic enlightenment thinker who called for democracy, the development of people’s intelligence, and societal change, but was also an outstanding thinker who respected natural life, advocated for physical and mental harmony, integrated tradition and modernity, and was devoted to balanced and sustainable development. Overshadowed by radical trends, Du has long been forgotten by the Chinese people and was not discovered until the end of the last century. History has proved that …

李兆洛對駢文的重構, Shuangwei Lu

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

雖然駢文之實到漢魏已備，但“駢文”之名直到清代纔出現。在嘉道以來駢散不分的文章思潮下，李兆洛通過理論批評及創作駢散合一的文章等，實現了對“駢體文”指向的重構，從而推動了清代駢文創作與理論的新變。他理論上輕視“齊梁體”，推崇“漢魏體”，以此推尊駢文；又在選本上將秦漢具有排偶色彩的文章收入駢體文選本，事實上擴大了駢體文的容量，建構了駢散不分的“漢魏體”駢文。這種駢文追求風骨遒勁，文質相符；多用四言單句，罕用四六隔對；語言清麗，隸事渾融，不重聲律等。這是晚清最受推崇的駢文體式，從而又實現了對清初工整的四六駢體的解構。理解李兆洛對駢文重構的過程和影響，對今天的駢文研究具有重要價值。

Although the format of parallel prose was already established in Han and Wei Dynasties, the official term did not appear until Qing Dynasty. Since the trend of combining parallel prose and prose essay during the reigns of Emperor Jiaqin and Emperor Daoguang, Li Zhaoluo reconstructed the meaning of parallel prose through theoretical criticism and creative writing, and in doing so, innovated both the theory and the writing of parallel prose, In terms of theory, he criticized the parallel prose of Qi-Liang Style and praised the Han-Wei Style. He further added writings with parallel style from Qin and Han dynasties …

“學詞”與“詞學” : 晚清民國的詞法論述與詞學演進, Zongjie Gong

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

伴随著晚清民國之際詞學體系建構的初步展開，研討學詞、總結作詞法也成為此時期詞學研究的焦點。從20世紀最初二十年指導“學詞”論著的不斷湧現，到三四十年代龍榆生、詹安泰對“詞學”與“學詞”的界分，這兩種對詞學不同層面的理解，恰好呈現出詞學在近現代轉型中實現其自身内部結構調整的路徑。有關“詞法”的討論從因襲前人發展為自我創獲，與此同時，詞學研究從以創作為主要導向，演變為創作和研究二分的態勢。對此稍作梳理，可以讓我們在文學創作與文學研究二者的互動關係上，更好地去把握晚清民國的詞體觀發展與詞學演進的軌跡。

As the system of ci theory in Late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China developed, discussions on methods for ci writing became the focus of relevant studies in that period with a great many publicaitons on how to conduct ci writing. In the 1930s and 1940s, Long Yusheng and Zhan Antai discussed the differences between learning and studying ci and ci theories. The intertwined process of these two streams reveals the evolution and the modernization of ci studies. Clarifying the relationship of these two, will help us better understand the trajectory of the development of ci theories in …

同志文學的翻譯、再版與重譯 : 一個叙事建構的視角, Bo Li

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

同性戀一直以來都是敏感話題，甚至是社會禁忌；同志文學的境遇亦然。雖然近年西方翻譯研究學界愈來愈關注同志文學翻譯議題，相關研究在中文學界卻並未得到重視。同志文學的書寫和翻譯始終是在文化與意識形態纷繁衛突的語境下進行。本文探討同志文學的奠基之作的中文翻譯。英國作家E•M•福斯特 (E.M.Forster) 於1913年寫下的頗具自傳色彩的同名小説，按照作者意願直到1971年作者去世之後纔正式出版。原作中的很多同性戀互文性符號在建構作品主題上發揮了重要作用，而中文翻譯中，譯者通過腳注等方法，重新建構了主題的呈現。另外，出版商通過譯者的“譯後記”和其它副文本，對小説的同性戀主題進行了重新建構。通過分析Maurice的中譯，我們考察於21世紀初，當譯入文化對同性戀接受程度提高，小説原文中的互文性符號如何於譯文中得到“同志主題強化” (gayed translation) 的處理。同時，因應讀者和其他社會因素影響，當Maurice的中譯文再版時，譯者同出版商如何對譯作進行重新建構以做出回應。

This paper aims to study the Chinese translation of Maurice. Homosexuality has been a sensitive topic, a taboo in many social contexts. Translation Studies in the West witnesses increasing academic attention in the translation of gay literature in the past two decades, while it has remained largely neglected in the Chinese context. The writing and translation of gay literature has always been closely associated with conflicts, culturally and ideologically. Maurice, by British novelist E. M. Forster, is considered as the founding work for contemporary gay literature. Though it was finished in 1913, it had …

The Relocation Of Supply Chains From China And The Impact On The Chinese Economy, Shaomin Li

Management Faculty Publications

The U.S.-China trade war has had a huge impact on the supply chains in China, accelerating their relocation that had already begun due to rising taxes, costs of labor, and other input factors. The exodus reported in the past year is only the tip of the iceberg, as more serious effects will not become apparent immediately. A major effect of the relocation on China is job losses, which may reach as many as 5 million in the coming years. Given the unlikeliness of a quick end to the trade war and the reluctance of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to …

從叙事角度看抒情傳統説, Xiuyan Fu

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

廣義的叙事覆蓋抒情，狭義的叙事與抒情並列，目前已有將抒情問題納入叙事學理論體系的努力。在叙事傳统之外提出抒情傳统，在西方或許没有多大必要，在中國則有助於穿透史官文化的影響，從詩學而非史學的角度去尋找文學傳统的真正源頭。叙事學不應是“無情”之學，叙事傳统研究也不應忽視自身文脈的個性，注意聆聽抒情與叙事兩大傳统的“交響共鳴”，或可避免從單一角度看問題的片面。

Narrative covers lyricism in the broad sense, while it is juxtaposed with lyricism in the narrow sense. In today’s scholarship, the efforts have been made to integrate issues related to lyricism into the theoretical system of narratology. It may not be necessary to put forward lyrical tradition beyond narrative tradition in the west, but in China it is important to pervade the culture of historiography and seek the real source of literary tradition from the poetic perspective. Narratology should not be a “heartless” science, and the study of narrative tradition should not ignore the distinguished features of its own …

商盤手批《杜工部集》考辨, Shao-Huang Zeng

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

商盤作為清代著名文學家，有手批《杜工部集》一種，見藏於湖北省圖書館。商盤手批杜詩以朱筆小楷細書，通本滿批，被視為該館重要的珍稀善本之一，向不為學界所瞭解。商盤手批杜詩的内容多係選録清初學者黃生《杜詩説》一書。商盤在選録過程中刻意做了相關“技術性”處理：或删内容以泯其痕跡，或添枝葉以增其繁雜,或拆批語以亂其整體，或移位置以混其視綫，從内容到形式進行改頭换面，頗具迷惑性。商盤手批《杜工部集》保存了黃生《杜詩説》的大部分評點内容，為整理黃生《杜詩説》提供了可資參考的校勘材料；商盤手批杜詩對黃生《杜詩説》的選擇性抄録從一個侧面體現了清初杜詩學的研究風尚，也反映出清代杜詩手批文獻辨偽的艱巨性和複雜性。

In the Qing Dynasty, Shang Pan manually annotated Tu Fu’s Poetry Anthology (杜工部集), which is now stored at Hubei Provincial Library, where it is regarded as one of the most important rare books. However, academia has thus far not paid enough attention to Shang Pan’s annotations. In the process of selecting from Tu fu’s anthology, Shang Pan deliberately made relevant technical changes, including deleting content or adding details to increase the complexity of the anthology. Shang Pan’s changes to the anthology encompass both content and form, which could be confusing for the readers. In fact, Shang Pan’s annotations and …

《毛詩草木鳥獸蟲魚疏》中的物觀, Jianguo Cao, Zijun Yi

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

三國吴陸璣所作《毛詩草木鳥獸蟲魚疏》以博物學這一新視角、新方式對《毛詩》進行注解。作為博物學著作，它詳細記述了一百餘种動植物的生物屬性及實際功用，充分展現了漢魏時人將其運用到飲食、醫療、生產、娱樂、宗教與方術等諸多方面的豐富形式，是今人了解漢魏時期風物與風貌的重要參考内容;作為經學訓詁著作，它開創了《毛詩》風物研究這一專門之學，對後世《詩經》的多樣性專門研究影響深遠。它的出現反映了魏晉時期人們精神自由開放，突破兩漢以來重政治倫理意義與比附習氣的傳统思維，另闢蹊徑的《詩經》研究新風向。

Lu Ji, an intellectual from the three Kingdoms era, provided a new perspective for natural history in his maoshi caomu niaoshou chongyu shu (Meanings of Plants Birds, Beasts, Insects and Fish in Mao Shi) for maoshi (or shijing, the Book of Poetry). As a work of natural history, this book describes in detail the biological properties and practical functions of more than 100 species of plants and animals while fully showing the rich forms of food, medicine, production, entertainment, religion and fangshu used by people in the Han-Wei era, making it an important reference for understanding the scenery and …

叙事與抒情 : 《紅樓夢》詩學中的風格論, Li-Chuan Ou

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

《紅樓夢》乃説部第一之傑作，叙事宏大複雜而精妙入微，卻又是抒情傳统的絶佳繼承者，詩歌作為文人最主要的抒情載體,在其中發揮了説部前所未有的功能，包括其他小説所無的“起結構作用”，而有機地參與了叙事範疇，與人物塑造相互作用，堪稱叙事與抒情的絶妙匯融，更使之成為紅學的重要議題。於緊密結合叙事與抒情的《紅樓夢》中，曹雪芹幾近全面地提供了完整的詩學呈現，也包括了風格論述。透過中西風格學的視角，本文一方面從形式因的幾個方面入手，分析作品的詞藻、句子結構和句法、韻律的格式等現象；另一方面則從動力因的範疇，分析作品中所展現某種獨特的世界觀，亦即“人與世界的某種活生生的關係”，一種對社會生活世界的觀照或對生命存在的感知。據此可以進一步足成《紅樓夢》的完整詩學體系，並使《紅樓夢》的抒情性更形朗現。

Being a great masterpiece of classical novel, The Dream of the Red Chamber is celebrated in its grand, complex and finely-characterizing narrative. At the same time, the work also inherits and incorporates a great Chinese lyrical tradition. In the novel, poems (the main vehicle to express and communicate feelings for Chinese literati) play an unprecedented “structural role” and are organically incorporated in the narrative. The wonderful blend of narrative and lyrics is an important topic in Hongxue (The critics of The Dream of the Red Chamber). In The Dream of the Red Chamber, which closely combines narrative and poetic …

Alain Badiou's Inaesthetic Critique Of Poetry, Yushen Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The core of Badiou's concept of inaesthetics is to liberate art from philosophy and let it become an independent program of truth in contrast to philosophy. Among arts, poetry was once denounced by Plato, who thought it was an imitation of imitation and therefore unhelpful for the establishment of the Republic. Badiou, however, sets a high value on poetry from his inaesthetic perspective. From the poems of Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Celan, and others, Badiou discovers a dialectical coexistence between poetry and mathematics. For him, modern poetry, as a form of thought, is able to verify itself. Being the task of …

Jacques Rancière On Literarity, Haiting Zheng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Jacques Rancière reconstructs the term "literarity" through the concept of "distribution of the sensible." By considering "literarity" as the joint of politics and literature, he defines the term as the availability of mute letters and the excess of words. The unbridled wandering of mute letters expands the space of literary expression and blurs the boundary of literature, which represents not only the democracy of literarity but also the paradox of democratic literarity. Literature suppresses the democracy of literarity by various means of self-cancellation. On the one hand, this mechanism transforms the paradox of democratic literarity into a productive contradiction of …

"Sister Xianglin's Doubts": The Situation And Dilemma Of Soul In Luxun's Short Story "New Year Sacrifice", Hong Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The "world of Lu Town" in Lu Xun's"New Year Sacrifice"is a caricature of early twentieth-century Chinese society. It is a stable social structure centering on the charisma of Master Lu the Fourth, a member of the gentry in Lu Town. The narrator "I" and Sister Xianglin are marginal people, or "superfluous individuals" in the mainstream society. The encounter of the two discloses a serious dilemma. Sister Xianglin's doubts about the existence of soul and Hell are serious mental tortures that reflect the inner anxiety of the narrator "I" as a modern intellectual. Sister Xianglin and "I" are mirrors of each …

Literary Friendship Revisited: Significance Of Wayne Booth's Literary Ethics To The Contemporary Literary Studies, Yun Fan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The theories and critiques since the 1960s have snared contemporary literary studies into a predicament, and with the emergence of post-critique, reviewing Wayne Booth' literary ethics may cast some new light on the predicament. His efforts to reconstruct literary ethics, call for literary friendship, elucidate rhetoric ethics, and explore the public dimension of conduction will illuminate the reshaping of cultural character and the return to ethics and life in contemporary literary studies.

On The Factors To "The Extraordinary Out Of The Ordinary" In The Late Ming Dynasty, Gang Chen

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Teasing "the extraordinary out of the ordinary" is a prevailing aesthetic taste in the late Ming dynasty, initiated by Li Zhi in the intellectual field and proliferated into the creative writing of novels and plays. This research delineates the development of this ideal in the Late Ming dynasty, and explains the reasons for the ideal from three aspects: zeitgeist, partisan contestation and literary claims. It hopes to explore the cultural implications and values with reference to the historical context.

Mediocre Drama: Jean Baudrillard's Remark On Andy Warhol, Shuyuan Wan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Andy Warhol is Jean Baudrillard's favorite contemporary artist. In Baudrillard's opinion, Warhol was a great transitional figure who has opened a new chapter in the history of art by initiating the trend of commodity fetishism and laying foundations for artistic modernity. He dispelled abstractionism in contemporary art by promoting figurative expressions, established the ready-made style of art, and normalized aesthetic practice in a broader sense. While eliminating the differences between original works and duplications, Warhol also profoundly changed the thinking model and aesthetic trend of artistic creation. He was well versed in creating meaning from meaninglessness, discovering prominence from mediocrity, …

The Early And High Tang Poets' Inheritance And Development Of The Traditions Of Yanzhi O RYuanqing, Qinghai Liu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Two main conceptualizations of the essence of poetry before the Tang dynasty are yanzhi, expressing aspirations, and yuanqing, conveying emotions. Tang poets inherited and developed both traditions, and their poetry reflected the conceptualizations in different ways during different periods. Although Tang Emperor Taizong wrote poems in the mode of expressing aspirations and ordered officials to follow suit, a majority of poets believed in the mode of conveying emotions. During the reigns of Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu Zetian, the court considered conveying emotions as the aim of poetry, while Luo Binwang and Wang Bo followed both modes of yuanqing and …

Life, Conduct, And Scholarship: Achievements Of Prof. Xu Zhongyu, Qingbing Tong

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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Chinese Native-Soil Literature: Occurrence And A Hundred Years Of Evolvement, Cece Wei

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Chinese "native-soil literature" has constantly been interacting with world literature due to its modern consciousness. Due to a deep spiritual connection with Chinese culture, society and history, it is the best entrance to perceiving the rich connotation in modern Chinese literature with regard to the issues of China and world, tradition and modernity. It is an excellent sample for studying modern and contemporary Chinese indigenous literature, which provides us with valuable experience about how to inherit and develop Chinese literature in the dimension of indigenousness, nation, and the world. It is also an effective dimension to explore contemporary "Chinese problems". …

Deciphering The Myth Of "Liberating Actors' Nature": Reflections On An Idea Of Acting And The Import Of Western Teachers, Huizhu Sun

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

"Liberating actor's nature" sounds like from the West, yet not from Stanislavsky or any other mainstream acting teachers. It was coined by the Chinese who misread Western teachers. Westerners doing short-term acting workshops unwittingly contribute to this misconception. Because of the language barrier, they usually eschew scripts and focus on physical exercises. Those fragmented workshops are seen in China as representing mainstream Western actor training. "Be yourself", a western marketing cliché, is also mistaken as the core of acting. Actor training should cultivate actors' second nature, not let loose their original nature. Since the 1950s, Western theatre professors increasingly promote …

Film Posters As An Alterative/Alternative Archive For Chinese Film History, Yingjin Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The film poster generates public desire for watching the film, but its pictorial cues often exceed its intended ideological or thematic message. The excess information contained in graphic composition, star texts, and visual citations (e.g., to current fashions and other intertexts) makes the film poster an alterative para-text in the sense that it sets in motion a dynamic of circulating multilayered meanings in a medium that resonates with other media and genres of art (e.g., drawing, painting, calligraphy, photography, design, literature, drama, opera, and music). Film posters are therefore enmeshed in intermediality or crossmediality and inevitably gesture toward something outside …

Narrative Function And The Order Of Life: Analyzing The Performative Mode Of Moggallāna Folk-Opera, Zhiquan Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, Mulian (Moggallāna) folk-opera about howMoggallāna saves his mother from Avici Hellhad become the main performative mode of Buddhist deity-worshipping contest. On the level of narrative function, the performance has three types of ritual: those of leading-in and leading-out ritual,, dramaturgic ritual and intervention ritual. The introduction of ritualistic elements into the contest creates a unique space for Mulian Opera in the forms of the geographical space constructed by sacrificial circles and ritual venues, the life space enacted by the rites of life and rites of custom, and the cosmic space of human-deity interaction. The …

The Mind Of The Other, Political Organism, And The Dramatic Nature Of Ordinary Language: A Case Study Of Stanley Cavell's Comments On Coriolanus, Yunke Lin

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Stanly Cavell is the precursor to apply the philosophy of ordinary language, especially the thought of later Ludwig Wittgenstein, into analyzing literary and artistic works. Through detailed analysis of Wittgenstein's discussions on the issues of "the mind of the other" and "private language"s, Cavell claims that thinking in ordinary language is a seduction of the skepticism brought about by the myth of positivism. In his reading of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Cavell expounds "appetite" as a metaphor of political organism, demonstrating how Wittgenstein's criticism is embodied in a dramatic way. The ontological mechanism of drama realized through explorations of ordinary language is …