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The Characteristics Of Chinese Creative Culture And Its Form Of Existence , Xuan Wu
The Characteristics Of Chinese Creative Culture And Its Form Of Existence , Xuan Wu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Chinese creative culture intersects with modern Western culture in the following aspects. First, Fuxi's xiantian bagua (Prenatal Eight Trigrams Numbers), "creating symbols of humanity via nature," and the idea of "respecting Confucianism while creating philosophy of individualism" discussed in the Records of the Grand Historian and The Yi Commentary of Su Shi all represent the Chinese-style implicit creative experience of "respecting and transforming reality." Such experience — "creation of the individual within the whole" — is distinguished from creation out of binary opposition in the West. Second, the worship of vitality and the cherishing of life in ancient times, which …
An Interpretation Of Painting For Preservation Of Life From The Perspective Of Aesthetic Life-Rearing, Fanren Zeng, Ruoyu Huang
An Interpretation Of Painting For Preservation Of Life From The Perspective Of Aesthetic Life-Rearing, Fanren Zeng, Ruoyu Huang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The aesthetic life-rearing lies at the heart of various forms of Chinese Buddhist art, and is also reflected in Feng Zikai's Paintings for the Preservation of Life collaborated with Master Hongyi (Li Shutong). Upon the request of Master Hongyi, Feng drew 450 pictures during a course of forty-six years, finished with poems and essays by noted calligraphers including Master Hongyi. The collaboration aims to spread the Buddhist purity of mind and compassion to beings, illustrating the doctrine that preservation of life preserves mind, and becomes an unprecedented Buddhist masterpiece. Buddhist concepts such as pure mind, compassion, benevolence, agape for beings, …
Narrative Function And The Order Of Life: Analyzing The Performative Mode Of Moggallāna Folk-Opera, Zhiquan Zhang
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 Pattern Of Dao": A Conceptual Study Of The Core Categories In Ancient Chinese Aesthetics, Mingdong Gu
"The Pattern Of Dao": A Conceptual Study Of The Core Categories In Ancient Chinese Aesthetics, Mingdong Gu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Dao and wen are two core categories in Chinese aesthetic tradition. The mainstream description of the relationship between these two categories was that "wen is the vehicle for Dao". In the strict sense, this view was not an aesthetic thought per se, because it reduced wen to a tool and thus obscured the inherent aesthetic relationship between wen and Dao. Perhaps Liu Xie's under-researched idea of "the wen of Dao" (the pattern of Dao) provided a more persuasive description to this relationship. This article re-evaluates the significance of the discourse on wen as an aesthetic category from the perspectives of …
Intersemiotic Intertextuality, Verbal-Independent Visual Transcendence, And Visual Criticism: A Study Of Intertextuality In The Drawing Of Seven Sages Of The Bamboo Grove, Yuqin Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Taking intersemiotic intertextual play in the drawing of Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove as an example, this article investigates the intertwinement between language and image, a research topic worth a theoretical discussion, too, in the area of contemporary literary theory. This drawing generated with reference to the anecdotes of "Seven Sages" in ancient China is more a cultural marker of literature and art developed during the dynasties of Wei and Jin and thereafter than the epitome of unruly and indulged refined scholars. Apart from the verbal-dependent visual intertextuality, found within the drawing is the verbal-independent transcendence of the visual, …
The Aesthetics Of Parody In The Late Ming Dynasty, Jianqing Tuo
The Aesthetics Of Parody In The Late Ming Dynasty, Jianqing Tuo
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The late Ming parodic literature manifests itself as an innovated style based on the tradition of Chinese humorous literature. By means of vulgar imitation in the absurd senses of "crowning" and "de-crowning," it creates a comedic effect disagreeing with the original text and actualizes a restrained mockery of the social norm. The aim, however, is to appeal to the rationalization of human desire and the legitimatization of physical lust. The rise of aesthetic parody, on the internal level, stems from late Ming literature's conceptual shift from morality to entertainment and its narrative departure from traditional storytelling; on the external level, …
On The Lyrical Tradition Of Chinese Prose, Jianhui Chen
On The Lyrical Tradition Of Chinese Prose, Jianhui Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Chen Shih-Hsiang's argument that Chinese literature is destined to be dominated by lyricism because lyrical spirit is a tradition in Chinese literature has a far-reaching scholarly influence. By tracing the development of the lyrical tradition of Chinese prose, this article summarizes three emotional patterns — "leaving and returning," "joy and worry," and "happiness and sorrow." In terms of lyrical standpoints and content, Western lyricism tend to focus on individual liberations and dreams of an ideal world, emphasizing subject value of individuals and the expression of self-feelings, while Chinese lyrical proses pay more attention to the unity of personal expression and …
The Emergence And Development Of "Chinese Aesthetics" In The Modern Times: A Historical Inquiry , Qiang Zhao
The Emergence And Development Of "Chinese Aesthetics" In The Modern Times: A Historical Inquiry , Qiang Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Over the last century, the legitimacy of Chinese aesthetics has been gradually confirmed in the studies of aesthetics and the writings of the history of aesthetics by Chinese and Western scholars. Cultural exchanges between China and the West have promoted the indigenization of aesthetics in China and deconstructed the universality of Western aesthetics, thus giving rise to the plural concept of "world aesthetics", which paved the way for the modern construction of "Chinese aesthetics". Due to its importance, the way to interpret Chinese aesthetics has become "the meta-question" that promotes the study and writing of the history of "Chinese aesthetics".
The Research Style And Original Achievements Of Xu Zhongyu's Theories On Literature And Art, Xishan Zhou
The Research Style And Original Achievements Of Xu Zhongyu's Theories On Literature And Art, Xishan Zhou
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The 104-year-old Xu Zhongyu, whose academic career of over sixty years has been in tandem with the development of the PRC, has established his distinct style in the theoretical studies of literature and art, namely the combination of theory and practice, of the ancient and the modern, and of inheritance and innovation. His original achievements include initiating the methodology of comprehensively collecting and categorically compiling the materials of ancient Chinese literary theory, raising a series of original and significant academic viewpoints on ancient Chinese literary theory, advocating an interdisciplinary research on the theories of literature and art, envisioning a modern …
The Origin Of The Concept Of Modern Chinese Aesthetic Education And Its Background Of Disciplinary System, Hongchao Wang
The Origin Of The Concept Of Modern Chinese Aesthetic Education And Its Background Of Disciplinary System, Hongchao Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The formation of the concept of modern aesthetic education in China is related to the traditional thought of rite and music, and it also absorbs categories of Kant's philosophy. In the modern history of education in China, the transition from the emphasis on "Three education" (moral, intellectual and physical education) to the promotion of "four education" (moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic education) is a process of the recognition of the value of aesthetic education. During the period of the Republic of China, aesthetics and aesthetic education were highly advocated and promoted to the highest position, whose credit goes in large …
The Seven Hermits Of The Bamboo Grove In Literature And Images, Guangsheng Zou, Yunfei Liu
The Seven Hermits Of The Bamboo Grove In Literature And Images, Guangsheng Zou, Yunfei Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
History of literature and art saw antithetical and interdependent relationship between texts and images in artistic events, as exemplified by the various editions of The Portrait of the Seven Hermits of the Bamboo Grove in different ages. The Seven Hermits of the Bamboo Grove produced profound influence on painting, calligraphy, sculpture and many other forms of visual arts in Chinese history, which, however, has received rare systematic elaboration, particularly explication of the antithetical and interdependent relationship between literature and images therein. Literature or the images of the Seven Hermits of the Bamboo Grove reflect, from their own perspective, the colorful …
From The Dynamic And Static Civilizations To Cultural Metaphysics: Zong Baihua's Methodological Transformation Of Constructing Chinese Artistic Conception In The 1930s And 1940s, Lang Jin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This article aims to analyze Zong Baihua's methodological transformation of constructing Chinese artistic conception by comparing Chinese and Western paintings during the 1930s and 1940s. In the beginning, Zong Baihua describes that China and the West are respectively static and dynamic; then he turns to consider China a fusion of both by interpreting it as qiyun shengdong (rhythmic vitality), after that, he focuses on the difference between Chinese and Western painting techniques by using the ideas of "musicality" and the "perception of space" to replace the concepts of dynamic and stasis with that of time and space; and finally, he …