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The Rhetoric Of "New Manchu": With A Focus OnNew ManchuMagazine In Puppet Manchurian State, Xiaoli Liu
The Rhetoric Of "New Manchu": With A Focus OnNew ManchuMagazine In Puppet Manchurian State, Xiaoli Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Manchukuo, a puppet state of Japan in the northeastern part of China, tried to create an ideology of New Manchu. This paper explored how Manchu was turned into New Manchu, and then discussed the imperialist logic behind the rhetoric of New Manchu. The logic implied that Japan was advanced, civilized and attractive but Manchu was underdeveloped, inferior and uncivilized. Further to the assumption was that Manchu needed to be educated and transformed by Japan. The paper proceeded to discuss who could be the happy subjects under the governance of Manchukuo, and from there the paper tries to deconstruct the hypocritical …
Mo Yan's Polarizations: An Interpretation Of HisBig Breasts And Wide Hips, Yong Zhao
Mo Yan's Polarizations: An Interpretation Of HisBig Breasts And Wide Hips, Yong Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Before writing Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Mo Yan has already formed a fixed mode of polarized thinking and perception, and the mode is reflected in his choice of subject matter. One the hand, he dredges from memorized history and writes with a confirmative force; on the other hand, he criticizes the realistic history and writes with a negative attitude. Big Breasts and Wide Hips displays as the reasonable extension of both polarities and shows that it is both a grace deconstruction of the memorized history and a parody of the realistic history. The characters are designed to fall into …
On Liu Gangji's Practical Ontological Aesthetics As An Advance Of Practical Aesthetics, Liyuan Zhu, Wenying Zhang
On Liu Gangji's Practical Ontological Aesthetics As An Advance Of Practical Aesthetics, Liyuan Zhu, Wenying Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In 1980s, Liu Gangji put forward and established practical ontological aesthetics as a result of reflection and critique of mechanistic and perceptual materialism. He re-interpreted the Marxist view of practice as that which is participated by both the subject and the object, and elevated practice from epistemological level to ontological level. In this way, his conceptualization surpassed the dichotomy between subject and object and transcended the material ontology in the track of old materialism which to this day is still followed by some scholars. Liu Gang Ji's concept of practice not only initiated an advance in Marxist aesthetics of practicum …
A Critical Reflection On And Construction Of Modern Chinese Literary Theory, Yichuan Wang
A Critical Reflection On And Construction Of Modern Chinese Literary Theory, Yichuan Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This essay attempts to survey and critically reflect the development of modern Chinese literary theory. It summarizes the heritage of modern Chinese literary theory in the form of domestic stand that incorporates Western thoughts, modern position that revitalizes Chinese tradition, union between individuals and the mass, the priority of material over mind in the symbiosis of thought and art, and the necessary tension between interior intellectual system and exterior ideological institutions. The history of modern Chinese literary theory also leaves us some lessons to learn, especially such fixations as inclination to dialectic thinking, thinking taking priority over being, over-appropriating, xenophobic …
The Tension Between The Enlightenment And Cultural Identity In Postcolonial Context: With Wai-Lim Yip As A Focus, Yiqing Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The awakening of self-consciousness and subjectivity resulted from the enlightenment demonstrates in the May 4th Movement as a radical criticism on tradition, and this criticism itself becomes a means to modernity. The enlightenment also resulted in the loss of Chinese cultural subjecthood, the consequence of which was felt strong in the post-colonial Taiwan and Hong Kong first. Among the intellectuals under the colonial culture, Wai-lim Yip believes that identification with Chinese culture in Hong Kong may reinstall the cultural identity of the colonized people and establish national identity. Identification with Chinese culture may prompt reflection on the constraints of the …
The Ethical Landscape In The Transformation Of Modernity In Shen Congwen'sBorder Town And After, Yan Chen
The Ethical Landscape In The Transformation Of Modernity In Shen Congwen'sBorder Town And After, Yan Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Shen Congwen's writing of Xiangxi (the Western Hunan area) shifts its focus from legendary stories to history-directed experiences. The activities of his characters are put into the mosaic of historical experiences, so as to present the modern transformation of the ancient community life in the Western Hunan area. This transformation shows not only as the wonder and amazement in the psychological and conceptual dimensions but also as conflicts and crises in the power relations and moral order, as well as the resultant formation of an ethical landscape different from the traditional one. Although the criticism of modern urban civilization remains, …
The Jiayin Style Of Writing In A Europeanized Classical Chinese With Elasticity And Its Relation With The New Literature, Qingshu Meng
The Jiayin Style Of Writing In A Europeanized Classical Chinese With Elasticity And Its Relation With The New Literature, Qingshu Meng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Jiayin style of writing was shown typically in the political essays in 1910s, and this linguistic style performed a new function of prose writings in the classical Chinese language at the time when the media of literature had changed. The style showed a different standpoint from the New Literature, but had profound historical link with it. The link showed in the common acceptance, interpretation and construction of modern disciplinary system and the shared pursuit of logicality of writing style and the grammar system. They had also adopted a commensurate strategy and mode of knowledge production, and had faced the same …
Towards A Thick Description Of Maoist Discourse: With Help From Zhao Shuli, Vukovich Daniel
Towards A Thick Description Of Maoist Discourse: With Help From Zhao Shuli, Vukovich Daniel
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
With a few exceptions much of the knowledge of modern China produced in the world either ignores or demonizes the Mao era. On the cultural front things are not much better, whether we are speaking of the "Seventeen-year's Literature" or the culture of the 1960s and 1970s. The negation of the Mao or radical era is, in short, a crucial part of contemporary Sinological-orientalism. There is however a recovery and reorientation project underway that seeks to restore the complexity of the Mao decades and its pursuit of an alternative, agrarian, and socialist modernity. As part of this project I offer …
Cultural Signification And Literary Signification: With A Tentative Solution To Hillis Miller's Paradox Of Literary Identification Mode, Yang Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Signification theory constitutes a theoretical foundation of cultural studies as it is built on in-depth explorations of Saussure's language theory. Signification implies the requirement of decoding. Cultural signification is realized when the signified in first level symbolic system is hollowed out and filled in by the second level symbolic system, and it then exhibits as a mythological path to bourgeois ideology. Signification informs the implications of literary works and makes them intelligible from the perspective of semiotics. Along this line of delineation, we may find a possible solution to Hillis Miller’s paradox of literary identification mode between innocent reading and …
Literariness, Anti-Essentialism And Spatial Turn, Wei Wang
Literariness, Anti-Essentialism And Spatial Turn, Wei Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Different ways may be applied to the investigation of literariness as a measure in judging literature. The dominant way to understand literariness has been within an essentialist mode, which approaches literature from the perspective of imagery and aesthetic ideology, which has been under attack from the anti-essentialistic approach. Anti-essentialistic approach develops from the monistic to the pluralistic and ultimately to the nonessentialistic. The paper maintains that the investigation of literariness should rid itself of the myth of trans-tempo-spatiality and entrust itself to the interplay between the interrelated factors in the synchronic spatial structure in literature.
The Folklore-Archetypal Criticism Of Feminity: With The Female Image Of Southern Yangtze In Chinese Modern Literature As A Critical Example, Haiying Mao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The folklore-prototypal criticism of feminity is a native theory on Chinese female literature criticism, originated from feminist prototypal criticism. The paper attempts to analyze the female iamge in Southern Yangtze literature and tries to delineate a trajectory of prototype development from the theme, the figure to the imago in folklore. Under the multiple approaches to modern literature, folklore-prototypal criticism of feminity has also taken on more theoretical significance in three aspects: the emphasis on exploration of universality and totality along with the ecological significance of the inner world development, the emphasis on individuality and particularity along with the prominance of …
The Modernized Representation Of Chinese Classical Literature In Taiwan Modern Poetry, Sheng Wu
The Modernized Representation Of Chinese Classical Literature In Taiwan Modern Poetry, Sheng Wu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Many Taiwanese modern poets have made enlightening explorations in their poems through their incorporating Chinese national features to reflect national spirits and traditional cultures. In the modernized representation of classical literature, modern consciousness and techniques are employed to represent historical figures, classical texts and traditional themes. This paper discusses from three perspectives how modernized representation is realized: how historical figures and contemporary characters are brought into the same one space-time; how classical works are extended and recreated to integrate with contemporary texts to form inter-text; how the traditional themes are endowed with modern consciousness or are explored using modern techniques.
The Linguistic Refashioning Of An Internal Exile: Duoduo And His Pre-Exile Poetics, Chee Lay Tan
The Linguistic Refashioning Of An Internal Exile: Duoduo And His Pre-Exile Poetics, Chee Lay Tan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper investigates Chinese Misty poet Duoduo's early pre-exile poems. As Duoduo uses punctuation abundantly in an orderly structure and dates his poems, his works projects themselves as being more transparent than obscure or misty. Even Duoduo himself denied writing Misty poetry, although most critics classified his works as "Misty" and described them as "weird" and "difficult". This paper will examine such confusion by focusing on Duoduo's pre-exile linguistic refashioning via musicality and juxtaposition of unrelated images, which I regard as his main constituent of Mistiness.
The Method Of Phenomenology And The Recent Development In Chinese Contemporary Aesthetics, Xuguang Liu
The Method Of Phenomenology And The Recent Development In Chinese Contemporary Aesthetics, Xuguang Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The method of phenomenology has promoted the development in Chinese aesthetics and theory of literature, and brings about some new developments over the literary theory based on the theory of reflection. These developments include the practical-existential aesthetics, ecological-existential aesthetics and theory of literary activity. Anti-essence, the thought of becoming, the replacement of ontology with existentialism, and the undermining of dualism have all imbibed the method of phenomenology and been implied into the theories of literature and art to form a new trend in aesthetics. These development help to expand the scope of methodology and create new playground of the discipline …
The Predicament Of Literary Theory Teaching In The Era Of Pictorial Reading And Its Solutions, Xiaoping Liang
The Predicament Of Literary Theory Teaching In The Era Of Pictorial Reading And Its Solutions, Xiaoping Liang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The predicament of literary theory teaching in the era of pictorial reading results from many respects. Literature environment in the electronic media has far exceeded the explanation scope of existing literary theory, and a gap also exists between literary theory and recent literature practice among contemporary audience. The general decline of reading and understanding classic texts among readers born after the 1990s leads to the failure of communication in the teaching of literary theory. At the same time, more work still needs to be done in the recontextualization of both Western theories and Chinese classical literary theories into contemporary Chinese …
Yan'an Lu Xun College Of Art Before And After "The Rectification Movement", Siyun Zhao
Yan'an Lu Xun College Of Art Before And After "The Rectification Movement", Siyun Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"Yan'an Rectification Movement" has become an important watershed in Yan'an period and the 20th Century Chinese history. The education policy, aesthetic idea and mores of Lu Xun College of Art changed drastically after rectification movement, and it became the miniature of literature education under wartime conditions. As Yan'an in 1930s is a typical society of wartime communism modal, Lu Xun College of Art focuses on political disciplines more than cultural inheritance. The purpose of education is not to cultivate academic talent with an independent spirit of scientific and truth pursuit, but to develop the better tools of war. The way …
Literature Filtering Through Life Reality, Xuan Wu, Yuanyuan Qiao
Literature Filtering Through Life Reality, Xuan Wu, Yuanyuan Qiao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Life reality exists as a contrasting concept of "the reality of idea," and it dominates the reality of idea and reason with its content including people's desires, senses and emotions. The process by which literature filters through life reality shows first of all in that literature should respect people's desire, senses and emotions, and expose the interrelated process between life reality and the reality of idea. Secondly, it shows in that literature should turn people's desires, senses and emotions in life reality into the raw material and re-order them. The unique structure of literature can then be realized through the …
Theories Of Literature And Art And The Information Theory Since 1980s, Yongfang Qi
Theories Of Literature And Art And The Information Theory Since 1980s, Yongfang Qi
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The period of 1980s saw an upsurge of adaptation of scientific theories, such as system theory, information theory and cybernetics to the theories of literature & art in China. This paper probes the relationship between information theory and the theories of literature & art to identify the resulting achievements and failures in integrating the former into the latter, and describe the role of information theory in the expansion of theories of literature & art. This paper examines from three aspects the contributions of information theory. Firstly, information theory breaks the duality of the beautiful and the ugly in aesthetics. Secondly, …
Upon "Aesthetic Education As Substitute For Religion" And The Secularity Of Cai Yuanpei's Construction Of Aesthetic Belief, Liyong Pan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Via his theory of "Aesthetic Education as Substitute for Religion," Cai Yuanpei intended to reconstruct the national belief through aesthetic education in a cultural context where the religious spirit was non-existent and the Confucian rites-music institutions had long collapsed. The uniqueness of aesthetics as mental activities and the socio-political context of modern China determine the tension between the secularity and the transcendence in the aesthetic construction of belief, which often results in the sacrifice of the transcendental spirit. This is closely linked with the state of mind of the intellectuals entangled between China and the west, the traditional and the …
Chinese Diasporic Culture Studies In The "Post-National" Age: The Politics Of Discourse And Theoretical Transformation, Feng Lan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Under the impact of post-theories, Chinese diasporic culture studies has exhibited a tendency to resist or transcend the political domination of the nation-state. This essay examines the sources of and the relationships between three major theories in this field, seeking to clarify their ideological orientations as well as historical limitations. The paper concludes that the connection between the Chinese diaspora and the sociopolitical process of modern China necessitates a methodologically critical application of Western formulations of post-nationalist theories into Chinese diasporic culture studies.
On Zhu Dongrun's Theory Of Biographical Literature And Its Characteristic Complexity, Yeping Gu
On Zhu Dongrun's Theory Of Biographical Literature And Its Characteristic Complexity, Yeping Gu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Zhu Dongrun's theory of biographical literature is constructed from the existent practices and theories of both ancient China and the West. The central concepts of Zhu's theory include the renaming of the prevailing biographical literature into biographical narrative literature, the emphasis of the dual attributes of historical and literary of biographical literature while defining the connotation of biographical narrative. The claim of "the turn from events to people" has freed the biographical literature from its dependency on history, but the overemphasis of historical reliability may result in the negligence of literariness. The claim to characterize and reveal from life from …
The Public Sphere And Literary Journals And Newspapers: Investigating The Discursive Formation Of The Utopia In Late Qing Dynasty, Man Leung Shuk
The Public Sphere And Literary Journals And Newspapers: Investigating The Discursive Formation Of The Utopia In Late Qing Dynasty, Man Leung Shuk
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper takes the utopian fiction in Late Qing Dynasty as a discursive formation, and investigates its production and operational mode of the utopian discourse. The paper examines how literary journals and newspapers served as a channel for the operation of the utopian discourse in the Chinese public sphere. By revising Habermas's notion of the public sphere, Rudolf Wagner is able to redefine Chinese public sphere and discovers that the structure of Chinese public sphere is constructed by the top and the bottom strata of the society. In light of Wagner's theorization, the paper takes the utopian novels as a …
Aesthetic Features Of China's Original Piano Music In The Early 20th Century, Wei Chen, Xin Chen
Aesthetic Features Of China's Original Piano Music In The Early 20th Century, Wei Chen, Xin Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper focuses on China's original piano music in the early 20th century, and through an analysis of several musical compositions, it tries to define the aesthetic features in this period as the combination of the composition techniques from the West, modernized rendition of Chinese traditional and classical music, and appropriation of the foreign repertoire. Under the guidelines of coming from practice and into practice, the musicians composed a big repertoire of music with reality concerns. Over the past fifty years, the change of aesthetic sensibilities charts the development of the modernity of Chinese aesthetics, and the tracing of the …
On The Evolution Of Wang Yuanhua's Methodology For Literary Theory, Zhongyi Xia
On The Evolution Of Wang Yuanhua's Methodology For Literary Theory, Zhongyi Xia
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
When Wang Yuanhua was widely acclaimed as a distinguished literary theorist who excelled in both Chinese and Western theories before the 90s, scholars tended to neglect the fact that Zhdanovism which originated from the former Soviet Union had always been his guiding principle and methodology all through his academic career. When he first embarked on literary theory, Zhdanovism was his main theoretical anchor which can be evidenced by his works like Luxun and Nietzsche and On Realism which were produced in 1939 and 1940 respectively.He began to reflect upon Zhdanovism in 1943 for he found that Zhdanovism tend to impair …