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Canon Formation In The Study Of The Environment In China And Taiwan, Peter I-min Huang 2014 Tamkang University

Canon Formation In The Study Of The Environment In China And Taiwan, Peter I-Min Huang

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In his article "Canon Formation in the Study of the Environment in China and Taiwan" Peter I-min Huang discusses how the canon of ecocriticism taught in English studies in China and Taiwan is becoming increasingly of a local perspective by scholars who publish in Mandarin, address environmental issues specific to Mainland China and Taiwan, and thus engage with ecocriticism based on local perspectives rather than Western ones. The study and teaching of English-language literature in China and Taiwan inevitably encounters charges of neocolonialism or other argumentation that it is being used in ways that betray the legacy of past colonialist …


The Canon Of East Asian Ecocriticism And The Duplicity Of Culture, Hannes Bergthaller 2014 National Chung Hsing University

The Canon Of East Asian Ecocriticism And The Duplicity Of Culture, Hannes Bergthaller

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In his article "The Canon of East Asian Ecocriticism and the Duplicity of Culture" Hannes Bergthaller begins with the premise that ecocritical scholarship often locates the roots of environmental crisis in Western modernity and that it looks towards pre-modern or non-European traditions for a remedy. Bergthaller argues that such forms of cultural critique tend to reiterate a quintessentially modern gesture. Following Niklas Luhmann's account of culture, Bergthaller examines how these reiterations functions as a semantic mechanism for coping with the contingency of social forms. To describe a social practice as cultural, Bergthaller contends, is to valorize it as a marker …


The Canon And Shakespeare's Plays On The Contemporary East Asian Stage, I-Chun Wang 2014 Kaohsiung Medical University

The Canon And Shakespeare's Plays On The Contemporary East Asian Stage, I-Chun Wang

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In her article "The Canon and Shakespeare's Plays on the Contemporary East Asian Stage" I-Chun Wang argues that although globalization often refers to the phenomenon of international trade and (im)migrants, globalization has made strong impacts in all aspects of culture and literature. Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar have attracted attention of East Asian playwrights and directors in the last several years. By juxtaposing the trends of local cultural performing arts with representations of local cultural legacies, Wang discusses the staging of these two Roman plays in Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. By probing into the imperial themes represented …


Race, Slavery, And The Re-Evaluation Of The T'Ang Canon, Gregory E. Rutledge 2014 University of Nebraska Lincoln

Race, Slavery, And The Re-Evaluation Of The T'Ang Canon, Gregory E. Rutledge

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In his article "Race, Slavery, and the Revaluation of the T'ang Canon" Gregory E. Rutledge re-evaluates—from the purview of African Diaspora literary studies—historiography that considers the place of East African slave lore in T'ang Dynasty fiction. Julie Wilensky's "The Magical Kunlun and 'Devil Slaves': Chinese Perceptions of Dark-skinned People and Africa before 1500" (2002), a revision of Chang Hsing-lang's "The Importation of Negro Slaves to China Under the T'ang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907)" (1930), is pivotal since it occupies the nexus between European-American, East-Asian, and African-Diasporic canons and policies. Rutledge situates Wilensky's and Chang's works in the context of Edward W. …


Translation And The Canon Of Greek Tragedy In Chinese Literature, Rongnü Chen, Lingling Zhao 2014 Beijing Language and Culture University

Translation And The Canon Of Greek Tragedy In Chinese Literature, Rongnü Chen, Lingling Zhao

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In their article "Translation and the Canon of Greek Tragedy in Chinese Literature" Rongnü Chen and Lingling Zhao discuss when and how ancient Greek drama were introduced and merged into Chinese literature. Since Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound was first translated into Chinese and published in 1932 up to now, it has been translated eight times in China from 1932 to 2013. Starting from the Chinese translations and reception of Prometheus Bound, Chen and Zhao explore why so many translators have chosen to translate it in the past eighty years. Chen and Zhao also discuss how these translating activities advanced the …


Canon Formation And Children's Literature During The May Fourth Period, Chu Shen 2014 Tsinghua University

Canon Formation And Children's Literature During The May Fourth Period, Chu Shen

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In her article "Canon Formation and Children's Literature during the May Fourth Period" Chu Shen discusses the translation of children's literature as a site in which nationalism is mirrored and is in turn constructed. For the New Culturalists during the May Fourth Period (1915-1927), nationalism was mirrored through a progressive cultural and literary agenda that included the translation of foreign literatures and hence contributed to canon formation. Shen's study refers to the importance of the study of translation with regard to topics of nationalism in the May Fourth period and it advances our knowledge not only about an important transitional …


Western Canons In China 1978-2014, He Lin 2014 Sichuan University & University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Western Canons In China 1978-2014, He Lin

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In his article "Western Canons in China 1978-2014" He Lin surveys anthologies of foreign literature, book series, textbooks used in literary departments, and learned journals and draws a map of the situation of Western canons in China. He concludes that Western canons underwent a complicated process when establishing their roles in Chinese scholarship and that canonization is determined, in particular, by market mechanisms, ideological preconceptions, and literary institutions at universities. He posits that in the age of globalization a more intimate and subtle relationship has been established between Western literary canons and Chinese readership and scholarship. The publishing market, national …


Bibliography For The Study Of Literature, East Asia, And Globalization, Zhaomei Zheng 2014 Shanghai Normal University & Hubei University of Education

Bibliography For The Study Of Literature, East Asia, And Globalization, Zhaomei Zheng

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Acknowledgements/Image Credits, Molly Lynde-Recchia 2014 Western Michigan University

Acknowledgements/Image Credits, Molly Lynde-Recchia

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Notes On Contributors, Molly Lynde-Recchia 2014 Western Michigan University

Notes On Contributors, Molly Lynde-Recchia

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Brief biographical notes on contributing translators.


Commentary On Translating Tao Yuanming And Li Shangyin, Andrew Gudgel 2014 Independent Scholar

Commentary On Translating Tao Yuanming And Li Shangyin, Andrew Gudgel

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Notes by Andrew Gudgel on the translation of three Chinese poems into English.


Frost Moon And Autumn Arrives By Li Shangyin, Andrew Gudgel 2014 Independent Scholar

Frost Moon And Autumn Arrives By Li Shangyin, Andrew Gudgel

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Translated from the Chinese by Andrew Gudgel.


Cloudy Skies By Tao Yuanming, Andrew Gudgel 2014 Independent Scholar

Cloudy Skies By Tao Yuanming, Andrew Gudgel

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Translated from the Chinese by Andrew Gudgel.


First Mill (Excerpts) By René Char, Nancy Naomi N. Carlson 2014 University of the District of Columbia

First Mill (Excerpts) By René Char, Nancy Naomi N. Carlson

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Translated from the French with commentary by Nancy Naomi Carlson.


The Eighth Eclogue By Vergil, Ann Lauinger 2014 Sarah Lawrence College

The Eighth Eclogue By Vergil, Ann Lauinger

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Translated from the Latin with commentary by Ann Lauinger.


Ryōan Temple Rock Garden By Murō Saisei, Michael Tangeman 2014 Denison University

Ryōan Temple Rock Garden By Murō Saisei, Michael Tangeman

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Michael Stone Tangeman.


Selections From Man’Yōshū By Various Authors, John G. Peters 2014 University of North Texas

Selections From Man’Yōshū By Various Authors, John G. Peters

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by John Peters.


The Fisherman By Anonymous, Luke J. Chambers 2014 Western Michigan University

The Fisherman By Anonymous, Luke J. Chambers

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Translated from the Old French with commentary by Luke Chambers.


Gray Toad And Color Of The Season By Ōte Takuji, Dean A. Brink 2014 Tamkang University, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Gray Toad And Color Of The Season By Ōte Takuji, Dean A. Brink

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Dean A. Brink.


Mona Lisa, A Deer, That Man, And The Night Of An Artificial Satellite By Murano Shirō, Goro Takano 2014 Saga University Faculty of Medicine

Mona Lisa, A Deer, That Man, And The Night Of An Artificial Satellite By Murano Shirō, Goro Takano

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Goro Takano.


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