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The Tendency Of Restoring Ancient Ideas In Tang Xianzu's Literary Theory Of Love: A Case Study Of The Peony Pavilion, Zhimei Sheng 2017 Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Tendency Of Restoring Ancient Ideas In Tang Xianzu's Literary Theory Of Love: A Case Study Of The Peony Pavilion, Zhimei Sheng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

For a long time, in the study of Tang Xianzu, most scholars believe that "countering Confucian ethical codes with emotion" is core to his idea of love, and Du Liniang is his spokesperson. In The Peony Pavilion, before her death, Du Liniang's image is an awakening young person, which is from the original material that Tang Xianzu adapts. From her death to resurrection, she gradually steps towards tradition and returns to the ethical codes. Du Liniang's journey from a human being to a ghost and from a ghost to a human being starts from love and ends in ethical codes, …


Affirmative Action And Identification: A Rethinking Of The "Seventeen Years" Minority Film, Chun Liu 2017 Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Affirmative Action And Identification: A Rethinking Of The "Seventeen Years" Minority Film, Chun Liu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The tension between ethnic group and the nation state, as well as the nation state and the international order, is the core conflict of globalization. From the aspect of visual identification, the article reviews the "Seventeen years" minority film (1949-1966) when China was not involved in globalization in a modern sense. Through a comparison with the U. S. affirmative action which has been commonly adopted by ethnic studies, this article creates a new explanation frame, arguing that such policies in the 1950 s as nationality identification, ethnic equality and ethnic autonomy were a part of the Socialist affirmative action. Based …


Zhu Guangqian's Translation Of Hegel's Aesthetics And The Construction Of Modern Chinese Literary Theory, Yongyin Li 2017 Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Zhu Guangqian's Translation Of Hegel's Aesthetics And The Construction Of Modern Chinese Literary Theory, Yongyin Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

As a classic work, Zhu Guangqian's translation of Hegel's Aesthetics has influenced Chinese literary theory profoundly. Many significant theoretical topics in Chinese literary theory are rooted in either imagination or a critical reconstruction of Zhu's translation. However, to some degree, Zhu's translation misses some thought of Hagel's aesthetics. Therefore, a comparative reading of Zhu's translation and Hagel's German texts is conducive to a better understanding of Hagel's aesthetics and, as a result, to the construction of literary theory in China.


A Return To Gramsci: The Theoretical Origin Of Cultural Politics And The Gramsci Shift Of In Cultural Studies, Yanfeng Li 2017 Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

A Return To Gramsci: The Theoretical Origin Of Cultural Politics And The Gramsci Shift Of In Cultural Studies, Yanfeng Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Since the 20th century, the Western Marxism underwent an important discourse transformation from the emphasis on economic foundation and the material structure to the superstructure and cultural ideology, from class politics to cultural politics, and ultimately established the discourse paradigm of cultural politics. The theory and practice of cultural politics come from Gramsci, whose dialectical thinking on the economic basis and superstructure, as well as interpretation of culture, politics, ideology and hegemony, directly affected cultural politics of western Marxism and promoted the Gramsci shift of cultural studies in the post-Gramsci era. Based on the analysis of Gramsci's cultural and political …


The Evolution Of The "Poetry As An Expression Of Aspirations" Theory And Its Multi-Layered Significance, Zhixi Qian 2017 Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Evolution Of The "Poetry As An Expression Of Aspirations" Theory And Its Multi-Layered Significance, Zhixi Qian

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The statement that poetry is the expression of aspirations is the first ontological definition of poetry in China, and therefore its significance should be understood in its ontological perspective. The paper explores the historical context for the generation of the statement in three respects, namely, the maturing of the artistic trinity of poetry, music and dance, the establishment of the ancient politics-education system, and the establishment of the system of ethics. As a classical theory, this statement is inherited by the gentry scholars' poem writing during the Spring and Autumn period, and promoted by the hundred schools of scholars. "Aspiration" …


The Play-Text Forms Of Early Zaju And Narrative Sanqu In The Jin And Yuan Dynasties, Dajun Xu 2017 Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Play-Text Forms Of Early Zaju And Narrative Sanqu In The Jin And Yuan Dynasties, Dajun Xu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The setting of the recitative protagonist is the core of Sanqu's narrative in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, who is a firstperson narrator undertaking responsibility for chanting the progression of story with his vision and position. Similarly, the leading singer (Zhengmo or Zhengdan) of Zaju is also a first-person protagonist who undertakes responsibility for chanting the whole librettos of a play-text, so he should be a recitative protagonist of librettos of Zaju. With a comparison of the librettos of Zaju's text attribute and the play-text forms with those of narrative Sanqu, we find that the play-texts of early Zaju have …


The Semiotical Expansion Of Critical Theory: The Semiotical Methods In Baudrilard's Academic Research, Jian'gang Yang 2017 Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Semiotical Expansion Of Critical Theory: The Semiotical Methods In Baudrilard's Academic Research, Jian'gang Yang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Jean Baudrilard made great contributions to the dialogue between Marxism and Semiotics. Although he changed from a Marxist to a Post-Marxist, semiotics has always been his methodology throughout his academic career. This intrinsic tension between breakage and connection is primarily caused by the usage of semiotics. By introducing semiotics into Marxism, he began to analyze and criticize the object system, fashion, auction of work of arts and the consumer ideology of consumer society, and formulated his unique critical theory of the political economy of the sign. As a result, he enriched and developed the critical theory of classical Marxism and …


The Socializing Function Of Chinese Characters And The Worship Of Character Power Among Intellectuals In Jiangnan In The Qing Dynasty, Shijin Luo 2017 Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Socializing Function Of Chinese Characters And The Worship Of Character Power Among Intellectuals In Jiangnan In The Qing Dynasty, Shijin Luo

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

During the Qing Dynasty, intellectuals in Jiangnan communicated with each other through literature, which could be analyzed in three aspects: talking about literature while drinking, taking writing as a profession, and achieving great success in writing. These three aspects embody the overall condition that the intellectuals take writing as a channel, a profession and a tool, reflecting their cognition of the social effects and cultural functions of "character-literature" in different levels. Socializing through writing is not a phenomenon in Jiangnan alone during the Qing Dynasty, but a shared practice among all intellectuals in ancient China to some extent. However, the …


The Translation And Writing Of Modern Chinese Poetry: A Case Study Of Xu Zhimo, Liming Chen 2017 Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Translation And Writing Of Modern Chinese Poetry: A Case Study Of Xu Zhimo, Liming Chen

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Since the publication of Wellek's "The Crisis of Comparative Literature" (1959), the study of literary influence has been legion, either focusing on (un) intentional misreading or misunderstanding. The perspective of influence is vital to clarifying the mechanism of Chinese new poetry's production. This article aims to illustrate, through a detailed survey of the intrinsic relation between Xu Zhimo's translation and poetic writing, how he creatively transformed modern western poetry, which not only brought vernacular Chinese poetry prosperity, but interrupted the predominant unpoetic trends by giving new poetry aesthetic temperament, though not yet so satisfactorily. The "anxiety of influence" became motivation …


Is It All Relative? Relative Pitch And L2 Lexical Tone Perception/Tone Language Comprehension By Adult Tone And Non-Tone Language Speakers, Sloane C. von Wertz 2017 CUNY Graduate Center

Is It All Relative? Relative Pitch And L2 Lexical Tone Perception/Tone Language Comprehension By Adult Tone And Non-Tone Language Speakers, Sloane C. Von Wertz

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Languages generally use musical pitch variation of the voice as part of their sound systems (Maddieson, 2011)—pitch variations that can be somewhat reminiscent of music. Music ability and/or training may influence language processing (e.g., Bidelman et al, 2011; Delogue et al, 2010). In particular, studies have concluded that there may be a relationship between absolute pitch and tone language acquisition (e.g., Lee, Lee, and Shi, 2011; Tillmann et al., 2011; Pfordresher and Brown, 2009). Other research has shown that fundamental frequency (F0) and F0 slope are crucial elements upon which native tone language speakers rely in tone perception (Guion and …


漢魏六朝唐代詩賦中的音樂描寫研究, Zhou CAO 2017 Lingnan University

漢魏六朝唐代詩賦中的音樂描寫研究, Zhou Cao

Lingnan Theses

回顧世界諸多文明的發展,音樂與文學都是從源頭上的一體慢慢分流,在各自成為獨立藝術的過程中又相互影響、相互制約。在音樂與文學之間存在一類特殊的文本——將音樂活動的感性經驗轉換為文學符號的音樂描寫。這類作品涉及音響感知、想像聯想、審美方式、文化觀念、創作方法及其互動,具有較為豐富的美學研究價值。因此本文以漢魏六朝唐代詩賦中的音樂描寫為研究對象,以音響、場景、情思為三個基本角度,通過文本細讀勾勒漢魏六朝唐代音樂詩賦的創作形態;經由文本與音樂的比較挖掘音樂描寫的內在結構;藉以文史結合為方法,分析不同時期音響、場景、情思的不同描寫,探索藝術觀、審美觀的變化,由此構建一個宏觀的發展圖景。


Call For Submissions, CLTMT EDITOR 2017 Cleveland State University

Call For Submissions, Cltmt Editor

Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology

Call for Submissions


Smart Chinese Reader: A Chinese Language Learning Aid With Web Browser, Yifeng Yu 2017 Zhangzhou Institute of Technology, Fujian, China

Smart Chinese Reader: A Chinese Language Learning Aid With Web Browser, Yifeng Yu

Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology

Smart Chinese Reader is a program based on NLP (natural language processing) technology to help you learn Chinese language through deep reading. It provides Chinese word segmentation, Chinese part of speech tagging, Chinese to English translation, example sentence search, and text to speech conversion. Compared with dictionary apps, it lets you gain more Chinese language knowledge (meanings and usages of Chinese words, patterns and even rhythms of Chinese sentences) from a text, rather than just to get through the text. It makes your Chinese learning more effective.


Culture Shock Hanban Teachers Encounter In American Classroom Teaching, Shunqing Li, Lifen Han, Huiwen Li 2017 Lianyungang Open University

Culture Shock Hanban Teachers Encounter In American Classroom Teaching, Shunqing Li, Lifen Han, Huiwen Li

Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology

Hanban teachers have made important contributions to the spreading of Chinese language and culture in the US. They also experience great cultural shocks during their teaching, which greatly challenge their life, work and even their physical and mental health. What are those cultural shocks? What are the causes of them? Can we find out some methods to prevent or deal with them? The present study, by employing classroom observation, interview, and self-reflection approaches, investigates the cultural shocks Hanban teachers commonly encounter during their teaching in K-12 schools in the State of Ohio, and conducts analysis of the causes of these …


Problems And The Coping Measures In American Beginners’ Chinese Calligraphy Writing, Huiwen Li, Brendan McDermott 2017 Cleveland State University

Problems And The Coping Measures In American Beginners’ Chinese Calligraphy Writing, Huiwen Li, Brendan Mcdermott

Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology

Through class observations and interviews, this study identified eight types of writing errors that American beginners of Chinese calligraphy. These errors include: (1) failure to apply the Chinese philosophical mindset when producing a real work of calligraphy, (2) dropping some stroke(s) or stroke part(s), (3) misplaced strokes, (4) improperly connected strokes, (5) misshapen curved strokes, (6) disproportionate component size, (7) incorrect thickness and character size, and (8) angled vertical strokes. These errors reflect the students’ lack of knowledge of Chinese characters, the writing skills, and the application of Yin and Yang philosophy. Corresponding instructions and guidance are needed to help …


Introduction Of The World Organic Language Teaching Approach, Jingyi Zhang 2017 Cleveland State University

Introduction Of The World Organic Language Teaching Approach, Jingyi Zhang

Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology

This article introduces the OWL instructional approach including its rationale, target setting, procedure, and class structure. With the OWL experience, the author also gives reflections on this approach.


Foreword, Jianping Zhu 2017 Cleveland State University

Foreword, Jianping Zhu

Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology

Foreword by the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Cleveland State University


Table Of Contents, Huiwen Li 2017 CSU

Table Of Contents, Huiwen Li

Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology

Table of Contents


Editors And Reviewers, Huiwen Li 2017 Cleveland State University

Editors And Reviewers, Huiwen Li

Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology

Editors and Reviewers


Korean Through Folktales, KyungAh Yoon 2017 Portland State University

Korean Through Folktales, Kyungah Yoon

PDXOpen: Open Educational Resources

Korean Through Folktales consists of four chapters and each centers on a famous Korean folktale. The lessons and values that famous folktales teach are embedded and permeated in various aspects of the Koran culture. Using folktales in the curriculum will provide an engaging way to expose students to a slice of the target culture that native Koreans are naturally exposed to at an early age. Through the selected folktales and various activities offered in the book, students can gain cultural knowledge and insights into traditional and cultural values while they are given linguistic lessons to reinforce their acquired skills and …


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