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Mourning, Vision, And Effusion: Georges Bataille’S Writing Of Tears, Guangji Wei

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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Literary Style And The Appearance Of The Others: On Merleau-Ponty’S Development Of The Theory Of Literary Engagement, Wei Jia

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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Between “Practical Use” And “Vain Text”: A Textual Research Of The Newly Compiled Epistolary Guidebooks In The Late Qing Dynasty And Early Period Of The Republic Of China, Yin Lu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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The “Incarnation” Of Immanence: On The Genealogy And Sense Of Gilles Deleuze’S “New Christ”, Hui Shi

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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Disputes Over The Concept Of “Literary Study” In Pre-Tertiary Education In The Early Years Of The Republic Of China, Min Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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A Probe Into The Modern Evolution Of The Conceptualization Of “Image” And Its Interaction With “Artistic Conception”, Ronggang Jiang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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Huang Tingjian’S Prose Writing Methods And The Rise Of Prose Theories In The Southern Song Dynasty, Jinjin Le

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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Translucency And Quasi-Temporality: The Accident Of Literature From The Perspective Of Technical Theory, Zhizhong Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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A Study Of The Gong’An School’S Notion Of Exceptional People And The Making Of Their Literary Positioning, Gang Chen

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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Turn And Transcendence: The Language Perception Of “Changing The Bones And Snatching The Embryo” In Northern Song Dynasty Poetics, Shuya Fang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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Middle School National Language Education In Early Modern China And The Formation Of Modern Fiction Concept, Xiaojun Liu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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The Book Of Poetry And Diplomacy : Who Is The Barbarian?, Wai-Yee Li

How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast

This episode discusses how a “barbarian” chief gains diplomatic advantages by reciting an ode now included in Shijing. The recitation both asserts and effaces differences between “Chinese” and “barbarian” states. It seeks to redefine the past and argues for equality and amity between Jin and the Rong.

Zen And The Art Of Resistance: Some Preliminary Notes, James Mark Shields

Faculty Contributions to Books

In the Western and oftentimes Asian imagination, Buddhism generally—and Zen more specifically—is understood as being resolutely disengaged, attaching itself to a form of awakening that is not only, as the classical phrase has it “beyond words and letters,” but in the modern summation by D. T. Suzuki, perfectly compatible with any and all forms of political and economic “dogmatism,” whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. Of course, as numerous scholars have shown over the past century, on the level of historical actuality, Buddhist and Zen teachers and institutions have long participated in (usually hegemonic) economic and political structures. The …

The Book Of Poetry : Zhou Dynastic Building, William H. Nienhauser

How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast

“Woven” like many of the Da ya (Greater Odes) sings of two of the heroes who laid the groundwork for their grandson and son to overcome the Shang and establish the Zhou dynasty. The text lends itself to memorization and may have been part of early court ritual as our own Star-Spangled Banner celebrates an event in the early history of our country.

Ten Nights' Dreams And Our Cat's Grave, Natsume Soseki

Zea E-Books Collection

Ten Nights’ Dreams (夢十夜, Yume Jūya) is a classic written work from the Japanese master Natsume Soseki. Originally published in 1908, it announced the emergence in Japanese literature of a modernist and impressionistic mode. Short ­vignettes with fantastic, tragic, or magical events convey an exquisite sensibility compounded with stark realism. Love, honor, duty, artistry, desire, despair, and regret all shape events in the dream-world. The stories themselves suggest echoes of meanings beyond the failures of rational sense-making. Ten dreams—each unique and arresting—form a panorama of life and feeling, at once universal and intensely present.

“Our Cat’s Grave” is a brief …

The Book Of Poetry : Courtship Poems, William H. Nienhauser

How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast

The three courtship forms, “I Beg of you, Zhong Zi,” “The Banks of the Ru,” and “The Retiring Girl,” present contrasting depictions of the courtship process in early China. In the first, a village encounter between two lovers or potential lovers is depicted. The man and the woman in “The Banks of the Ru” may be married or simply lovers, but the link to the previous poem is the concern about the girl’s parents. This is the most clearly erotic of the poems presented. “The Retiring Girl” depicts a couple in a relationship with the young woman still reticent to …

I Am A Cat, No. Ii, Natsume Sōseki, Kan-Ichi Ando

Zea E-Books Collection

What would the neighbors say about you if they didn’t know your cat was listening?

What if it was “The Cat With No Name”? The one who claims “I have, as a cat, attained the highest pitch of evolution imaginable. … My tail is filled with all sorts of wisdom and, above all, a secret art handed down in the cat family, which teaches how to make fools of mankind. … I am a cat, it is true, but remember I am one who keeps in the house of a scholar who reads the Moral Discourses of Epictetus and bangs …

Japanese-English Translation: Katayama Hiroko—Jesus And Simon Peter (June 1953), Christopher Southward

Comparative Literature Faculty and Student Scholarship

Translation of 「イエスとペトロ」、片山廣子著、昭和２８年６月

Source: Aozora Bunko (a digital archive of public-domain Japanese-language works)

General website: https://www.aozora.gr.jp

Current text: https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001346/files/50159_41222.html

Control, Allegiance, And Shame In Male Qing Dynasty Hairstyles, Carolle Pinkerton

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis is about the politicization of hairstyles in imperial China. They indicated conformity with social norms, or rebellion against them. This was especially true under the country’s last dynasty. The Manchu conquerors imposed their own hairstyle, the queue, on their Han Chinese subjects to make their rule palpable to China’s illiterate millions. “Hair martyrs” who refused to accept this “barbarous” hairstyle were ruthlessly eliminated. The Manchus had feared assimilation into the much larger Han population. But the introduction of one uniform male hair style for both Manchus and Han blurred the lines between the two groups. In this way …

Japanese-English Translation: Katayama Hiroko—Fifty-Dollar Coffee (June 1953), Christopher Southward

Comparative Literature Faculty and Student Scholarship

Revised translation of「コーヒー五千円」、片山廣子著、底本「燈火節」暮しの手帖社、昭和２８年

Source, Aozora Bunko (a digital archive of public-domain Japanese-language works):

General website: https://www.aozora.gr.jp

Current text: https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001346/files/49517_35999.html