Huang Li-Zhou (Zongxi, 1610-1695) The Venerable Warrior's "On The Monarchs," "On The Officials," And "On Laws" In English Translations,
2020
Gettysburg College
Huang Li-Zhou (Zongxi, 1610-1695) The Venerable Warrior's "On The Monarchs," "On The Officials," And "On Laws" In English Translations, Xiao-Yu Chen
Student Publications
Huang Zongxi (September 24, 1610 - August 12, 1695), literary name: Li-Zhou, was an early modern Chinese Confucianist warrior, who advocated for a political system that divides power into regions and resembles a Euro-American federacy or confederacy. He had around fourteen years of experience, in which he militarily struggled against the Manchurian Ching government, and has "tens of millions of characters" of preserved works, such as his Waiting For the Dawn and more than five hundred poems. [excerpt from "About the Author"]
Wafuku: An Exploration Of Historic Japanese Apparel And The Future Of The Kimono Form,
2020
University of South Carolina - Columbia
Wafuku: An Exploration Of Historic Japanese Apparel And The Future Of The Kimono Form, Elaina M. Reck
Senior Theses
This thesis is an exploration of historical Japanese dress for women, especially focusing on the kimono. It will delve into the comparisons between Western and Japanese dress (respectively yōfuku and wafuku), especially focusing on form and silhouette. It will conclude with an examination of the current status of the kimono, what led to its demise, but also what recent revitalization efforts have been made in Japan. The companion creative portion is a collection of modern clothing that is inspired by elements of these historic garments, showing that these design elements are timeless. I desire for this project to be …
Poetics Of Acculturation: Early Pure Land Buddhism And
The Topography Of The Periphery In Orikuchi Shinobu’S
The Book Of The Dead,
2020
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Poetics Of Acculturation: Early Pure Land Buddhism And The Topography Of The Periphery In Orikuchi Shinobu’S The Book Of The Dead, Ikuho Amano
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications
Known as the exponent practitioner of kokubungaku (national literature), modernist ethnologist Orikuchi Shinobu (1887–1953) readily utilized archaic Japanese experiences as viable resources for his literary imagination. As the leading disciple of Yanagita Kunio (1875–1962), who is known as the founding father of modern folkloric ethnology in Japan, Orikuchi is often considered a nativist ethnologist whose works tend to be construed as a probing into the origin of the nation. He considered the essence of national literature as “the origins of art itself,” and such a critical vision arguably linked him to interwar fascism.1 Nevertheless, his nativist effort as a literatus …
Book Review Of, Japanese Kanji Power: A Workbook For Mastering Japanese Characters,
2020
Portland State University
Book Review Of, Japanese Kanji Power: A Workbook For Mastering Japanese Characters, Karen Curtin
World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations
Book review of Japanese Kanji Power: A Workbook for Mastering Japanese Characters, by John Millen
Book Review Of, Beneath The Sleepless Tossing Of The Planets: Selected Poems Of Makoto Ōoka,
2020
Portland State University
Book Review Of, Beneath The Sleepless Tossing Of The Planets: Selected Poems Of Makoto Ōoka, Jon Holt
World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations
Book review of Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets: Selected Poems ofcMakoto Ōoka.
A Textual Critique On Mencius' Perception Of "Tracing Back Intent Through Understanding",
2020
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
A Textual Critique On Mencius' Perception Of "Tracing Back Intent Through Understanding", Hongqiu Huang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
One long-standing debate in Chinese literary criticism and hermeneutics has been over the meaning of "intent" (yi) in Mencius' notion of "tracing back intent through understanding (yiyi nizhi).The debate between the text-centred and the reader-centred is renown due to Qing scholar Wu Qi's (1615-75) positing his interpreting Mencius' "intent" as idea of antique scholars against what he understood to be Han-Song scholars' interpretation of it as personal opinion or conjecture opinion of ancient people. The Han-Song Confucian scholars understood Mencius' "intent" from the reader's perspective, as the intent of text-based reader. Scholars in the Ming and Qing dynasties referred to …
Forms, Approaches And Limitation Of Avant-Garde Art's Intervention In Society,
2020
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Forms, Approaches And Limitation Of Avant-Garde Art's Intervention In Society, Lei Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The concept of "the avant-garde" has both political and aesthetic connotation when applied to arts, which, to some degree, corresponds to its two approaches of intervening in society. It either abandons artistic autonomy and directly intervenes in society based on certain political ideas and party positions, or, it adheres to artistic autonomy and intervenes indirectly in society by maintaining a distance from society. There are thus irreconcilable contradictions between ideas and approaches of the avant-garde when it intervenes in society. This internal paradox makes it difficult for avant-garde art to truly intervene in society, and it also determines the efficacy …
Elegance And Naturalness: Two Aesthetic Dimensions Of Traditional Chinese Thought On The Qin Music,
2020
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Elegance And Naturalness: Two Aesthetic Dimensions Of Traditional Chinese Thought On The Qin Music, Jing Zhang, Shuzhi Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The qin (a type of seven-stringed plucked musical instrument) music plays a very important role in traditional Chinese traditional culture. The qin is the most frequently used musical instrument in classical Chinese literature and is representative of elegant music. The rich history of the qin music has engendered engendered profound traditional aesthetic thought on it, which has two important dimensions: 1) the concept of "elegance" that centers on the idea of "music as education" in Confucian ideology, and 2) the concept of "naturalness" with that has its origins in Daoist thought. These two concepts become unified in the prolonged history …
Myth As A Meta-Narrative,
2020
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Myth As A Meta-Narrative, Zhiqiang Xu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Seen from the phenomenological perspective, myth is not a primitive cultural phenomenon, but instead a permanent dimension in human culture, a meta-narrative with fundamental significance for human existence. Myth, as a meta-narrative, not only remains in the background of human existence to provide orientation, but also actively leads believers to return to their arche for authentic human existence. However, myth only occurs in the moment of human predicament, when it becomes necessary to promote the renewal of life by providing an absolute beginning.
Shakespeare And Econo-Literary Criticism,
2020
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Shakespeare And Econo-Literary Criticism, Min Jiao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This article introduces the phases and practices of econo-literary criticism over the years to argue for the interdisciplinary studies of literature and economics. By explicating the fruitful research on Shakespearean works from the different perspectives of econo-literary criticism, it argues that this critical practice, through examining texts for their embedded economic forms, contents and contexts, can furnish new perspectives on literary texts as well as cultural and economic history, which, in turn, benefits the research of economics, whose innate ethic deficiencies are growingly felt recently.
The Cross-Cultural Perspective To Survey Chinese Literati Paintings In François Jullien's Study Of Chinese Painting Theories,
2020
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Cross-Cultural Perspective To Survey Chinese Literati Paintings In François Jullien's Study Of Chinese Painting Theories, Yunhua Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
François Jullien has consciously adopted a "Western self" to look at Chinese painting theories and take them as contributing to "the other." His theoretical base is also Western, or more specifically, derived from Heidegger, Levinas and Derrida. Jullien's goal is, arguably, to have a juncture and an approach to return to the European "l'impensé" by way of China, the "other." His study on Chinese painting theories is impressively novel, especially his insightful discussions on the nexus between Laozi (Daodejing) and Chinese painting theories. Also, his study provides methodological reference for Chinese scholars of comparative culture and comparative literature. That said, …
Understanding As Obstacle: Exercise As A Perspective For Intercultural Research,
2020
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Understanding As Obstacle: Exercise As A Perspective For Intercultural Research, Pfizenmaier Ruben
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper argues that modes of understanding built on familiarity with the other, as well as on contrastive opposition can become an obstacle in intercultural research. Built on a critique of Gadamer's idea of a fusion of horizons, it claims that intercultural research not only has to circumvent the danger of reducing the other under the familiar, but also has to prevent a construction of the other as exotic and absolutely different.
Non-Fictionality Of Lu Xun's Old Tales Retold: On The Stylistic Effect Of Literary Game On Lu Xun's Historical Writing,
2020
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Non-Fictionality Of Lu Xun's Old Tales Retold: On The Stylistic Effect Of Literary Game On Lu Xun's Historical Writing, Jianhuai Li, Guangya Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Lu Xun's Old Tales Retold can be regarded as an absolutely unique voice in the history of China's "New Literature." It demonstrates an originality as non-fictionality of the stories, with imagistic modernist discourse interacting with with the ancient discourse. This resulted in a multi-voiced image-full textual world which contributes to the alienation of literary discourse, the estrangement of aesthetic experience, and the rhetoric effect of parody and irony. It hence broke the boundaries of reality and fiction, undermined the authenticity of historical writing, removed the barriers between fiction and non-fiction as well as those between literature and non-literature, and deconstructed …
"Aesthetic Dignity Of Words": Aestheticism In Theodor W. Adorno's Early Theory On The Philosophy Of Language,
2020
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"Aesthetic Dignity Of Words": Aestheticism In Theodor W. Adorno's Early Theory On The Philosophy Of Language, Yaochong Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
As a key piece of writing of Theodor W. Adorno's early theory on philosophy of language, Theses on the Language of the Philosopher has lacked scholarly attention for a prolonged period of time. In recent years, Western scholars realize that the philosophy of language in classic critical theory affords potential ideological resources to reflect on the linguistic turn.The new generation of German scholars in critical theory also propose a "language paradigm", which promotes the revival of Adorno's philosophy of language. Adorno's historical contribution to the philosophy of language is based on his creative extension of Walter Benjamin's theology/philosophy of language …
A Study Of The "World" Metaphor In Contemporary Western Narrative Theories,
2020
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
A Study Of The "World" Metaphor In Contemporary Western Narrative Theories, Jianguo Yang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
From the last 20 years of the 20th century, the metaphor of "world" found its way into narrative studies, resulting in a set of new narrative concepts as possible worlds, fictional worlds, and story worlds. With the help of these concepts, narrative researchers could break away from the text-focusedness in classical structuralist narratology and direct the focus of study to such problem as the ontological status of fictional narratives, the immersion effect of literary reading, and the flow of stories in transmedia channels. This article begins with an introduction of the definitions, historical development, and current situations of three major …
An Interpretation Of Painting For Preservation Of Life From The Perspective Of Aesthetic Life-Rearing,
2020
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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, …
Canon Model: On The Repetitive Structure Of Oral Narration,
2020
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Canon Model: On The Repetitive Structure Of Oral Narration, Ruoran Huang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Repetition scatters in narrative, and it shows the heterogeneous isomorphism with differences integrated with repetitions. Due to the shared textuality thinking between inherent musicality of oral literature and polyphony, canon model with its contrapuntal compositional technique is universally found in the compositional mechanism of oral literature, – and creates a narration of repetition based on imitation under temporal principle and counterpoint under spatial principle. Within a single text and across multiple texts, canon model may take the forms of parallel canon, mirror canon and endless canon based on the development of plot. The former two forms can further be divided …
Events Toward The Future: Event Theory Turn From The Perspective Of Contemporary Thinkers,
2020
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Events Toward The Future: Event Theory Turn From The Perspective Of Contemporary Thinkers, Jiang Lan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
A turn is seen in event theory in the 21st century intellectual history, and the highlighting of the issue of event manifests man's aspiration to change the world. Event is a singularity, and cannot be reduced to a discourse or degree in an established order, since it itself constitutes a challenge to the discursive structure of the order. The emergence of an event signifies the occupation of a new place, so that absolute transformations can be made in new places and spaces. This is the starting point from which contemporary thinkers, such as Gilles Deleuze, Slovaj Žižek, and Alain Badiou, …
Meng Haoran's Poetic Ideas Reflected In His Fusion Of Ancient-Style And Regulated Verses Into Five-Character Poetry,
2020
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Meng Haoran's Poetic Ideas Reflected In His Fusion Of Ancient-Style And Regulated Verses Into Five-Character Poetry, Zhao Yang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The fusion of ancient-style and regulated verses in Meng Haoran's five-character poetry exemplifies the complicated relationship between ancient-style and contemporary-style regulated verses in the High Tang. His "regulated verses with ancient quality" had either gentle or steep patterns of tonality, and developed more flexible and consistent structures in variations of parallelism. On the other hand, his "ancient-style verses with regulated quality" were often delicate and fluent in parallelistic transformations. During the High Tang, poetry creations of these two types often shared some themes, and were also related to Meng's political frustrations or personal leisure which in turn reflected the subjectivity …
Playful Reception Of Classics: On Parodization Of Du Fu's Poems In The Song Dynasty,
2020
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Playful Reception Of Classics: On Parodization Of Du Fu's Poems In The Song Dynasty, Hua Yao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Playful writings are relatively less researched on in Chinese literary criticism, compared with the more exuberant discussions such as the parody theory in the Western literary tradition. This paper takes as example the parodizations of Du Fu's poems in the Song dynasty to explore the parodical writing and its implications in the reception of canonical poetry. As Du Fu's poetry was canonized in the Song Dynasty, increasingly more parodies of Du Fu's poems were seen. The popularity and publicity of Du Fu's poetry prompted the parodization, while his unique style and textual features became the basis for parodies, both of …
