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Chinese Instruction And Research Practicum Chn/Edc 552/452, Joanna Burkhardt

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Advanced Topics In Sociolinguistics Chn/Edc 553/453, Joanna Burkhardt

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Final Digital Storytelling Project, Min Wang

Digital Humanities Curricular Development

At the end of the semester, students will also combine some of their blogs into an approximately 1,500-character essay to be submitted for publication, with instructor revisions, in an official journal for students’ essays in the U.S., JUHE SUPPLEMENT.

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Third Year Chinese Conversation (Chin 011a) Syllabus, Min Wang

Digital Humanities Curricular Development

Third Year Chinese Conversation course description:
This course meets once a week for 75 minutes and concentrates on the further development of skills in speaking and listening through multimedia materials (including selected movies and clips). Students are required to read chosen texts (including Internet materials and short stories) and prepare assignments for the purpose of generating discussion in class. Moreover, students will write out skits or reports for oral presentation in Chinese before they present them in class. The class is conducted entirely in Chinese.

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Motivations And Obstacles On The Long Walk To Integration: Determinants Of Six Cape Town Chinese Immigrants’ Political Participation, Yawen Tsao

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Political participation is a fundamental component of democracy. But the level of immigrants’ political participation is generally lower than for people who are perceived as natives. This paper identifies the determinants of six Chinese immigrants’ political participation in Cape Town, part of a group that has a long history of political integration but is still often seen as passive and apolitical. It argues and tests the effect of five main determinants related to the length of residence, interaction with the local Chinese association, socioeconomic background, language ability and prior political experience, and social perceptions. Data comes from interviews conducted with …

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文苑 (重刊號第17期), 嶺南大學學生會文學士課程聯會第二十一屆中文系系會 (曜璿)

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Factors Influencing The Evolution Of Chinese Disaster Relief Efforts, Lucas W. Gaylor

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Disasters are life-altering events for any country. Every country around the world suffers from various kinds of disasters, whether produced by natural or human forces. The impact that these disasters have on people’s lives makes the topic of disaster relief and management a critical one for all governments around the globe; China is certainly no exception to the importance of disaster relief policy. As a country that has fallen victim to many disasters in recent memory, its disaster relief policy is one that has been analyzed at length by scholars around the world. In this piece, I seek to analyze …

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The Musicality Of The Chuci Style Revisited: The Establishment Of The Music Symbol "Xi", Weihua Dai

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

"Xi" is the symbolic symbol of the musicality of Chuci. The construction of the "standard" for the musicality of the Chuci style is based on the translation of "the songs of Yue" and "the songs of Chu" and also on the relationship between the "song" and "words" in Yufu. 兮(xi), as a function word in text, is a vocal representation of musicality. Among all the writings belong to chuci, those containing xi means that there's attempt to capture the vocal musicality of the songs, while those that do not have xi are simply purely textual transcription. The difference between "hun …

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The Promise Of The Future: Dimensions Of Future In Walter Benjamin's Philosophy Of History, Guoping Hu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper presents the dimensions of future in Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history. Benjamin refused a systematized future which caused the oblivion of the failures. Benjamin puts forward a kind of philosophy of history whose future is illuminated by the unjustness of the past to the future. This philosophy of history which is loyal to the ethic of time regards the past as an incomplete one which carries the responsibility of the memory and establishes an ethical relation between the past and the future, opening to the others as widely as possible.

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The Returning Dream-Seeking Trip: The Narrative Of America In Chinese Popular Culture Since The 1990s, Guozhan Chen

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper finds an obvious change in Chinese popular culture through analyzing the stories of going abroad since the 1990s: the leading character spares no effort to seek American Dream during the early 1990s, but turns back since 2008. It has become a significant narrative mode, and clearly demonstrated the changes of the image of America. From seeking American Dream to realizing Chinese Dream, it narrates a changed China via leading character's return; and it is also a story about how Chinese Dream replaces American Dream. However, such a narrative mode reveals some problems: many of its judgments are accompanied …

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The Style Of Xin Qiji's 24 Ci Poems To The Tune Of Lin Jiang Xian And Its Significance For Studies Of The Tunes Of Ci Poems, Huiguo Zhu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Xin Qiji wrote 24 Ci poems to the tune of Lin Jiang Xian. These Ci poems' conservation makes him own the largest quantity of Ci poems to the tune of Lin Jiang Xian in the northern and southern Song dynasties. Thus, he possesses a significant place in writing Ci poems to the tune of Lin Jiang Xian and its phylogeny. Xin Qiji's 24 Ci poems are all chosen the basic double tonal patterns and rhyme schemes of Ci poems with 60 characters, and its rhyme is strictly managed. Moreover, the arrangement of level and oblique tones in these Ci poems …

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Mimetic Violence And The Issue Of The Other: A New Interpretation Of René Girard, Xue Li, Xiao Bi

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In his study of some literary canons, René Girard, a French literary critic and anthropologist, analyzes human desire and sums up the theory of mimetic desire, which means that a person's desire, as the desire of the subject, always imitates the similar desire that belongs to the mediator of the desire. Girard distinguishes the modes of mimetic desire into two types, the external mediation and the internal mediation, and draws a conclusion that the internal mediation would inevitably lead to violence due to the competition between the subject and the mediator. Referring to Roland Barthes's mythologies, this article indicates that …

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On The Misunderstanding And Reception Of "To Be A Poet In The Spare Time", Xiang Xiong

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

"To Be a Poet in The Spare Time" was a verse from Han Yu (768-824), and he praised Xi Ba with this verse. From North Song Dynasty, some people made it as an independent topic to express their own opinions. And some people even add their own understandings to Han Yu, which lead to the confusion about quoting and annotating. They had two explanations about the verse, poem was less important than essay, or poem was less important than government affairs and moral integrity. The former reflected the poetics of Ou Yangxiu (1007-1072) and others, and the latter continued traditional …

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Oriental Miscellany And Theatre Reform Of Modern China, Liming Zhao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

At the beginning of the new literature, Oriental Miscellany consciously provided a public platform for advocating theatre reform, and contributed greatly in this aspect. In terms of reforming traditional theatre, it put forward the idea of the three ways for reform, thus correcting the New Youth School's extreme idea of abolishing traditional theatre. As for the introduction of Western drama, it paid attention to transplanting advanced theatre ideas, such as nature, evolution, realism and tragedy. It advocated the reform of theatre space, and introduced Western experimental drama, thus promoting the development of the "little theater" in China. As a modern …

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Personal Experience About Frankfurt School: From "Non-Identity" To "Singularity" — An Interview With Professor Samuel Weber, Yong Zhao, Weber Samuel

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In this interview, Professor Samuel Weber vividly reviews his personal study experience with Adorno in the 1960s, reveling some features of Adorno's thoughts such as the teleological tendency and non-identity. Based on Adorno's current situation and the limits of his general concept, Professor Weber and the interviewer discuss the inevitable barrier between the social critical theory and the political action plans. He further develops "repetition" and "singularity" from Kierkegaard, Walter Benjamin and Derrida, which focus on the concrete things. The interview also reveals the question of foreign words and Adorno's half Jewish identity in the discussion of Adorno's controversial saying, …

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Preservation And Distortion: The Recording, Editing And Publishing Of Yangzhou Storytelling, Huarong Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Affected by the Chinese Communist Party's policies on literature and art and the aesthetics of written literature, during the recording, editing and publishing Yangzhou storytelling, the editors revised or deleted the undesirable or negative content including the parts that did not comply with the social ideology. Meanwhile, the editors tended to follow the style of written literature to normalize the language of Yangzhou storytelling. On one hand, the recording and publishing work saved some repertoires of Yangzhou storytelling, and let more people know and enjoy Yangzhou storytelling. It also promoted the development of academic research on Yangzhou storytelling. On the …

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Questions About Studies Of The Book Of Songs In The Recent Century, Yufeng Xie

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Many scholars such as Hu Shi have made pioneering contributions to the researches of The Book of Songs in the recent century. They have found common ground regarding some issues about The Book of Songs: it is the earliest poetry collection in China; all the poems are songs; there are three types of poems, namely, feng, ya, and song. But there might be serious misunderstandings in these aspects, which need reinvestigation. We should express gratitude to predecessors who enlighten us and misguide us simultaneously. It is our destiny that we will be permanently on the road to truth of The …

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The Aesthetic Ethics Of Evil: Understanding Evil In Modernistic Narrative, Shiren Tang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

With the characters of impersonality and depersonalization, the evil plots in modern fiction is often described intuitively and indifferently, that is great different from the traditional narrative which the moral attitudes are distinctively. It's difficult to understand the complex ethical tenor from the evil plots in modern narrative, so readers also need to understanding some modern aesthetic ethics concepts. These issues are also prominently manifested in Chinese contemporary literature, especially in Vanguard writing and Modernist Literature. From the perspective of evil writing, we can review the Modernistic narrative in Chinese Contemporary Novels, and explore the narrative ethics, at last point …

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The Anatomy And Aesthetic On Modernity Fragments: On The Thought Genealogy Of Fragments From Simmel To The Frankfurt School, Xiangrong Yang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In the aesthetics of Simmel, the impressionism style of aesthetic experience of modernity comes from the attention to fragments, and he constructs an aesthetic redemption path in the fragments. The aesthetic modernity fragments theme of Simmel continues and amplifies in the text of the Frankfurt School, such as Kracauer, Bloch and Benjamin. Kracauer emphasizes the historical natural restoration of modernity fragments, Bloch resorts to philosophical metaphor of modernity fragments, and Benjamin hopes to achieve modern people's aesthetic redemption in the fragments and ruins. Fragments and ruins have become the common tags and marks in their texts, which constructs the aesthetic …

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Traditional Misunderstanding Of "Meaning Not Fully Expressed By Language" And A Correction From The Perspective Of Philosophy Of Language, Jianzhang Zhao, Yingfang Zhao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The preposition that meaning is not fully expressed by language is a mystification of the relationship between meaning and language. There is no consciousness and language in the undivided state of the subject and the object, and therefore there are no issues of the speakable and the unspeakable. The understanding of the relationship between language and meaning in traditional thought is based on the theory of simple reflection, holding that thought is the conformity to the world and the language is the conformity to thought. From the perspective of modern philosophy of language, thought is human's understanding of the world, …

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Visual Turn And Modern Logic Of Somaesthetics, Wei Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

As the common object of visual aesthetics, body has changed multivariately in the modern aesthetic mechanism made by "visual diversion". On the one hand, modern visual mechanism clears up the established connotation of traditional "duality of body and mind" and strengthens the body consciousness of modern individuals, which promotes the aesthetic purport of body and in the meantime breeds the capital effect of body, expending the consumption characterization of body, and giving birth to the aesthetic practice of "body consumption". On the other hand, with the help of the technology of modern visual media, modern visual mechanism makes it more …

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Zeng Guofan's Theoretical Ideas On Poetry And Prose And Their Modern Significance, Pengjun Zuo

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Zeng Guofan's theories on poetry and prose, born against a background of cultural shock and political turbulence, comprise rich content, including an accent on the interrelation between literature and change of times, an encouragement of practical studies, a stylistic view of the inheritance and combination of both masculinity theory and femininity theory on ancient style prose, an attention to functions and styles of ancient style prose with an opinion of combining parallel and non-parallel proses, an attention to formations and functions of official prose and other forms of practical writing with a pursuit of honest expression and stylistic innovation based …

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Yi Shunding's Theory About Ci Poetry And His Ci Writing: Also On His Connection With The Community OfCiPoetry In The Late Qing Dynasty, Songqing Chen

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Yi Shunding, a famous poet in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic period, was keen on writing ci poetry in the early years to an extent that he could not live without ci poetry creation. Based on the be-true-to-yourself style, Yi's theory catered to spirituality, taste and tranquility with emphasis on meaning, wording, polishing, titling and so on. In addition, his theory was different from the mainstream one that ci was a spirit carrier and the concept that ci was unimportant in among all forms of literatures. Yi absorbs the essence of ci poets to express feelings and …

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The Four Dimensions Of Literary Memory And Historical Consciousness, Yonghe Lu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The same essence of memory, history and literature is a deliberate construction (reconstruction) of the "past", which is based on the realistic context. Dilthey argues that different "human sciences" co-create a spiritual world of "productive nexus or system" on the basis of "experience" and "understanding". As two different spiritual "associations", literature and history inform each other and jointly create a whole meaning system. The concept "narrative substance" of Ankersmit is a collection of different narratives of "past". "Narrative substance" is not the objective reality of history, but the historical "image" or "metaphor". The "narrative substance" sets up for us a …

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A New Investigation Of The Ideas "Fu Ji" And "Fu Xin", Hui Tao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The theory of "Fu Ji" and "Fu Xin" in Xijing Miscellanea has always been considered by scholars as an important material about Sima Xiangru and aesthetic criticism of the ode in the Western Han Dynasty. However, this theory was proposed by someone else in Wei-Jin Periods rather than Sima Xiangru. It had great significance not only because of its precise description of the ode in the Han Dynasty, but also because it revealed how the literary ideas and metaphysics in Wei-Jin Periods affected contemporary people's unique insights in terms of the noumenon and the creation of the ode.

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A Veritable Memoir Of The Leavisian Scrutiny Group, Ruiqing Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper focuses on the literary and cultural criticism of F.R. Leavis and the Scrutiny group he represents. Scrutiny (1932-1953) was an academic journal started and run by the Leavises in the 20th century, which not only profoundly influenced the 20th-century cultural life of Britain, but also drew attention of the Chinese literary community, especially in the first decade of the 21st century. But it is obvious that most scholars tend to generalize the academic contributions of Leavis and Scrutiny Group as "Leavisian theory", "Leavisian group", "Leavisianism", or simply "Leavis", by taking him as "a lone hero", disregarding the important …

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Adorno's Critique Of "Spontaneity" Of The Avant-Garde Art, Peijie Chang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Adorno staunchly supports modernist art. From the concept of "art autonomy," he criticizes the avant-garde's artistic ideas, which centers on the concept of "spontaneity." As he argues, the so-called "spontaneous ideas" and "immediate consciousness" are the "reified consciousnesses" which are constantly unexamined. Avant-garde's skills of creating art works, including "autonomous writing," "collage" and "montage," not only put the autonomous arts in danger, but also harm art itself. The artistic form of avant-garde is inorganic, which hampers itself to engage in reality and the critique of the capitalist system. Moreover, this situation would also be contaminated by the "cultural industry" insomuch …

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Cultural Code: The Public Image Of Imagination, Hecheng Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Cultural code, as the public image of imagination, provides an analytical model for the integration of mind and social order. Vico's civil theology, through the ideas of "imaginative concept" and the "metaphor", explains the origin of human common sense, and shows the meaning of mind that the poetic wisdom brings to the community. Since the emergence of subjectivity philosophy, this has critical significance for distinguishing image from being itself. Arendt's idea of the "exemplary" combines the concrete and the common by special images' interactive communication, thereby achieving a common commonality. This is how the mechanism of the imagination progresses from …

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Desktop Drama And Stage Drama: Technical Problems Of Traditional Chinese Drama In The Mid-Ming Dynasty And Shen Jing's Contribution, Wanshu Zhu, Wen Zhu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

When it comes to Shen Jing's idea of poetic drama writing, scholars used to confine themselves to his controversy with Tang Xianzu, instead of paying sufficient attention to and making objective evaluation of Shen Jing's other ideas. This article argues that though many literati since the mid-Ming Dynasty were active in the creation of xiqu works, the scripts they created were very difficult to be staged and sung, because there were no rules of creation to be followed. They were neither unsuitable for kunju emerged in the Wuzhong area of Suzhou. Therefore, literati were faced with "technical problems" during their …

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The Confucian Character Of Late Tang And Five Dynasties Poetry, Its Role In The Bixing Tradition, And Its Construction Of Lüshi, Yao Zhong

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The appearance of the numerous poetry formats in the late Tang and Five Dynasties is the result of Confucian consciousness and the popularity of poetry as well. Poetry, interwoven with imperial examination-oriented education, becomes an important way to realize the Confucian scholars' self-cultivation. Therefore, the form of "industrious and bitter versification" reflects those Confucians' inner world. Meanwhile, the metaphorical satire embedded in Mao Shi Zheng Yi is developed into such new concepts as bixing or "image analogy and evocation", and "inner and outer meaning", which influences the valuation of "conception" and the metaphorical and imagistic thinking of late Tang poetry, …

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Chinese Instruction And Research Practicum Chn/Edc 552/452, Joanna Burkhardt

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Final Digital Storytelling Project, Min Wang

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Third Year Chinese Conversation (Chin 011a) Syllabus, Min Wang

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Motivations And Obstacles On The Long Walk To Integration: Determinants Of Six Cape Town Chinese Immigrants’ Political Participation, Yawen Tsao

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

文苑 (重刊號第17期), 嶺南大學學生會文學士課程聯會第二十一屆中文系系會 (曜璿)

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Factors Influencing The Evolution Of Chinese Disaster Relief Efforts, Lucas W. Gaylor

Student Publications

The Musicality Of The Chuci Style Revisited: The Establishment Of The Music Symbol "Xi", Weihua Dai

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Promise Of The Future: Dimensions Of Future In Walter Benjamin's Philosophy Of History, Guoping Hu

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The Returning Dream-Seeking Trip: The Narrative Of America In Chinese Popular Culture Since The 1990s, Guozhan Chen

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Style Of Xin Qiji's 24 Ci Poems To The Tune Of Lin Jiang Xian And Its Significance For Studies Of The Tunes Of Ci Poems, Huiguo Zhu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Mimetic Violence And The Issue Of The Other: A New Interpretation Of René Girard, Xue Li, Xiao Bi

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On The Misunderstanding And Reception Of "To Be A Poet In The Spare Time", Xiang Xiong

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Oriental Miscellany And Theatre Reform Of Modern China, Liming Zhao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Personal Experience About Frankfurt School: From "Non-Identity" To "Singularity" — An Interview With Professor Samuel Weber, Yong Zhao, Weber Samuel

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Preservation And Distortion: The Recording, Editing And Publishing Of Yangzhou Storytelling, Huarong Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Questions About Studies Of The Book Of Songs In The Recent Century, Yufeng Xie

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Aesthetic Ethics Of Evil: Understanding Evil In Modernistic Narrative, Shiren Tang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Anatomy And Aesthetic On Modernity Fragments: On The Thought Genealogy Of Fragments From Simmel To The Frankfurt School, Xiangrong Yang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Traditional Misunderstanding Of "Meaning Not Fully Expressed By Language" And A Correction From The Perspective Of Philosophy Of Language, Jianzhang Zhao, Yingfang Zhao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Visual Turn And Modern Logic Of Somaesthetics, Wei Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Zeng Guofan's Theoretical Ideas On Poetry And Prose And Their Modern Significance, Pengjun Zuo

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Yi Shunding's Theory About Ci Poetry And His Ci Writing: Also On His Connection With The Community OfCiPoetry In The Late Qing Dynasty, Songqing Chen

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Four Dimensions Of Literary Memory And Historical Consciousness, Yonghe Lu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

A New Investigation Of The Ideas "Fu Ji" And "Fu Xin", Hui Tao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

A Veritable Memoir Of The Leavisian Scrutiny Group, Ruiqing Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Adorno's Critique Of "Spontaneity" Of The Avant-Garde Art, Peijie Chang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Cultural Code: The Public Image Of Imagination, Hecheng Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Desktop Drama And Stage Drama: Technical Problems Of Traditional Chinese Drama In The Mid-Ming Dynasty And Shen Jing's Contribution, Wanshu Zhu, Wen Zhu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Confucian Character Of Late Tang And Five Dynasties Poetry, Its Role In The Bixing Tradition, And Its Construction Of Lüshi, Yao Zhong

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art