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The Other In The View Of The Self And The Self In The Horizon Of The Other: The "Reconstruction Of Canon" In The Translations Of Literary Mind And The Carving Of Dragons In American Scholarship, Pengfei Gu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This article discusses a basic literary question: suppose there is an original text which is an authorized canon, then is its translated text still a canon? The circulation of Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons in American scholarship is an example. Those translated texts, rewritten through cross-cultural translation, deviate from the original because they were reconstructed in a heterogeneous cultural context. With three kinds of research methods, including contextual reduction of the original text, form reconstruction of the paratext and comparison of intertextuality between Chinese and Western versions, Vincent Yu-chung Shih, Stephen Owen and Yang Guobin succeeded in reestablishing …

The Relationship Between Meaning, Images, And Words Of Yang Wanli's Poetics, Ruiqing Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Illustrating the system of meaning, images, and words from The Book of Changes, Yang Wanli concludes that one should seek images through and within words, and Tao through and within images. Applying this philosophical logic to poetic logic, Yang reaches the conclusion that in that case, wan xiang bi lai (you can see all images in your head), and yi zai ju zhong (what you intend to convey has been expressed in sentences) help form rigorously structured poetics with Confucian tradition of meaning and words. Based on Yang's unique theory of mind-material relationship and his favor to natural imagery, wan …

What Is The Antimimesis Of Narrative? An Exploration Of Brian Richardson's Unnatural Narratology, Biwu Shang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

As a founder and major proponent of unnatural narratology, Brian Richardson is one of the most prominent narratologists in contemporary Western academia. Defining unnatural narrative as "one that contains significant antimimetic events, characters, settings, or frames", Richardson analyzes its unnaturalness from such aspects as story, discourse and narrative representation apart from revealing its ideological function. The controversies of unnatural narratology, to a large extent, center on the concept of the unnatural, and methodology and applicability of the theory. To fully develop "a poetics of unnatural narrative," unnatural narratologists, Richardson in particular, need to further clarify the concepts of unnatural narratology …

Word-Image-Meaning: Unique Discourse In Chinese Culture And Aesthetics, Fa Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Image is unique in the theory of word-image-meaning in Chinese culture. Word, Image and meaning are interconnect and at the same time autonomous whether in Zhouyi philosophy or aesthetics. The theory of word-image-meaning in aesthetics took form in the Wei and Jin Dynasties and evolved into the theory of "visay" in the Tang Dynasty because of its interaction with the Buddhist theory of visay, thus having completed its aesthetic turn and established the structure of "the visay within word-visay" (scene-image-affection-meaning) and "the visay beyond visay" (including scenery beyond scenery, image beyond image, and meaning beyond meaning. )

落葉哀蟬曲：珍妃之死·香草美人·家國之喻, Shengqing Wu

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

庚子之變是近代中國創傷性經驗的歷史關捩點，也引發了悲情書寫的機制。本文討論世紀之初一群在京文人的詩詞寫作，特别圍繞兩個相關的個案：對珍妃之死的回應，以及王鵬運、朱祖謀與劉福姚等篝燈酬唱而完成的兩部詞集《庚子秋詞》與《春蟄吟》。各種幽微曲折的心思，託喻性的整體風格，鑲嵌繁複的典故，共同成就了那一時期的詞學風貌。集體的唱酬進一步劃分或强化了知識群體，爲有共同文化信念的文人提供表達的機緣、情感慰藉的場域。在這類高度風格化的書寫中，女性的符號成爲其中最活躍的修辭要素。本文探討創傷、隱喻、女性身體與家國想像這些交相糾結的命題，以及托喻作爲一種古老的“詩用”行爲對於晚清士大夫階層的意義。

蘇軾前身故事的真相與改寫, Gang Zhu, Huiqing Zhao

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

北宋禪僧惠洪最早記録了蘇軾前身是雲門宗禪僧五祖師戒的故事。他不僅構建了這個故事，也一手記録了五祖師戒形象的所有元素。惠洪所爲可能與其祖師黄龍慧南叛出雲門宗這一事件相關，他通過建構蘇軾前身故事及五祖師戒形象，來維護黄龍慧南的聲名，表明其並非背叛雲門宗，而是真正傳承雲門法脈。後來蘇軾前身故事被世俗社會引入戲曲小説，並將其與紅蓮故事拼合，展現出與士大夫話語不一樣的面貌，成爲禪宗在世俗社會的傳法手段。五祖師戒在小説戲曲中被訛變爲五戒禪師，這個新形象成爲流傳最廣的蘇軾前身樣態。

遞藏·題跋·複製：蘇軾《洞庭春色賦》、《中山松醪賦》書跡, Lo-Fen I

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

蘇軾《洞庭春色賦》、《中山松醪賦》合卷書於北宋哲宗紹聖元年(1094)，白麻紙，全幅縱28.3釐米，横306.3釐米，加上後人的題跋，總共全長450.3釐米，是篇幅最長的蘇軾書跡，現藏吉林省博物院。本文分析《洞庭春色賦》和《中山松醪賦》的書寫與複製情形，整理歷代庋藏流轉脈絡，以及九位題跋者的十三則題跋。研究發現：蘇軾多次書寫此二賦，尤其是寫《中山松醪賦》予友人，彌補個人作品出版受限制的困境。後世的石刻和法帖促進此二賦的傳布。乾隆皇帝至少兩次臨摹《中山松醪賦》，四度題寫《洞庭春色賦》、《中山松醪賦》合卷，其中兩次是在蘇軾寫《中山松醪賦》的河北定州，頗具深意。

《金石萃編》續補考, Cheng-Jie Zhao

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

王昶的《金石萃編》將目録、集釋與按語匯爲一編，成爲清代金石學上的劃時代的著作，後人仿效其體例，續補著作多達二十餘部。《金石萃編》與其續補著作共同構建了清代金石學的壹個學術傳統，這種學術傳統是以匯集前人考證題跋爲中心，辨析源流、考索史實，對後代金石學著作的編纂起到了典範作用。考察《金石萃編》之續補，一方面可以利用金石與文獻互證的方法，辨析《金石萃編》的文字或史實錯誤，另一方面，亦可探究《金石萃編》及其續補著作在清代金石學上的學術意義。

中古時代的《漢書》注釋傳統, Jun Chen

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

中古時代《漢書》地位頗高，堪與“五經”相提並論。《漢書》經典地位的確立，除了其文本自身所具有的經典特質以外，傳授和注釋的作用也非常重要。東漢中期是《漢書》學的發軔期，班固之妹班昭與馬續續補《漢書》，教授《漢書》於馬融，並爲班固《幽通賦》作注，可謂《漢書》學第一人。從東漢末年的服虔《漢書音訓》、應劭《漢書音義》到西晉時期的晉灼《漢書集注》、臣瓚《漢書集解音義》，再到唐代初年的顔師古注，《漢書》注釋經歷了由“音義”體到“集注”體、由《漢書》學南北分流到《漢書》顔注集其大成的發展過程。

國圖藏清陳澧《學思録》稿本初探, Chao-Ying Guo, Yu-Cheng Wang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

國家圖書館藏陳澧《學思録》稿本由原北平圖書館而來，是高隱芩所藏陳澧稿本中的部分文稿，該稿本包含有陳澧論陶淵明、清朝學者、《周易》、《論語》、朱熹等總計五部分内容。學界一直對高氏所藏此部分文稿的下落不甚明了，所以國圖藏陳澧稿本《學思録》的價值不言自喻。

《史記·淮陰侯列傳》與《春秋》書法 : 以比事見義爲例, Kao Ping Chang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

司馬遷私淑孔子，《史記》典範《春秋》。司馬遷著成《史記》，猶孔子作《春秋》，“於定、哀之際，則微”，《司馬相如列傳》所謂“《春秋》推見至隱”。所以出以微辭隱義者，觸忌犯諱故也。今以《史記·淮陰侯列傳》爲例，揭示司馬遷發揮史德之真實，運用《春秋》書法，顯揚韓信之忠貞不二，爲勇略震主、功蓋天下之韓信平反冤獄。司馬遷運用《春秋》比事屬辭之書法有三：一、據事直書，具文見義，即“盡而不汙”之書法，是實録、信史之基調。清梁玉繩《史記志疑》極辯信無反狀十一事，史公依漢廷獄案將誣詞叙入傳中，比事屬辭，而其冤自見。二、詳略重輕，筆削見義：筆削之義，則體現於詳略、重輕、異同、有無諸書法。漢中之對、安邑之襲、背水之戰、濰水之陣，爲勇略震主、功蓋天下作見證，故較詳較重。武涉與蒯通之遊説，前較略、較輕，後偏詳、偏重。重輕、詳略，皆有義可求。韓信之回應武涉與蒯通，屬辭雖有微殊，而曰豈可鄉利背義，雖死不易，是其所同。三、微婉顯晦，互見示義：“太史公曰”之微辭隱義，當前後相絜，彼此相形。如信與陳豨，聯手謀反；韓信夙願，止在封侯；韓信功勳，可比周、召、太公之徒；天下已集，乃謀畔逆等等：皆所謂忌諱書寫，最見《春秋》書法。

陶淵明的文體選擇及其文學史“位置”, Te Chen

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

陶淵明的文學史地位並不“一帆風順”，他在當時和稍後並不曾被普遍推重，趙宋以降則聲譽日隆。陶淵明的文學史命運，和他的文體選擇息息相關。作爲一個晉宋之際的文人，陶淵明留存的辭賦很少，且皆爲模擬之作，只能展現其文章才能。但陶詩恰與陶賦形成一鮮明對比，陶淵明經營了一個廣闊的“詩世界”，含攝生平、交遊、思想諸方面。縱覽魏晉文學史，陶淵明是第一位單獨憑藉詩歌就可奠定文學史崇高地位的“詩人”。詩賦之外，陶淵明的文章也旁涉了唐宋方有的“散文”境界。這一獨特的文體選擇，決定了陶淵明的文學史“位置”。

“三七之厄”與兩漢之際經學思想之關係 : 以路温舒、谷永、王莽爲中心, Shaohua Sun

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

從“三七之厄”推算思想看，路温舒提出的“漢厄三七之間”，主要涉及天文與曆數；谷永在路温舒基礎上，又增加了《周易》思想；王莽的“三七之厄”，主要與《周易》、讖緯、五行有關。從三人“三七之厄”思想的變化及其與經學之關係看，路温舒以董仲舒《公羊春秋》説災異，是西漢初年流行做法；谷永説災異，較爲深入地援引各種經學文字，並且在西漢通行經文文字基礎上，開始引用古文經文字；王莽的“三七之厄”説，除了繼續以古文經學説災異，還採納了齊人甘忠可的讖緯學説。劉秀時期提出的“四七之際火爲主”，仍然沿襲的是王莽“三七之厄”的推算方式。二者皆爲王莽代漢、劉秀代莽的輿論工具。

日本僧人《世説新語》注考論 : 江户學問僧之一側面, Bowei Zhang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

明代王世貞删改劉義慶《世説新語》和何良俊《語林》而成《世説新語補》，此書在日本江户時代甚爲流行，並且出現了大量的注釋本。在這一注釋群體中，有一批僧人特别引人注目。本文在全面把握相關史料的基礎上，勾勒出江户時期僧人《世説》注的整體面貌，揭示了僧人《世説》注的貢獻和特點，對其學術淵源作了更爲準確的釐清。希望透過這一研究，提請學術界對江户學問僧之成就與貢獻的注意，並再次呼籲將東亞漢傳佛教的文獻當做一個整體來處理，逐步打破以國别爲單位的佛教文獻、思想、信仰的研究。

私立嶺南大學蠶絲科發展史論, Chao Jiang, Quan Xia

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

蠶絲業在廣東近代經濟中具有舉足輕重的地位。20世紀二三十年代，私立嶺南大學蠶絲科根據廣東蠶絲業發展現狀，開展調查研究，展開蠶病治理與預防，改良蠶種培育與育蠶及桑種培育與栽桑技術，重視成果技術推廣，致力於廣東蠶絲業的發展，開展了一系列富有成效的活動。嶺南大學蠶絲科的發展既是美國改良廣東蠶絲的迫切需要的推動，又離不開廣東發展經濟的客觀要求，也是華人致力於嶺南大學“中國化”持續努力的結果；在促進蠶絲技術的改進，提高蠶絲品質的同時，增强了廣東蠶絲的市場競争力；也打破了傳統的蠶絲生産觀念，促進了蠶農對蠶絲應用技術的重視，在一定程度上促進了蠶絲業的發展。

從《論語》看孔子與《易傳》之關係, Hung Kan Chan

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

歷來言《易傳》作者，或以爲出孔子之手，或以爲非孔子所作，莫衷一是。本文在前賢研究基礎上，從《論語》入手，找出書中孔子言論與傳世《易傳》内容相似之處，共得１７ 條，所言道理，包括朋友講習、改過遷善、節用愛民、慎言節食、敬義立德、寡慾致剛、不貳己過、順言以悦、非禮勿履、尊卑有序、止息争訟、赦過宥罪、思不出位、君子固窮、裒多益寡、修美文德、不言而行。以上諸點，《論語》與《易傳》立論，互爲表裏。據此，知孔子之於《易傳》，雖無撰述之實，或有闡述之功。本文證明《論語》與《象傳》及《彖傳》具密切關係，此對孔子闡述《易傳》之説，或可提供足資參考之佐證。

Live Confucian: The Newsletter Of The Confucius Institute At Pace University Fall 2018, Confucius Institute

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Male Same-Sex Relations In Socialist China, Wenqing Kang

History Faculty Publications

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Perception And Prejudice: Sino-Ghanaian Relations Within The Service Sector And The Wavering Perception Of China On The Global Stage, Jodi-Ann (Juexuan) Wang

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Opinions on the impacts of China in Africa differ from one observer to the next, be it in media, academic, or elsewhere. While most general discourses have been nuanced and coherent, there is nevertheless a prevailing sentiment of unbridled fear and Sinophobia, or anti-Chinese populism. Based on a two-sided study in Ghana, this research uses Chinese-Ghanaian employment relations as a way of entry to analyze and explore cross-cultural understandings, or lack thereof, that leads to conflict. From there, this paper examines the style of politicized media in broadcasting Sino-Ghanaian (Chinese-Ghanaian) engagements and its role in creating the anti-Chinese populism on …

Coming Soon To A Chinese Theater Near You: Why China Matters Even To Hollywood, James N. Udden

Friday Forum

In recent years, China has engaged in infrastructure projects on a scale and scope without historical precedent. Cinema in China is no exception. For roughly a century Hollywood has managed to dominate the world largely through the control of the largest exhibition market in the developed world, meaning the USA and Canada. Just a couple years ago, however, the Chinese exhibition sector surpassed North America as the world’s largest linguistically unified and developed film exhibition market. Find out why screenwriting classes in the USA now include courses on how to write for the Chinese market. Find out why even you …

The Origin Of The Concept Of Modern Chinese Aesthetic Education And Its Background Of Disciplinary System, Hongchao Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The formation of the concept of modern aesthetic education in China is related to the traditional thought of rite and music, and it also absorbs categories of Kant's philosophy. In the modern history of education in China, the transition from the emphasis on "Three education" (moral, intellectual and physical education) to the promotion of "four education" (moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic education) is a process of the recognition of the value of aesthetic education. During the period of the Republic of China, aesthetics and aesthetic education were highly advocated and promoted to the highest position, whose credit goes in large …

The Nature Of The Incident Of The Tea Merchant Lai Wenzheng And Its Suppression By Xin Qiji, Zhaopeng Wang, Peng Xiao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In the Southern Song dynasty, the system of "tea monopoly" made tea unprofitable, and then tea merchants took risks and caused frequent riots. These riots were not peasant uprisings, but illegal activities similar to gangsters' organized crimes. They not only fought against the government's crushing of tea smuggling, but also plundered houses and pillaged civilians. It is a misunderstanding that the academia usually refers to the armed gangs of the tea merchant Lai Wenzheng as the "tea merchant army". The "tea merchant army" was an official army that specialized in dealing with the rebellion of tea merchants. The armed gang …

The Reception Of Jiangxi Poetry School By Edo Poetry Circle: The Essence Of The Controversy Over The Tang And Song Poetry, Zhen He

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In the past, scholars paid more attention to the comparison of poetic style and theory when dealing with the controversy of the Tang and Song poems in the poetry circle of the Edo period. However, by investigating the popular poetry notes of Edo in Japan, the publication of Chinese books, the reception of Chinese poets and the creation of Chinese poems, etc., one can find the essence of the controversy over the Tang and Song poems in the Edo poetry circle, namely, the preference for the "lyrical" Tang poetry and the rejection of Jiangxi poetry school. One can also find …

The Predicament Of Anglo-American Aesthetic Experience And Its Extrication, Yu Zhao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The concept of "aesthetic experience" has fallen into a serious predicament since the late 20th century, especially in Anglo-American philosophy. Sometimes this concept is put in the core position in aesthetics and art theories, while other time even its existence is questioned, only being taken as phantom or myth; According to some philosophers, this concept is commendatory and represents only those affective experiences, while in other philosophers' eyes, this concept is purely descriptive and can also contain those experiences without any affects or emotions. Underlying this predicament is the wrong binding of aesthetic experience with the definition of art, and …

The Seven Hermits Of The Bamboo Grove In Literature And Images, Guangsheng Zou, Yunfei Liu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

History of literature and art saw antithetical and interdependent relationship between texts and images in artistic events, as exemplified by the various editions of The Portrait of the Seven Hermits of the Bamboo Grove in different ages. The Seven Hermits of the Bamboo Grove produced profound influence on painting, calligraphy, sculpture and many other forms of visual arts in Chinese history, which, however, has received rare systematic elaboration, particularly explication of the antithetical and interdependent relationship between literature and images therein. Literature or the images of the Seven Hermits of the Bamboo Grove reflect, from their own perspective, the colorful …

The Subject Qua Other: A Hauntological Spell On Lacan, Yuan Yuan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This project interrogates the dubious nature and the polemic role of the other in Lacan's discourse of the subject by invoking Derrida's ideas of hauntology. The Lacanian subject, albeit baffling and elusive, has been consistently labeled as "the subject of lack" by almost all critics including Felman, Ragland-Sullivan, Wilden, Derrida, Butler, et al. Departing from this established position, I probe Lacan's subject in terms of the subject qua other; contesting that in both imaginary and symbolic orders his subject is inescapably meshed with and dispossessed by some spectral and/or specular other. The mirror stage not only fabricates an optic illusion …

The Vibration Of Appearance: The Immanence Of Paintings, Kelin Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Via reading through the different interpretations on Cezanne's painting by Meyer Schaprio, Merleau-Ponty, D. H. Lawrence and Deleuze, this article is firstly aimed at manifesting the different directions in the development of aesthetic theories after the 20th century: psychoanalysis, phenomenology, literary and art criticism, as well as post-structuralism. Secondly, it intends to demonstrate that although these critiques refer to and draw from one another, they are in parallel relation. And lastly, these observations have elaborated on the artistic world inside the painting, which provides us with a defense of the inexhaustible immanence of art against the negative nihilism of the …

Narrative Function Of The Description Of Daily Meals In A Dream Of Red Mansions, Jinju Wang, Yujie Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The narrative of meals in A Dream of Red Mansions has been a topic of concern to critics. Among the numerous descriptions about daily meals in the novel, some are simple, acting as narrative techniques such as introduction, development, transition and closure, and some are more specific, functioning as narrative techniques and narrative contents at the same time. As narrative contents, they provide ideological meaning and literary value. And as narrative techniques, they play important roles in structuring, plotting and characterization. By studying the narrative of meals, we could see the difference between chapters 1-80 and the rest of the …

Polyphonic Novel And Polyphonic Music, Qian Hao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Besides some similarity, there are many differences between Bakhtin's "Polyphonic Novel" and Western polyphonic music, for example conflict and harmony, pluralism and monism, confrontation and imitation, incompletion and perfect termination, historical background and many other aspects. Realization of these, and some concepts like counterpoint and bitonality in musical senses, will help us avoid interdisciplinary misusing of these terms. Compared to "polyphonic", "dialogical novel" may be the more suitable antonym of "monologic novel", because "dialogue", which can include various meanings that the term "Polyphony" wants to express, is not only the core of Bakhtin's poetics, but also the essential feature of …

Scholars' Caps In Unoffical History Of The Scholars: Rereading Details From A Holistic Perspective, Ziyun Liu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This article studies descriptions of scholars' caps in Unoffical History of the Scholars and investigates how this seemingly trivial detail connects to plot structure and the ideology of the novel. By examining types of caps, this article points out that although the novel potentially deals with scholars of the Qing, when it comes to describing their costumes Wu Jingzi refers to costume rituals of the Ming so as to strictly fit in the background of the Ming. This article illustrates how Wu Jingzi weaves details about caps into two main types of plot concerning disorder and chaos among literati circles …