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Narrative Function And The Order Of Life: Analyzing The Performative Mode Of Moggallāna Folk-Opera, Zhiquan Zhang Nov 2019

Narrative Function And The Order Of Life: Analyzing The Performative Mode Of Moggallāna Folk-Opera, Zhiquan Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, Mulian (Moggallāna) folk-opera about howMoggallāna saves his mother from Avici Hellhad become the main performative mode of Buddhist deity-worshipping contest. On the level of narrative function, the performance has three types of ritual: those of leading-in and leading-out ritual,, dramaturgic ritual and intervention ritual. The introduction of ritualistic elements into the contest creates a unique space for Mulian Opera in the forms of the geographical space constructed by sacrificial circles and ritual venues, the life space enacted by the rites of life and rites of custom, and the cosmic space of human-deity interaction. The …


Two Major Approaches Of The Interaction Between Literary Criticism And Historical Materials: A Data-Driven Analysis, Xiuming Wu, Tingting Shi Nov 2019

Two Major Approaches Of The Interaction Between Literary Criticism And Historical Materials: A Data-Driven Analysis, Xiuming Wu, Tingting Shi

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Over the past seven decades, the research on contemporary Chinese literature has witnessed a significant change from literary criticism in the narrow sense to a criticism integrated with historiographical source investigation. This change has shown its influence in the field of literary criticism. By An analysis of data on articles published in nine major journals such as Literary Review, Literature & Art Studies, and Modern Chinese Literature Studies from 2007 to 2017 shows that there have been two major forms of the interaction between literary criticism and historiographical sources, which may define as led to two approaches, namely, literary criticism …


Literary Friendship Revisited: Significance Of Wayne Booth's Literary Ethics To The Contemporary Literary Studies, Yun Fan Nov 2019

Literary Friendship Revisited: Significance Of Wayne Booth's Literary Ethics To The Contemporary Literary Studies, Yun Fan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The theories and critiques since the 1960s have snared contemporary literary studies into a predicament, and with the emergence of post-critique, reviewing Wayne Booth' literary ethics may cast some new light on the predicament. His efforts to reconstruct literary ethics, call for literary friendship, elucidate rhetoric ethics, and explore the public dimension of conduction will illuminate the reshaping of cultural character and the return to ethics and life in contemporary literary studies.


Baroque Irony In Contemporary French Fictions: A Case Study Of "Playful Fiction", Jia Zhao Nov 2019

Baroque Irony In Contemporary French Fictions: A Case Study Of "Playful Fiction", Jia Zhao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The term Baroque irony is coined by Roland Barthes, which is considered to be representative in the so-called language turn. It represents the relationship between the signifieds within language rather than that between language and the outside world, and thus it questions language itself. The"Playful Fiction" demonstrate Baroque irony in terms of semantics, syntax, morphology and parody. Baroque irony is, the paper concludes, a kind of anti-metaphysical language that does not aim to convey fixed meanings but deconstructs them. It is an anti-rational language that brings readers to a world of texts where meanings coexist and interact. It is also …


Life, Conduct, And Scholarship: Achievements Of Prof. Xu Zhongyu, Qingbing Tong Nov 2019

Life, Conduct, And Scholarship: Achievements Of Prof. Xu Zhongyu, Qingbing Tong

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

No abstract provided.


Film Posters As An Alterative/Alternative Archive For Chinese Film History, Yingjin Zhang Nov 2019

Film Posters As An Alterative/Alternative Archive For Chinese Film History, Yingjin Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The film poster generates public desire for watching the film, but its pictorial cues often exceed its intended ideological or thematic message. The excess information contained in graphic composition, star texts, and visual citations (e.g., to current fashions and other intertexts) makes the film poster an alterative para-text in the sense that it sets in motion a dynamic of circulating multilayered meanings in a medium that resonates with other media and genres of art (e.g., drawing, painting, calligraphy, photography, design, literature, drama, opera, and music). Film posters are therefore enmeshed in intermediality or crossmediality and inevitably gesture toward something outside …


The Mind Of The Other, Political Organism, And The Dramatic Nature Of Ordinary Language: A Case Study Of Stanley Cavell's Comments On Coriolanus, Yunke Lin Nov 2019

The Mind Of The Other, Political Organism, And The Dramatic Nature Of Ordinary Language: A Case Study Of Stanley Cavell's Comments On Coriolanus, Yunke Lin

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Stanly Cavell is the precursor to apply the philosophy of ordinary language, especially the thought of later Ludwig Wittgenstein, into analyzing literary and artistic works. Through detailed analysis of Wittgenstein's discussions on the issues of "the mind of the other" and "private language"s, Cavell claims that thinking in ordinary language is a seduction of the skepticism brought about by the myth of positivism. In his reading of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Cavell expounds "appetite" as a metaphor of political organism, demonstrating how Wittgenstein's criticism is embodied in a dramatic way. The ontological mechanism of drama realized through explorations of ordinary language is …


William James's Philosophy Of Aesthetic Temporality: About The Relationship Between The Horizontal Composition Of Stream Of Consciousness And The Integrality Of The Spatial Composition Of Art Works, Yanshun Liu Nov 2019

William James's Philosophy Of Aesthetic Temporality: About The Relationship Between The Horizontal Composition Of Stream Of Consciousness And The Integrality Of The Spatial Composition Of Art Works, Yanshun Liu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

William James's grasp of the original practical activities underlies his aesthetic thought of pragmatism. He is well versed in describing and analyzing the aesthetic phenomena in the field where the subject and the object are not separated. On the one hand, he emphasizes the impromptu features of aesthetic behaviors driven by meaning-seeking, centering on the analysis of their fresh state, which is original, occasional while inevitable. On the other hand, he also creatively explores the horizontal features of the smooth and impromptu development of aesthetic life from the perspective of stream of consciousness or consciousness of time. He believes that …


Types And Subtypes Of Artistic Justice, Yun Wang Nov 2019

Types And Subtypes Of Artistic Justice, Yun Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Because forms of performing arts and story-telling such as drama, fiction, and film present a caricature of social life, they inevitably describe people's good and evil deeds and their conflicts. In the world history of art over two thousand years,numerous works of drama, fiction, and film have done so from a position of correct or at least relatively correct morality. In this sense, artistic justice is an eternal theme for performing arts and story-telling,and the theory of artistic justice should have been well established. However, in the present-day, works on artistic justice are mostly published by scholars in the field …


Zheng He And The American Liberal Arts Education: Contexts And Complications, Marla Lunderberg Nov 2019

Zheng He And The American Liberal Arts Education: Contexts And Complications, Marla Lunderberg

Faculty Publications

Zheng He was a eunuch of Moslem family heritage who held great authority early in the Ming Dynasty, primarily under the Yongle emperor (reign: 1402–24), as he led seven maritime expeditions, of which three reached the eastern coast of Africa. Of recent English language projects on Zheng He, Henry Tsai (1996) explores the context of the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty in defining Zheng He’s work, and Edward Dreyer (2007) and Timothy Brook (2010) portray Zheng He within the context of the Chinese tributary system. However, other images also hold power over the Western imagination: Louise Levathes (1994) portrays Zheng …


Making The War Colleges Better, Richard A. Lacquement Jr Nov 2019

Making The War Colleges Better, Richard A. Lacquement Jr

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


An Integration Of East And West: History, Analysis And Reception Of The Yellow River Piano Concerto, Lin Tao Oct 2019

An Integration Of East And West: History, Analysis And Reception Of The Yellow River Piano Concerto, Lin Tao

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The Yellow River Piano Concerto remains as one of a few representative and major instrumental compositions within the Chinese repertoire since it was composed in 1969. Thanks to the devoted work of Chinese pianists, the Yellow River Piano Concerto has disseminated around the world and has become a musical symbol of Chinese culture in recent years. This piano concerto serves as a tool for the cultural communication between China and the world. The Yellow River Piano Concerto has a unique ability to depict Chinese culture and history through the language of music. Its exotic pentatonic melodies and eastern orchestrations make …


Exhibit Review: Empress Dowager Cixi: Selections From The Summer Palace, Hannah Norton Oct 2019

Exhibit Review: Empress Dowager Cixi: Selections From The Summer Palace, Hannah Norton

History in the Making

No abstract provided.


王鏊及其《震澤先生集》研究, Yick Tan Ching Oct 2019

王鏊及其《震澤先生集》研究, Yick Tan Ching

Lingnan Theses (MPhil & PhD)

王鏊(1450-1524),字濟之,南直隸蘇州府吳縣人,明代成化、弘治、正德三朝名臣及文學家。正德初,宦官劉瑾擅權,王鏊持節周旋,不得已去位,退隱林泉。其古文典雅,以制義名家,因道德文章兼而有之,為世推重。本論文以王鏊及其《震澤先生集》為研究對象,論文計有以下數端:(一)考察王鏊生平、交遊、著述,辨明其於吳中文人中之地位。(二)考察《震澤先生集》成書、刊刻之過程及版本源流,並嘗試復原該書部分殘缺之篇章。(三)自明清以降編纂之總集、別集、方志、譜牒、手稿中輯錄王鏊本集未收入之詩文,彙為一編,以備研究者取用之資。(四)考辨輯佚過程中所見署名王鏊所撰篇章之真偽。(五)根據所輯本集以外新見材料,補正今人所編王鏊年譜之訛漏。


Ethnobotany And Dai Medicine: Herbal Roots, Jasper Tsai Oct 2019

Ethnobotany And Dai Medicine: Herbal Roots, Jasper Tsai

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Xishuangbanna is home to one of the most biologically and culturally diverse regions in China. Dai medicine from the Dai people has been recognized by China as one of the four major ethnic minority medicines. With over 2,500 years of practice, Dai medicine utilizes the herbs found in the diverse region mixed with principles and theories from Buddhism. There have been over 500 unique herbs used in Dai medicine, each with different properties and functions. As Xishuangbanna continues to develop as a city and expand its rubber and banana plantations, it has large impacts on the environment, living standard, education, …


Integrative Pharmacotherapeutic Approaches To Treating Depression, Charlotte Tse Oct 2019

Integrative Pharmacotherapeutic Approaches To Treating Depression, Charlotte Tse

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), based in the philosophy-religions of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism, is more than a purely prescriptive medical system; it is a way of life focused primarily on the principles of prevention rather than the more reactionary direction that pharmacotherapy in the US has taken. Mental illness is expected to account for a quarter of China’s overall health burden by 2020, with depression affecting around 100 million people and nearly 30 percent of young Chinese adults. Conventional antidepressants have a delayed onset and unpredictable therapeutic efficacy in this condition, especially in mild to moderate cases of depression. In …


Herbal Medicine And Pediatric Massage: Interning At A Tcm Pediatric Clinic, Yvette Way Oct 2019

Herbal Medicine And Pediatric Massage: Interning At A Tcm Pediatric Clinic, Yvette Way

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Before entering this program my knowledge of TCM was practically nonexistent. However even from a young age, I had an interest in learning about the healing properties of plants and herbs but, I had no way of exploring this interest of mine. After entering this program, I have learned more about TCM and herbal medicine. Because of the lessons that we have taken in class, it made me want to have a deeper understanding of TCM because of this, I decided to do an internship that would involve TCM. My time at Yang Zhen Er Kang clinic has taught me …


The Image Consciousness In Literary Criticism Of Fu In Ancient China, Jie Xu Sep 2019

The Image Consciousness In Literary Criticism Of Fu In Ancient China, Jie Xu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Image consciousness in literary criticism in ancient China is most prominent in the criticism of Fu (Rhapsody), which can be seen from Liu Xie's "describing objects as they appear" in "Interpreting the Genre Rhapsody" (501-2 A.D.) to Zhu Guangqian's comment that "Rhapsody is akin to pictures" in On Poetry (1943). The imagist representation in the criticism tradition involves a way of "picturely" thinking developed from the fusion of verbal and pictorial horizons, with theoretical basis in rhapsody's linguistic characteristic of graphic description and the aesthetic configuration on objects and images. The image-representing way of thinking and the graphic criticism of …


"If There Is No God, Nothing Is Permitted At All": Žižek On Cyberspace, Yuchen Dai Sep 2019

"If There Is No God, Nothing Is Permitted At All": Žižek On Cyberspace, Yuchen Dai

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Cyberspace and virtual reality are two topical concepts in new media studies. Among diverse discourses, Slavoj Žižek's critique of cyberspace is highly prominent. In constrast to the mainstream technological determinism, Žižek argues that the rise of cyberspace initiates an era characterized by "the retreat of big Other," and without the Other that functions as the Master to safeguard the norm for individual's actions. This ressesion of Master's function means, as Žižek claims in light of Lacanian psychoanalysis, that the subject will not be informed of what should be desired, and the subject is thus deprived of the access to effective …


Herder On Sculpture: Touching, Tactility And Body, Yanping Gao Sep 2019

Herder On Sculpture: Touching, Tactility And Body, Yanping Gao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This article aims to elucidate Herder's main theory on sculpture that sculpture is a tactile art, and also tries to construct Herder's implicit theory on "tactility". It argues that Herder's haptic quality is much embodied, and could be divides into two categories, the emphatic and the abstract, the thickly embodied and the thinly embodied. Towards the end this article will demonstrate that the domination of the former nevertheless leads to Herder's partial blindness on the tactility of different sculptures.


Intersemiotic Intertextuality, Verbal-Independent Visual Transcendence, And Visual Criticism: A Study Of Intertextuality In The Drawing Of Seven Sages Of The Bamboo Grove, Yuqin Zhang Sep 2019

Intersemiotic Intertextuality, Verbal-Independent Visual Transcendence, And Visual Criticism: A Study Of Intertextuality In The Drawing Of Seven Sages Of The Bamboo Grove, Yuqin Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Taking intersemiotic intertextual play in the drawing of Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove as an example, this article investigates the intertwinement between language and image, a research topic worth a theoretical discussion, too, in the area of contemporary literary theory. This drawing generated with reference to the anecdotes of "Seven Sages" in ancient China is more a cultural marker of literature and art developed during the dynasties of Wei and Jin and thereafter than the epitome of unruly and indulged refined scholars. Apart from the verbal-dependent visual intertextuality, found within the drawing is the verbal-independent transcendence of the visual, …


The Aesthetics Of Parody In The Late Ming Dynasty, Jianqing Tuo Sep 2019

The Aesthetics Of Parody In The Late Ming Dynasty, Jianqing Tuo

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The late Ming parodic literature manifests itself as an innovated style based on the tradition of Chinese humorous literature. By means of vulgar imitation in the absurd senses of "crowning" and "de-crowning," it creates a comedic effect disagreeing with the original text and actualizes a restrained mockery of the social norm. The aim, however, is to appeal to the rationalization of human desire and the legitimatization of physical lust. The rise of aesthetic parody, on the internal level, stems from late Ming literature's conceptual shift from morality to entertainment and its narrative departure from traditional storytelling; on the external level, …


"Ecological Justice": Two Kinds Of Metaphysical Defense, Qing Zhao Sep 2019

"Ecological Justice": Two Kinds Of Metaphysical Defense, Qing Zhao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This article aims to undertake an epistemological discussion of ecological justice with de-subjectivity as its core theme from both the perspectives of Adorno's ecological theology and Shi Tao's proposition of "spokesman for shan-shui". The former argues that the negative dialectics holds the possibility of approaching nature itself, and the latter advocates the harmony of heaven and human. Specifically, Adorno elevated the status of nature in the realm of human beings created by God, whereby nature acquires divinity and subjectivity is suppressed. In a different yet compatible way, by conceptualizing the harmony between heaven and human for the exclusivity of subjectivity, …


"The Dark-Houred Clock": Embodiment And Abstraction In Celan's Poetry, Lemberger Dorit Sep 2019

"The Dark-Houred Clock": Embodiment And Abstraction In Celan's Poetry, Lemberger Dorit

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Celan's poetry is replete with metaphors that function in various ways. This article looks at two opposed functions of metaphor there: embodiment and abstraction. They rest on the fact that most cognitive processes occur unconsciously, leaving us with only a limited ability to understand their connections to metaphors. This makes it difficult to understand how a metaphor bridges between faraway and even opposed semantic fields. The dual metaphorical functions will be studied as used in three themes of Celan's language: (1) language as expression and as concealment, (2) interaction with the Other as a key to self-constitution, and (3) the …


An Access To Europe's "Límpensé": François Jullien's Conceptualization Of Classical Chinese Aesthetics, Zhenhua Han Sep 2019

An Access To Europe's "Límpensé": François Jullien's Conceptualization Of Classical Chinese Aesthetics, Zhenhua Han

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The classical Chinese aesthetics that French sinologist François Jullien tries to construct is centered on such notions as plain (la fadeur), non-objet, désontologie, and l'immanence. In so doing, Jullien aims to give Europe an access to "l'impensé" via Chinese aesthetics. However, his endeavour presents itself to be more like a derivative of post-structuralist theories of Foucault and Deleuze and an invention than a reliable representation of China. On the fundamental level, Jullien's views of Chinese thought follows those of Hegel and Max Weber. Although he tries to reexamine Hegel's negative comments on China, his seemingly exquisite discussions fail to rectify …


Chinese Medicine, Western Medicine, And Patients: Writings On Infectious Disease During The Debate Between Chinese And Western Medicine, Xiaoyan Deng Sep 2019

Chinese Medicine, Western Medicine, And Patients: Writings On Infectious Disease During The Debate Between Chinese And Western Medicine, Xiaoyan Deng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Modern epidemiology led to a comprehensive change in social concepts. As a result, the fear of bacteria became a psychological basis of social mobilization in modern countries. In China, the fear of bacteria and the fear of Western forces were ingeniously combined, thus becoming the emotional motivation for New Culture intellectuals who fervently criticized traditional Chinese medicine under the slogan of scientism. In the context of the debate between Chinese and Western medicine, this article focuses on the writings of infectious diseases in modern Chinese literature. By analyzing the texts and events related to Chen Dabei, Sun Fuyuan, Lu Xun, …


Cunning Apparatus And The Pain Of Modern Literature: A Parallactic Reading Of Kojin Karatani's Literary Theory, Shangrong Han Sep 2019

Cunning Apparatus And The Pain Of Modern Literature: A Parallactic Reading Of Kojin Karatani's Literary Theory, Shangrong Han

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Since Kojin Karatani's Origins of Modern Japanese Literature was published, it has been regarded as an example of modern criticism based on rationalism. Considering Karatani's theoretical constructions at that time and his entire academic career, a hidden concept of parallax can be found, and the apparatus that exists in modern Japanese literature, as Karatani sees it, results from the lack of this parallax. In contrast to modern literature's emphasis on self-consciousness, the apparatus excludes self-consciousness and engenders a closed field by means of this exclusion. Therefore, arguments on modern literature, such as depth and plot, remain inside the apparatus; not …


Essential Differences Between The Late Qing And The May Fourth Written Vernacular Chinese, Yu Gao Sep 2019

Essential Differences Between The Late Qing And The May Fourth Written Vernacular Chinese, Yu Gao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Dedicated to enlightenment, the late Qing movement of written vernacular Chinese spread both old and new ideas, whereas the May Fourth movement of written vernacular Chinese was an intellectual revolution. Not only did they refuse old ideas, May Fourth literati radically criticized traditional Chinese culture and initiated the modernization of China on both intellectual and social levels. Essentially, the written vernacular Chinese of the late Qing dynasty is a language of instrumentality, whereas that of the May Fourth is a language of thought. The former, mainly including colloquialism and slangs, was an auxiliary language of classical Chinese and unable to …


Function Words Through The Critical Lens Of Traditional Stylistics And Its Later Interpretations In The Early Modern Era, Fangzhou Chang Sep 2019

Function Words Through The Critical Lens Of Traditional Stylistics And Its Later Interpretations In The Early Modern Era, Fangzhou Chang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Essayists of the Tang and Song dynasties consciously celebrated the rhetorical effect of function words, which made function words an important subject in traditional stylistics. During the Qing dynasty, discussions on function words had two voices. In contrast to the school of philology's linguistic approach, the school of rhetoric focused on the style of writing to illuminate the rhetorical significance of function words. In the early modern era, Chinese scholars familiarized themselves with the categorization of Western learning and made attempts to reveal the characteristics of classical prose from a holistic perspective. By looking at function words' rhetorical effect in …


Humanistic Discourse And Knowledge Production Of Literary Theory In The Early Years Of The New Era, Yaming Lu Sep 2019

Humanistic Discourse And Knowledge Production Of Literary Theory In The Early Years Of The New Era, Yaming Lu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Humanistic discourse is not inherently associated with the production of literary theory at its inception, but has become part of the production of literary theory knowledge and participated in the construction of the literary theory knowledge system in a specific way at a particular moment, humanistic discourse as a literary theory should be examined not only in relation to specific international and domestic historical contexts and actual social factors but also from the perspective of the formative process of the literary theory field in the new era. Humanistic literary theory was of great significance in the initial stage of the …