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Introduction To Against Harmony: Radical Buddhism In Thought And Practice, James Mark Shields

Faculty Journal Articles

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Zen And The Art Of Treason: Radical Buddhism In Meiji Era (1868–1912) Japan, James Mark Shields

Faculty Journal Articles

In the early decades of the twentieth century, as Japanese society became engulfed in war and increasing nationalism, the majority of Buddhist leaders and institutions capitulated to the status quo. At the same time, there was a stream of ‘resistance’ among a few Buddhist figures, both priests and laity. These instances of progressive and ‘radical Buddhism’ had roots in late Edo-period peasant revolts, the lingering discourse of early Meiji period liberalism, trends within Buddhist reform and modernisation and the emergence in the first decade of the twentieth century of radical political thought, including various forms of socialism and anarchism. This …

聲音與意義 - 古典詩歌新探國際研討會 : 在嶺南大學召開, Fei Li

《嶺南學報》復刊學術會議之二：「經學之傳承與開拓」國際學術會議暨「聲音與意義 - 古典詩歌新探」國際研討會 Conference on The Study of Confucian Classics & Chinese Poetic Art

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蜚語 (第十期), 嶺南文社

嶺南文社 : 蜚語

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Laughter And The Cosmopolitan Aesthetic In Lao She's 二马 (Mr. Ma And Son), Jeffrey Mather

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Laughter and the Cosmopolitan Aesthetic in Lao She's 二马 (Mr. Ma and Son)" Jeffrey Mather discusses Lao She's (pseudonym for Qingchun Shu 1899-1966) texts and their naturalist portrayals of social life in China during a tumultuous period. Lao She's most celebrated works include the 1937 novel 骆驼祥子 (Rickshaw Boy) and the 1958 play 茶馆 (Teahouse), both of which were made into films in China. Rickshaw Boy was translated into English in 1945 and became an international bestseller, making Lao She one of the first modern Chinese writers known in the West. …

Hiroshima. At The Intersection Of Sciences, History, And Personal Narratives. A Personal Reflection., Gloria R. Montebruno Saller

The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

In the city of Hiroshima, Japan, sciences, history, and personal narratives meet. Atomic bomb survivors became the keepers of this town’s history and one of the most tragic chapters in the history of humankind; and as their voices fade to old age and death, there is a sense of urgency to keep their narratives alive. These are my personal reflections.

Live Confucian: The Newsletter Of The Confucius Institute Of Pace University February 2014, Confucius Institute Pace University

Live Confucian

A newsletter of the Confucius Institute, Pace University.

The Confucius Institute at Pace Universi­ty is dedicated to providing Chinese lan­guage and cultural education, resources,and services to meet the needs of people from all backgrounds.

興藝樂學 : 台灣交流文集, 嶺南大學社區學院語文提升組

LIFE Publications

自2009 年起，嶺南大學社區學院推行「語文提升計劃」，旨在透過多元化的活動讓學生在課餘活學活用兩文三語，與正規課程相輔相成，彰顯嶺南大學的博雅教育特色。其後「語文提升計劃」擴展至持續進修學院，嘉惠兩院莘莘學子。

暑期境外交流和學習是本計劃的重點活動，繼「暑期天津普通話學習團」後，2013 年增辦「暑期台灣中文研習團」，選派學生到台中市東海大學研習中文，以提升閱讀和寫作能力。該校教師指導學生閱讀古今文學作品，然後讓他們實踐所學，在課餘創作，並提交作品。

或許有人會問：「在家也可寫作，為何要遠赴寶島學習寫作呢？」我想，在異地寫作，心境不同於家鄉，文思頓生，學生可從心靈出發，寫出感情真摯的文章，學習自然事半功倍。此外，學生到外地交流，可以擺脫傳統思路的羈絆，心靈受到觸動，有助建立正面的人生觀，這就是全人教育的理想。

五十六名社區學院和持續進修學院的副學士和高級文憑課程學生參加了是次研習團，在本文集中記錄了兩週的美好回憶。

嶺南大學持續教育及社區學院院長 吳凱文博士

Report On My Fall 2013 Sabbatical Leave, Haiwang Yuan

DLPS Faculty Publications

Haiwang Yuan, Professor of Department of Library Public Services of WKU, received his 2012-2013 Research & Creative Activities Program (RCAP) grant from WKU Research Office and a book contract from a U.S. publisher ABC-CLIO to write a book on Tibetan folktales. He then applied for and was awarded the fall 2013 sabbatical leave. With the grant and the leave, he made his research field trip to Tibet and some other Tibetan communities in China. This is the report he has given to his dean and WKU Academic Affairs Office as required. He has now submitted the manuscripts of his book.

The Prosperity Of Internet Literature And The Literary Change: Synopsis Of Internet And The Transformation Of Literature Symposium, Wenfeng Ouyang, Lei Lv

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The development of internet literature has become an important literature phenomenon, and the new changes brought about in literature have attracted wide academic attention and research interest. In this light, the symposium "Internet and Literary Transformation" was held in July 2013 in Lhasa, during which scholars reflected the implications and value of the literary texts on the internet. The participants claimed that internet literature should be approached without the conventional concepts about literature and the prejudice about internet literature. They promoted a broader concept of literature or culture and proposed that scholars should be engaged with the site of internet …

The Pursuit Of Subjectivity In The Minorities Literature: An Examination Of Literary Language Use In The Southwest Border Area, Yonggang Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The fundamental value of the national literature is embedded in the pursuit of its subjectivity, and in the post-modern cultural context, national literary language is one essential approach to understand of the subjectivity pursuit in national literatures. In terms of the complex relationship between Mandarin Chinese language and minority languages, the efforts of minority writers should be noted for their using Mandarin Chinese to strengthen their consciousness of nationality and search for the ways and meanings of cultural exchanges with the world of Chinese language. By writing in Chinese, minority writers attempt to reconstruct their national literature, to gain discourse …

The Theoretical Construction And Developmental Genealogy Of "Imagery" Aesthetics In The 20ThCentury's China, Wei Han

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In the 20th century's China, the theoretical study on "imagery" as an aesthetic category has gone through different phrases. Before 1980s, "imagery" was understood as a term imported from Western aesthetics, and in the early 1980s the study of imagery started to enter a phase of theoretical self-awareness. In the last two decade of the century, two trends emerged as the ontological construction and Sino-Western dialogue in the study of imagery. The former aims at the ontological study of images, during which the ontological construction and the generalization of images occurred simultaneously so as to gain the discourse power in …

The Variations And Eternals Of Stories From The Anthropological Perspective: Based On A Comparative Analysis On Eileen Chang And Nikolai Leskov, Lili Liu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper discusses Benjamin's paradox of "the story-teller" and questions the scope of his definition of the story. The premises for the question include: stories have always accompanied human activities; stories are the cognitive objects of human perception; stories meet people's need for meaning; stories adapt themselves to the changes of human needs and cultural conditions. Thus, this paper proposes a broader definition of story from the perspective of anthropology and makes a comparative analysis on Russian novelist Nikolai Leskov who was called a "story-teller" by Walter Benjamin and modern Chinese novelist Eileen Chang. The paper observes that the stories …

To Write Back Is To Write For: The Intellectual Trap In The Critique Of Western Centralism, Ning Zhou

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The academic discourse of writing back to Western Centralism implicates a paradox. The paradox lies in the fact that the act of "writing back" actually constructs and reconstructs the discourse of Western Centralism it sets out to deconstruct. The paradox shows in two aspects of knowledge and value. When knowledge is concerned, the logic is that the more the West learns from and is influenced by the East the more advantaged the West is proved to be as the West is positioned and reinforced to be the master of the West. When value is concerned, the more the West acknowledges …

Multiple Metaphors Behind The Playing: An Explanation Of Hu Shi's Interpretation OfA Journal To The West, Hongbo Zhu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Hu Shi was the first to interpret Chinese classical novel A Journal to the West by taking it as a game play. Since 1920s till now, his interpretation has met with pros and cons, but his interpretive perspective is still worth examining. In the current theoretical context, this paper surveys the academic background of Hu Shi’s interpretive perspective and attempts a new explanation. The paper tries to investigate the multiple cultural implications behind the "play" interpretation of the novel from such angles as the second innocence, freedom from constraints, and anthropological structure of game and hopes to enrich the theoretical …

On The Representative Narration Of Literary History, Guoqiang Qiao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The concept of "historical representation" F. R. Ankersmit advances is wide spread and quite influential in the trend of narrative turn, which, to some degree, can be compared with New Historicism. However, reflected from the perspective of historical narratology, Ankersmit's concept appears to be somewhat idealistic, particularly in terms of the writing of literary history. This article appropriates Ankersmit's concept of "representation," extending it to the field of literary history, and proposes a concept of "representative narration" that associates with but differs from Ankersmit's "historical representation." The author hopes that the concept of "representative narration" could provide the interpretation and …

Schiller's Aesthetic Thoughts From Moral Politics To The Construction Of Aesthetic Utopia, Juan Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Schiller's reflection on the enlightening rationality and his political concerns are the foundation to his aesthetic thoughts. At a time with manifold problems in Germany, Schiller proposed to cultivate perfect humanity and build moral politics so as to resist the instrumentality-characterized modern politics. However, moral politics is built on the constraining of human nature, and only in the aesthetic utopia can human sensibility, reason and nature be reconciled with inevitability. In this sense, aestheticization is freedom.

Speech Act And The Fiction In Literature, Dakang Ma

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Fiction in literature is the fiction in the sense of utterance performativity instead of that in the sense of representation. Authorized by cultural conventions, literature pronounces the construction of a fictional world as its primary action, and it exploits various strategies to highlight the constructive nature of utterance performativity and the illocutionary force of utterance. Thus, a new mode of intentional relationship can be constructed between people and utterance as the relationship of intersubjectivity, in which all the potentialities in people, utterances and words are summoned into the activities for constructing a fictional world. The paper concludes that, on the …

The Becoming Of A Minor-Literature From A Minor-Language, Yue Ge

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Becoming-minor is regarded by Deleuze as the most efficient way of fighting against all existing forms of power. In Deleuze's sense, minor-literature that was mainly generated by minor-language was the embodiment of becoming-minor in the field of literature. This paper attempts to reframe Deleuze's thinking upon the relation between literature and politics by probing into the mechanism of minor-language forming. It can be argued that Deleuze critically approached this new relation by examining the mechanism of minor-language through the withered major-language and the blending usage of various languages with different functional and grammatical cases. From the minor-language perspective, another possibility …

Toward A Digital Poetics For Electronic And Internet Literature, Mingfen Huang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Digital poetics covers the theoretical studies of the new forms of uprising literature from the electronic literature in the West to the internet literature in China. The primary mission of digital poetics is to sum up experience in digital literary writing and refine digital literary spirit so as to reflect the nature of literature from the new perspective provided by this new literary form. With the current emergence of computionalism, Web upgrades and the resultant development of cultural industry, digital poetics is facing new challenges and new opportunities. The paper proposes that computionalism may be taken as a world view …

Three Decades' Research On Foreign Literary Theory In Theoretical Studies In Literature And Art, Guoshan Tao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art is a top-ranked professional academic periodical with key influence in China. Since its launch in 1980, it has been targeted at taking foreign literary theory and research as reference to Chinese literary theory. In the past three decades, it aims at connecting with international academic research, from introducing classical works in the column of Translation of Foreign Literary Theory ("FLT") to publishing domestic research papers in the column of Studies of FLT, and in recent years the journal has also published original papers written in English by scholars at home and abroad. Based on …

"Descendants Of A Blurry-Eyed Dragon": A Lacanian Analysis Of The Post-Maoist Structuration Of Chineseness, Guanjun Wu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

"Descendants of the Dragon" (Long de chuanren) has become one of the most popular songs within the Sinophone world since the early 1980s. It can be, however, also regarded as one of the representative texts through which one can indeed glimpse the profound construction of Chineseness in the post-Maoist mainland China. Utilizing theoretical tools provided by Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Žižek, this paper offers detailed textual analyses as well as psycho-analyses of "Descendants of the Dragon", with the goal of furthering the contemporary critical examination of Chineseness.

A Reflection On The Institutional Genealogy Of Internet Literature, Ting Ouyang, Youquan Ouyang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Internet literature's most profound influence on Chinese literary theory lies in its technical rewriting or replacing to the institutional genealogy of literature developed over many centuries. In terms of subject identity, internet literature, by adopting a grass-root standpoint, usurps the discourse power of the elite literary production. In terms of writing mode, the freedom of writing subverts existing order in literary production field. In terms of quantity of texts, internet literature has outnumbered and concealed the classics and literary canons, while in terms of value judgment the overt commercialism in the internet media has been able to compete with the …

A Synopsis Of The 18th Annual Conference Of The Society Of Chinese Ancient Literary Theory, Zicheng Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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A Study On Internet "Virtual Aesthetics", Fanting Zeng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Internet literature in the digital era is produced in the context of virtual reality provided by cyber space, and its representation is through simulation or iconicity. The aesthetics of this literature is characterized by its virtualization, and parody as a popular technique derived in the process of virtualization highlights the carnival feature in the aesthetics. This so-called virtual aesthetics is a double-edged sword. While it liberates imagination, it also causes criticism for its lack of a firm value standpoint and cultural critique spirit. The virtual illusion characterized by consumerism may likely obscure the reality of survival in the real world …

Antimonies In Transcultural Studies Of Representation, Xi Lin

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The paper begins with a summary of the four propositions in Zhou Ning's transcultural studies of imagology, and in the spirit of Kantian dialectics proposes four counter propositions. The paper proceeds to demonstrate the approaches to prove both the propositions and counter-propositions. The four pairs of antimonies may lead us into investigating how in the post-metaphysical age a constructive breakthrough of approach may be realized in transcultural studies of imagology.

Cultural Study By Taking Image As Methodology, Yong Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The essential difference between the study of images that takes images as the object and the study of images that takes images as the methodology lies in that the latter takes the formation and cultural context of images as its research focus. The image-as-methodology approach defines images as the collective cultural imagination about the Other, and this approach, by studying the images about the Other, examines the cultural dilemma behind the imagining Subject and searches for ways to resolve the deep contradictions in the Subject's self-identity, cultural value, and cultural strategy. This approach adopts three strategies by different ways of …

Fang Hui's Reverence For Tao Yuanming And The Self-Salvation Of Jiangxi Poetry School In Late Southern Song Dynasty, Fei Liu, Houjun Zhao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In the late Southern Song Dynasty, Tao Yuanming remained a poet widely admired by many poetic critics. Fang Hui, who was active in the late Song Dynasty and the early Yuan Dynasty, gave much attention to Tao Yuanming in his critical works, which can be taken as a typical case for study on the research of Tao. His views on poetics showed many characteristics of Jiangxi poetry school, and his study on Tao Yuanming had a profound influence.

Integrated Creation As Chinese Way Of Aesthetics: On Jiang Kongyang's Contributions To The Construction Of Chinese Aesthetics, Yanzhu Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Focusing on Chinese way of aesthetics, this article reviews the contributions of such aestheticians as Wang Guowei, Zong Baihua, Zhu Guangqian, Qian Zhongshu and Li Zehou in forming and developing Chinese way of aesthetics. In the age of information, Jiang Kongyang was the first aesthetician who elucidated, practiced and expanded the notion of integrated creation as Chinese way of aesthetics, which itself was first conceived and proposed by Zhang Dainian and supported by Wang Yuanhua in his "integrative research method" of aesthetics. Jiang Kongyang elaborated the historical necessity, time pertinency and practicability of the notion, and answered the questions of …

Literature As Event: On Eagleton From After Theory To The Event Of Literature, Yonghua Tang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Terry Eagleton argues that literary works are unities of structures and events, facts and actions. Literary tradition as a whole is both oppositional to and interwoven with the extrinsic social history, which is not merely a reflection from the given realities and literary works but the presence of literary works in the world when they present themselves as events. The interpretation of literary works should target at events and the specific strategies by which the works present themselves instead of targeting at "objects" and "essences." Eagleton proposes that critics should get rid of the dichotomy between essentialism and anti-essentialism so …