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On "Shi" In Chinese Calligraphy: Time, The Body, And Origin, Xinqiao Qiu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The tradition of Chinese art has a tendency toward musicalization and hence toward time. Chinese calligraphy is the most typical art form that replaces music to shape our sense of time, as embodied by "shi", a concept of temporality in calligraphy. In Chinese calligraphy, "shi" is presented through the body, and thus temporality is embodied. The origin of the discourse of "shi" about Chinese characters can be traced back to Shuo Wen Jie Zi and Zhouyi in their discussions of creating Chinese characters, which have produced a great influence on the theory of calligraphy. As "shi" is a key concept …

Ruminating On Garbage: Exemplified By Kunal Vohra's Film The Plastic Cow, Chang Chia-Ju

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper examines the way in which non-human animals are constructed as unwanted object through human language, culture and economic system, and how such construction in return affects the lives of the animals. The paper aims to think through the entangled interconnected relationship among animals, humans and environment on both the conceptual and material levels. It argues that animals are deeply enmeshed in capitalist system while the animal-garbage connection can be traced in etymological, cultural, and economic and ecological systems. In order to reflect on our culture, globalization, and modernity, an Indian documentary film, The Plastic Cow, by Kunal Vohra, …

The "Drama-Embedded Mode" Of Popular Novels Of The Ming And The Qing Dynasties, Pengfei Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The "drama-inserted mode" of the novel refers to the insertion of drama stories, diction, and other elements into the plot or the narration of the novel. In this way, these dramatic elements can be connected with the plot, the narration, or the theme of the novel, thus creating a unique aesthetic effect. The "drama-inserted mode", which can be seen as one of the "layer structures", is not only the narrative method of the novel, just like analogy, intermingled plots and repeated relation, but also the narrative structure of the novel. This skill has been frequently usedin the the world history …

The Origin And Evolvement Of Aesthetic Poetics From The Perspective Of Genealogy, Jianchang Xing, Hao Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This article is a genealogical investigation of the origin and evolvement of aesthetic poetics in China since the 1980s. Its prelude originated from the "imagistic thinking Debate" in the 1950s and 1960s, which was revived at the end of the 1970s. The outcome of this debate was a common recognition that the image, rather than concepts, features literature and art. The evolvement from image epistemology to affectionism paved the way to an aestheticism-based theory. However, the emphasis on the functions of aestheticism to appeal, to educate, to save, and to liberate indicates that the aesthetic poetics was a utilitarian literary …

A Study Of The Name And Connotation Of "Literature" In Early Modern China: From Zhu Xizu To The Zhou Brothers, Xuehu Chen

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The paper tries to analyze the modern name and connotation of "literature" and its emergence and evolution in early modern China. The establishment of literature in China bearing the Western name and connotation was marked by Zhu Xizu's paper On Literature, when professors of literature at institutions of higher learning at that time tried to define literature and its boundaries through academic papers whose influence reached out to the entire social community. Zhu's literary concepts mainly came from the Zhou brothers, who studied in Japan in the early 1900s. The Zhou brothers were among the first advocates for literature in …

A Summary Of The Fifth Youth Forum Academic Conference Held By The Chinese Association Of Literary And Art Theory, Yan Xing, Wenjie Na

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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Body, Life-World, And The Reconstruction Of Literary Theory, Xiaohua Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Since the end of the 20th century, literary studies have gradually become conventionalized and entered into the so-called "post theory" period. What caused this situation? An easily acceptable answer is that there is a "stoppage" in the connection between literature and the life-world. In our view, the underlying cause is the oblivion of man's embodied being. In order to investigate the cause, this article reviews the primitive linkage of the life-world and the body in Husserl's phenomenology, analyzes the "ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy", demonstrates the symptom of "poetics of amnesia" which separates the body and the life-world, and …

A New Exposition Of Su Ting's Comments On Li Bai With A Comment On Li Bai's Early Literary Explorations, Qinghai Liu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The meeting with Su Ting in Chengdu proved to be an important event in Li Bai's early literary life when Li Bai was encouraged and directed. Before the meeting, Li Bai's writing was more of a local literature than of a literary master starting a new literature. Su Ting was then lauded as "Master Pen" (Da Shoubi), and his appreciation of Li Bai's literary talent, to the extent that he compared Li Bai to Sima Xiangru, was influential on Li Bai's late writing. Especially, Su Ting's comments on the relationship between rhetoric (Ci-cai 辞采) and vigor of style (Feng-gu 风骨) …

A Review Of The Academic Conference On "Hearing And Culture", Zhiping Yang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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A Techno-Political Poetics Built On The Body: On Brian Massumi'sb Parables Of The Virtual, Yunfan Yao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Centered round his elucidation of the concepts of "body" and "the virtual," Massumi proposes a critique toward the understanding of the process of subjectivization dominated by the symbolic operations in his work Parables of the Virtual: Movement, Affections and Sensations. He assumes that contemporary capitalist power mechanism does not abide by the logic of subjectivization that is mediated by the symbolic order; instead, with help of technology, the capitalist power can control the human-beings by intervening the intensity and direction of human affections. The hope of escaping the control relies on the objectification of human beings during the evolution of …

Aesthetics Of The Sublime And Its Connotations And Properties In Postmodern Literature, Qi Chen, Quansheng Hu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper explores Kant's classification of aesthetics as the beautiful and the sublime, and with an interpretation of Lyotard's proposition that postmodern aesthetics is the aesthetics of the sublime, it suggests that postmodern sublimity lies mainly in viewing postmodern literature as an art for protest, highlighting how to tell a story instead of what a story is, and regarding the indeterminacy as the primary aesthetic principle as in the slogan of "Vive la difference," and it then achieves strangeness through radical experiment and eclecticism, and derives pleasure by adjusting expectations. The paper argues that postmodern literature, if judged by traditional …

Chuanqi & Zaju By Scholar Writers During The Republic Of China Period And Their Significance In Drama History, Dahuai Yao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Before the New Culture Movement, the development of chuanqi & zaju was directed by reporter writers and adherent writers. Hereafter, they were gradually replaced by scholar writers. Influenced by such factors as national crises and individual plights, scholar writers wrote plays to call upon the struggling spirit, or express their own melancholy. As they had the most profound attainment on traditional drama during the Republic of China, scholar writers respected the essence of drama, and especially devoted more in melody, phraseology and structure. They had the highest achievement in the creation of chuanqi & zaju since the late Qing Dynasty …

Cosmopolitanism And Cultural Translation, Shaobo Xie

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The global present remains saturated with various forms of xenophobia, hostility towards cultural and ethnic others, us-versus-them feelings, and ethnocentric arrogance. It is in response to such an exigency, to which one cannot respond, that cosmopolitanism and cultural translation are being globally debated and embraced at various intellectual forums, academic conferences, and in various journal special issues. This paper explores the issue of cosmopolitan cultural translation through the lens of two world-famous novels: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The River Between. It illustrates how the cosmopolitan reader, by way of cultural translation, perceives or recognizes culture-specific …

English Scholarship On Modern Chinese Literature In The Past Fifty Years, Zhang Yingjin

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This article is a condensed version of the general introduction to A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature and covers three agendas. First, it delineates the parameters of modern Chinese literature by discussing its three composite terms. Second, it reviews the academic institutionalization of modern Chinese literature, especially its development in North America. Third, it provides a framework of "history and geography" for A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature. The first section on "history and geography" tracks the historical development of modern Chinese literature in different geopolitical areas. The second section on "genres and types" reviews key major genres (poetry, fiction, …

How To Study Literature With "After Theory": Focusing On Eagleton's Event Of Literature, Yan Sun

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In The Event of Literature, Terry Eagleton tries to elucidate on the literary philosophical questions pertaining to the decline of theory, and calls for a return to literature itself by breaking through the delimitations of politico-cultural studies as in post-colonialist and post-modernist criticism. However, Eagleton does not revert to pure formal research in the "after theory" period as he does not believe formalism can save literary studies. For Eagleton who has a Catholic background, the authority of new religion lies in ethical rather than aesthetic claims. What Eagleton tries to bypass the fruitless debate over essentialism and revive Aristotelian ethnical …

Knowledge Reconstruction And Academic Reorientation In Postmodernist Context: A Genealogical Study And The Expansion Of Its Horizon Of The Historicization Of Contemporary Literary Studies, Xiuming Wu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Since the 1990s, in the context of globalization and postmodernism, a reorientation is emerging in contemporary literary studies from intellectual interpretation to knowledge reconstruction. The reorientation both promotes contemporary literary studies as a discipline and helps to contextualize and theoretically endorse the historicization of the studies. The reorientation is an emerging phenomenon, which is further complicated by the ambiguity of the concept of "historicization." Unlike the earlier endeavor of "rewriting of literary history," this reorientation, in terms of its scope of research and its conceptual evolution, is both influenced externally by Western Marxist theories through such theorists as Fredric Jameson …

Literature Ecology In The 1980s And The Publication Of Anthologies, Yong Xu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper explores the dialectical relationship between the publication of anthologies and the literature ecology in the 1980s. Anthology publication is linked to editors, writers and readers, and reflects literary environment of a particular era. The significance of anthology publication to literature ecology in the 1980s lies in two aspects, the first being the reflectivity and reactions almost all the literary periods and the second being the construction of the anthologies to literature ecology in the 1980s. The roles of various anthologies such as annual literary anthology, anthologies of controversial works, and anthologies of different literary schools present different ways …

On Narrative Of Literary Folklore, Dongwei Mei

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

As an interdisciplinary study of folklore and narratology, folk narrative is an indispensible component in the construction of Chinese narratology and an important dimension in the study of literary folkloristics. However, due to the ambiguity of the term and the lack of consensus of its academic parlance, "folklore narrative" has incurred much inconvenience to relevant studies. From the perspective of literary folkloristics, when the folk culture as a phenomenon in narratological text of fictions is to be defined, it is more appropriate to replace folklore narrative with the narrative of literary folklore. Narrative of literary folklore focuses on the narrative …

On The Sublime Visual Image Of Chinese "Mountain-Like Altars": A Response To Professor Wu Hung's Theory, Zhaorong Peng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Like the ideas of "monad" or "oneness" which speak to the mutual presence of the "physical", "mental", and "spiritual" in the Western hermetic sense, China has developed the idea of "tian ren he yi" (the unity of Heaven and man). The definition of this idea is rather complicated, because "tian" means not only "nature" but also imperial power. Firstly, this idea refers to the harmony between nature and human beings. Secondly, it reveals ancient shamanic belief of the king being the axle between the heaven, human beings, and the earth, who possessed the rightful imperial power. In comparison with monad …

Some Theoretical Categories In Sanskrit Poetics, Xi-Nan Yin

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Sanskrit poetics contain many unique theoretical categories like rasa, dhvani, vakrokti, poetic atman, camatkara and guna. These categories are of a long history with genuine Indian nature and they are still holding implications for contemporary poetics and comparative studies. The paper singles out seven categories to demonstrate how connotative and unique ancient Indian literary theory, i.e. Alankarasastra or Sanskrit poetics could be.

Space: A Keyword For Art History Research, Juan Mao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

A key concept in the discussion of postmodernism and globalization, the idea of "space" has a profound impact on many fields, such as urban research, urban planning, philosophy, literature and culture. Like "Time", "space" is fundamental to people's understanding of the world. As a product of history and cultural activities, it is also a keyword for studies of art history. Therefore, it is necessary to understand and interpret the idea of "space", which may offer a new way to construct the history of contemporary art.

The Polar Opposites In The Criticism Of Li Yu Over Three Centuries, Mingqi Zhong

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Since his lifetime, Li Yu has been receiving both positive and negative critical judgements. The primary reason for this was Li Yu's extremely complicated personality that had multi-layered polar opposites. It was also closely related to critical approaches and attitude. To avoid polar opposites in the criticism of Li Yu, we should avoid bias and emotional judgements, and adhere to the principle of prioritizing historical examination over moral evaluation. We should also comprehensively examine Li Yu's profile in the light of the development of his personality. It is necessary to distinguish and investigate Li Yu's behavior, thoughts and writing in …

Toward The Future: A New Interpretation To Liang Qichao'sThe Future Of New China, Liyuan Jia

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Through a close reading of The Future of New China by Liang Qichao's (1873-1929), an important novel published in 1902, the paper analyzes the way Liang narrates time, which is revealed in the dialogue relationship between the text and its annotations. It argues that the novel is neither a pure narration of the future, nor a mere review of the present, but a constant movement between the two. This fundamental narrative feature of the novel explains why the author made many mistakes, unnoticed in existing scholarship, when dealing with the conversion between the Gregorian calendar and the Chinese calendar, as …

The Challenge Of Teaching Chinese Philosophy: Some Thoughts On Method, Andrew Lambert

Publications and Research

In this essay I offer an alternative perspective on how to organize class material for courses in Chinese philosophy for predominately American students. Instead of selecting topics taken from common themes in Western discourses, I suggest a variety of organizational strategies based on themes from the Chinese texts themselves, such as tradition, ritual, family, and guanxi (關係), which are rooted in the Chinese tradition but flexible enough to organize a broad range of philosophical material.

高密詩學的理論品格及其批評實踐, Yin Jiang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

作爲清代自乾隆中葉一直綿延到晚清的地域性詩歌流派，高密詩派，始終是在對前人詩學的批判中深化，同時也是在與當代詩學的對話中展開的，其中不只包含着對王漁洋神韻詩學、沈德潛正统詩學、袁枚性靈詩學的揚棄，也包含了對明代以來山東格調詩學的繼承和改造。它通過《重訂中晚唐詩主客圖》對中唐詩歌的獨到發掘和把握，爲詩壇引入一種新的美學理想和藝術典範，并以縝密的批評为其師法路徑加以定位與拓展，以其平易近人的品格再度摇撼“詩必盛唐”的傳统壁壘，給乾隆後期到嘉、道之際的詩歌以有力的影響。

道光詞壇的典範建構 : 兼論晚清詞學從流派意識向典範意識的轉移, Shuiyun Chen

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

從乾隆末年開始，清代詞壇漸現批評浙派的聲音，嘉慶、道光時期常州、吳中兩派同時崛起，以《宋四家詞選》、《宋七家詞選》、《心日齋十六家詞録》先後出現爲標誌，重塑典範，更新觀念，崇尚比興寄託，講求聲律諧美，在清初曾經盛行的南北宋之爭趨於消解，浙西與常州兩派由對抗走向交融，這表明晚清詞學從流派意識向典範意識轉移的重大變化。

儀式與象徵 : 清順治十七年冒襄得全堂夜宴演劇述論, Yingde Guo

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

清順治十七年(明永曆十四年，1660)五月，太倉 (今屬江蘇蘇州)著名學者陳瑚(1613—1675)率門人瞿有仲(1626—?)，拜訪如皋(今屬江蘇南通)名士冒襄(1611—1693)。冒襄在冒氏祖宅的得全堂開樽夜宴，出家樂，先後演出《燕子箋》、《邯鄲夢》兩部劇作。

賓主觀演《燕子箋》，激發起他们“故國不堪回首月明中”的追憶，冒襄以此説服陳瑚，不妨享受人生的有限逸樂，從而使這一觀劇活動成爲晚明風流生活的象徵儀式。而賓主觀演《邯鄲夢》，則唤醒了他们“别有一番滋味在心頭”的憤慨，陳瑚以此感召冒襄，應該堅守儒者的永恒氣節，從而使這一觀劇活動成爲清初隱逸生活的象徵儀式。

著意選取藴含興亡感慨與人生況味的劇目，藉以傳達心中難以抑止的新愁舊恨，這是冒襄别具慧心的文化選擇，並成爲得全堂演劇活動含藴丰富的儀式性象徵。作爲一種文化儀式，得全堂賞心悦目的演劇活動彌漫著明清易代之际士人的悲憤情绪與悼念氣息，並象徵著他们的往迹追懷和恢復憧憬。

冒襄纂辑、刊刻的《同人集》，作爲一种文本影像和文化記憶，强化了得全堂演劇的象徵儀式和儀式象徵。得全堂演劇活動是冒襄與同人精神對話的最佳方式，也是冒襄進行自我救贖的有效媒介，還是冒襄生存意義的鮮明象徵。

從"法相唯識"論《牡丹亭》和《南柯記》, Sau Ieng Sitou

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

本文因應湯顯祖以“情”“心”探察生命底藴的客觀性而採用論“識體”最是透澈的唯識學理念分析《牡丹亭》和《南柯記》。爲辨明湯顯祖戲文與佛教思想微妙密切之關係而選用法相唯識觀念，如“識所緣境”、“偏計所執”、“萬法唯識”和“轉識作智”分析兩個作品呈現的生命現象。在玄奘大師《八識規矩頌》闡釋八識的架構下，《牡丹亭》的杜麗娘、柳夢梅和《南柯記》的淳于棼展示的情感現象不但與作家本身，還與文化集體習氣相關。本文亦藉“相”“性”和情“至”“盡”之互相觀照，探討湯顯祖理想的人生境地和戲曲美學境界：即莊嚴生命情感現象中的“至真”和傳统文學中之“大美”。

水神、溺籍與歷險 : 論《聊齋誌異‧織成》, Yin Ping, Grace Lau

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

《聊齋誌異》三會本卷----《織成》一文，述柳生在洞庭歷險。篇中出現洞庭水神、水將：柳毅、南將軍和毛將軍，鮮見於其他文獻，因而顯得珍貴。有關“溺籍”(溺水而死者)之載亦相當特别，有助了解遇溺及水鬼之謎。至於柳生因洞庭奇遇，娶神婢織成，並獲赠財富，便爲其下第，失意於科舉的欠缺，作出補償。

清代越南使節於中國廣東的文學活動 : 兼為《越南漢文燕行文獻集成》進行補充, Yiyuan Chen

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

17—19世紀，廣東與越南一直有很密切的文學交流，其中19世紀内奉派到北京難得途經廣東的燕行使，以及直接到廣東公幹的越南派員，都扮演著十分重要的腳色。本文廣搜清代越南使節潘輝益、武輝瑨、段波、阮提、吳仁静、鄭懷德、李文馥、汝伯仕、范富庶、潘輝泳、范芝香、鄧輝躇、范慎逋、阮述等人在廣東（以廣州爲主，兼及佛山等地）與港澳地區活動的漢字文獻記録，以掌握這些越南使節們在廣東購書、刻書的經過，及其與諸多廣東文人的交往互動情況，藉以從“他者”的角度重現中越文學交流的若干真相，豐富嶺南文學發展史的内涵，並兼爲中越合作出版的《越南漢文燕行文獻集成（越南所藏編）》進行補充。