Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind (review)

Eoyang, Eugene Chen

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“…As described by the Fig. 1 literary critic Liu Xie in "Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind", a classical book of literary criticism, the Chinese aesthetics of communication is extremely associated with the state of "xujing" / 虚静 -the enlightened and immune to external factors consciousness (the state of the spiritual world), which allows the author as a producer of discourse to embody the artistic concept, setting and delineating the boundaries of the aesthetics of the work (Yang, 2003).…”

Section: Theoretical Framework and Description Of Chinese Cultural Discourse Studiesmentioning

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A New Approach to Chinese Discourse: Cultural Context

Nagibina

Kulikova

2021

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities &Amp; Social Sciences

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The article provides a systematic description of the trends in the development of the Chinese discursive and communicative linguistics. Discursive research and its results in the Chinese academic community have their own specifics, which are based on the traditional philosophical and ideological foundation and a unique language picture of the world. The scientific findings explicate culturally determined communicative and discursive conventions of the Chinese social interaction. The aim of the research is to highlight the Chinese cultural discourse studies as a new research tradition in the Chinese linguistics of the modern stage, to expand its methodology, and to construct the discursive space of China as the totality of the dominant cultural and communicative vectors, these vectors being an interpretative tool to help understand and evaluate Chinese discourses

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Section: Theoretical Framework and Description Of Chinese Cultural Discourse Studiesmentioning

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A New Approach to Chinese Discourse: Cultural Context

Nagibina

Kulikova

2021

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities &Amp; Social Sciences

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“…This new English translation is very useful indeed, straightforward and easy to understand, but in some ways, is too easy, and does not do justice to the richness and the depth of the original text. (Wong et al 1999) More recently, the new interest on longxue in Mainland China produced two new complete translations, one into English (Yang 2003): Dragon-Carving, published in 2003 Beijing by the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. Yang Guobin figures as the translator into English, from the previous translation into modern Chinese made by Zhou Zhenfu in 1986.…”

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A Dialogue on The Literary Mind / The Core of Writing

Lavagnino¹

2017

LCM - La Collana / the Series

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The title of this volume, Wenxin Duihua 文心對話: A Dialogue on The Literary Mind / The Core of Writing, recalls the title of the International Symposium organized by the Confucius Institute of the University of Milanthanks to the generous help of Hanbanat the Department of Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication, in May 2014. This title may sound quite unusual to a Western reader, owing to the limited familiarity with the Chinese literature in our world. It is true indeed that China today is an increasingly hot topic: its rapid economic development, the spread of its social transformation, the new signs of a different process of modernization amaze us and at the same time alarm us. Nevertheless, all this seems to overshadow its great cultural heritage, its important written tradition, the literature and poetry of classical China, a very wide field which, in Italy until now, has been largely unexplored. This is the reason why the title we decided to give our Symposiumwhich is taken from a masterpiece of Chinese literary criticism, Wenxin diaolong 文心雕龙 (WXDL) 1 , written at the beginning of the VI century A.D. by Liu Xie 刘勰 -is almost unknown to our readers 2 . In fact, we decided to take this 1 For the various translations of chapters titles, see Simona Gallo, "Decoding and Recoding Decoding and Recoding Signs and Images of Wenxin Diaolong: from Title to Titles" (pp. 99-113). 2 The WXDL contains approximately 37.000 characters. It is divided into ten juan 卷, each consisting of five chapters, carrying a descriptive title. It is written in pian wen 駢文 or pianti wen 駢體文 (parallel prose), "[…] a technique employed in the writing of extra-poetic literary genres. Its most salient features are a preponderance

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“…inter alia Xiang 1984, Zhan 1989, Long 1992, Zu 1993, Lu and Mou 1995, Wang and Zhou 1998, Zhang 1995and Yang 2001. My understanding of these paragraphs has also been shaped by the work of Tu 1997, Huang 2000, Lu 2000, Wang and Kong 2001, and Ling 2006, as well as Shih 1959, Owen 1992, Wong et al 1999, and Yang 2003 hermeneutical endeavours make it their duty to pare the webbed toes and extra fingers (to paraphrase Liu Xie paraphrasing Zhuangzi) of the WXDL: they explain away all figures with a view to emphasizing clarity and, more than anything else, the systematic orderliness for which the text is so celebrated.…”

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Re-figuring Liu Xie’s Carpet: on the Rhetoric of the Wenxin diaolong

Luca¹

2010

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This paper analyzes and provides an alternative reading of several essential terms (gangling, maomu, and shuniu) around which Liu Xie famously articulates his vision on the structure of his Wenxin diaolong. It first examines how these key expressions produce contradictory projections when read non-figuratively; next it revisits their occurrences in earlier texts and proposes, in the case of shuniu, a significantly different reading; finally it explores the intricate intersections and rearrangements the “re-figuring” of these terms leads to. It suggests that respecting a text’s fundamental figurality should be seen as a prerequisite for accurate, nuanced and in-depth investigations.

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Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind (review)

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A New Approach to Chinese Discourse: Cultural Context

A New Approach to Chinese Discourse: Cultural Context

A Dialogue on The Literary Mind / The Core of Writing

Re-figuring Liu Xie’s Carpet: on the Rhetoric of the Wenxin diaolong

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