Wen Xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume I

“…25 With clear references to classical Chinese texts such as the Lantingji xu 蘭亭集序 ("Preface to the Poems Collected from the Orchid Pavilion") by Wang Xizhi and Zhang Heng's Gui tian fu 帰田賦 ("Rhapsody on Returning to the Fields"), anthologized in the Wen xuan 文選 (Selections 19 This date roughly corresponds to February 8th, 730. 20 Wen xuan Chapter 15, Rhapsody on Returning to the Fields: "Then, in the finest month of mid-spring/when the weather is fair and the air clear…" 於是仲春令月, 時和氣清 (translation by Knechtges [1996], 141.) Also similar to a line in the Lantingji xu preface, 是日也，天朗氣清，惠風和暢。 21 The powder to which the line refers is a white powder used by women as makeup and applied to the face.…”

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Banquet Poetry and the Gendering of Social and Textual Spaces in the Man'yōshū

Truscott

2022

PAJLS

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“…mole cricket, ant, and gecko") hearkening to music's power, as does Ma Rong's "Fu on the Long Flute" (see Wenxuan,III,. See (Knechtges 2015). 19 To take two examples, elephants do make long-term plans when following their trails, and they also seem to tarry at the sites of their dead.…”

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Humans as Animals and Things in Pre-Buddhist China

Nylan

2019

Religions

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This paper examines the way thinkers in the pre-Buddhist world in China viewed the animal-human divide. It argues that the boundaries between humans and animals were porous. The only unique capacities that human beings are credited with were first (widely) the ability to develop their unique potentials (chengren 成人), and, second (in a very few texts), the capacity to respond with greater sensitivity to the resonant world around them. In both contexts, the extant terms make use of two terms, ling 靈 and jingshen 精神. Part II of the essay then turns to examine the most influential Euro-American theories cited in today’s secondary literature regarding the animal-human divide. None of these seem remotely like the theories articulated in early China. In Part III, the essay examines vitalism, which is an unusual instance in early modern Europe where an important theory seems to approach the views of early China, with the express aim of reminding readers that we need not automatically posit an impassable gulf between East and West, but can, instead, profit from wider reading that yields more comparative insights.

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Banquet Poetry and the Gendering of Social and Textual Spaces in the Man'yōshū

Humans as Animals and Things in Pre-Buddhist China

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