Zones of Indeterminacy: Art, Body and Politics in Daoist Thought

Yu, Peng

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“…While both traditions put enormous emphasis on the cultivation of shenti , the Daoist body is generally viewed as aligned with the pattern of the natural realm. Zhuangzi, as one of the most prominent Daoist philosophers, counteracts an obsession with social and cultural knowledge and argues for attuning our human shenti to the ‘primordial void’ (Yu, 2016). In comparison, Confucianism values embodied socialisation and civilisation to preserve cultural continuity.…”

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Cultivating shenti in everyday life: Self, relationality and embodied masculinity in China

Cao

2021

The Sociological Review

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Reading through the concept of shenti (body–self), this article examines the everyday processes by which Chinese young men make sense of and articulate ideal embodied masculinity as situated in different relationships. Drawing on 30 in-depth interviews with urban young men, I argue that the Chinese masculine self is essentially constitutive of and constructed through shenti during the men’s ordinary daily experiences. I highlight the relational formation of shenti as lying at the core of constructing ideal Chinese manhood, teasing out the different layers of body–self and relationality underpinning an individual man’s bodily practices and social interactions. Engaging with traditional cultural values of the ideal body–self and a feminist interactionist approach to gendered embodiment, shenti provides an important analytical lens that will enable us to expand ethnocentric discourses of the sociology of the gendered body by revealing the embodied and experiential aspects of culture in everyday practices. In doing so, this article contributes to enriching the existing debates around cultural variations in the male body and embodied masculinity by offering a Chinese perspective.

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Cultivating shenti in everyday life: Self, relationality and embodied masculinity in China

Cao

2021

The Sociological Review

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The Inclusiveness and Emptiness of Gong Qi: A Non-Anglophone Perspective on Ethics from a Sino-Japanese Corporation

2019

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This article introduces a non-Anglophone concept of gong qi (communal vessel, 公器) as a metaphor for 'corporation'. It contributes an endogenous perspective from a Sino-Japanese organizational context that enriches mainstream business ethics literature, otherwise heavily reliant on Western traditions. We translate the multi-layered meanings of gong qi based on analysis of its ideograms, its references into classical philosophies, and contemporary application in this Japanese multinational corporation in China. Gong qi contributes a perspective that sees a corporation as an inclusive and virtuous social entity, and also addresses the elusive, implicit, and forever evolving nature of organizational life that is rarely noticed. We propose gong qi can be applied in other organizations and wider cultural contexts to show a new way of seeing and understanding business ethics and organization. Rather than considering virtue as a list of definable individual qualities, we suggest that the metaphor of gong qi reveals how virtue can be experienced as indeterminate, yet immanently present, like the substance of emptiness. This, then allows us to see the virtue of immanence, the beauty of implicitness, and hence, the efficacy of gong qi.

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Writing from the other side: Critical reflections on the calligraphy of Zhang Qiang

Feng

2020

Journal of Contemporary Painting

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This article presents the specific case of a contemporary practitioner of Chinese calligraphy, Zhang Qiang, who is a notable figure within the current Avant-Garde movement. After outlining aspects of his practice, which has been controversial along gender grounds, the article turns to his specific project of ‘bi-directional’ calligraphy. It is argued this work opens up a more rewarding way into his work as an enquiry into writing, which bears connections with Derrida’s deconstructionist account of writing and trace. However, in a brief exchange at Tate Modern, Zhang offers a form of ‘writing lesson’, which both helps takes us towards the decontructionist account of general writing, yet equally reveals a reliance upon the cultural category of ‘Chinese calligraphy’, which takes us away again – arguably symptomatic of a wider struggle for Chinese contemporary art to gain recognition in the West.

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Zones of Indeterminacy: Art, Body and Politics in Daoist Thought

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Cultivating shenti in everyday life: Self, relationality and embodied masculinity in China

Cultivating shenti in everyday life: Self, relationality and embodied masculinity in China

The Inclusiveness and Emptiness of Gong Qi: A Non-Anglophone Perspective on Ethics from a Sino-Japanese Corporation

Writing from the other side: Critical reflections on the calligraphy of Zhang Qiang

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