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The Eighteenth Party Congress' Third Plenary Session's Decision maps out the country's plan for cultural and media development. There is nothing on the surface that suggests a radical departure from the tight control the Chinese... more
Based on eight in-depth interviews, this article analyses the quandary faced by liberal mainland Chinese student migrants in Hong Kong. On the one hand, the liberal pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong are deeply intertwined with the rise... more
The Chinese have lived in single-extended-family courtyard houses in many parts of China for thousands of years. The earliest courtyard house found in China was during the Middle Neolithic period (5,000-3,000 BCE). However, the 20th... more
This book discusses and provides an interpretation of the notion of qiyun in Chinese painting, and considers why creating a painting (especially a landscape painting) replete with qiyun is regarded as an art of genius, where genius is an... more
A total of 843 college students in Guangdong University of Foreign Studies were investigated using a social support evaluation scale, a resilience scale, and a life satisfaction evaluation scale. Results were analyzed using IBM® SPSS... more
The concept of qi 氣 belongs among the most difficult and complex notions in Chinese ideational history. The present article follows from recognizing that traditional translations of this concept are Eurocentric. The author substantiates... more
Th is study is the third book of the author’s series dedicated to the Scythian-like cultures in China. Th e book investigates China materials from the Mohuchahan cemetery belonging to the Chawuhu culture in the period of 9th–8th centuries... more
Consistent with its growing economic, political and military might, China wants due recognition by and engagement with the global community of nations. This aspiration is complicated by the fact that Chinese political leaders and... more
The concept of qi belongs among the most difficult and complex notions in Chinese ideational history. The present article follows from recognizing that traditional translations of this concept are Eurocentric. The author substantiates the... more
Systemization of apparently pre-existing elements of traditional Chinese wedding ceremony is generally credited to scholars of the Warring States period (402-221 BCE). Three venerable texts, The Book of Rites, The Book of Etiquette and... more
In China in the past, birthdays were ordinarily celebrated for children under 20 and adults over 50, Traditional Chinese birthdays are calculated by the person’s nominal age (the 9-month pregnancy counts as a year). The age, rank, and... more
As one of the greatest masterpieces in Chinese history, Dao De Jing is a philosophical work by Laozi (Li Er, c.571-471 BCE) published in the 4th century BCE. It contains 81 chapters/verses whose essence is on moral philosophy and ideal... more
Govor je vezan za vreme. Interaktivan je i prolazan, sadrži spontanost i brzinu. Pismo je vezano za prostor. Statično je i trajno, što dozvoljava da se ono ponovo čita i analizira. Pismo ima tendenciju da postane standard koji društvo... more
This essay explores how landscape forms are used by writers, photographers, filmmakers, and other artists from inside and outside of China to represent environmental problems in that country. It considers the “landscape of desolation” as... more
As one of the greatest masterpieces in Chinese history, Dao De Jing is a philosophical work by Laozi (Li Er, c.571-471 BCE) published in the 4th century BCE. It contains 81 chapters/verses whose essence is on moral philosophy and ideal... more
В статье впервые вводится понятие культурного кода, являющегося основой для формирования ценностных ориентиров китайцев и имеющего принципиальное значение при анализе процессов ценностных трансформаций в китайской культуре. На примере... more
This 200-page volume contains 85 carefully selected Chinese poems arranged in chronological order, from antiquity (c.2000 BCE) to the modern time (1972), though most of them are from the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties, since... more
• Lena Scheen writes a lucid and compelling account of literature written amidst Shanghai’s sweeping transformations from 1990-2010. She evokes lived experiences of the city via literary and cultural analysis informed by field research on... more
An examination of silks from Qinghai and in the collections of the National Silk Museum in China, along with evidence from murals, documents the popularity and spread of textiles produced in Central Asia into the Trans-Himalayan regions... more
Southern Vietnam was reclaimed by the Vietnamese in the mid-seventeenth century. They first brought their folk Buddhism and various popular religions to new land; however, the bureaucratic system then forced the Chinese Han – Song... more
Please cite as: Chang, B., Baimaganbetova, S., Yang, M., Cheung, I., Pun, C., & Yip, B. (2021). The Project for Critical Research, Pedagogy & Praxis: An educational pipeline model for social justice teacher education in times of division... more
Southern Vietnam's tradition has been mainly built on Confucian ideology, although it is a transformed one. There have been two types of Confucianism in the region: state-sponsored and mass Confucianism. During the period of the late... more
After the chinese “Cultural Revolution” in the late 1970s, the appearance of a new wave of “young poets” became the major phenomenon of this period. At the time this group was also labelled with the termed “Misty Poets”
In Shanghai Filmmaking, Huang Xuelei invites readers to go on an intimate, detailed, behind-the-scenes tour of the world of early Chinese cinema. She paints a nuanced picture of the Mingxing Motion Picture Company, the leading Chinese... more
Hardcover: ISBN: 9780190909796 [904pp, incl. 77pp indices + 43 B&W halftones images] The work features forty-seven essays authored by forty-nine international scholars. It showcases the four-fold paradigm: the Bible's translation,... more
Central Asian textile iconography spread from the Tarim to the Mediterranean Basin. Mainly developed on complex structures, compositions of roundels (beaded or lobed) enclosing animals were woven in weft-faced compounds [Fig. 1]. A subset... more
This paper will examine Kuo Pao Kun’s modern reiteration of the Zheng He theme in his 1995 Singaporean play titled Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral 郑和的后代. The memory of Zheng He and his legacy rooted in an anomalous series of sea... more
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A monographic issue of International Review Sulla Via del Catai dedicated to Chinese flora, its importance in cultural tradition as well as in China-Europe interactions in 18th and 19th centuries
This chapter concentrates principally on ‘Shanghai Puck’, a cartoon monthly first published in 1918, which, as will be demonstrated below, is a typical product of multidirectional transcultural exchange. In exploring the visual world of... more
This essays analyzes the 2007 popular novel, Chronicle of Du Lala’s Promotion. A bestseller followed by three sequels, a film, a TV series, a stage adaption and so on, it narrates the success story of a young Chinese woman who paves a... more
Juxtaposing real life environmental issues with cinematic metaphors in Chinese cinema, this chapter focuses on the ecological, interspecific fable between a human and a mermaid in Stephen Chow (周星驰)’s comedy The Mermaid (美人鱼, 2016), and... more
This essay explores Jia Zhangke’s 2006 film Still Life (Sanxia haoren) from two related perspectives: first, the still powerful discourse of realism that continues to shadow discussions of Chinese cultural production; and second, Jia’s... more
A man that was not appreciated during his life time has risen to be one of the greatest poets of Chinese History. His works echoes the uneasiness and fretfulness that overwhelmed the Chinese society at his time while living during the era... more
Chinese Studies in the east and west are often seen as distinct and even competing fields. The Chinese engage in national studies from a uniquely Chinese point of view, using their Chinese way of thinking; Westerners approach it from a... more
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Deliberately framing this book as "a Western cultural analysis," Willis aims at turning the strange into familiar. China not only excites Willis, but also puzzles him: "You are always a foreigner, taken as a foreigner" (p. vii). As an... more
Resumen: Tres son las grandes persecuciones que el budismo debió enfrentar y superar en la historia de China, y variadas las maneras en que ha debido crear un discurso que se adecue a las circunstancias culturales y políticas para... more
"Οι Χώρες Πέρα από τη Δημοκρατία. Μια εξέταση της επίδρασης του κομφουκιανισμού και του νομικισμού στην πολιτική σκέψη του Lee Kuan Yew και του Xi Jiping." Η παρούσα έρευνα αποτελεί μια κριτική επισκόπηση των σημαντικότερων κειμένων... more