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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Literati"”.
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Seeking Redemption and Sanctity: Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian Literati and their Self-Writing
… of three seventeenth-century Chinese Christian literati--Wang Zheng (1571-1644), Zhang Shi (1605-1623) and Wu Li (1632-1718)--seeks to situate these men in their own cultural background and individual lives, in order to better understand their often complex and complicated engagement with their …
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Appropriation and hybridity of Taiwanese literati painting and American abstract expressionism (1949-2007)
For centuries, traditional Literati painting has been unchallenged and has not undergone any real or radical change. The Taiwanese Modem Ink-wash Painting that emerged in the 1950s is an extension of this painterly tradition. This new visual form of modern Ink-wash painting that I am presenting, is …
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Charitable women from mercantile literati families: women and public culture in late Qing China
… with the Qing government, the mercantile literati played a major role in public charity. The scope and types of charity women were involved, however, changed after 1898. By examining two types of charitable activities before the Hundred-Day Reform in 1898—establishing charitable …
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Revenge and Its Implications: Literati Discourse of Justice in Late Qing and Modern Chinese Fiction
<p>My dissertation explores literati criticism of injustice embedded in revenge narratives. Ranging from the late Qing to modern China, this research project elaborates on the existing scholarship regarding historical and cultural meanings of revenge to demonstrate the use of earlier textual …
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Retracing Footsteps of the Literati: Towards Understanding Literacy Development through Stories of Malawian Teacher Educators
If there is a single song in which nations, governments, human rights organizations, communities, and parents harmoniously blend their voices, it is that being literate is valuable and valued. Being literate entails one's access to and interaction with text in one's environment (Harris & Hodges, …
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昙阳子信仰的建立兼论晚明文人宗教的特点 = BUILDING THE CULT OF TANYANGZI: A DISCUSSION OF LITERATI RELIGION IN LATE MING DYNASTY
… THE LACK OF ATTENTION GIVEN TO CULTS OF THE LITERATI MAY HAVE BEEN THE RESULT OF THE DISPERSION OF MATERIALS. THE CASE OF THE CULT OF TANYANGZI IS AN EXAMPLE. ESTABLISHED BY THE LATE MING LITERATI, THE CULT OF TANYANGZI SPREAD AND DEVELOPED MOSTLY WITHIN THE CIRCLE OF THE LITERATI AND …
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Consoling frustrated scholars: a copy of a parting gift by Wen Zhengming
… paintings are considered in relation to earlier literati art. The sketch-like traces of a ledge that is in all of the copies except Farewell in the Garden, hint to the visual possibility of this scene being situated on a shore. Wen Zhengming, through his subtle lines, alludes to this powerful …
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Local Identity in a Capital: Negotiating the Local and the National in Late Ming Nanjing
… capital? This paper investigates how the native literati in late Ming Nanjing visualized their identity in terms of the local or the national. By analyzing 3 different genres of works by these literati (the biji, pictorial guides and religious writings), I argue that they attempted to create a …
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(In)visible Ink: gender and Chineseness in contemporary Chinese art
… ink painting and calligraphy associated with the literati tradition and with its post-Cultural Revolution reinventions. Three distinct strands of transcultural feminist theory are employed to provide a situated and intersectional interpretative framework: Qing Dynasty anarcho-feminist He-Yin …
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Poe as a critic.
… upon his own principles of criticism. In the Literati he reveals literary America of this century. The Marginalia shows his remarkable power of commentary. Through his criticisms, by which he first became known, Poe caused writers to have a greater consciousness of literary merit. Perhaps as a …
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六朝志怪小说“厉鬼成神”故事研究 = A STUDY OF THE PHENOMENON OF GHOSTS WHO ACQUIRED GODHOOD FOLLOWING UNNATURAL DEATHS: ZHIGUAI TALES FROM THE SIX DYNASTIES
… regulation and local policy. At the same time, literati in the Six Dynasties also greatly contributed to the spread of the stories. Furthermore, this thesis focuses on studying the interactions between ligui and common people, how the living be called upon in dreams, love affairs between the …
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Contemplating identity and genre in Greek popular song: The Theatrical Compositions of Manos Hadjidakis Between 1944 and 1966
… its distinctive Greekness as well as with the literati associated with it, the so-called Generation of the '30s. My study of the contribution of Hadjidakis' theatrical works to the reformation of Greek popular music, on the other hand, focuses on the emergence of the hybrid genre of art-popular …
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Hǒ Nansǒrhǒn and Her Hansi : a study of the life and the work of Hǒ Nansǒrhǒn, a poetess of the late sixteenth century, in Yi dynasty Korea
… literary values emerged and the ideals of the literati-officials came under scrutiny. From this discontent, the influence of the Sung poetic convention was replaced by the T'ang poetic traditions. A group called Sam-Tang siin fully exercised the new tradition, displacing the longstanding …
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Hǒ Nansǒrhǒn and Her Hansi : a study of the life and the work of Hǒ Nansǒrhǒn, a poetess of the late sixteenth century, in Yi dynasty Korea
… literary values emerged and the ideals of the literati-officials came under scrutiny. From this discontent, the influence of the Sung poetic convention was replaced by the T'ang poetic traditions. A group called Sam-Tang siin fully exercised the new tradition, displacing the longstanding …
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Soft power and the Qing state: publishing, book collection, and political legitimacy in eighteenth-century China
… to appeal to the values of the Han Chinese literati in writings where he discusses his own understanding of Chinese ideals pertaining to statecraft, emphasizing how it is necessary for the ruler to share political power and concede to authority external to himself. Both officials and private …
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Creating local landscape: tidal bores and seawalls at haining (1720s-1830s)
… dissertation is the local response of Haining’s literati to the Qianlong emperor’s representations of Haning’s local landscapes. I analyze this response in terms of discursive representations functioning as political technology in service of power. While Qianlong used local landscapes to imagine …
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Sickness of the Spirit: A Comparative Study of Lu Xun and James Joyce
… of the Chinese or Irish people, including both literati/intellectuals and masses. I confine my discussion to Lu Xun's Call to Arms and Wandering and Joyce's Dubliners. I argue that the slave mentality is displayed in spectatorship and signified by the vicious cycle of history, and that for Joyce …
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Women, Femininity, and Love in the Writings of Bo Juyi (772-846)
… femininity and love through a textual reading of literati official Bo Juyi's (772-846) works. The primary sources include imperial proclamations, court memorials, examination essays, epitaphs, letters, poems and compilations. Six areas will be focused on: First, Bo Juyi's life is/examined to …
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The Southwest: A Study of Regional Identity in Material Culture and Textual Sources during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 - 220 C.E.)
… from the capital’s governing elite and literati, were all factors that contributed to a sense of regional separation that manifested itself in a distinct material culture and is hinted at in early textual sources. The main sources of material culture examined in the dissertation are …
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