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BULLETIN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CHINESE LITERATURE NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY NO.4
Publication date： 2005-12
Theme Thesis Visional Integration:The Constructivism of Appreciation Of Aesthetic As Well As Mind-matters of Wen-xin-diao-long
In this paper, I analyze and interpret the theory of appreciation of aesthetic as well as mind-matters of Wen-xin-diao-long (《文心雕龍》) and through its study of various kinds of visional integration, the Confucians mind-matters thoughts in the Pre-Qing dynasty might be Liu-xie’s (劉勰) thinking foundation. In the famous texts from Zhan-guo to the Han Dynasty, we can obviously find the combination among divinations and Confucianism. In addition, Liu-xie’s opinions are related to Daoism and Buddhism. He thinks that the process of the integration is a thinking form by languages and influenced by different theories among Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism. The purpose of this paper is to know that the mind-matters thoughts are Chinese inherent traditions and through Liu-xie’s opinions especially the construction of Wen-xin-diao-long, they become the unique characters of Chinese art creations.
Actually, investigators in ancient China dedicate themselves to their works as various kinds of accomplishments of historical records. Study on history presented in a series of biographies benefits us to introspect one dynasty to decipher another. In this paper, I would take the literary bibliographies of the two “Tang Books” for example to describe the conditions about the overlaps between historical images and literary evaluations. Firstly,for convenient, I spread out the paper by temporal alteration which the two “Tang Books” involve in. Secondly, through specific writers’ articles to point out the differences of historical images and literary evaluations between the two books to manifest the duel-subjectivism of literary bibliography.
his paper discusses the history of the literary appraisal of the SouthernSong Dynasty poet, Lu You, and the roblems of politics and nationalism in the study of literature. Whenever poets are assessed in literary history, especially those deemed as patriotic, a complicated problem arises forcing the reader to address both the past and the present. This problem does not concern only when the poet lived and the quality of his works, but also our estimation of him. The relationship between Lu You and modern nationalism can be traced back to Liang Qichao towards the end of the Qing Dynasty. Modern society utilizes and organizes proto-nationalistic social awareness, feelings and sensibilities, which are connected to the modern nation, such as language, ethnicity, religion and continuity of the government. This paper explains the complicity of nationalism and literary history by reexamining the relationship between Liang Qichao’s nationalism and the appraisal of Lu You, and also by tracing back that appraisal. Thus we need to find ways to describe the correlation of society and the history of Chinese literature as the history of East Asian literature.
The two very different compositions, Qin Guan's“Tang-Quan Fu”and“You Tang-Quan Ji”,were composed by Qin Guan at the same time and the same place for the same event. They provide excellent material for studing the syntax differences of“Fu”and“Prose”.This essey compares the use of function words in Qin Guan’s “Tang-Quan Fu”and“You Tang-Quan Ji”to find out the dfferences of syntax between “Fu”and “Prose”. Statistical methodology has been applied to enable the comparison from the “quantity”point of view.
The development of Chinese gardens has reached a climax in the Sung Dynasty, so that an enormous number of gardens were built in that prosperous period. However, after that the glory has gradually dimmed, eventually turning into ashes in the historical course. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty a remarkable number of forsaken gardens could be seen in relics. In the works of the Ming Dynasty’s literary men, they more often than not used imagery of a forsaken garden as a motif to depict the ever-changing, transient, sad aspects of human lives. Actually, in terms of psychology, this kind of sadness can be seen as a root of anxiety of which the so-called defensive escape could lead to psychological illnesses. The writers of the Ming Dynasty, nonetheless, could brace themselves for the nostalgic sadness, opening themselves to the ever-lasting sadness. They picked up some transcendental natures in their creative works of the forsaken gardens. These findings could serve to heal the hallucinatory sadness. This thesis can be divided into five main parts: 1. Introduction. According to the philosophy of historical development, the author explains the inevitable nature of how Chinese gardens were largely ruined in the Ming Dynasty. 2. The author shows how the literati of the Ming Dynasty used an enormous amount of Chinese garden materials to illustrate the hallucinatory sadness, and the author also analyze the two main reasons causing the decline of Chinese gardens. 3. The author explains how literary men in that period made most of the transcendental nature of the pictures of the Chinese gardens to heal the hallucinatory sadness. 4. The author points out how writers in the Ming Dynasty took advantage of the transcendental nature of the writings of the Chinese gardens to heal the hallucinatory nostalgic sadness. 5. In the sequence of Chinese gardens, pictures, pomes and writings combined, and preface, the author analyze how the relations of “pictures/gardens,”“poems/gardener” operated to produce a healing effect in an attempt to illustrate how a series of garden-related creative works covered the respective wishes of hosts towards the gardens as well as his personal permanent soul.
May Fourth women writings play an important role in the area of criticism of Chinese women literature, especially for the part of gender studies.Yet, most of the criticisms are primarily focused on female characters and female sexuality subject, while the male characters’ similar subject is undermined. Though there are some improvement happened since few years ago, these criticisms are basically aimed on some specific women writers and works, and considered too weak to make a macroscopic conclusion. In view of this, the author of this paper intends to focus and analyze the sexuality of male characters in May Fourth women writings. The objective of this paper is to conceptualize the significant meaning of gender relationship in May Fourth women writings.
The majority of the most influential Chinese philosophers of the 20th Century tried to remain loyal to their own tradition of thought, in which language had an essential influence on consciousness, while also having a practical, i.e. regulative function within (social) reality. (ibid, p. 171) A coherent interpretation of these approaches and their theoretical results is thus a necessary prerequisite to any examination of the pragmatic, interactive relation between theory and social praxis. If we ask ourselves, what kind of original knowledge might modern Chinese philosophy offer us at the dawn of the new Millennium, we have to make good use of the positive aspects of global development and find a new epistemology of understanding; that means, that we first have to establish creative dialogues that transcend the limitations of specific ethnocentric valuations and discriminations and lead to new forms of comprehension. Comparative philosophy connects philosophical traditions which developed in relative separation and isolation from one another and which were determined to a great extent by specific cultural and regional particularities. The central and elementary task of comparative studies is the search for forms of mutual commensurability of different philosophical traditions. The most crucial of these forms is, of course, that of a methodological commensurability that can guarantee the objective and verifiable analysis and interpretation of research objects.
