This paper combs a series of Liang Qichao's manuscripts at the turn of the century in 1899,supplemented by other related discussions on China Discussion during this period,to show the impact of Africa,particularly...This paper combs a series of Liang Qichao's manuscripts at the turn of the century in 1899,supplemented by other related discussions on China Discussion during this period,to show the impact of Africa,particularly the Boer War,on Liang's understanding of"national imperialism."Within the framework of community politics,the paper analyses Liang's distinction between Chinese nationalism and the national imperialism of the great powers,as well as his response to the issue of"national competition"in the spatial expanse of Asia,Africa,the United States and Europe combined.The author argues that Liang's intellectual transformation can be seen as a universal ideological phenomenon during the formation of the modern capitalist world system at the end of the 19th century.To understand the cause of this universal phenomenon,there are two focal points:the will of the hegemonic powers to rule and the will of the oppressed to resist.The tension and conflict between these two dynamic forces provides the basic premise for our understanding of Liang's thinking about China's fate and its limitations.展开更多
Food Is Heaven,Ge Liang's latest full-length novel,is narrated from the perspective of food culture and offers the experience of historical legends to readers by telling stories of simple and repetitive daily rout...Food Is Heaven,Ge Liang's latest full-length novel,is narrated from the perspective of food culture and offers the experience of historical legends to readers by telling stories of simple and repetitive daily routines,forming the writer's unique perspective of observing and writing about Hong Kong,China.The“eating”in the novel is treated not merely as a daily need in life,but as a reflection on culture and history in the broader sense.展开更多
Scarlet Bird and Paper Hawk by Ge Liang have inherited the style of novel of society which began with The Plum in the Golden Vase,carefully depicting scenes of daily life and exuding the great charm of antiquity.This ...Scarlet Bird and Paper Hawk by Ge Liang have inherited the style of novel of society which began with The Plum in the Golden Vase,carefully depicting scenes of daily life and exuding the great charm of antiquity.This coincides with the trend in contemporary Chinese literature toward using local resources and seeking cultural identity after the 1990s.However,while the neo-classical texts of Ge Liang are quite realistic in appearance,their inner vitality and spirit cannot be easily replicated.In contrast,the“Jiangnan Trilogy”by Ge Fei is far less imitative of classical novels than the novels of Ge Liang,but the pursuit of utopia is used throughout the trilogy to connect the main storylines of the destinies of four generations of the Lu family and is closely related to China's grand history over the past century.While drawing on ancient Chinese cultural resources,Ge Fei injects brand new and heterogeneous elements into1 hisworks,reviving traditional lyrical styles and creating a new“Chinese poetics.”展开更多
The short stories written by Ge Liang are simple yet sophisticated,always revealing a slice of life through plain narration.His short stories not only allow one to trace the“pioneering”influence of Su Tong but also ...The short stories written by Ge Liang are simple yet sophisticated,always revealing a slice of life through plain narration.His short stories not only allow one to trace the“pioneering”influence of Su Tong but also carry Su Tong's unique writing style and characteristics.It seems that Ge Liang is able to offer insight into the softest part of humanity,narrating fatalistic yet hardworking characters.His stories are written in a detailed and authentic style,exhibiting the literary memory of a young southern writer in a“more southern”region with a“southern imaginary”form linked to writers of Su Tong's generation.This form includes cultural,geographical,and daily life features.Every life detail and the aesthetic style contained has become the basic tone and color of Ge Liang's writing,forming a literary narrative with a distinct style.展开更多
Zhuge Liang,a well-known figure with rich cultural implications in Chinese history,has exerted profound influences on the spiritual life of the Chinese nation.In the ACGN context,new cultural implications have been at...Zhuge Liang,a well-known figure with rich cultural implications in Chinese history,has exerted profound influences on the spiritual life of the Chinese nation.In the ACGN context,new cultural implications have been attached to him,which offset some of the classic implications of the character forged over a long history.Meanwhile,the inherent traditional cultural spirit embodied by him is being reconstructed.In terms of content design,the ACGN games based on traditional realism tend to refresh people’s collective memories of Zhuge Liang to enhance the stickiness factor of the games,thus creating a sense of familiarity to make the transmitted information easier for the game players to accept.The modern fashionable games,however,are good at leveraging the advantages of technologies to form a tipping point and incorporating fashion elements into the traditional image of Zhuge Liang to attract players,thus enhancing the communication effect.In terms of environmental construction,the ACGN games have created a new industrial environment featuring“ACGN+traditional culture,”which changes the traditional image of Zhuge Liang by means of ACGN game technology while retaining its basic cultural characteristics to provide players with a better immersive and interactive experience.展开更多
On a rainy night in October 1985,23-year-old archaeologist Zhang Xingde embarked on a 100-mile trek with the Niuheliang Hongshan Culture site excavation team including Guo Dashun to Xingcheng,where highly revered arch...On a rainy night in October 1985,23-year-old archaeologist Zhang Xingde embarked on a 100-mile trek with the Niuheliang Hongshan Culture site excavation team including Guo Dashun to Xingcheng,where highly revered archaeologist Su Bingqi was living.They brought a wooden box containing a goddess statue.展开更多
Since its publication in 2016,Paper Hawk has been studied by literary critics from different angles,such as its inheritance of the Chinese classical literature tradition,its conception of language and structure form,a...Since its publication in 2016,Paper Hawk has been studied by literary critics from different angles,such as its inheritance of the Chinese classical literature tradition,its conception of language and structure form,and even its usage of imagery.The historical imagination in the novel has also attracted great attention in academic circles.As one of the clues in the novel,Chinese cuisine enables the writer to outline the setting of the era and human nature,and reflect on traditional culture with a keen insight.Taking food as a starting point,I explores the path of historical evolution,its development as well as its ups and downs.A warm thanks also goes out to Dr.Xu Shiying for her interview on historical writing(Appendix follows),which represents the historical depth of Paper Hawk in a dialogue format.展开更多
Ge Liang's full-length novel Food Is Heaven depicts the legendary lives of figures such as Master Rong Yisheng,Uncle Wuju,the Seventh Young Master Xiang Xikun,and many others,in over 400,000 words.Generally speaki...Ge Liang's full-length novel Food Is Heaven depicts the legendary lives of figures such as Master Rong Yisheng,Uncle Wuju,the Seventh Young Master Xiang Xikun,and many others,in over 400,000 words.Generally speaking,Food Is Heaven is a fictional work using imaginary characters as its protagonists.However,its hidden interplay with important historical events from the 20th century onwards is an undeniable fact.These non-fictional elements employed by Ge Liang are part of his artistic strategy of achieving literary authenticity in Food Is Heaven.The incorporation of major historical figures and events into artistic fiction highlights a certain“epic”quality in the narrative which emerges out of its full engagement with historical essence and historical facts.展开更多
Time and culture are rivers without banks.The elegance and archaic style of culture is a kind of blood inheritance,and the myriad types of cooked food in the world are also a kind of passing of the torch from generati...Time and culture are rivers without banks.The elegance and archaic style of culture is a kind of blood inheritance,and the myriad types of cooked food in the world are also a kind of passing of the torch from generation to generation.Against the vast backdrop of the century-old history of Lingnan(an area south of the Five Ridges in China),Ge Liang's latest full-length novel,Food Is Heaven,is a wonderful story about the inheritance of four generations of chefs.It describes the cultivation of the industry as well as self-cultivation and conducting oneself in the world."To see a world in a line of work,and one bodhi in a karma."This novel reproduces the changes of the times and reveals the profound history and deep patriotism behind the Chinese food culture.It reflects on the inheritance of cooking skills and depicts the extraordinary roots of fine Chinese culture,and studies how the cohesive force of the Chinese nation in different regions has been unconsciously established through those roots.展开更多
This article investigates one of the earliest attempts to systematically construct a building tradition and incorporate it into modern Chinese architectural design.These efforts were put forth by Liang Sicheng(1901e19...This article investigates one of the earliest attempts to systematically construct a building tradition and incorporate it into modern Chinese architectural design.These efforts were put forth by Liang Sicheng(1901e1972),one of the most distinguished Chinese architects and architectural historians,in the 1920s and 1930s in China,informed by the strong collective intention to honour the Chinese past.This article provides a historical and critical reflection on this collective intention that is still shared nowadays by architects and architectural theorists.This article examines in depth the evolution of the different ways Liang used the building past and constructed the Chinese architectural traditions in different crucial stages of his architectural career in the 1920s and 1930s.It uses architectural drawing as both the research subject and the research method.Three of Liang’s representative drawings from these crucial professional stages are juxtaposed and investigated to reveal this evolution using the iconography and iconology method.展开更多
This study aimed to review the early 20th century discussions among Chinese social elites on the definition of the“Chinese nation"and how a corresponding national identity can be constructed.These discussions gr...This study aimed to review the early 20th century discussions among Chinese social elites on the definition of the“Chinese nation"and how a corresponding national identity can be constructed.These discussions gradually formed the basis of society's notions on the Chinese nation and the Chinese identity.It can be concluded that the discussions were of great significance because of three reasons.First,they contributed to the formation of a social consensus that the Chinese nation is a national entity,existing as a being in itself.Second,they further clarified that the Chinese nation is the highest-level identity of all the Chinese people.Lastly,they provided a clear direction for the establishment of a national value—"plurality and unity"—which was advocated by the Communist Party of China(CPC).展开更多
文摘This paper combs a series of Liang Qichao's manuscripts at the turn of the century in 1899,supplemented by other related discussions on China Discussion during this period,to show the impact of Africa,particularly the Boer War,on Liang's understanding of"national imperialism."Within the framework of community politics,the paper analyses Liang's distinction between Chinese nationalism and the national imperialism of the great powers,as well as his response to the issue of"national competition"in the spatial expanse of Asia,Africa,the United States and Europe combined.The author argues that Liang's intellectual transformation can be seen as a universal ideological phenomenon during the formation of the modern capitalist world system at the end of the 19th century.To understand the cause of this universal phenomenon,there are two focal points:the will of the hegemonic powers to rule and the will of the oppressed to resist.The tension and conflict between these two dynamic forces provides the basic premise for our understanding of Liang's thinking about China's fate and its limitations.
文摘Food Is Heaven,Ge Liang's latest full-length novel,is narrated from the perspective of food culture and offers the experience of historical legends to readers by telling stories of simple and repetitive daily routines,forming the writer's unique perspective of observing and writing about Hong Kong,China.The“eating”in the novel is treated not merely as a daily need in life,but as a reflection on culture and history in the broader sense.
文摘Scarlet Bird and Paper Hawk by Ge Liang have inherited the style of novel of society which began with The Plum in the Golden Vase,carefully depicting scenes of daily life and exuding the great charm of antiquity.This coincides with the trend in contemporary Chinese literature toward using local resources and seeking cultural identity after the 1990s.However,while the neo-classical texts of Ge Liang are quite realistic in appearance,their inner vitality and spirit cannot be easily replicated.In contrast,the“Jiangnan Trilogy”by Ge Fei is far less imitative of classical novels than the novels of Ge Liang,but the pursuit of utopia is used throughout the trilogy to connect the main storylines of the destinies of four generations of the Lu family and is closely related to China's grand history over the past century.While drawing on ancient Chinese cultural resources,Ge Fei injects brand new and heterogeneous elements into1 hisworks,reviving traditional lyrical styles and creating a new“Chinese poetics.”
基金This article belongs to the National Social Science Fund of China project"Research on the Style of Chinese Contemporary Short Stories"(Project ID:12BZW019).
文摘The short stories written by Ge Liang are simple yet sophisticated,always revealing a slice of life through plain narration.His short stories not only allow one to trace the“pioneering”influence of Su Tong but also carry Su Tong's unique writing style and characteristics.It seems that Ge Liang is able to offer insight into the softest part of humanity,narrating fatalistic yet hardworking characters.His stories are written in a detailed and authentic style,exhibiting the literary memory of a young southern writer in a“more southern”region with a“southern imaginary”form linked to writers of Su Tong's generation.This form includes cultural,geographical,and daily life features.Every life detail and the aesthetic style contained has become the basic tone and color of Ge Liang's writing,forming a literary narrative with a distinct style.
基金The paper is a phased finding of the projects“Zhuge Liang and Studies of Shu-Han Classics”(20ZGL05)“Research on the Role of Domestic Online Games in Innovating and Communicating the Three Kingdoms Culture”(22ZGL02)granted by Zhuge Liang Research Center,a key research base of social sciences in Sichuan province。
文摘Zhuge Liang,a well-known figure with rich cultural implications in Chinese history,has exerted profound influences on the spiritual life of the Chinese nation.In the ACGN context,new cultural implications have been attached to him,which offset some of the classic implications of the character forged over a long history.Meanwhile,the inherent traditional cultural spirit embodied by him is being reconstructed.In terms of content design,the ACGN games based on traditional realism tend to refresh people’s collective memories of Zhuge Liang to enhance the stickiness factor of the games,thus creating a sense of familiarity to make the transmitted information easier for the game players to accept.The modern fashionable games,however,are good at leveraging the advantages of technologies to form a tipping point and incorporating fashion elements into the traditional image of Zhuge Liang to attract players,thus enhancing the communication effect.In terms of environmental construction,the ACGN games have created a new industrial environment featuring“ACGN+traditional culture,”which changes the traditional image of Zhuge Liang by means of ACGN game technology while retaining its basic cultural characteristics to provide players with a better immersive and interactive experience.
文摘On a rainy night in October 1985,23-year-old archaeologist Zhang Xingde embarked on a 100-mile trek with the Niuheliang Hongshan Culture site excavation team including Guo Dashun to Xingcheng,where highly revered archaeologist Su Bingqi was living.They brought a wooden box containing a goddess statue.
基金FRG Research Project Fund of Hong Kong Baptist University:"A Study of the Relationship Between Chinese Urban Literature and Mass Culture"(FRG2/14-15/027,HKBU).
文摘Since its publication in 2016,Paper Hawk has been studied by literary critics from different angles,such as its inheritance of the Chinese classical literature tradition,its conception of language and structure form,and even its usage of imagery.The historical imagination in the novel has also attracted great attention in academic circles.As one of the clues in the novel,Chinese cuisine enables the writer to outline the setting of the era and human nature,and reflect on traditional culture with a keen insight.Taking food as a starting point,I explores the path of historical evolution,its development as well as its ups and downs.A warm thanks also goes out to Dr.Xu Shiying for her interview on historical writing(Appendix follows),which represents the historical depth of Paper Hawk in a dialogue format.
文摘Ge Liang's full-length novel Food Is Heaven depicts the legendary lives of figures such as Master Rong Yisheng,Uncle Wuju,the Seventh Young Master Xiang Xikun,and many others,in over 400,000 words.Generally speaking,Food Is Heaven is a fictional work using imaginary characters as its protagonists.However,its hidden interplay with important historical events from the 20th century onwards is an undeniable fact.These non-fictional elements employed by Ge Liang are part of his artistic strategy of achieving literary authenticity in Food Is Heaven.The incorporation of major historical figures and events into artistic fiction highlights a certain“epic”quality in the narrative which emerges out of its full engagement with historical essence and historical facts.
基金This paper is a periodical result of the major program"Research on the Integration of Chinese Literature and Art and Technology Media Communication in the Age of Network Intelligence"(No.21AZW021)funded by the National Social Science Fund of Chinaa periodical result of the major bidding program of"Long Compilation of Hong Kong Literature and Art Journal Materials"(No.19ZDA278)funded by the National Social Science Fund of Chinaa research result of the Aesthetic Culture and Critical Theory Research Center of South China Normal University,and Center for Trans-Boundary Cultural Studies in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of South ChinaNormal University.
文摘Time and culture are rivers without banks.The elegance and archaic style of culture is a kind of blood inheritance,and the myriad types of cooked food in the world are also a kind of passing of the torch from generation to generation.Against the vast backdrop of the century-old history of Lingnan(an area south of the Five Ridges in China),Ge Liang's latest full-length novel,Food Is Heaven,is a wonderful story about the inheritance of four generations of chefs.It describes the cultivation of the industry as well as self-cultivation and conducting oneself in the world."To see a world in a line of work,and one bodhi in a karma."This novel reproduces the changes of the times and reveals the profound history and deep patriotism behind the Chinese food culture.It reflects on the inheritance of cooking skills and depicts the extraordinary roots of fine Chinese culture,and studies how the cohesive force of the Chinese nation in different regions has been unconsciously established through those roots.
基金sponsored by the Chinese Scholarship Council,The Bartlett Architecture Research Fund,and The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain(SAHGB)Research Grant.
文摘This article investigates one of the earliest attempts to systematically construct a building tradition and incorporate it into modern Chinese architectural design.These efforts were put forth by Liang Sicheng(1901e1972),one of the most distinguished Chinese architects and architectural historians,in the 1920s and 1930s in China,informed by the strong collective intention to honour the Chinese past.This article provides a historical and critical reflection on this collective intention that is still shared nowadays by architects and architectural theorists.This article examines in depth the evolution of the different ways Liang used the building past and constructed the Chinese architectural traditions in different crucial stages of his architectural career in the 1920s and 1930s.It uses architectural drawing as both the research subject and the research method.Three of Liang’s representative drawings from these crucial professional stages are juxtaposed and investigated to reveal this evolution using the iconography and iconology method.
文摘This study aimed to review the early 20th century discussions among Chinese social elites on the definition of the“Chinese nation"and how a corresponding national identity can be constructed.These discussions gradually formed the basis of society's notions on the Chinese nation and the Chinese identity.It can be concluded that the discussions were of great significance because of three reasons.First,they contributed to the formation of a social consensus that the Chinese nation is a national entity,existing as a being in itself.Second,they further clarified that the Chinese nation is the highest-level identity of all the Chinese people.Lastly,they provided a clear direction for the establishment of a national value—"plurality and unity"—which was advocated by the Communist Party of China(CPC).
