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This was a major argument in favor of the eight-legged essay, arguing that it were better to eliminate creative art in favor of prosaic literacy. In the history of Chinese literature, the eight-legged essay is often accused by later Chinese critics to have caused China's "cultural stagnation and economic backwardness" in the 19th century. [1] [2]
Yang Xiong's Fangyan was the first Chinese dialect vocabulary work; the modern Chinese term for 'dialect' is derived from the title of this book. [214] In the Shuowen Jiezi, Xu Shen divided written characters between wen (文) and zi (字), where the former were original pictographs and the latter were characters derived from them. [215]
kekku (結句) is ' ketsu (結) ': conclusion, though 結 can also mean result, consequence, outcome, effect, coming to fruition, bearing fruit, etc. In a story, the following might happen: Introduction (ki): an introduction to the characters, era, and other information required to understand the plot.
Sinocentrism refers to a worldview that China is the cultural, political, or economic center of the world. [1] Sinocentrism was a core concept in various Chinese dynasties. The Chinese considered themselves to be "all-under-Heaven", ruled by the emperor, known as Son of Heaven. Those that lived outside of the Huaxia were regarded as "barbarians".
In rejecting wholesale Westernization the essay “demands a place for Chinese cultural values on the world stage.” [4] The essay declares a new, proper manner in which to pursue the study of Sinology and explains Chinese culture from an experience viewpoint instead of an academic one.
China in Ten Words (simplified Chinese: 十个词汇里的中国; traditional Chinese: 十個詞彙裡的中國; pinyin: shí gè cíhuì lǐ de zhōngguó) is an essay collection by the contemporary Chinese author Yu Hua, who is known for his novels To Live, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, and Brothers.
The Romantic Generation of Modern Chinese Writers. Harvard University Press, 1973. Levan, Valerie. “The Meaning of Foreign Text in Yu Dafu’s “Sinking” Collection”. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 2012. Ng, Janet. Autobiography in Modern Chinese Literature (1911-1950): Forms of Literary Expression of the Self in Society. 1993 ...
Begun in the 1980s and published in its current form in the mid-1990s, it is an extensive collection of notes and short essays on poetics, semiotics, literary history and related topics written in classical Chinese. Qian's command of the cultural traditions of classical and modern Chinese, ancient Greek (in translations), Latin, English, German ...