2024 Vol. 7, No. 2

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The Decoding of“Xia Qi's Right Hand Holding a Ring” Narrative in Shanhai Jing—The Prehistoric Giant Wearing Jade Ornaments
YE Shuxian
2024, 7(2): 5-40. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20247201
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The paper takes a perspective of literary anthropology and utilizes a four-pronged evidence method to explore the cultural significance of the prehistoric“Giant”with jade rings and the“Right Hand Grasping a Jade Ring”narrative in Shanhai Jing《山海经》(The Classic of Mountains and Seas)from the Xia Dynas...
Articles
Early Sino-French Cultural Exchange: The City of Beijing as Described by the “King's Mathematician”
BAI Zhimin
2024, 7(2): 41-57. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20247202
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Li Ming (Louis Lecomte) was one of the five French Jesuits who was summoned by the Kangxi Emperor upon arrival in Beijing in 1688,initiating an early cultural exchange between the two countries that lasted nearly a century. He was one of the first Frenchmen in the late seventeenth century to go into...
The West and Its Illusions Revealed:Schulze's Meditations at Moments of Historical Rupture
XIE Jianwen
2024, 7(2): 58-92. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20247203
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Against the background of historical and institutional changes,confronting relationships among the individual,society,institutions,history and the future,renowned contemporary German writer Ingo Schulze incorporates the historical dimension of the GDR,the reunification of Germany and the reality of ...
An Analysis of the Use of Allusions in Su-Seng-Ji by Lim Jae
SUN Huixin, FAN Qiaoqiao
2024, 7(2): 93-106. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20247204
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Pseudo-biographies refer to the techniques of borrowing biographies of historical figures to convey the author's creative ideas,ideals of life,and views of society. Han Yu's A Biography of Mao Ying is considered the origin of the genre of pseudo-biography in China. Pseudo-biographical works from Chi...
Inland Dramas Performed in Kashgar and the Local Cultural Exchange in the Period of Late Qing and the Early Republic
WANG Jianping
2024, 7(2): 107-119. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20247205
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In late Qing and the early Republican period,various dramas from inland China were performed in the Kashgar region,and many a Uighur people watched these plays,which manifested a strong Chinese cultural influence. How come there was impact of the Han drama upon the Uighur society in Kashgar? What wa...
An Intrinsic Correlation between Shanghai-Style Culture and the Jiangnan Culture:A Study Focused on Literati Gatherings in Shanghai before and after the Opening of the Port
TANG Yongyu
2024, 7(2): 120-136. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20247206
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Shanghai,formerly known as Haishang and Shangyang,was next to the Yangtze River and the sea. In the Song Dynasty,it burgeoned as a market town due to commercial exchange. In the Yuan Dynasty,the town was upgraded to a county owing to the flourishing ports. When it came to the Ming Dynasty,a city was...
Reviews
Classic Topic,New Approach,and Unresolved Issue in Aesthetic Transformation:Three Questions on “Intermediary Aesthetics”
LI Jiahua
2024, 7(2): 137-152. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20247207
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Wang Yaochong proposes the“Intermediary Aesthetics”in response to the current decline in aesthetics, which originates from the “classic topic” of aesthetic transformation. The unique position of aesthetics in modern social life has rendered it a symptom in the history of thought. This not only resul...