Aug 7, 2022
Abstract:The spread of African American literature in China began in the late Qing Dynasty.After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the translation of African Americanliterature in China continued to advance, with more attention paid on artistic values. Researchon African American literature in Chinese academic circles focuses on racial issues, ethnicidentity, feminist views, dias...
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Aug 7, 2022
Abstract:At present, the relatively comprehensive research of Taoist art history in Westernacademic circles are mostly limited to a single material carrier such as the sculpture tablet orthe Taoist frescoe, and short of comprehensive studies across material carrier media. This iswhy Shih-shan Susan Huang’s book, Picturing the True Form: Taoist Visual Culture inTraditional China, can be accepte...
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Aug 7, 2022
Abstract: As one of the well-known literary leaders in Songjiang area, Dong Qichang wasamong the prominent figures who had ever promoted the local culture of Songjiang. Whileappreciating calligraphy and painting works, Dong Qichang wrote a large number ofcalligraphy and painting annotations to enhance the status of the literati and celebrities inSongjiang area. At the same time, he took an acti...
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Aug 7, 2022
Abstract: Calligraphy theories of the Yuan Dynasty can be roughly divided into two categories:one is the restoring-the-classic theory represented by Zhao Mengfu, Hao Jing, Han Xing, andYuan Li, and the other is seeking-the-new-technique theory represented by Pu Guang, ZhengWen, and Sheng Ximing. These theories, whether it is to revive the calligraphy in the Jin andTang Dynasties or to pursue ne...
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Aug 7, 2022
Abstract: Landscape paintings of Southern Song Dynasty are represented by the courtpainting style, whose leading figures are the “Four Masters of Southern Song Dynasty.”Court landscape paintings were marked by a shift away from the panoramic compositionand detailed drawing characteristic of landscape paintings of Northern Song Dynastytowards simplistic partial views and rugged lines employed ...
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Aug 7, 2022
Abstract: In ancient China, geomantic omen exerted great influence upon people’s life.The presentation of the landscape in paintings then was the intuitive embodiment of thegeomantic thoughts. Demonstrating the landscape in geomantic omen successively fromWei and Jin Dynasties on, this paper is going to show how the presentation of the landscapeevolved as time went by, and it will focus on the...
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Aug 7, 2022
Abstract: Dong Qichang did know how to make full use of his calligraphy and fine artworks to make friends and expand contacts. Through a series of calligraphy and paintingexchange activities, he achieved successful interactions with his clan relatives, maternalrelatives, and the in-laws. Thus, he not only met the request for his calligraphy and paintingworks from all kinds of relations, but als...
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Aug 7, 2022
Abstract:The Kutani ware is a kind of on-graze painting ceramic originated from IshikawaAkira, Japan. Because of its predominant quality and unique feature, the Kutani ware mightwell represent the highest achievement of Japanese ceramic art, for which it has gainedworldwide fame since the Meiji era. Apparently, the Japanese Kutani ware was originatedfrom and developed upon the Chinese ceramic c...
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Aug 7, 2022
Abstract:The Hollywood live-action version ofMulanis a “second attempt” to “introduce” the Chinese elements after the much popular animated version, but again it is almost unanimously criticized by critics. There is no doubt about its efforts to “spread” Chinese culture and his positive attitude towards advocating Chinese art, yet its misreading of Chinese culture and the implantation of ...
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Aug 7, 2022
Abstract: The Chinese-style interpretation of Goldberg Variations by Zhu Xiaomei has become an epoch-making phenomenon in the history of its performance, as the music work itself, as a text, has broken away from the composer’s constraints. The text and the performer incorporate and accept each other, transforming and generating together. As a result, the music work realizes the continuatio...
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Aug 7, 2022
Abstract: Since the reform and opening up, China’s economic development has made great progress, the focus of development has gradually shifted from high-speed to high-quality. The creative industry of music culture has high economic value, and the perfect industrial chain can provide sufficient impetus for economic growth and quality improvement. In addition, the creative industry of musi...
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Aug 1, 2022
Abstract: Over the past hundred years, Bel Canto in China as imported from Europe has gained clear Chinese characteristics with the influence of Chinese music and thus developed into a new style — Chinese Bel Canto. This new style has come into being through the advocacy and promotion by several generations of musicians, and it has now developed into one with varied connotations at differe...
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Aug 1, 2022
Abstract:Scholars of the past dynasties have done a lot of documentary research on Ming Huang Xing Shu Tu (《明皇幸蜀图》, the Painting of Emperor Xuanzong’s Journey to Sichuan Province, hereafter MHXST), a painting of the Tang Dynasty that is now collected in the Taipei Palace Museum. However, few ontological analysis has ever been given to this picture. As a result, there are always sha...
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Aug 1, 2022
Abstract: Of regions constituting the territory of the Chinese Empire, the Jiangnan Area has always enjoyed a relative independence and boasted its unique cultural history. Regardless of foreign invasions, the Jiangnan Area has written its history according to its own characteristics and logic. Viewed from the historical perspective, social changes burgeoning in the Jiangnan Area could dat...
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Nov 12, 2020
Abstract:The Pingqi caisson ceiling was very common in grottoes in theNorthern Dynasties. The center of the caisson on the inverted funnel-shapedroof which appeared in the Western Wei Dynasty is still patterned with squareconcentric and inner circle. The bracket caissons in the grottoes of laterdynasties are basically all the transformation of the ceiling in the Western WeiDynasty and it lasted...
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