Contents

Part One: Painting and Calligraphy

Xiaojun Tao and Chun Li

Ghostwriting and Faking: The Market of Painting and Calligraphy during the Period of the Republic of China 67

Part Two: Semiotics of Art

Yongxiang Wang  

The Musical Elements in Bakhtin’s Theory of Dialogue 81

Zhongjie Hu and Chun Li

Symbol and Rhetoric: Taking Advertisement Photography as an Example 89

Part Three: Literature and Art

Li Wang and Min Xie

Stamps or Stumps: Metaphoric symbols in The Plot Against America 97

Lanjuan Xu

Funeral: A Rite of Passage and a Symbolic Text — Semiotic Interpretation of Funerals by the Female Characters in Porter’s Short Stories 105