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The Janus-Faced Clergy Crimes in the Judge Dee Mysteries: A Pentadic Criticism
Robert Van Gulik, one of the twentieth century’s most prominent sinologists and detective writers, has made significant contributions to the study of Chinese cultures but received inadequate scholarly appraisal until the twenty-first century. Although Van Gulik’s Judge Dee mysteries have been well received informally among ordinary readers and scholars, little academic attention has been devoted to Judge Dee’s trials of evil clergy due to their covert representation in Van Gulik’s narration. This paper pays attention to crimes committed by religious leaders and members of orders to reveal an implicit religion-crime relationship in Van Gulik’s works on Judge Dee with the help of Kenneth Burke’s pentadic criticism. In our analysis, we find that Van Gulik differentiates between good and evil disciples, the acts of the disciples and the beliefs of religions, and non-mainstream and orthodox religion, presenting a heterogeneous religious crime landscape. As a result, in the misdeeds of clergy and offenses against the sacred religion, a Janus-faced (two-faced) clergy crime is identified in the mysteries.
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Crouching tiger
When Ming Da's Chinese grandpa comes to visit, he overcomes his initial embarrassment at his grandfather's traditions and begins to appreciate him.
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The Disaster Empire in The Wandering Earth 2
This paper analyzes how the 2023 Chinese science fiction blockbuster The Wandering Earth 2 constructs what I call a “disaster empire”—a biopolitical system that seamlessly integrates authoritarian governance with capitalist logic through the constant threat of catastrophe. Through close readings of the film’s reappropriation of the Chinese Moving Mountain fable, its treatment of human sacrifice, and its portrayal of digital afterlife, I argue that the film presents a troubling vision where crisis enables the formation of a homogeneous time-space where the patriarchal family, the nation-state, and bio-capital converge to form a massive, enduring system of domination. While the film has been celebrated for its socialist values of collective survival, I demonstrate how it actually embodies the convergence of authoritarianism and global capitalism in its most insidious form. Drawing on theories of biopower, affect, and dead labor from Marxist scholars, this paper reveals how The Wandering Earth 2 functions as a work of prescriptive realism that faithfully encapsulates the deep drive of authoritarian capitalism.
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Chiang Yee
A young man arrives in England in the 1930s, knowing few words of the English language. Yet, two years later he writes a successful English book on Chinese art, and within the following decade publishes more than a dozen others. This is the true story of Chiang Yee, a renowned writer, artist, and worldwide traveler, best known for theSilent Travellerseries--stories of England, the United States, Ireland, France, Japan, and Australia--all written in his humorous, delightfully refreshing, and enlightening literary style.
This biography is more than a recounting of extraordinary accomplishments. It also embraces the transatlantic life experience of Yee who traveled from China to England and then on to the United States, where he taught at Columbia University, to his return to China in 1975, after a forty-two year absence. Interwoven is the history of the communist revolution in China; the battle to save England during World War II; the United States during the McCarthy red scare era; and, eventually, thawing Sino-American relations in the 1970s. Da Zheng uncovers Yee's encounters with racial exclusion and immigration laws, displacement, exile, and the pain and losses he endured hidden behind a popular public image.
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Introduction to Volume Ten: Aiiieeeee! at 45
Nor are today's students likely to be aware that Aiiieeeee! was responsible for recuperating - and subsequently memorializing - a multitude of Japanese American, Chinese American, and Filipino American literary voices that had been neglected or actively rejected by the publishing industry. Aiiieeeee! birthed the concept of Asian American literature as a simultaneously political and literary category, one crucial to understanding the politicization of Asian Americans during the Civil Rights era, Third World movements, and struggles to establish ethnic studies departments and programs. To some extent, its volume has been dampened precisely in response to its call; in the editors' search for their own \"literary ancestors\" as Asian American writers - a term Shawn Wong has regularly used in his own description of the book's genealogy - they ended up becoming a match to strike the flame of a whole generation of new Asian American writers, a number of whom are represented in this special issue. In the immediate wake of Aiiieeeee! there also sprung up numerous other Asian American literary anthologies that have helped to showcase a broader range of voices, including Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Poets (1983), The Best of Bamboo Ridge (1986), Blue Funnel Line: A special issue of Seattle Review (1988), The Forbidden Stitch (1989), The Big AIIIEEEEE!: An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature (1991), American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices (1993), The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America (1993), Growing Up Asian American: An Anthology (1993), Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Fiction.
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Reconstructing the Past: Reproduction of Trauma in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
This article interprets The Woman Warrior as reproduction and re-composition of unspeakable traumatic memories and experience of Chinese-American women who live in an uncanny world and in diasporic condition. Drawing on trauma theory, this article studies the effects of various traumas upon the psychology of characters and examines how Kingston utilizes intertextuality as a way of demonstrating traumatic repetition and promoting healing. Intertextually revising the Chinese legend enables characters to conflate the unspeakable experience into their cognitive systems and to reconstruct a past free from trauma.
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