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Contemporary German–Chinese Cultures in Dialogue
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Contemporary German–Chinese Cultures in Dialogue

This book provides a unique perspective on contemporary German and Chinese cultural encounters. Moving away from highlighting exchanges between the two countries in terms of colonial connections, religious influences and philosophical impacts, the book instead focuses on the vast array of modern cultural dialogues that have influenced both countries, especially in literature, theatre and film. The book discusses issues of translation, adaptation, and reception to reveal a unique cultural relationship. The editors and contributors examine the existing programs and strategies for cultural interchange, and analyse how these shape or have shaped intercultural dialogue, and what kind of intercultural exchange is encouraged. This book is of interest to students and researchers of film and media studies, Sinophone studies, transnational studies, cultural studies and social and cultural anthropology.

The Land of the Five Flavors
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

The Land of the Five Flavors

Translation of: Schlafender Lotos, trunkenes Huhn.

How Should One Live?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

How Should One Live?

Chinese and Greco-Roman ethics present highly articulate views on how one should live; both of these traditions remain influential in modern philosophy. The question arises how these traditions can be compared with one another. Comparative ethics is a relatively young discipline, and this volume is a major contribution to the field. Fundamental questions about the nature of comparing ethics are treated in two introductory chapters, followed by chapters on core issues in each of the traditions : harmony, virtue, friendship, knowledge, the relation of ethics to morality, relativism. The volume closes with a number of comparative studies on emotions, being and unity, simplicity and complexity, and prediction.

Words and visions around/about Chinese transnational mobilities 流动
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

Words and visions around/about Chinese transnational mobilities 流动

This collection gathers the contributions of ten scholars on the topic of transnational cultural and physical mobility originating in China. These contributions aim to open conversations among Chinese Studies scholars by applying a Mobility Studies perspective. Exploring diverse narratives and forms of representation from people of Chinese heritage, the book is divided into three parts that each look closely at the relationship between movement and cultural production. The first part is dedicated to four types of mobility of people from China to Italy, namely tourist mobility (Miriam Castorina), labor mobility (Valentina Pedone), student mobility (Xu Hao), and mobility of social elites (Andrea Scibetta). The second part is dedicated to examples of reverse mobility from Italy to China (Gao Changxu, Chiara Lepri, Giuseppe Rizzuto). The third part focuses on case studies based on mobilities from China to territories other than Italy (Rebecca Ehrenwirth, Martina Renata Prosperi, Giulia Rampolla).

Sinophone Studies Across Disciplines
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 667

Sinophone Studies Across Disciplines

Sinophone studies—the study of Sinitic-language cultures and communities around the world—has become increasingly interdisciplinary over the past decade. Today, it spans not only literary studies and cinema studies but also history, anthropology, musicology, linguistics, art history, and dance. More and more, it is in conversation with fields such as postcolonial studies, settler-colonial studies, migration studies, ethnic studies, queer studies, and area studies. This reader presents the latest and most cutting-edge work in Sinophone studies, bringing together both senior and emerging scholars to highlight the interdisciplinary reach and significance of this vital field. It argues that ...

The Developing Performance Art System of Yingmei Duan 2014-2024
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

The Developing Performance Art System of Yingmei Duan 2014-2024

  • Categories: Art

„Yingmei Duan“ ist das zentrale Medium von Yingmei Duans Performancekunst: ihre Präsenz, ihr Körper und ihre Identität; die Emotionen in ihrem Herzen, die Neugier in ihren Augen und die Lieder auf ihren Lippen. Sie verwandelt Räume und Objekte in Erweiterungen ihrer selbst. In ihre Werke einzutreten bedeutet, in die Welt von Yingmei Duan einzutreten, in der wir erkennen, dass Kunst kein Privileg ist, sondern ein Wert, der durch gleichberechtigte Zusammenarbeit und Kommunikation geschaffen werden kann. - Li Qi “Yingmei Duan” is the primary medium of Yingmei Duan's performance art: her presence, her body, and her identity; the emotions in her heart, the curiosity in her eyes, and t...

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 438

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere is the most up-to-date English-language study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) themed literature and culture in the Chinese-speaking world. From classical homoerotic texts to contemporary boys' love fan fiction, this book showcases the richness and diversity of queer Chinese literature across the full spectrum of genres, styles, topics and cultural politics. The book features authors and literary works from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and the global Chinese diaspora. Featuring chapters by leading scholars from around the world, this book rewrites literature, history and culture from a queer lens in China and globally.

Mother Tongues and Other Tongues
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Mother Tongues and Other Tongues

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-09-26
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Edited by Simona Gallo and Martina Codeluppi, Mother Tongues and Other Tongues: Creating and Translating Sinophone Poetry analyzes contemporary translingual Sinophone poetry and discusses its creative processes and translational implications, along with their intersections. How do self-translation and other translingual practices mold the Sinophone poetic field? How and why do contemporary Sinophone writers produce (new) lyrical identities in and through translation? How do we translate contemporary Sinophone poetry? By addressing such questions, and by bringing together scholars, writers, and translators of poetry, this volume offers unique insights into Sinophone Studies, while sparking a transdisciplinary dialogue with Poetry Studies, Translation Studies and Cultural Studies.

Chinese Script
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 102

Chinese Script

In this brisk and accessible history, sinologist Thomas O. Höllmann explains the development of the Chinese writing system and its importance in literature, religion, art, and other aspects of culture. Spanning the earliest epigraphs and oracle bones to writing and texting on computers and mobile phones today, Chinese Script is a wide-ranging and versatile introduction to the complexity and beauty of written text and calligraphy in the Chinese world. Höllmann delves into the origins of Chinese script and its social and political meanings across millennia of history. He recounts the social history of the writing system; written and printed texts; and the use of writing materials such as pap...

The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 468

The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI

Part of the extraordinary multi-volume portrait of ancient China written by a court official of the Han Dynasty. The Grand Scribe’s Records, Volume XI presents the final nine memoirs of Ssu-ma Ch’ien’s history, continuing the series of collective biographies with seven more prosopographies on the ruthless officials, the wandering gallants, the artful favorites, those who discern auspicious days, turtle and stalk diviners, and those whose goods increase, punctuated by the final account of Emperor Wu’s wars against neighboring peoples and concluded with Ssu-ma Ch’ien’s postface containing a history of his family and himself. Praise for the series: “[An] indispensable addition to modern sinology.” —China Review International “The English translation has been done meticulously.” —Choice