This essay examines Raymond Williams’s autobiographical novel Border Country, the first novel of ... more This essay examines Raymond Williams’s autobiographical novel Border Country, the first novel of his ambitious “Welsh Trilogy.” The aim of the essay is twofold. Firstly, it analyzes the unsettling issue of how a bio-regional place (native place) shapes polyvalent identities in a historically changing environment and how the boundary that crisscrosses the passages of life is redrawn through narrative re-circumscription and optical revision. Secondly, the essay calls this trope of internalizing “border-crossing” into question in the context of global diaspora and critically problematizes Williams’s identity politics as schizophrenic split from British post-colonial empire.
These four poems by Mi Jialu were written during the heyday of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 as t... more These four poems by Mi Jialu were written during the heyday of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 as the virus swept around the world. They document the human condition of suffering, vulnerability, and helplessness while also expressing the irresistible longing for freedom, hope, and healing. Through meditating on samsara and nirvana, these poems seek to evoke a more spiritual aura of awakening and illumination in the post-apocalyptical age of natural calamity.
These four poems by Mi Jialu were written during the heyday of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 as t... more These four poems by Mi Jialu were written during the heyday of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 as the virus swept around the world. They document the human condition of suffering, vulnerability, and helplessness while also expressing the irresistible longing for freedom, hope, and healing. Through meditating on samsara and nirvana, these poems seek to evoke a more spiritual aura of awakening and illumination in the post-apocalyptical age of natural calamity.
These four poems by Mi Jialu show a personal contemplation on the torturous human condition infli... more These four poems by Mi Jialu show a personal contemplation on the torturous human condition inflicted by historical traumas, environmental crisis, and diasporic alienation. Through a gaze of a surreal lens, the poet seeks to express the inexpressible haunted by memory, dreams, and ghosts. With a more psychological quest, the poet embarks on a journey into the heart of darkness for self-redemption and spiritual illumination.
this essay examines raymond Williams's autobiographical novel Border Country, the first novel of ... more this essay examines raymond Williams's autobiographical novel Border Country, the first novel of his ambitious "Welsh trilogy." the aim of the essay is twofold. Firstly, it analyzes the unsettling issue of how a bio-regional place (native place) shapes polyvalent identities in a historically changing environment and how the boundary that crisscrosses the passages of life is redrawn through narrative re-circumscription and optical revision. secondly, the essay calls this trope of internalizing "border-crossing" into question in the context of global diaspora and critically problematizes Williams's identity politics as schizophrenic split from British post-colonial empire.
摘 要：《深呼吸》是美国华人学者米家路潜心新诗创作37年来的首次结集.在诗集中,米家路对自然意象的执著书写引人关注,呈现出独特的诗学景观.首先,自然意象在米家路的诗歌中呈现出从"浪漫"到"智性... more 摘 要：《深呼吸》是美国华人学者米家路潜心新诗创作37年来的首次结集.在诗集中,米家路对自然意象的执著书写引人关注,呈现出独特的诗学景观.首先,自然意象在米家路的诗歌中呈现出从"浪漫"到"智性"的书写路径;其次,对自然意象的执著书写,缘于米家路从现代诗学中提炼与推崇的"返乡"母题;再次,中西美学互涉交融的"新古典主义",使得自然在米家路的诗歌中呈现出集传统与现代于一身的诗学魅力.
This anthology is the first book-length study of China's environmental condition and ecosyste... more This anthology is the first book-length study of China's environmental condition and ecosystem through the lens of cinema from a non-anthropocentric point of view. By proposing "ecocinema" as a new critical framework, the volume breaks new ground in Chinese and global film studies.
This essay tries to appropriate and actualize Said's critique of Orientalism and Mitchell'... more This essay tries to appropriate and actualize Said's critique of Orientalism and Mitchell's conception of the ideology of the imperial landscape in an attempt to show how the fantasy of Tibet as the other was constructed by the narrative and visual technologies of imperialist ideology in the service of its own interests. The essay argues that both the mode of conquest and that of being conquered by the Tibetan landscape have misrepresented and distorted the nature of Tibet, thus actually reflecting the effect of imperialist hegemonic power over the indigenous people.Between Western imperialism and the communists, Tibet has been consumed, becoming a ”contact zone” in which contending powers and interests play against each other.
戴望舒追憶詩學中最顯著的主題便是對花卉的雙重修辭化塑造 ，以期重獲被現代性撕裂的理想之美， 進而達到重塑新型的自我身份。這種獨特的雙重辭格具體表現為一種雙向孕育的建構過程， 即花卉的物理特性孕育... more 戴望舒追憶詩學中最顯著的主題便是對花卉的雙重修辭化塑造 ，以期重獲被現代性撕裂的理想之美， 進而達到重塑新型的自我身份。這種獨特的雙重辭格具體表現為一種雙向孕育的建構過程， 即花卉的物理特性孕育並激發了詩人的詩性意識, 觸發了詩人對記憶、女性、時間感、放逐、夢、蝴蝶、悲悼、書本與花卉之間的觀照， 而這種對花卉的辭格化冥想反過來又使哀敗中的花卉昇華為超感時間的恆久植物範本（herbarium）， 最終虛空的現代性時間被詩歌救贖， 分裂的自我意識得以重塑， 失落的歷史過往被重構為對未來的想像。正是戴望舒詩歌中的這種花卉的追憶辭格促成了詩人對中國現代性中的危機自我的雙重跨越—從自我到非我，從他者到新塑自我，從而使現代漢詩的自我形塑達致更加成熟高點。 Trope of Floral Remembrance Intersemination of Herbarium and Verbarium in Dai Wangshu’s Poetry
Dai wangshu’s poetics of memory is uniquely characterized by the double reconfiguration of flowers. In an attempt to regain the ideal beauty torn by modernity and to reconstruct a new self-identity, this unique dual reconfiguration is embodied as a two-way insemination in that the physical characteristics of flowers have nurtured and stimulated the poet's poetic consciousness, and have triggered the poet's contemplation on the intersections of flowers with memory, women, sense of time, exile, dreams, butterflies, books and mourning. This figurative meditation on flowers in turn sublimates flower’s transience into a transcendent plant model (herbarium) that defies sensual time, and finally the ever-empty time of modernity is redeemed by poetry , the divided self-consciousness is reshaped, and the lost historical past is reconstructed into an imagination of the future. It is this kind of floral remembrance in Dai Wangshu’s poetry that has enabled the poet’s double crossing in the era of the crisis of self in Chinese modernity—from self to non-self, from the other to the new self, and thus has shaped the self in modern Chinese poetry towards a higher measure of maturity.
These four poems by Mi Jialu show a personal contemplation on the torturous human condition infli... more These four poems by Mi Jialu show a personal contemplation on the torturous human condition inflicted by historical traumas, environmental crisis, and diasporic alienation. Through a gaze of a surreal lens, the poet seeks to express the inexpressible haunted by memory, dreams, and ghosts. With a more psychological quest, the poet embarks on a journey into the heart of darkness for self-redemption and spiritual illumination.
This essay examines Raymond Williams’s autobiographical novel Border Country, the first novel of ... more This essay examines Raymond Williams’s autobiographical novel Border Country, the first novel of his ambitious “Welsh Trilogy.” The aim of the essay is twofold. Firstly, it analyzes the unsettling issue of how a bio-regional place (native place) shapes polyvalent identities in a historically changing environment and how the boundary that crisscrosses the passages of life is redrawn through narrative re-circumscription and optical revision. Secondly, the essay calls this trope of internalizing “border-crossing” into question in the context of global diaspora and critically problematizes Williams’s identity politics as schizophrenic split from British post-colonial empire.
These four poems by Mi Jialu were written during the heyday of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 as t... more These four poems by Mi Jialu were written during the heyday of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 as the virus swept around the world. They document the human condition of suffering, vulnerability, and helplessness while also expressing the irresistible longing for freedom, hope, and healing. Through meditating on samsara and nirvana, these poems seek to evoke a more spiritual aura of awakening and illumination in the post-apocalyptical age of natural calamity.
These four poems by Mi Jialu were written during the heyday of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 as t... more These four poems by Mi Jialu were written during the heyday of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 as the virus swept around the world. They document the human condition of suffering, vulnerability, and helplessness while also expressing the irresistible longing for freedom, hope, and healing. Through meditating on samsara and nirvana, these poems seek to evoke a more spiritual aura of awakening and illumination in the post-apocalyptical age of natural calamity.
These four poems by Mi Jialu show a personal contemplation on the torturous human condition infli... more These four poems by Mi Jialu show a personal contemplation on the torturous human condition inflicted by historical traumas, environmental crisis, and diasporic alienation. Through a gaze of a surreal lens, the poet seeks to express the inexpressible haunted by memory, dreams, and ghosts. With a more psychological quest, the poet embarks on a journey into the heart of darkness for self-redemption and spiritual illumination.
this essay examines raymond Williams's autobiographical novel Border Country, the first novel of ... more this essay examines raymond Williams's autobiographical novel Border Country, the first novel of his ambitious "Welsh trilogy." the aim of the essay is twofold. Firstly, it analyzes the unsettling issue of how a bio-regional place (native place) shapes polyvalent identities in a historically changing environment and how the boundary that crisscrosses the passages of life is redrawn through narrative re-circumscription and optical revision. secondly, the essay calls this trope of internalizing "border-crossing" into question in the context of global diaspora and critically problematizes Williams's identity politics as schizophrenic split from British post-colonial empire.
摘 要：《深呼吸》是美国华人学者米家路潜心新诗创作37年来的首次结集.在诗集中,米家路对自然意象的执著书写引人关注,呈现出独特的诗学景观.首先,自然意象在米家路的诗歌中呈现出从"浪漫"到"智性... more 摘 要：《深呼吸》是美国华人学者米家路潜心新诗创作37年来的首次结集.在诗集中,米家路对自然意象的执著书写引人关注,呈现出独特的诗学景观.首先,自然意象在米家路的诗歌中呈现出从"浪漫"到"智性"的书写路径;其次,对自然意象的执著书写,缘于米家路从现代诗学中提炼与推崇的"返乡"母题;再次,中西美学互涉交融的"新古典主义",使得自然在米家路的诗歌中呈现出集传统与现代于一身的诗学魅力.
This anthology is the first book-length study of China's environmental condition and ecosyste... more This anthology is the first book-length study of China's environmental condition and ecosystem through the lens of cinema from a non-anthropocentric point of view. By proposing "ecocinema" as a new critical framework, the volume breaks new ground in Chinese and global film studies.
This essay tries to appropriate and actualize Said's critique of Orientalism and Mitchell'... more This essay tries to appropriate and actualize Said's critique of Orientalism and Mitchell's conception of the ideology of the imperial landscape in an attempt to show how the fantasy of Tibet as the other was constructed by the narrative and visual technologies of imperialist ideology in the service of its own interests. The essay argues that both the mode of conquest and that of being conquered by the Tibetan landscape have misrepresented and distorted the nature of Tibet, thus actually reflecting the effect of imperialist hegemonic power over the indigenous people.Between Western imperialism and the communists, Tibet has been consumed, becoming a ”contact zone” in which contending powers and interests play against each other.
戴望舒追憶詩學中最顯著的主題便是對花卉的雙重修辭化塑造 ，以期重獲被現代性撕裂的理想之美， 進而達到重塑新型的自我身份。這種獨特的雙重辭格具體表現為一種雙向孕育的建構過程， 即花卉的物理特性孕育... more 戴望舒追憶詩學中最顯著的主題便是對花卉的雙重修辭化塑造 ，以期重獲被現代性撕裂的理想之美， 進而達到重塑新型的自我身份。這種獨特的雙重辭格具體表現為一種雙向孕育的建構過程， 即花卉的物理特性孕育並激發了詩人的詩性意識, 觸發了詩人對記憶、女性、時間感、放逐、夢、蝴蝶、悲悼、書本與花卉之間的觀照， 而這種對花卉的辭格化冥想反過來又使哀敗中的花卉昇華為超感時間的恆久植物範本（herbarium）， 最終虛空的現代性時間被詩歌救贖， 分裂的自我意識得以重塑， 失落的歷史過往被重構為對未來的想像。正是戴望舒詩歌中的這種花卉的追憶辭格促成了詩人對中國現代性中的危機自我的雙重跨越—從自我到非我，從他者到新塑自我，從而使現代漢詩的自我形塑達致更加成熟高點。 Trope of Floral Remembrance Intersemination of Herbarium and Verbarium in Dai Wangshu’s Poetry
Dai wangshu’s poetics of memory is uniquely characterized by the double reconfiguration of flowers. In an attempt to regain the ideal beauty torn by modernity and to reconstruct a new self-identity, this unique dual reconfiguration is embodied as a two-way insemination in that the physical characteristics of flowers have nurtured and stimulated the poet's poetic consciousness, and have triggered the poet's contemplation on the intersections of flowers with memory, women, sense of time, exile, dreams, butterflies, books and mourning. This figurative meditation on flowers in turn sublimates flower’s transience into a transcendent plant model (herbarium) that defies sensual time, and finally the ever-empty time of modernity is redeemed by poetry , the divided self-consciousness is reshaped, and the lost historical past is reconstructed into an imagination of the future. It is this kind of floral remembrance in Dai Wangshu’s poetry that has enabled the poet’s double crossing in the era of the crisis of self in Chinese modernity—from self to non-self, from the other to the new self, and thus has shaped the self in modern Chinese poetry towards a higher measure of maturity.
These four poems by Mi Jialu show a personal contemplation on the torturous human condition infli... more These four poems by Mi Jialu show a personal contemplation on the torturous human condition inflicted by historical traumas, environmental crisis, and diasporic alienation. Through a gaze of a surreal lens, the poet seeks to express the inexpressible haunted by memory, dreams, and ghosts. With a more psychological quest, the poet embarks on a journey into the heart of darkness for self-redemption and spiritual illumination.
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Trope of Floral Remembrance
Intersemination of Herbarium and Verbarium in Dai Wangshu’s Poetry
Dai wangshu’s poetics of memory is uniquely characterized by the double reconfiguration of flowers. In an attempt to regain the ideal beauty torn by modernity and to reconstruct a new self-identity, this unique dual reconfiguration is embodied as a two-way insemination in that the physical characteristics of flowers have nurtured and stimulated the poet's poetic consciousness, and have triggered the poet's contemplation on the intersections of flowers with memory, women, sense of time, exile, dreams, butterflies, books and mourning. This figurative meditation on flowers in turn sublimates flower’s transience into a transcendent plant model (herbarium) that defies sensual time, and finally the ever-empty time of modernity is redeemed by poetry , the divided self-consciousness is reshaped, and the lost historical past is reconstructed into an imagination of the future. It is this kind of floral remembrance in Dai Wangshu’s poetry that has enabled the poet’s double crossing in the era of the crisis of self in Chinese modernity—from self to non-self, from the other to the new self, and thus has shaped the self in modern Chinese poetry towards a higher measure of maturity.
Trope of Floral Remembrance
Intersemination of Herbarium and Verbarium in Dai Wangshu’s Poetry
Dai wangshu’s poetics of memory is uniquely characterized by the double reconfiguration of flowers. In an attempt to regain the ideal beauty torn by modernity and to reconstruct a new self-identity, this unique dual reconfiguration is embodied as a two-way insemination in that the physical characteristics of flowers have nurtured and stimulated the poet's poetic consciousness, and have triggered the poet's contemplation on the intersections of flowers with memory, women, sense of time, exile, dreams, butterflies, books and mourning. This figurative meditation on flowers in turn sublimates flower’s transience into a transcendent plant model (herbarium) that defies sensual time, and finally the ever-empty time of modernity is redeemed by poetry , the divided self-consciousness is reshaped, and the lost historical past is reconstructed into an imagination of the future. It is this kind of floral remembrance in Dai Wangshu’s poetry that has enabled the poet’s double crossing in the era of the crisis of self in Chinese modernity—from self to non-self, from the other to the new self, and thus has shaped the self in modern Chinese poetry towards a higher measure of maturity.