Reciprocity in Chinese Traditions

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-91
Author(s):  
Jack Barbalet
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Confucian Tradition ◽  
Role Taking ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Classical Chinese

Chapter 3 explores the possibility of locating principles underlying guanxi in classical Chinese traditions. First, the basis and nature of ‘reciprocity’ in Chinese culture is examined through analysis of the notions of bao and shu, and also renqing. It is shown that the concept of bao, drawn from different literary and institutional settings, is not source to a singular notion of reciprocity. It is also shown that the concept of shu relates to cognitive, affective, and imaginative practices, of role-taking, rather than to the more concrete enactments of exchange. The concept of renqing, widely regarded as both derived from the Confucian tradition and centrally important for guanxi, is shown to relate to everyday practices about which Confucius was uninterested, and which do not require traditional sanction. In positive terms, the chapter clears the ground in order to establish a distinctive account of the secular and self-generating practices of guanxi.

The lyric oeuvre of Afanasy Fet and Chinese idyllic poems

2021 ◽  
pp. 222-232
Author(s):  
Zh. Lu
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Lyric Poetry ◽  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
Classical Chinese ◽  
Classical Chinese Poetry ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Chinese Texts ◽  
The Ancient Chinese ◽  
Light And Shadow

There are compelling similarities between Afanasy Fet’s lyric poetry and classical Chinese lyric poetry. This connection is traced in the article with specific examples. Fet, carried away by the ideas of Schopenhauer, argued that thepoetic feeling lives in every person and can be called the sixth and highest feeling. In classical Chinese poetry, the Confucian concept of ‘the sense of things,’ the Taoist formula ‘words and forms’ and the idea of the unity of man and nature played an important role. With characteristic fixation of subtle changes of light and shadow, with the transmission of flushed feelings, Fet’s oeuvre reminds the readers of the ancient Chinese lyric poetry. Like classic Chinese texts, Fet’s poems are textbooks where the idea of the unity of man and nature is developed. In both Chinese poetry and Fet’s works, human life goes into natural life, gaining eternity in the nature. As a result, although Fet was not familiar with Chinese culture, the intuitions that fed his work surprisingly coincided with pictorial techniques as a way of conveying emotion in classical Chinese poetry, separated from him by many centuries.

‘Inevitable distinctions’

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-190
Author(s):  
Marzia Saglietti
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Contrastive Rhetoric ◽  
Unaccompanied Minors ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Way

Abstract Professionals working in residential care for children everyday perform the institutional relevant activity of constructing their cases. This article analyzes the ways in which they construct the case of ‘unaccompanied minors’ (UAM) and how, in doing so, they talk into being their everyday practices of work. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with Italian residential care professionals, this study adopts a Discourse Analysis approach. Findings illustrate how the discursive assemblage of UAM relies on participants’ multiple distinctions and on a contrastive rhetoric that is widely used in social work. Differences in the case-construction of UAM mirror participants’ institutional settings and overall socio-cultural debate, paving the way for future investigation.

Spirit of Han, Genius of Yamato

Teika ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul S. Atkins
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Language History ◽  
Classical Chinese ◽  
Literary Classics

Teika was biliterate in classical Japanese and classical Chinese, and well read in the Chinese historical and literary classics. His diary was kept mainly, but not entirely, in kanbun, a Japanese variant of classical Chinese. Portions of the diary in which Teika wrote in kana are studied for what they might reveal about Teika’s attitude toward classical Chinese language, history, and culture. Teika also wrote Matsuranomiya monogatari (The Tale of Matsura), a romantic adventure tale set in Tang-period China. A reading of the tale suggests that Teika had a highly favorable view of classical Chinese culture, and did not regard it as entirely foreign.

scholarly journals Modern and Contemporary Taiwanese Philosophy

Asian Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Jana Rošker
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Research Library ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Confucian Tradition ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Chinese Studies

The topic of this special issue deals with the development of a certain stream of the Chinese philosophical tradition. Yet this philosophy did not originate in mainland China, and thus in some supposedly logical “centre” of Chinese culture, but on its alleged “periphery”, namely on the beautiful island of Taiwan. One of the incentives for our decision to compile an issue of Asian Studies which is devoted entirely to the philosophical developments in Taiwan was an international conference, entitled Taiwanese Philosophy and the Preservation of the Confucian Tradition. This interesting academic meeting was organized in October 2019 in Ljubljana by the Center for Chinese Studies at the National Central Library in Taiwan in cooperation with the East Asian Research Library (EARL) and the Department of Asian Studies at University of Ljubljana.

On Necessity and Feasibility of Foreignization in the Translation of Classical Chinese Poetry

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 455
Author(s):  
Hongwei Ye
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
The West ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Classical Chinese ◽  
Classical Chinese Poetry ◽  
Cultural Connotations

Classical Chinese poetry is the concentrated reflection of traditional Chinese culture and its translation is an event of cross-cultural communication of increasing importance in the present age of globalization. This essay aims to analyze the necessity and feasibility of foreignization in the translation of classical Chinese poetry (CCP). Foreignization in CCP translation can convey the profound cultural connotations that are contained in cultural elements and retains the original poetic flavor. The author concludes that only through foreignization can we meet the needs of those curious readers in the west and achieve cultural communication with the West in the real sense.

scholarly journals Xu Fuguan’s Concept of Anxiety and Its Connection to Religious Studies

Asian Studies ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tea SERNELJ
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
Axial Age ◽  
Classical Chinese ◽  
Intellectual Movement

Although Xu Fuguan (1903–1982) belongs to the most important representatives of the Modern Confucian intellectual movement, he is rather unknown outside China. However, his concept of “anxiety” (youhuan yishi 憂患意識) is not only relevant for the recognition of the special characteristics, which determines the ideological and political structure of ancient Chinese society, but also for the intercultural elaboration of Jaspers’s “axial age” theory. This article introduces this concept to the European academic readership, and provides an analysis of its connection to the Modern Confucian hypothesis regarding the absence of an external God (or Deities) in classical Chinese culture.    

Wu Leichuan, Christianity and Chinese Culture, and the Kingdom of Heaven

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chloë Starr
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Critical Effect ◽  
Kingdom Of Heaven ◽  
Classical Chinese

This chapter reassesses Wu Leichuan (L. C. Wu)’s reconciliation of Christianity with Chinese culture by foregrounding the centrality of the Kingdom of Heaven in his thinking. This chapter analyzes the desire to build the Kingdom of God on earth, including especially in economic realms, in Wu’s 1936 Christianity and Chinese Culture. Wu has often been labeled a “Confucian-Christian,” and various studies have engaged with his contextualized Christianity as he negotiates between classical Chinese culture and an emerging modern culture, but the chapter draws greater attention to the theologians with whom Wu is in dialogue: the British, German, and American Social Gospel proponents whose writings on the kingdom had such a critical effect on Wu.

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