scholarly journals The theme of Nanjing city in the poetry of Bai Hua

2021 ◽  
Vol IX(257) (75) ◽  
pp. 74-75
Author(s):  
O. Trunova

The article considers the specifics of the theme of Chinese city Nanjing as one of the main and significant images in the Bai Hua’s poetry during his stay in this city in 1988 – 1992. Poems from the poetry collection “In Nanjing” were translated and analyzed, the influence of the city on the author’s inner world and on his further artistic work was studied. It is noted that the city made a pleasant impression on the poet and contributed Bai Hua to the transition to lyric poetry. The influence of Nanjing’s spring landscapes on the poet’s life and poetic mood is substained on the examples of the poems “Freedom”, “Holiday” and “Spring Day”.

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Sanecka ◽  
Stephan Barthel ◽  
Johan Colding

In the midst of the epoch of the Urban Anthropocene, citizen engagement is an important step on the path of creating local and global sustainability. However, the factors that motivate civic urban dwellers to become voluntary stewards of nature environments inside cities need research. This is an empirical study based on deep interviews and a grounded theory approach focused on the “inner world” of people in Warsaw, Poland, that engage in green area stewardship. Our approach reveals a commonly shared vision as the prime motivator powering agency in green area stewardship. This vision was articulated as creating a countryside within the city characterized by a stronger sense of community, a shared sense of place and an enhanced connection with nature. While other studies have found inner values or direct benefits as motivating factors for engaging in urban stewardship, we instead found a green vision for re-designing what the “urban” could be like as the prime motivator for transformation—a vision with potential global sustainability implications.


Classics ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Konstan ◽  
Marilyn B. Skinner

Catullus, a master of lyric poetry, epigram, and other forms during the late Roman Republic, was born in Verona in 87 bce, according to Jerome’s Chronicle, which also reports that he died at the age of thirty. Since the latest datable references in his poems relate to 54 bce, most scholars assign Catullus’s birth to 84 (thus treating one of Jerome’s statements as true), but it is possible that he lived longer. At the time of Catullus’s birth, Verona had not yet been granted full Roman status; but Catullus’s family, which was prominent in the city, probably enjoyed Roman citizenship. Catullus moved to Rome as a young man (the precise year is unknown), and probably died there. From his poems, we know that he was very attached to an older brother who died in the Troad. His verses give evidence of a wide circle of friendships among the highest classes in Rome, but, of course, they must be used with great care in reconstructing anything like a narrative of his own life. His friends, as well as his amatory relationships, are discussed in this article.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Elena A. Rusinova

The theme of the artistic image of the city in film has been repeatedly considered in film studies from both historical and cultural perspectives. However, two aspects of the study of the theme remain virtually unexplored because they are associated with a professional analysis of such a specific area of filmmaking as sound directing. The first aspect is the role of the city in films as both visual and audio space; the second aspect is the significance of urban sounds in the creation of the inner world of a film character. This essay explores the director's vision of urban space and the possibilities of sound directing in the formation of the inner world of a character and his/her various mental conditions - through the use of sound textures of the urban environment. The author analyses several films about Georgia's capital Tbilisi, produced in different time periods. The vivid "sound face" of Tbilisi allows one to follow changes in the aesthetic approaches to the use of the city's sounds for the formation of the image of film characters in the cultural and historical context of particular films. The essay concludes that the urban space, with its huge range of sound phenomena, contributes to the formation of a polyphonic phonogram which could bring a film's semantics to higher aesthetic and intellectual levelsl.


2007 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 432-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiantian Zheng

AbstractThis article examines the historical formation of local masculine identity in the city of Dalian in north-east China. I argue that the experiences of Dalian-Chinese men under Japanese colonialism (1905–45) established a model of masculine identity based on bodily resistance. The article explores Dalian men's encounter with colonialism by comparing two different forms of bodily experience: military calisthenics in Japanese-run schools for Chinese boys and street soccer. On the one hand, military calisthenics impressed Chinese schoolboys with a sense of subjugation focused on the body. Bodily movements were performed under the strict scrutiny of Japanese drill masters and formed an integral part of everyday rituals of obedience. On the other hand, street soccer emerged as a popular and potentially creative activity among Chinese schoolboys. In contrast with the controlled motions of military calisthenics, soccer offered a sense of freedom in its unrestricted and improvised movements. Matches against Japanese teams even more explicitly infused soccer with a spirit of nationalistic resistance. In conclusion, I argue that these bodily experiences are crucial to understanding the historical reformations of Dalian male gender identity.


Author(s):  
Priscila Romana Moraes de Melo

ResumoEste ensaio traz a fala de uma mulher que descobre em si um palhaço, mesmo atuando, há 13 anos, como palhaça. O encontro com o palhaço Uisquisito ocorreu em 2012, no grupo de teatro Palhaços Trovadores, do qual faço parte há 10 anos. A partir disso, atuar na palhaçaria com gêneros diferentes, feminino e masculino, trouxe-me reflexões não só na arte do palhaço, fato de ter dois palhaços, mas sobretudo, de se provocar discussões do que é uma mulher que tem um palhaço, que em suas primeiras experimentações faz leituras de poemas-manifestos. Com um olhar de pesquisadora para meu fazer artístico, escrever e ler poemas-manifestos se tornou uma característica do Uisquisito. Seus escritos sempre relacionados aos contextos políticos atuais da cidade de Belém, muitos referentes a falta de investimentos na área da cultura, ao descaso com os artistas, as limitações de acesso aos teatros e outros espaços para o movimento artístico na cidade. O Uisquisito me faz pensar na potência política que a comicidade tem, tanto no ato transgressor de uma mulher ser palhaça e ser palhaço por desejo, não por imposição, como era no circo antigamente, quanto na força de provocar reflexões sobre os contextos políticos na atualidade, trazendo o teatro, a comicidade e a palhaçaria como uma forte arma de discussão.AbstractThis essay brings the speech of a woman who discovers in herself a male clown, even though she has been acting for 13 years as a female clown. The meeting with the clown Uisquisito took place in 2012, in the theater group Palhaços Trovadores, which I have been a part of for the last 10 years. Acting through different gender in clowns brought me reflections, not only in the art of clown, in the fact of having two them, but most of all, provoking discussions of what is a woman who has a male clown, who in his first experiments performed poem-manifest readings. With a researcher’s eye at my artistic work, writing and reading poems-manifest has become a feature of Uisquisito. His writings are related to the current political contexts at the city of Belém, referring mainly to investments in the cultural area, neglect of artists, limitations of theaters and spaces for the artistic movement in the city. Uisquisito makes me think about the political power comedy has, first in the transgressing act of a woman being a being a male clown by desire, not by imposition, as it used to be in the circus of old. Second, in the force of provoking reflections on the political contexts nowadays, bringing the theater, comedy and clownery as a strong weapon of discussion.


PERSPEKTIF ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-167
Author(s):  
Biliater Situngkir ◽  
Zulkifli Lubis ◽  
Abdul Kadir

The development of the Chinese city site area as a tourism potential in the city of Medan is very important considering the city of Medan does not yet have natural tourism objects that are well managed. The type of study used in this research is descriptive with a qualitative approach where research is carried out to create a tourism development using the Collaborative Management (Co-Management) method. To obtain data and to deepen the implementation of collaborative management, in-depth interviews were conducted with key informants and questionnaires so that the data needed in this study was complete. Data obtained in the field, both secondary data and primary data will be compiled, presented and analyzed with a qualitative approach in the form of exposure which will then be analyzed in accordance with the research problem undertaken. The results of research conducted show that the community has been involved in the development of tourism in the Chinese city site area. But the community is still walking alone in the development of tourism. With the concept of collaborative management, it will certainly be in developing tourism that is more focused and more targeted as desired. From this research it can be concluded that the area of the Chinese city site has a huge opportunity to be developed into the tourism sector that can provide benefits for both the government, the community and the parties involved in developing tourism.


1986 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt

Historians of premodern Chinese urbanism have long assumed that the origins of the Chinese imperial city plan stem from a passage in the Kaogong Ji (Record of Trades) section of the classical text Rituals of Zhou which describes the city of the King of Zhou. Taking this description as the single source of all Chinese capitals, these historians have gone on to write that any Chinese imperial city constructed during the last 2,000 years not only has much in common with any other one, but that all have been built according to a single scheme. Yet the plans of the two most important Chinese imperial cities, Chang'an in the 7th to 9th century, and Beijing after the 14th century, indicate that a crucial feature of the Chinese imperial urban plan, the position of the imperial palaces, is in the north center at Chang'an and roughly in the exact center at Beijing, thereby dispelling the myth of the direct descent of all Chinese imperial city plans from the King of Zhou's city. Moreover, an examination of excavated cities of the first millennium B. C. shows that the Chang'an plan, the Beijing plan, and a third type, the double city, have their origins in China before the 1st century A. D., when the Kaogong Ji is believed to have been written. Moreover, all three city plan types can be traced through several thousand years of Chinese city building. After stating the hypothesis of three lineages of Chinese imperial city building, the paper illustrates and briefly comments on the key examples of each city type through history. More than 20 cities are involved in understanding the evolution of the imperial Chinese plans. Thus this paper also includes many Chinese capital plans heretofore unpublished in a Western language. The plan of Chang'an is different from that of Beijing because the latter city was built on the ruins of a city designed anew by the Mongol ruler of China, Khubilai Khan, with the intent of adhering to the prescribed design of the Kaogong Ji; whereas Chang'an was built according to a plan used by native and non-Chinese rulers of China only until the advent of Mongolian rule (with one exception.) Finally, this paper examines the assumption that there was little variation in Chinese imperial city building. A main reason for the assumed uniformities in Chinese capitals is because the imperial city is traditionally one of the most potent symbols of imperial rule, such that digression from it might imply less than legitimate rulership. Thus it can be shown that Chinese and non-Chinese dynasties had their actual city schemes amended for the historical record through the publication of fictitious city plans.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 439
Author(s):  
Victoria Nguyen

For all of its protean and ephemeral qualities, air exerts a remarkably muscular influence on urban form and contemporary life in China. In recent years, as the breakneck speed of China’s development has altered the very chemistry of the atmosphere, the boundaries between breathing subjects and their toxic environments have become increasingly blurred. In this climate, Beijing inhabitants have sought out various modes of respiratory refuge, reorganizing the city into new spaces of atmospheric fortification. As deadly air divides Beijing into a series of protected insides and precarious outsides, life is increasingly being reoriented toward the dangers and imperatives of breathing in the Chinese city. Yet alongside the growing stratification of breathing experiences in the capital, shared exposure is also reconfiguring public life and landscapes through new solidarities and entwined fates. Engaging Beijing’s emergent respiratory publics online, behind face masks, and inside conditioned air spaces, I explore how collective exposure is galvanizing new modes of atmospheric recognition in China. Specifically, I suggest that respiratory publics make invisible threats visible by mobilizing everyday objects, practices, and social life to render air both an object of concern and a site of intervention. Ultimately, by attending to how attunements to air pollution emerge through everyday practices and quotidian habits, this article expands upon a growing body of STS scholarship investigating how social life is increasingly constituted in and through atmospheric entanglements.


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