Six Modernist Poets in Search of Du Fu

Reading Du Fu ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 143-164
Author(s):  
David Der-wei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Du Fu ◽  
The Past ◽  
Important Clue ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Dialogical Relationship ◽  
May Fourth ◽  
The Way

Conventional wisdom has it that Chinese modernism arose as part of the May Fourth literary reform, a movement purportedly predicated on radical anti-traditionalism. The fact that Du Fu is the “author” worshiped by multiple modern Chinese poets during the past century prods us to reconsider the motivations of Chinese literary modernity. Their “search” for the ancient “sage of poetry” not only points to a unique dialogical relationship between the moderns and a premodern “author” but also offers an important clue to the genealogy of Chinese literary modernity. The way in which Chinese modernists have continually treated Du Fu as a source of inspiration, finding in him a kindred spirit, is a highly intriguing phenomenon. This essay introduces six modernist Chinese and Sinophone poets in search of Du Fu—Huang Canran 黃燦然‎, Xi Chuan 西川‎, Wai-lim Yip 葉維廉‎, Xiao Kaiyu 蕭開愚‎, Luo Fu 洛夫‎, and Luo Qing 羅青‎—along with their aspirations and conjurations, appropriations and revisions.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Cynthia J. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Western World ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Moral Transformation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Way

A strange moral transformation has within the past century swept over our Western world. We no longer think that we are called on to face physical pain with equanimity. It is not expected of a man that he should either endure it or inflict much of it, and to listen to the recital of cases of it makes our flesh creep morally as well as physically. The way in which our ancestors looked upon pain as an eternal ingredient of the world’s order, and both caused and suffered it as a matter-of-course portion of their day’s work, fills us with amazement....

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF THEOLOGICAL TRAINING AND HERMENEUTICS IN PENTECOSTALISM: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND ANALYSIS

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-207
Author(s):  
Marius Nel
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pentecostal Movement ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way ◽  
Theological Training

The article hypothesises that the historical development of Pentecostal hermeneutics is closely related to and illustrated by Pentecostals’ attitude towards theological training. A short survey is given of the development of theological training within the Pentecostal movement in order to demonstrate how it accompanied a change in the way the Bible was considered during the past century in terms of three phases. For the first three decades Pentecostals had no inclination towards any theological training; they considered that the Bible provided all they needed to know and what was important was not what people in biblical times experienced with or stated about God, but the way these narratives indicate contemporary believers to an encounter with God themselves, resulting in similar experiences. From the 1940s, Pentecostals for several reasons sought acceptance and approval and entered into partnerships with evangelicals, leading to their acceptance of evangelicals’ way of reading the Bible in a fundamentalist-literalist way. From the 1970s they established theological colleges and seminaries where theologians consciously developed Pentecostal hermeneutics in affinity with early Pentecostal hermeneutics, although most Pentecostals still read the Bible in a fundamentalist-literalistic way − as do the evangelicals. Its hermeneutics determined its anti-intellectual stance and the way Pentecostals arranged the training of its pastors. The history of the Pentecostal movement cannot be understood properly without realising the close connection between its hermeneutics and its view of theological training.

scholarly journals The Religious Cults of the Albanian Faith during the Early 20th Century

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Benita Stavre ◽  
Erinda Papa
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
American People ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Reliable Source ◽  
Life Context ◽  
The One ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
The Way

During the early twentieth century, Albania was visited by various British and American people who were eager to know about the curious features of this little country’s particular life. They had heard of it in their homeland and chose to trace a reality that was much different from the one they were used to. The materials they wrote and published, constitute a reliable source of information, whose analysis from the modern perception draws a picture of the life almost a century ago. This paper aims to describe the particular context of the relation that Albanian people had created with God and the way the religious life was shaped through the traditional rituals of the country. A few of the arguments that will be analyzed are: the way the religious faith was integrated in the daily activities, the religious tolerance in the state policies and the way it was reflected in the life context, religious attitudes due to the historical development of the past centuries, the influence of the new entries of the ‘30s, the restricted intercourse of the northern Albanians due to their geographical isolation and the pagan rituals and symbols of the traditional ceremonies. The Albanian way of worshiping seems to have been shaped by life pragmatism, social equilibrium and personal honesty. Nothing can describe it better than the people who lived with it for some time and were able to define it from a different mental perception. The description may supply modern insight of the particular attitude that this country reflected in early in the past century.

Noise, narration and nose-pegs: Adapting Shakespeare for radio

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Andrea Smith
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
Director General ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sound Effects ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Way

The BBC’s first director general, John Reith, believed the plays of Shakespeare were perfect for radio, with ‘little in the way of setting and scenery’ and relying chiefly on plot and acting. However, a closer look at the texts reveals that many require a good deal of adaptation to work in sound only. That has not stopped BBC radio producers creating hundreds of productions over the past century. Instead, it has spurred many of them on to greater creativity. Initially reliant on narration, producers began to devise a wide range of techniques to make Shakespeare comprehensible without visuals. These include specially devised sound effects, soundscapes and music, as well as distorting the actors’ voices in various ways, including using nose-pegs and the assistance of the Radiophonic Workshop. This article uses audio and written evidence to uncover those techniques and examines how successful they have been deemed to be.

The lingering core of legal scholarship

Legal Studies ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Bartie
Keyword(s):  
Past Century ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

The purpose of this paper is to consider how leading scholars are interpreting the role and status of the core tenets of legal scholarship in England and Australia – the tenets that have provided an element of unity in legal scholarship over the past century or so. Instead of focusing on the way that scholarship has diversified and expanded, the paper considers whether elements of the prior orthodoxy have remained: do the tenets persist, what status are they afforded and what impact will their presence have on the future identity of the discipline and its conception of law? The paper captures insights into the way that scholars – as opposed to administrators or managers – are interpreting changes in the discipline. It is based on the premise that scholarly attitudes can shape the discipline and that therefore such attitudes are worthy of study.

James VII's Forfeiture of the Scottish Throne

1973 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-313
Author(s):  
Robert P. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Independent Process ◽  
The Government ◽  
Constitutional Monarchy ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Revolution

The perspective of time has allowed most British historians to declare the English phase of the British Revolution of 1688-1689 “glorious” whereas the Scottish developments largely have been ignored as inconsequential. Although Scotland was included in Macaulay's History of England, for the past century it has been mentioned only briefly in historical treatments of the Revolution. Yet the Scottish Convention Parliament of 1689 not only followed and fulfilled the English Parliament's revolutionary initiative, but in an independent process paved the way for a more fundamental, uncompromising, and far-reaching constitutional settlement.Lacking foresight to know that their best efforts would be amalgamated in the Union of 1707, Scottish politicians in 1689 forged ahead with a radical revolution that terminated Stuart absolutism and provided a fleeting chance for national independence under a constitutional monarchy. The event which opened the way for a revolutionary constitutional settlement was the forfeiture of the throne by James II & VII and the subsequent conditional offering of the same to William and Mary by the Scottish Estates in the spring of 1689.In January 1689 following the final flight of James VII from Britain and the simultaneous collapse of his Scottish administration, the leaders of the Scottish aristocracy assembled at Whitehall and temporarily placed the government of their realm in the hands of Prince William of Orange pending a Convention Parliament.

Configuring Missiology: Reading Classified Bibliographies as Disciplinary Maps La configuration de la missiologie lire les bibliographies organisées comme des cartes de disciplines scientifiques Missiologie strukturieren: Das Lesen klassifizierter Bibliografien als Karten der Disziplin Configurar Misiología: Leer Bibliografías Clasificadas como Mapas Disciplinarios

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Skreslet
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Leadership Studies ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
The Past ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
The Way

AbstractAs the academic field of missiology has matured over the past century, nearly everything about the discipline became more complex. Clearly, the field has expanded beyond the boundaries of applied theology. Among its practitioners today are both secular observers and scholars who are themselves actively involved in world missionary efforts. In no other part of the typical seminary curriculum, perhaps, do the concerns of so many different academic fields naturally intersect, including history, linguistics, anthropology, sociology of religion, communications, education, leadership, studies of organizational behavior and, of course, all of the theological sciences. With such a broad range of potential themes to pursue and so many scholarly conversation partners to engage, missiologists may be tempted to envision their field of study as an inchoate collection of all human knowledge. This article argues otherwise by proposing a detailed framework in outline form for the discipline, by which the main divisions and most central topics of the field can be indicated. To prepare the way for this new proposal, several existing classified bibliographies related to missiology are analyzed. Avec la maturation du champ de la missiologie scientique au cours du siècle passé, presque tous les éléments de cette discipline sont devenus plus complexes. Le champ s'est clairement étendu au-delà des frontières de la théologie appliquée. Aujourd'hui on trouve parmi ses praticiens aussi bien des observateurs laïques que des érudits eux-mêmes activement engagés dans le travail missionnaire mondial. Probablement nulle part ailleurs, dans le programme type des séminaires, ne se croisent naturellement autant de champs scientifiques différents tels que l'histoire, la linguistique, l'anthropologie, la sociologie des religions, les communications, l'éducation, la formation des responsables, les études institutionnelles, et bien sûr toutes les sciences théologiques. Avec un tel éventail de thèmes à travailler et tant de partenaires possibles d'échange académique, les missiologues pourraient être tentés de considérer leur champ d'étude comme un ensemble embryonnaire de tout le savoir humain. Cet article propose au contraire un cadre schématique détaillé pour cette discipline, indiquant les principales divisions et les sujets les plus centraux de son champ. En vue de cette nouvelle proposition, il analyse plusieurs bibliographies organisées déjà existantes en lien avec la missiologie. Im Maße, in dem das akademische Feld der Missiologie in Laufe des vergangenen Jahrhunderts reifte, ist fast alles in dieser Disziplin komplexer geworden. Offensichtlich hat sich das Feld über die Grenzen der angewandten Theologie hinausentwickelt. Unter ihren Betreibern finden sich heute sowohl weltliche Beobachter wie auch Gelehrte, die selbst aktiv an den Anstrengungen der Weltmission teilnehmen. Wahrscheinlich in keinem anderen Teil eines Standard-curriculums eines Seminars kreuzen sich zwanglos so viele Fragestellungen von verschiedenen akademischen Gebieten, einschließlich Geschichte, Linguistik, Anthropologie, Religionssoziologie, Kommunikationswissenschaft, Erziehung, Leitungsfunktion, Studien von Organisationsverhalten und selbstverständlich alle theologischen Wissenschaften. Mit einer solchen Bandbreite von möglichen Themen, die angesprochen und mit wissenschaftlichen Gesprächspartnern verfolgt werden können, sind die Missiologen versucht, ihr Arbeitsgebiet als eine anfängliche Sammlung allen menschlichen Wissens zu betrachten. Dieser Artikel argumentiert für eine andere Sichtweise und schlägt in Grundrissen einen detaillierten Rahmen für diese Disziplin vor, der die hauptsächlichen Trennlinien und wichtigsten Zentralfragen in diesem Gebiet auflistet. In der Vorbereitung zu diesem neuen Vorschlag werden verschiedene vorhandene klassifizierte Biblio-graphien zur Missiologie untersucht. Como el campo académico de misiología ha madurado a través del siglo pasado, casi todo sobre la disciplina llegó a ser más complejo. Claramente, el campo ha extendido más allá de los límites de teología aplicada. Entre su practicantes hoy son observadores seculares y eruditos que están metidos activamente en el mundo de los esfuerzos misioneros. Quizás en ninguna otra parte del plan de estudios típicos del seminario cortan naturalmente los intereses de tantos campos académicos, incluso historia, lingüística, antropología, sociología de religión, comunicaciones, educación, dirigencia, estudios de la conducta organizativa y, por supuesto, todo de las ciencias teológicas. Con tantos temas potenciales para perseguir y tantos compañeros de conversación eruditos, los eruditos de misiología se tientan a prever su campo de estudio como una colección incoherente de todo conocimiento humano. Este artículo argumenta lo contrario proponiendo un marco detallado en líneas generales para la disciplina, en el que se pueden indicar las divisiones principales y tópicos más centrales del campo. Preparar el camino para esta propuesta nueva, se analizan varias bibliografías clasificadas actuales que están relacionadas con misiología.

scholarly journals As contradições da sociedade da informação e a formação do bibliotecário

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
César Augusto Castro ◽  
Maria Solange Pereira Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Information Professional ◽  
The Way

Duas questões norteiam este trabalho: as contradições da sociedade da informação e a formação do chamado profissional da informação. Essa denominação adotada pelos bibliotecários, nas últimas décadas do século passado, e seus fazeres têm sido marcados pela dualidade, ora com uma visão progressista, ora conservadora. Conduzimos a nossa reflexão em dois momentos que se completam. Procuramos pontuar o papel que o bibliotecário assumiu na sociedade brasileira, em seguida, reportamo-nos à maneira como pensamos o seu papel social e político nessa sociedade. Abstract Two questions guide this work: the contradictions of information society and the formation of so called information professional. This denomination adopted by librarians throghout last decades of the past century and their works have been marked by the duality, sometimes with a progressive vision, sometimes with a conservative vision. We lead our reflection in two moments that complete themselves. First, we focus the role that librarian has assumed in the Brazilian society, then we refer to on the way as we think its social and politic role in that society.

Dr. Olga Jonasson: A Pioneer for Women in Surgery

2021 ◽  
pp. 000313482110545
Author(s):  
Emily Hejna ◽  
Thea Price
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Transplantation ◽  
The State ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Female Physicians ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tremendous Progress ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Way

The advancement of women in surgery has seen tremendous progress over the past century. Among the many physicians who paved the way for women in surgery is Dr. Olga Jonasson, a Chicago-based transplant surgeon who performed the first kidney transplantation in the state of Illinois in 1969. Her passion for service and drive for greater female representation in medicine was massively influential to the field. Aspiring female physicians are forever indebted to the efforts of Dr. Jonasson and the bold women who came before us.

scholarly journals Queer comrades: towards a postsocialist queer politics

Soundings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (73) ◽  
pp. 24-37
Author(s):  
Hongwei Bao
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Language ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Transnational Activism ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
History Of ◽  
Queer Politics ◽  
Socialist Politics

Perhaps one of the most fascinating changes in modern Chinese language in the past century is the use of the term tongzhi (). Literally 'comrade', the term is being used in the Chinese-speaking world today to refer to gender and sexual minorities, including LGBTQ people. This article traces a brief history of how the term has been used in modern Chinese history. In doing so, it identifies key moments of political articulation and unravels the socialist politics and revolutionary potentials embedded in each articulation. In particular, it focuses on how the term has been used in the Chinese-speaking world for queer identification and to mobilise transnational activism. Developing the idea of 'queer comrades' as a part of critical vocabulary, this article conjures up the socialist memories and revolutionary impulses that are embedded in contemporary queer subject formation and social movements; it also gestures to the continuing relevance of socialist histories and politics to contemporary queer politics.

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