Zong-Qi Cai
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4436815 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Zong-Qi Cai |
| NOMBRES | Zong-Qi |
| APELLIDO | Cai |
| FIRMA | CAI Z |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3756-3056 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Good Things Come in Pairs
This article outlines the computational methodology for a multipart study on poetic parallelism in the Six Dynasties (222–589), a formative era in the history of Chinese literature. As the first part of this project, the authors develop a quantitative-formalist definition of parallelism, synthesizing insights from modern linguistics, vector semantics, and traditional critics such as Liu Xie 劉勰 (ca. 465–522) and Zhong Rong 鍾嶸 (ca. 468–518), alongs…
Key Terms Studies and the Search for the Inherent System of Chinese Literary Theory
The introduction to this special issue singles out critical terms as the biggest obstacle to the studies of Chinese theory. This concluding article looks at the other side of the coin to consider what we could achieve through key terms studies. The author reflects on his decades-long search for the inherent system of Chinese literary theory through extensive inductive research grounded in key terms studies
Introduction
This introduction advocates for the elevation of Chinese literary theory as a vital field within Sinological studies, highlighting its historical depth and richness, particularly in the realm of poetry criticism. Despite the central role of literary theory in traditional Chinese humanities, Western Sinology has largely neglected this area, focusing instead on literature itself rather than its theoretical underpinnings. Cai, the special issue edit…
Brevity and Breadth
Integrating traditional Chinese poetics, modern linguistics, and computational analysis, this article explores how the pre-Qin Book of Poetry (Shijing 詩經) and the Han “Nineteen Old Poems” (Gushi shijiu shou 古詩十九首) realized the linguistic-aesthetic ideal “brevity in form and breadth in meaning” (wenyue yiguang 文約意廣), as articulated by Zhong Rong 鍾嶸 (ca. 468–518) in his evaluation of tetrasyllabic and pentasyllabic verses in classical Chinese poetr…
History Retold
This collected volume focuses on the history of Western translation of premodern Chinese texts from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Divided into three parts, nine chapters feature close readings of translated texts, micro-studies of how three translations came into being, and broad-based surveys that inquire into the causes of historical change. Among the specific questions addressed are: What stylistic, generic, and discursive permutat…
The Philosophical Proposition “A Piercing Glance Elevates the Mind” and the Buddhist Thought in Zong Bing's “Preface to the Painting of Landscape”
“A Piercing Glance Elevates the Mind” is a philosophical proposition offered by Zhou Yong (?–493) in his debate with Zhang Rong (444–497) over the similarities and differences between Daoism and Buddhism. The appearance of this previously unknown proposition shows that as early as the Liu-Song dynasty (420–479) writers already went beyond the limitations of the native Chinese conception of “image” (xiang) and consciously applied Buddhist concepts…
The Art of Chinese Prose
This article opens with a reflection on the extrinsic and intrinsic causes of the neglect of Chinese prose in sinological literary studies, followed by the construction of a patterning-based scheme for codifying Chinese prose forms. An in-depth analysis of eight famous texts, drawn from antiquity through the Qing, reveals how continual innovations in extratextual patterning and textual patterning have given rise to manifold and inherently related…
Introduction
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How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context
How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty. Presenting poems in Chinese along with English translations and commentary, it is a pioneering and versatile text for the study of Chinese language, literature, history, and culture.
Multiple Vistas of Ming and Changing Visions of Life in the Works of Tao Qian
Just as Duke Wen of Zhu did about eight hundred years before, so Tao Qian 陶潛 (ca. 365-427), one of the greatest Chinese poets, sought to con-template the meaning of his life through the multiple views of ming. Of course, Tao Qian pursued his self-reflection under entirely different circumstances. The duke was forced by the exigencies of socioplitical action to reflect on the meaning of his life on a public occasion. By contrast, Tao Qian habitual…
Chinese Aesthetics
This singular work presents the most comprehensive and nuanced studies available in any Western language of Chinese aesthetic thought and practice during the Six Dynasties (A.D. 220-589). A prologue details the historical context in which Six Dynasties aesthetics arose and sketches out its major stages of development. The ten essays that follow bring fresh perspectives to bear on important writings on literature, music, painting, calligraphy, and…
Toward an Innovative Poetics
This article reveals the coherent theory of literary creation hidden within the multivalence of the term yi in Wang Changling's (ca. 698–ca. 756) writings on poetry. A close and intertextual reading demonstrates how Wang deftly appropriates various Daoist and Daoist-inspired notions of yi 意 to illuminate different phases of literary creation. Comparisons with the term's adaptations by earlier literary and calligraphy critics further accentuate Wa…
Sound Over Ideograph
The author argues that Chinese characters have shaped Chinese poetic art not through their ideographic form but through their monosyllabic sound. Specifically, the pauses in a Chinese poetic line tend to be determined by sound patterns. Since monosyllabic sound is nearly always endowed with meaning, sound patterns tend to be semantic groupings as well. These groupings of meaning, in turn, determine syntax and, by extension, the organization of an…
Introduction
“The sound must seem an echo to the sense.” This famous line by Alexander Pope is often cited concerning the roles of sound in Western poetry. In Chinese poetry, too, sound is an echo to the sense, and much more. However, the primacy of sound in Chinese poetry has long been overlooked. A demonstration of the pivotal roles of sound in various major genres is the primary goal of this special issue. Each article explores the aural dimensions of Chin…
The Richness of Ambiguity
The four-character statement “Yi yi ni zhi” 以意逆志 by Mencius on how to interpret the Book of Poetry has won praise from critics of all persuasions for nearly a millennium. How could this Mencian statement become a credo for so many different and often mutually opposed interpretive traditions? The extraordinary “versatility” of the Mencian statement, this article suggests, has much to do with the rich inherent ambiguity of uninflected classical Chi…
Foreword to the Inaugural Issue
YUAN XINGPEI and ZONG-QI CAI "Scholarly traditions of all nations form one family" 天下學問一家 is the motto we've chosen for the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (JCLC).It crystalizes our endeavor to create a platform for in-depth dialogue and collaboration between (Greater) China-based and Western scholars of Chinese literature and culture.JCLC seeks to present cutting-edge research on traditional Chinese poetry and poetics, fiction, prose, …
The magnitude of ming
Few ideas in Chinese discourse are as ubiquitous as ming, variously understood as command, allotted lifespan, fate, or life. In the earliest days of Chinese writing, ming was already present, invoked in divinations and etched into ancient bronzes; it has continued to inscribe itself down to the twenty-first century in literature and film. This volume assembles twelve essays by some of the most eminent scholars currently working in Chinese studies…
Configurations of Comparative Poetics
This comparative study of Chinese and Western poetics raises important theoretical questions, including: how do Western and Chinese critics conceptualize the nature, origin and function of literature? and what are the fundamental differences in the ways of their thinking about literature
In Quest of Harmony
Zong-qi Cai, In Quest of Harmony: Plato and Confucius on Poetry, Philosophy East and West, Vol. 49, No. 3, Human "Nature" in Chinese Philosophy: A Panel of the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (Jul., 1999), pp. 317-345
The Matrix of Lyric Transformation
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The Matrix of Lyric Transformation
Pentasyllabic poetry has been a focus of critical study since the appearance of the earliest works of Chinese literary criticism in the Six Dynasties period. Throughout the subsequent dynasties, traditional Chinese critics continued to examine pentasyllabic poetry as a leading poetic type and to compile various comprehensive anthologies of it. The Matrix of Lyric Transformation enriches this tradition, using modern analytical methods to explore i…
Sound Over Ideograph
The author argues that Chinese characters have shaped Chinese poetic art not through their ideographic form but through their monosyllabic sound. Specifically, the pauses in a Chinese poetic line tend to be determined by sound patterns. Since monosyllabic sound is nearly always endowed with meaning, sound patterns tend to be semantic groupings as well. These groupings of meaning, in turn, determine syntax and, by extension, the organization of an…
The Matrix of Lyric Transformation
Pentasyllabic poetry has been a focus of critical study since the appearance of the earliest works of Chinese literary criticism in the Six Dynasties period. Throughout the subsequent dynasties, traditional Chinese critics continued to examine pentasyllabic poetry as a leading poetic type and to compile various comprehensive anthologies of it. The Matrix of Lyric Transformation enriches this tradition, using modern analytical methods to explore i…
The Matrix of Lyric Transformation
TCCC
In Quest of Harmony
Zong-qi Cai, In Quest of Harmony: Plato and Confucius on Poetry, Philosophy East and West, Vol. 49, No. 3, Human "Nature" in Chinese Philosophy: A Panel of the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (Jul., 1999), pp. 317-345
Configurations of Comparative Poetics
This comparative study of Chinese and Western poetics raises important theoretical questions, including: how do Western and Chinese critics conceptualize the nature, origin and function of literature? and what are the fundamental differences in the ways of their thinking about literature
The magnitude of ming
Few ideas in Chinese discourse are as ubiquitous as ming, variously understood as command, allotted lifespan, fate, or life. In the earliest days of Chinese writing, ming was already present, invoked in divinations and etched into ancient bronzes; it has continued to inscribe itself down to the twenty-first century in literature and film. This volume assembles twelve essays by some of the most eminent scholars currently working in Chinese studies…
The Richness of Ambiguity
The four-character statement “Yi yi ni zhi” 以意逆志 by Mencius on how to interpret the Book of Poetry has won praise from critics of all persuasions for nearly a millennium. How could this Mencian statement become a credo for so many different and often mutually opposed interpretive traditions? The extraordinary “versatility” of the Mencian statement, this article suggests, has much to do with the rich inherent ambiguity of uninflected classical Chi…
Foreword to the Inaugural Issue
YUAN XINGPEI and ZONG-QI CAI "Scholarly traditions of all nations form one family" 天下學問一家 is the motto we've chosen for the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (JCLC).It crystalizes our endeavor to create a platform for in-depth dialogue and collaboration between (Greater) China-based and Western scholars of Chinese literature and culture.JCLC seeks to present cutting-edge research on traditional Chinese poetry and poetics, fiction, prose, …
Sound Over Ideograph
The author argues that Chinese characters have shaped Chinese poetic art not through their ideographic form but through their monosyllabic sound. Specifically, the pauses in a Chinese poetic line tend to be determined by sound patterns. Since monosyllabic sound is nearly always endowed with meaning, sound patterns tend to be semantic groupings as well. These groupings of meaning, in turn, determine syntax and, by extension, the organization of an…
Introduction
“The sound must seem an echo to the sense.” This famous line by Alexander Pope is often cited concerning the roles of sound in Western poetry. In Chinese poetry, too, sound is an echo to the sense, and much more. However, the primacy of sound in Chinese poetry has long been overlooked. A demonstration of the pivotal roles of sound in various major genres is the primary goal of this special issue. Each article explores the aural dimensions of Chin…
Multiple Vistas of Ming and Changing Visions of Life in the Works of Tao Qian
Just as Duke Wen of Zhu did about eight hundred years before, so Tao Qian 陶潛 (ca. 365-427), one of the greatest Chinese poets, sought to con-template the meaning of his life through the multiple views of ming. Of course, Tao Qian pursued his self-reflection under entirely different circumstances. The duke was forced by the exigencies of socioplitical action to reflect on the meaning of his life on a public occasion. By contrast, Tao Qian habitual…
Chinese Aesthetics
This singular work presents the most comprehensive and nuanced studies available in any Western language of Chinese aesthetic thought and practice during the Six Dynasties (A.D. 220-589). A prologue details the historical context in which Six Dynasties aesthetics arose and sketches out its major stages of development. The ten essays that follow bring fresh perspectives to bear on important writings on literature, music, painting, calligraphy, and…
Toward an Innovative Poetics
This article reveals the coherent theory of literary creation hidden within the multivalence of the term yi in Wang Changling's (ca. 698–ca. 756) writings on poetry. A close and intertextual reading demonstrates how Wang deftly appropriates various Daoist and Daoist-inspired notions of yi 意 to illuminate different phases of literary creation. Comparisons with the term's adaptations by earlier literary and calligraphy critics further accentuate Wa…
How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context
How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty. Presenting poems in Chinese along with English translations and commentary, it is a pioneering and versatile text for the study of Chinese language, literature, history, and culture.
Introduction
Elsevier’s Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
The Art of Chinese Prose
This article opens with a reflection on the extrinsic and intrinsic causes of the neglect of Chinese prose in sinological literary studies, followed by the construction of a patterning-based scheme for codifying Chinese prose forms. An in-depth analysis of eight famous texts, drawn from antiquity through the Qing, reveals how continual innovations in extratextual patterning and textual patterning have given rise to manifold and inherently related…
History Retold
This collected volume focuses on the history of Western translation of premodern Chinese texts from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Divided into three parts, nine chapters feature close readings of translated texts, micro-studies of how three translations came into being, and broad-based surveys that inquire into the causes of historical change. Among the specific questions addressed are: What stylistic, generic, and discursive permutat…
The Philosophical Proposition “A Piercing Glance Elevates the Mind” and the Buddhist Thought in Zong Bing's “Preface to the Painting of Landscape”
“A Piercing Glance Elevates the Mind” is a philosophical proposition offered by Zhou Yong (?–493) in his debate with Zhang Rong (444–497) over the similarities and differences between Daoism and Buddhism. The appearance of this previously unknown proposition shows that as early as the Liu-Song dynasty (420–479) writers already went beyond the limitations of the native Chinese conception of “image” (xiang) and consciously applied Buddhist concepts…
Brevity and Breadth
Integrating traditional Chinese poetics, modern linguistics, and computational analysis, this article explores how the pre-Qin Book of Poetry (Shijing 詩經) and the Han “Nineteen Old Poems” (Gushi shijiu shou 古詩十九首) realized the linguistic-aesthetic ideal “brevity in form and breadth in meaning” (wenyue yiguang 文約意廣), as articulated by Zhong Rong 鍾嶸 (ca. 468–518) in his evaluation of tetrasyllabic and pentasyllabic verses in classical Chinese poetr…
Good Things Come in Pairs
This article outlines the computational methodology for a multipart study on poetic parallelism in the Six Dynasties (222–589), a formative era in the history of Chinese literature. As the first part of this project, the authors develop a quantitative-formalist definition of parallelism, synthesizing insights from modern linguistics, vector semantics, and traditional critics such as Liu Xie 劉勰 (ca. 465–522) and Zhong Rong 鍾嶸 (ca. 468–518), alongs…
Key Terms Studies and the Search for the Inherent System of Chinese Literary Theory
The introduction to this special issue singles out critical terms as the biggest obstacle to the studies of Chinese theory. This concluding article looks at the other side of the coin to consider what we could achieve through key terms studies. The author reflects on his decades-long search for the inherent system of Chinese literary theory through extensive inductive research grounded in key terms studies
Introduction
This introduction advocates for the elevation of Chinese literary theory as a vital field within Sinological studies, highlighting its historical depth and richness, particularly in the realm of poetry criticism. Despite the central role of literary theory in traditional Chinese humanities, Western Sinology has largely neglected this area, focusing instead on literature itself rather than its theoretical underpinnings. Cai, the special issue edit…
Chinese history and philosophy (19 obras) · Art (17 obras) · Literature (16 obras) · History (14 obras) · Philosophy (12 obras) · Poetry (10 obras) · History (9 obras) · Linguistics (7 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Aesthetics (6 obras)