Shengqing Wu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shengqing Wu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shengqing |
| FAMILY NAME | Wu |
| SIGNATURE | WU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7626-3195 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sensing China
Photo Poetics
Shengqing Wu explores how the new medium of photography was transformed by Chinese aesthetic culture. She details the complex negotiations between poetry and photography in the late Qing and early Republican eras, examining the ways traditional textual forms collaborated with the new visual culture
Burying Autumn
Nostalgic Fragments in the Thick of Things
This article delves into the nexus of nostalgia, memory, and visuality by examining the images, objects, and events surrounding Yuan Kewen's remembrances of his father, Yuan Shikai, and their family estate in Huanshang. It also considers Zhang Boju's remembrance of his interactions with Yuan Kewen as another layer of historical memory. Phenomenological analysis of the act of remembering, especially in the work of Edward Casey, will be shown to yi…
Introduction
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A Classical Poetry Society through Revolutionary Times
A Classical Poetry Society Through Revolutionary Times
Nanxiu Qian. Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China
Nanxiu Qian’s new book Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China: Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform is a thoroughly researched and stimulating account of an extraordinary Chinese author, Xue Shaohui (1866–1911), and her cultural and political activities amidst the tumultuous late Qing era. Joining a growing body of scholarship of the past three decades that explores Ming and Qing women writers and their cultural activities, this book furth…
A Paper Mirror
Through the examination of a select body of classical-style poems that are inscribed on or written about photographs of the self in the modern era, this article delves into the intertwined issues of the self, affect, and autobiographical writing. It first explores the ethical implications of “poems on photographs of the self” (ziti xiaozhao 自題小照) and the issue of temporality involved in the confrontation with a self-image and subsequent writing a…
Imperial Masquerade
Gendering the Nation
This paper analyzes the historical trajectories of the images of Zhen Fei and Sai Jinhua, who rose from an obscure royal concubine and an infamous prostitute, respectively, to become androgynous national heroines in wartime China. The study exposes the construction and the fictional elements of these images, thus providing concrete examples for establishing the interconnection between male fantasy and the invention of the modern national subject.…
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Gendering the Nation
This paper analyzes the historical trajectories of the images of Zhen Fei and Sai Jinhua, who rose from an obscure royal concubine and an infamous prostitute, respectively, to become androgynous national heroines in wartime China. The study exposes the construction and the fictional elements of these images, thus providing concrete examples for establishing the interconnection between male fantasy and the invention of the modern national subject.…
Imperial Masquerade
A Paper Mirror
Through the examination of a select body of classical-style poems that are inscribed on or written about photographs of the self in the modern era, this article delves into the intertwined issues of the self, affect, and autobiographical writing. It first explores the ethical implications of “poems on photographs of the self” (ziti xiaozhao 自題小照) and the issue of temporality involved in the confrontation with a self-image and subsequent writing a…
A Classical Poetry Society through Revolutionary Times
A Classical Poetry Society Through Revolutionary Times
Nanxiu Qian. Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China
Nanxiu Qian’s new book Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China: Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform is a thoroughly researched and stimulating account of an extraordinary Chinese author, Xue Shaohui (1866–1911), and her cultural and political activities amidst the tumultuous late Qing era. Joining a growing body of scholarship of the past three decades that explores Ming and Qing women writers and their cultural activities, this book furth…
Burying Autumn
Nostalgic Fragments in the Thick of Things
This article delves into the nexus of nostalgia, memory, and visuality by examining the images, objects, and events surrounding Yuan Kewen's remembrances of his father, Yuan Shikai, and their family estate in Huanshang. It also considers Zhang Boju's remembrance of his interactions with Yuan Kewen as another layer of historical memory. Phenomenological analysis of the act of remembering, especially in the work of Edward Casey, will be shown to yi…
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
Photo Poetics
Shengqing Wu explores how the new medium of photography was transformed by Chinese aesthetic culture. She details the complex negotiations between poetry and photography in the late Qing and early Republican eras, examining the ways traditional textual forms collaborated with the new visual culture
Sensing China
Art (10 works) · Literature (9 works) · History (7 works) · Poetry (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · China (3 works) · History (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works)