Balfour’s translation of the Zhuangzi plays a crucial role in reflecting the cultural connotations and the comparison between Chinese and Western cultures. Firstly, it needs to accurately convey the philosophical and religious ideas and linguistic style of the original text, while taking into account...
Still and all, the old book is a big box of chocolates, a guilty pleasure, a treat. Lots of fun to look through and study, even to get ideas from, or from which to learn more about composing images. It's a must for Leica enthusiasts, since so many of the Magnum guys preferred Le...
Article Laozi Belief and Taoism in the Western Regions—An Analysis with a Focus on the Cultural Strategy of the Han and Tang Dynasties for the Western Regions Jiamin Si 1 and Jishao Han 2,* 1 School of Literature, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China; sijiamin@sdu.edu.cn 2 School ...
“He made the shoes larger than life and gave them a personality,” said Donna De Salvo, chief curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. “He makes them into portraits without a face and turns them into objects of desire. He understood how images drive the world....
Bidart’s poem consists almost entirely of a first-person confession by Nijinsky; it takes place after the break with Diaghilev, during the height of war in Europe. We are privy to the dancer’s ideas and musings about, among other things, the second section ofThe Rite of Spring, called...
There’s a fun answer for that: Laozi! The novel twice describes him forging mystical weapons belonging to our main characters. For example, Zhu Bajie mentions in chapter 19 that the high god made his rake: “This is divine ice steel greatly refined, / Polished so highly that it glows an...
Along the flowscape are the flow of people as traders, businesspeople and migrants. The question we asked here is: Why are these time-honoured businesses growing in popularity in China and especially among members of the Chinese diaspora? To understand laozihao, its past and present business ...
always admired his confidence. It wasn’t arrogance, it was just there, unshakable. And he was generous with it–if he believed in what you were doing, he somehow infected you with it. His major source of anxiety was money, because executing his ideas required it and he loathed ...