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‘Qi’, the subject in Jiang Hao’s poems: an exploration on contemporariness

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How to reconstruct the subject is a pressing problem of joint concerns for the Eastern and Western culture. The Western culture which has gone through the processes of enlightenment and secularization needs to distance itself from the increasingly digitalized and formalized subject, while China which lacks in the similar experiences still needs to reinforce the subject through the acceptance of the Western culture in general and its reason and rational criticism in particular. ‘Qi’ as the subject in Jiang Hao’s poems manifests that the interaction can be realized in the same poem.

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Notes

  1. Welsch (2006, p. 28).

  2. Sun (2011, p. 210).

  3. Milosz (2011).

  4. Orwell (2003, p. 249).

  5. Heidegger (2004, p. 147).

  6. Sun (2011).

  7. Jiang (2004, p. 191).

  8. Cited in Jing (2003).

  9. Jiang (2001).

  10. The English version of The Shape of the Sea used for analysis in this paper is translated by Thomas Moran.

  11. Heubel (2012).

  12. Welsch (2006, p. 93).

  13. Jiang (2015).

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Sponsored by the program of the Reach and International Influence of Contemporary Chinese Culture (Program No. 16ZDA218).

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  1. The School of Liberal Arts, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, 541004, China

    Qiang Feng

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Translated by Xuemei Shi, Shenyang University, China.

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Feng, Q. ‘Qi’, the subject in Jiang Hao’s poems: an exploration on contemporariness. Int. Commun. Chin. Cult 6, 63–69 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40636-019-00138-0

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