The rhetoric of hiddenness in traditional Chinese culture

402 Pages·2016·12.615 MB·English

by  Varsano, Paula M

The Rhetoric of Hiddenness
in Traditional Chinese Culture
SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
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The Rhetoric of Hiddenness
in Traditional Chinese Culture
Edited by
Paula M. Varsano
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Names: Varsano, Paula M., editor.
Title: The rhetoric of hiddenness in traditional Chinese culture / edited by
Paula M. Varsano.
Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2016. | Series: SUNY series
in Chinese philosophy and culture | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016007693 (print) | LCCN 2016038163 (ebook) | ISBN
9781438463032 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438463049 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: China—Intellectual life—221 B.C.–960 A.D. | China—Intellectual
life—960–1644. | China—Intellectual life—1644–1912. | Rhetoric—China—History. |
Secrecy—China—History. | Hiding places—China—History. | Knowledge, Theory of.
Classification: LCC DS727.R48 2016 (print) | LCC DS727 (ebook) | DDC 951—dc23
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments xi
1 Lowered Curtains in the Half-Light: An Introduction 1
Paula M. Varsano
The Art of Withholding
2 The Ruling Mind: Persuasion and the Origins of
Chinese Psychology 33
David Schaberg
3 Beliefs about Social Seeing: Hiddenness (wei (cid:12118)) and
Visibility in Classical-Era China 53
Michael Nylan
4 Woman in the Tower: “Nineteen Old Poems” and the
Poetics of Un/concealment 79
Xiaofei Tian
5 Hiding Behind a Woman: Contexts and Meanings in
Early Qing Poetry 99
Wai-yee Li
The Lessons of Distraction
6 Hiddenness of the Body and the Metaphysics of Sight 125
Shigehisa Kuriyama
vi Contents
7 Worlds of Meaning and the Meaning of Worlds in
Sikong Tu’s Twenty-Four Modes of Poetry 153
Paula M. Varsano
On Blind Spots
8 Hidden in Plain View: Concealed Contents,
Secluded Statues, and Revealed Religion 177
James Robson
9 The Vernacular Story and the Hiddenness of Value 207
Sophie Volpp
10 Absence and Presence: The Great Wall in Chinese Art 227
Lillian Lan-ying Tseng
The Languages of Synecdoche
11 Synecdoche of the Imaginary 261
Stephen Owen
12 “The Disarrayed Hills Conceal an Old Monastery”:
The Dynamics of Poetry and Painting in the Northern Song 279
Eugene Wang
Just Words
13 Manifesting Sagely Knowledge: Commentarial Strategies in
Chinese Late Antiquity 303
Michael Puett
14 The Yi-Xiang-Yan Paradigm and Early Chinese Theories of
Literary Creation 333
Zong-qi Cai
Contributors 359
Index 363
Illustrations
3.1 Zhi Lin (b. 1959), detail from Drawing and Quartering,
Five Capital Punishments in China. 58
3.2 Tomb painting, early third century CE, Luoyang. 60
3.3 Rubbing of a pictorial stone, Han Dynasty, Shandong. 61
3.4 Tomb painting, 176 CE, Anping, Hebei Province. 63
3.5 Map showing imperial progresses of the First Emperor and
Emperor Wu of the Han. 65
6.1 Torso, from Andreas Vesalius, De fabrica corporis humanis
(1543). 126
6.2 Neijingtu, from Zhang Jiebin, Leijing tushuo (1624). 127
6.3 From Andreas Vesalius, De fabrica corporis humanis (1543). 128
6.4 From Gu Shicheng, Yangyi daquan (1760). 137
6.5 From Wang Xixin, Waike qieyao (1847). 137
6.6 From Gu Shicheng, Yangyi daquan (1760). 138
6.7 From Gu Shicheng, Yangyi daquan (1760). 138
6.8 From Gu Shicheng, Yangyi daquan (1760). 138
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viii Illustrations
6.9 From Gu Shicheng, Yangyi daquan (1760). 139
6.10 From Gu Shicheng, Yangyi daquan (1760). 139
6.11 From Gu Shicheng, Yangyi daquan (1760). 139
6.12 From Andreas Vesalius, De fabrica corporis humanis (1543). 140
6.13 From Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (1796). 141
6.14 Created by Kuriyama. 141
6.15 Neijingtu, from Zhang Jiebin, Leijing tushuo (1624). 142
6.16 From Andreas Vesalius, De fabrica corporis humanis (1543). 143
6.17 From Andreas Vesalius, De fabrica corporis humanis (1543). 143
6.18 From Andreas Vesalius, De fabrica corporis humanis (1543). 144
6.19 From Andreas Vesalius, De fabrica corporis humanis (1543). 145
6.20 From Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors (1533). 146
6.21 From Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors (1533). 146
6.22 Created by Kuriyama. 148
6.23 Created by Kuriyama. 148
8.1 Front and back of Hunan statue, photograph by Robson. 182
8.2 Contents of a Hunan statue, photograph by Robson. 184
8.3 Woodcut showing the backsides of statues with cavities,
from Dubose, The Dragon, Image, and Demon. 191
10.1 The Great Wall as Seen at the Nankou, Showing the
Badaling Gate. 229
Illustrations ix
10.2 Xu Bing, Ghosts Pounding the Wall, 1991. 230
10.3 Xu Bing, Ghosts Pounding the Wall, 1991. 231
10.4 Section of a Tower. Photo by William Edgar Geil, 1909. 232
10.5 Xu Bing, Ghosts Pounding the Wall, 1991. 235
10.6 Liu Kuiling, Spring Coming to the Pass and Mountains, 1926. 236
10.7 Liu Kuiling, Harmonious Landscape, 1927. 237
10.8 A Parcel of the Long Wall of China. Engraved illustration.
From Johannes Nieuhof, Embassy from the East-India
Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham,
Emperour of China, 1669. 238
10.9 The Great Wall of China. Drawn by Thomas Allom and
engraved by J. Sands. From Allom, China, in a Series of
Views, Displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits
of that Ancient Empire, 1834. 239
10.10 Liu Kuiling, Spring Wind at the Northern Frontier, 1932. 240
10.11 The Border Town. Engraved illustration. From Gao Zeyu,
Linyu xianzhi, 1929. 241
10.12 Shi Lu, Beyond the Ancient Great Wall, 1954. 242
10.13 Map showing the noncombat zone under the Tanggu
Armistice in 1933. 243
10.14 Zhao Wangyun, Luowenyu After the War: The Grand Terrain
Feature That Strongly Enhances Defense, 1934. 245
10.15 Zhao Wangyun, Luowenyu After the War: The Town in Its
South, 1934. 246
10.16 Zhao Wangyun, Luowenyu After the War: A Bird’s Eye View,
1934. 247