Aesthetic suggestiveness in Chinese thought: A symphony of metaphysics and aesthetics

Philosophy East and West

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 490-513

  Gu, Ming Dong ^a  

^a RHODES COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 60950433587     PISSN: 00318221     EISSN: 15291898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pew.2003.0038     Document Type: Review

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1. Fung Yu-lan, A Short History of Chinese Philosophy, ed. Derk Bodde (New York: Macmillan, 1966), p. 12
2. See relevant passages in Qian Zhongshu's Tan yi lu (Discourses on art) (Beijing; Zhonghua Shuju, 1984)
3. Shen Deqian, Shuoshi zuiyu (Random remarks on poetry) (Beijing: Renmin Wenxue Chubanshe, 1979), p. 151
4. Fung, A Short History of Chinese Philosophy, p. 12
5. Yan Yu, "Canglang shihua" (Poetic talks by Canglang), in Lidai shihua (Poetic talks through the dynasties) (Taipei: Muduo Chubanshe, 1982), vol. 2, p. 688
6. Zhong Rong, "Shipin" (Gradations of poetry), in Lidai shihua, 1: 3
7. Liu Xie, Wenxin diaolong (Literary mind and the carving of dragons) (Jinan: Qilu Shushe, 1995), p. 550
8. Mencius, "Mengzi zhushu" (Annotated Mencius), juan 14b, 114c, in Shisan jing zhushu (Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju, 1980), p. 2778
9. Zhouyi zhengyi (Correct interpretation of the Book of Changes), Sibu beiyao danxingben (Shanghai: Zhonghua Shuju, n.d.), juan 8, p. 9b
10. Aristotle Poetics 9, in Critical Theory Since Plato (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971), p. 53
11. Sima Qian, "Qu Yuan zhuan" (Biography of Qu Yuan), in Shiji (Records of the Grand Scribe), requoted from Zhongguo lidai wenlun xuan (Selections of Chinese literary theory through the ages) (Shanghai: Guji Chubanshe, 1979), vol. 1, p. 85
12. I have come up with this version after studying the existent scholarship and comparing notes with Shih-hsiang Chen's translation, "On Literature," in Anthology of Chinese Literature, edited by Cyril Birch (New York: Grove Press, 1965) p. 211
13. and Stephen Owen's translation in Readings in Chinese Literary Thought (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992), p. 164
14. "Liji zhengyi" (Correct interpretation of the Book of Rites), juan 37, 300c, in Shisan jing zhushu, p. 1528
15. Wang Bi, Wang Bi Ji jiaoshi (Annotated collection of Wang Bi's writings) (Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju, 1980), p. 113
16. Thomas Carlyle, Sator Resartus (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 165-166
17. See Bai Juyi's "Pipa xing," in Bai Juyi xuanji (A selection of Bai Juyi's writings) (Shanghai: Guji Chubanshe, 1980), p. 177
18. Zhuang Zhou, Zhuangzi, annotated by Guo Xiang (Shanghai: Guji Chubanshe, 1995), p. 137
19. Carlyle, Sator Resartus, p. 166
20. This view started with Li Shan's (ca. 630-689) annotation of Lu Ji's treatise; see the Wenxuan (Selections of refined literature) (Taipei: Qiming Shuju, 1960), juan 17, p. 226
21. Modern scholars followed Li Shan's annotation; see Guo Shaoyu's comments in Zhongguo lidai wenlun xuan, vol. 1, p. 187
22. Shih-hsiang Chen and Stephen Owen also hold this view; see Chen's translation in Anthology of Chinese Literature, pp. 210-211
23. and Owen's translation and comments in Readings in Chinese Literary Thought, pp. 164-165
24. Wang Bi, Wang Bi ji jiaoshi, p. 113
25. Lu Xun, "Zhi Wang Qiaonan xin" (Letter to Wang Qiaonan), in Lu Xun lun wenxue yu yishu (Lu Xun on literature and art) (Beijing: Renmin Wenxue Chubanshe, 1980), vol. 1, p. 410
26. Lu Xun: Selected Works, trans. Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1960), vol. 4, p. 143
27. Han Yu, Han Changli wenji (Collected writings of Han Changli), quoted from Ciyuan (Origins of words) (Beijing: Shangwu Yinshuguan, 1988), p. 268
28. Yang Zai, "Shifa jiashu" (Transmitted poetic methods), in Lidai shihua, vol. 2, p. 737
29. Sui Tang Wudai wenxue piping ziliao huibian (Collected materials of literary criticism in the Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties) (Taipei: Chengwen Chubanshe, 1978), p. 252
30. Yan Yu, "Canglang shihua," in Lidai shihua, 2: 687
31. Li Chonghua, Zhenyi zhai shihua (Poetic talk of the Zhenyi Studio), requoted from Zhongguo shixue tixi lun (On the Chinese system of poetics) (Beijing: Sheke Chubanshe, 1992), p. 414
32. Yang Tingzhi expressed a similar opinion; see his Ershisi shipin qianjie (A modest interpretation of the Twenty-four Forms of Poetry), in Sikong Tu Shipin jieshuo erzhong (Two interpretations of Sikong Tu's Shipin) (Jinan: Qilu Shushe, 1980), p. 102
33. Herbert Giles, A History of Chinese Literature (New York: Appleton, 1923), p. 183
34. Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang, trans., "The Twenty-Four Modes of Poetry," Chinese Literature 7 (July 1963), p. 65
35. Wai-lim Yip, trans., "Selections from 'The Twenty-Four Orders of Poetry,'" Stony Brook 3, no. 4 (1969): 280-281
36. Pauline Yu, "Ssi-k'ung T'u's Shih-p'in: Poetic Theory in Poetic Form," in Ronald C. Miao, ed., Chinese Poetry and Poetics (San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, 1978), vol. 1, p. 99
37. James Liu, Language Paradox Poetics: A Chinese Perspective, ed., Richard John Lynn (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988) p. 67
38. Zhu Dongrun, Zhongguo wenxue pipingshi dagang (Outline of the history of Chinese literary criticism) (Shanghai: Gudian Wenxue Chubanshe, 1957), p. 99. A renowned modern Chinese scholar, Zhu Dongrun wrote the first history of Chinese literary thought
39. See Qiao Li, Ershisi shipin tanwei (Exploration of the intricacies in the Twenty-four Forms of Poetry) (Jinan: Qilu Shushe, 1983), p. 58
40. John P. Muller and William J. Richardson, Lacan and Language: A Reader's Guide to Écrit (Madison, Connecticut: International Universities Press, 1982), p. 2
41. Su Shi, Su Dongpo ji (Collected writings of Su Dongpo), quoted from Zhongguo meixueshi ziliao xuanbian, p. 34. Su Shi was a famous poet, prose writer, artist, and literary theorist
42. Roman Jakobson, "Closing Statement: Linguistics and Poetics," in T. A. Sebeok, ed., Style in Language (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1960), p. 356
43. Weng Fanggang, "Shenyun lun" (A treatise on spiritual resonance), in Zhongguo lidai wenlun xuan, 3: 376. Wang Fanggang was a famous writer and literary thinker of the Qing dynasty
44. Zhuang Zhou, Zhuangzi (Shanghai: Guji Chubanshe, 1995), p. 20
45. Liu, Language Paradox Poetics, p. 69
46. Zhan Youxin, Sikong Tu Shipin yanyi (An explanation of Sikong Tu's Shipin) (Hong Kong: Huafeng Shuju, 1983), p. 120
47. Guo Shaoyu, ed., Shipin jijie (A collection of interpretations of the Shipin) (Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 1965)
48. Qiao Li, Ershisi shipin tanwei, p. 61
49. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (New York: Avon Books, 1965), pp. 576-578
50. For a full understanding of this term, refer to Derrida's "La Différance," in Margins of Philosophy, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), pp. 1-27
51. Derrida, Margins of Philosophy, p. 18
52. Jakobson, "Closing Statement: Linguistics and Poetics," p. 358
53. Sun Liankui, "Shipin yishuo" (Speculative explanations of the [Twenty-four] Forms of Poetry), in Sikong Tu Shipin jieshuo erzhong, p. 27
54. Sun Liankui, "Shipin yishuo," p. 27
55. Yang Tingzhi, Ershisi shipin qianjie, p. 103
56. Peirce states: "A sign addresses somebody, that is, creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign. The sign which it creates I call the interprétant of the first sign." See Charles Sanders Peirce, Collected Papers (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1958), vol. 2, p. 228
57. Lau, Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching 1.14, p. 70
58. Liu Xie, Wenxin diaolong, p. 101
59. Huang Ziyun, "Yehong shidi" (Poetic standard of A Wild Goose), in Qing shihua (Poetic talks of the Qing dynasty) (Shanghai: Guji Chubanshe, 1978), p. 857
60. Wm. Theodore de Bary et al., comps., Sources of Chinese Tradition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1960), vol. 1, p. 458
61. Zhu Xi, "Taijitu shuo jie," in Zhou Lianxi ji (Collected writings of Zhou Lianxi), juan 1, p. 4
62. Shao Yong, Huangji jing shishu (The world book on the Classic of the Royal Ultimate), "Guan wuwai pian" (Outer chapter on the observation of things), han 4, ce 16, p. 29a
63. Zhu Bokun, Yixue zhexue shi (A history of the philosophy of the Book of Changes) (Beijing: Beida Chubanshe, 1988), vol. 2, p. 98
64. Fung Yu-lan states: "What we call the material force of the true source is the Ultimate of Non-being, and the totality of all principles is the Great Ultimate. The process from the Ultimate of Non-being to the Great Ultimate is our world of actuality. We call this process 'The Ultimate of Non-being and also the Great Ultimate.' The Ultimate of Non-being, the Great ultimate, and the Ultimate of Non-being-and-also-the-Great-Ultimate are, in other words, the material force of the true source, the totality of principle, and the entire process from material force to principle, respectively. Collectively speaking, they are called the Tao (the Way)" (Quoted in Wing-tsit Chan, A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963], pp. 758-759
65. Chinese source: Feng Youlan's Xin lixue, (Changsha: Shangwu Yinshuguan, 1939) pp. 97-100
66. Hanshi waizhuan (Commentary by the Han school of poetry) (Taipei: Shangwu Yinshuguan, 1972), juan 5, p. 191
67. Bernard Bosanquet, A History of Aesthetics (London: Allen and Unwin, 1892), p. xii