Chinese Academia (Issue 5)

Author: Liu Dong
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: The essays section begins with two articles exploring new theories to break new ground. Both authors avoid detaching from Chinese realities, much like the upcoming "Diversity in Beauty" conference at Peking University, aiming to address the cross-disciplinary challenges of "Modern Western Theory and Chinese Studies." The next three essays conduct a knowledge archaeology, focusing on the imaginary animal with dual wings composed of different animals, which was popular in art works from the Spring and Autumn period to the Wei and Jin dynasties and was expressed in various materials. The reviews section also comments on the research by American linguist Kahn. In ancient Greek literature, einai primarily has three usages—linking verb usage, existential usage, and truth-testing usage. Among these, the most important is linking verb usage, which is determined by the syntactic form of the sentence. In the correspondence section, the poet responds decisively to Zhang Xinying with unique insights.