Every reader of classical Chinese texts—at least those paying attention to the precise
meanings of key words as they vary through different periods, genres and prose contexts …

To what extent are emotions universal? Are joy, anger and fear the same in all cultures and
in all historical periods? What about love? And what about exotic reports of emotions like the …

These reactions can include things like" pleasure, anger, sadness, fear, love, hate, desire",
but the tenn itself refers to the reality feedback, not the emotional states themselves. 9 This …

The special fascination with qing t'i exhibited in late Ming literature, or the so-called cult of
qing, has been attracting increasing attention from students of Chinese literature. 2 …

In the West, love occupies center stage in the modern age, whether in art, intellectual life, or
the economic life. We may observe a similar development in China, on its own impetus …

This dissertation examines the relationship between qing and the development of Chinese
fictional narrative from the late Ming (early to mid-seventeenth century) to the turn of the …

The term qing 情(emotion) has lain at the core of Chinese thinking about literature from
antiquity through modern times. It is of profound paradigmatic significance because each …

Religion in Late Imperial China focuses on the juxtaposition of desire (or qing 情, adopted by
Li as an equivalent but more inclusive Chinese expression of desire) and its various …

The word qing (sentiment, feeling, or love) had a ubiquitous presence in early twentieth-
century Chinese literature and popular culture. Writers wrote novels of sentiment, essayists …

Recent in of late late scholarship Ming Ming literature. philosophy, strongly Scholars and
focused as detected one on of qing the close I] 1/most as connections the important central …