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A monograph that focuses on the impact of Daoism on Asian North American writers. It focuses on four areas: aesthetics, poetics, politics, and moral-cosmological visions.

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Author:   Dr John Ming Zhong Chen
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint:   Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780773448100

ISBN 10:   0773448101
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   January 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Dedication; Note; Preface; Acknowledgements and Foreword; Introduction: Mouthing, (En)gendering, and Celebrating Differences: Aesthetics, Poetics, Politics, and Moral-Cosmological Vision; 1. Balancing the Yin and the Yang (Woodcock): The Cardinal Creative Principle, Imagery, and Symbolism in Male Writers' Works; 2. The Yin/Yang Principle and the Moral Cosmological View in Female Feminist Writers; 3. The Moon, the Sun, and Humanity; 4. Poetizing and/as Painting Mountains and Water in Unity and Harmony; 5. In Pursuit of the Peaceable Kingdom (Frye): Gardens and Fields and/in the Daoist Universe; 6. Circles/Cycles and the Daoist Principles of Return as Renewal and Reversal; 7. Nothing Doing, Everything Done - Prologue: New Moon (SKY Lee); Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Its near exhaustive research will no doubt invite others not only to partake of the wealth of challenging finds, but also to make new contributions along the same path. - Prof. Yuhua Ji Xiamen University Original insights abound. Needless to say, Daoism is far from an easy subject for Chinese and foreign scholars; however, this work deftly and definitively demystifies and popularizes many key tenets and principles of creativity... - Prof. Yupei Zhou Kent State University

"""Its near exhaustive research will no doubt invite others not only to partake of the wealth of challenging finds, but also to make new contributions along the same path."" - Prof. Yuhua Ji Xiamen University ""Original insights abound. Needless to say, Daoism is far from an easy subject for Chinese and foreign scholars; however, this work deftly and definitively demystifies and popularizes many key tenets and principles of creativity..."" - Prof. Yupei Zhou Kent State University"""

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