Compared Wen Wang eight diagrams with Fuxi eight diagrams, the position of the Qian (heaven) hexagrams shifted from due south to northwest, which was closely related to the early geographical environment and climate change in the eastern part of the Eurasian continent. In the pre-Qin period, the migration and conflict of ethnic groups were mostly caused from the northwest region. The western Zhou dynasty and the Qin empire both rose from the northwest region of China and became the decisive force influencing the historical process of China. People summarize the history and refine historical events into eight diagrams. The thought of “heaven’s way in the northwest” is the main reason for the change of the position of the hexagrams.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-18DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2023.2164987
T. Dutta
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This paper explores the cultural meaning of tea drinking for the literati in the later part of the Ming dynasty (around 1500-1644), using the pair ideas of tea as representing a lifestyle close to nature, and tea as a powerful representation of tasteful life in the society. The dual meanings of tea reinforce each other for the Ming literati, giving them the means and outlets to bolster their self-expression and to distinguish their identity in the social-cultural context of limited career opportunities. I examine the role of tea in tea books, tea-themed paintings, and Ming literati’s engagement in tea clubs and other related activities. This paper contributes to dialogues at the intersections of nature, culture, and history by treating tea as a nature-culture object, highlighting that the pursuit of nature is itself a form of cultural power.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-12DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2023.2164985
P. Bose
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Pub Date : 2023-01-08DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2023.2164982
Aakhya Isha
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Pub Date : 2023-01-08DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2023.2164983
Abhijit Maity
the non-Aryan rarely ate, slept, or lived together and if they ever did so, it was masked, clothed, disguised, or on the terms set by the dvija (114). It thus historically places the repudiation of Hindu religion as the Indian civilization formulated three decades ago in Why I am Not a Hindu (1996) by Kancha Ilaiah. The text takes the perpetrators of violence away from the state as pointed out in Ziya Us Salam’s Lynch Files: The Forgotten Saga of Victims of Hate Crime (2019) and to the innocuousness of ordinary citizens and the sacrileges of their violent past, which have constituted the ‘banality of evil’ over centuries in the name of dharma. While addressing her son, Babu, she indirectly informs the future generations of their inheritance. Done with skilful research and sincerity, My Son’s Inheritance deserves a place on the bookshelf for years to come.
非雅利安人很少一起吃饭、睡觉或生活，如果他们真的这样做了，那就是戴口罩、穿衣服、伪装，或者按照dvija设定的条件（114）。因此，在历史上，它将对印度教的否定视为三十年前Kancha Ilaiah在《为什么我不是印度人》（1996）中提出的印度文明。正如Ziya Us Salam的《林奇档案：仇恨犯罪受害者被遗忘的传奇》（2019）中所指出的那样，该文本将暴力行为的肇事者从国家带走，并将他们带到普通公民的无害和对他们暴力过去的亵渎，这些行为在几个世纪以来以佛法的名义构成了“平庸的邪恶”。在对儿子巴布讲话时，她间接地向后代告知了他们的遗产。凭借娴熟的研究和真诚，《我儿子的遗产》值得在未来几年的书架上占有一席之地。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-06DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2023.2164986
Shwetha Chandrashekhar
their own respective contexts, the extent to which each concentrated on or privileged violence over their brethren in the pursuit of sovereignty is surely up for debate. Fratricide may well have been a means to the end of sovereignty during the violence which followed partition in 1947, but the relevance of fratricide specifically, as opposed to mere enmity and anti-imperial resentment, to discourses of sovereignty in the decades which came before could perhaps be developed further. Furthermore, there remains a jarring absence in the book of South Indian contribution to the ‘Indian Age’ that lies at the bedrock of Kapila’s thesis. While a small piece on Tamil revolutionary VVS Aiyar features in the second chapter, the focus on actors and regions attached to the northern expanses of the subcontinent does seem to somewhat weaken the general geographical applicability of what is otherwise a novel, hard-hitting thesis. Drawing inspiration from recent histories of the British Empire and from a wide variety of source material, Kapila’s wide-ranging exploration nonetheless makes for a gripping historical account of Indian intellectual thought during the later colonial period. Presenting and comparing the ideas of political figures from Tilak to Ambedkar to Patel, Kapila highlights the need to journey beyond the discourses of liberalism, socialism, and Marxism to understand how Indian political thought came to be preoccupied by questions of fraternity, violence, and sovereignty. Turning these political actors of the age into political thinkers, Kapila demonstrates how the protagonists of her work moved in and engaged with both Indian and global political circles and so calls attention to the intricacies of political thought within a subcontinental context. Background knowledge of the developments in India’s transition to independence is a prerequisite for those who seek to engage with Kapila’s argument. Nevertheless, Kapila’s book will be of interest to scholars interested in exploring alternatives to traditional accounts of modern Indian history.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-06DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2023.2164984
Bhadrajee S. Hewage
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Pub Date : 2023-01-04DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2022.2141258
Anupama Mohan
ABSTRACT ‘Lihāf’ by Ismat Chughtai is widely read as a tale of feminist and queer rebellion but it also narrates a complex account of a young girl’s initiation into sexuality as a result of her molestation by a much older woman. In this narratological study that also draws upon the historical context of the Urdu world of letters which framed Chughtai’s own self-fashioning as a writer and intellectual, I argue that the case for a feminist and queer-positive reading of ‘Lihāf’ often misses or downplays the sexual molestation of the narrator as a child and remains inattentive to the ways in which Chughtai constructs conflict and tension between the two voices that narrate the story: that of the adult narrator, a Muslim woman, who opens the tale and then, deploying the voice and perspective of a child, recalls and reconstructs the memory of the fateful events of her childhood. Central to my reading is the point of view of the child whose movement in and through the female-dominated zenānā re-presents the case for viewing ‘a women’s utopia’ in dystopic ways. By splitting the female perspective into two overlapping realms – those of the adult and the child – Chughtai rewrites desire as experienced by the ‘New Woman,’ a historical figure of feminist emancipation often identified in established literary and critical readings with Begum Jān. Such an identification, I argue, is, in fact, unidimensional and is trenchantly undermined in the story by the brutal and intersecting logic of patriarchal domination and class exploitation, a logic at whose fulcrum is the figure of the child as the dark Other of the New Woman.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-03DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2022.2162732
Shikha Sharma
ABSTRACT The article looks at the methodology used by dance-maker Mandeep Raikhy – for his works Queen Size and A Male Ant Has Straight Antennae - of using ‘stimuli’ in the choreographic process to incite and create appropriate movement principles. The usage of visual stimuli such as images, drawings, and observations, and textual or literary stimuli (fiction/non-fiction, words) can be said to hold the power to evoke ‘authentic’ movement from deep within, which can further be processed into choreography. The kinds of stimuli employed in Raikhy’s process, along with how he processes them, throw an interesting light on the needs of queer dance and choreography, while also expanding on the unique role and power of dance in queer discourse. How do images used by Raikhy metamorphose into movement, and how is movement thus conceived faithful to queerness? In what ways does text act as a motivator in working with a form that defies text? How does bodily text replace it? Once movement is generated from these stimuli, what choices does Raikhy make to choreograph, and how and why is a performance of this choreography effective in delivering a sense of queerness to the spectator (as well as being a political act)?
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