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This volume brings together fourteen essays that explore the role of hiddenness—as both an object and a mode of representation—in the history of cultural production in China from the Warring States Period (403–221 BCE) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1911) and beyond. The rhetorical use of various forms of hiddenness makes its appearance in literary, political, philosophical, and religious writings, as well as in the visual arts. Working in fields as disparate as traditional Chinese literature, religion, philosophy, history, medicine, and art, the contributors attempt to characterize one of the fundamental signifying practices in traditional Chinese cultural production. In the process, they not only reveal otherwise obscure patterns connecting longstanding social, political, aesthetic, and epistemological practices, but also contribute to ongoing discussions—well beyond the field of China studies—regarding the representation and communicability of knowledge, as well as the practices controlling its dissemination.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1. Lowered Curtains in the Half-Light: An Introduction
Paula M. Varsano

I. The Art of Withholding

2. The Ruling Mind: Persuasion and the Origins of Chinese Psychology
David Schaberg

3. Beliefs about Social Seeing: Hiddenness (wei 微) and Visibility in Classical-Era China
Michael Nylan

4. Woman in the Tower:“Nineteen Old Poems”and the Poetics of Un/concealment
Xiaofei Tian

5. Hiding Behind a Woman: Contexts and Meanings in Early Qing Poetry
Wai-yee Li

II. The Lessons of Distraction

6. Hiddenness of the Body and the Metaphysics of Sight
Shigehisa Kuriyama

7. Worlds of Meaning and the Meaning of Worlds in Sikong Tu’s Twenty-Four Modes of Poetry
Paula M. Varsano

III. On Blind Spots

8. Hidden in Plain View: Concealed Contents, Secluded Statues, and Revealed Religion
James Robson

9. The Vernacular Story and the Hiddenness of Value
Sophie Volpp

10. Absence and Presence: The Great Wall in Chinese Art
Lillian Lan-ying Tseng

IV. The Languages of Synecdoche

11. Synecdoche of the Imaginary
Stephen Owen

12.“The Disarrayed Hills Conceal an Old Monastery”: The Dynamics of Poetry and Painting in the Northern Song
Eugene Wang

V. Just Words

13. Manifesting Sagely Knowledge: Commentarial Strategies in Chinese Late Antiquity
Michael Puett

14. The Yi-Xiang-Yan Paradigm and Early Chinese Theories of Literary Creation
Zong-qi Cai

Contributors
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History of art

History of Asia

Asia

China

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Date de parution	20 décembre 2016
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The Rhetoric of Hiddenness in Traditional Chinese Culture
SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Roger T. Ames, editor
The Rhetoric of Hiddenness in Traditional Chinese Culture
Edited by
Paula M. Varsano
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Names: Varsano, Paula M., editor.
Title: The rhetoric of hiddenness in traditional Chinese culture / edited by Paula M. Varsano.
Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2016. | Series: SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016007693 (print) | LCCN 2016038163 (ebook) | ISBN 9781438463032 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438463049 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: China—Intellectual life—221 B.C.–960 A.D. | China—Intellectual life—960–1644. | China—Intellectual life—1644–1912. | Rhetoric—China—History. | Secrecy—China—History. | Hiding places—China—History. | Knowledge, Theory of.
Classification: LCC DS727.R48 2016 (print) | LCC DS727 (ebook) | DDC 951—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016007693
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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1 Lowered Curtains in the Half-Light: An Introduction
Paula M. Varsano
The Art of Withholding
2 The Ruling Mind: Persuasion and the Origins of Chinese Psychology
David Schaberg
3 Beliefs about Social Seeing: Hiddenness (wei 微 ) and Visibility in Classical-Era China
Michael Nylan
4 Woman in the Tower: “Nineteen Old Poems” and the Poetics of Un/concealment
Xiaofei Tian
5 Hiding Behind a Woman: Contexts and Meanings in Early Qing Poetry
Wai-yee Li
The Lessons of Distraction
6 Hiddenness of the Body and the Metaphysics of Sight
Shigehisa Kuriyama
7 Worlds of Meaning and the Meaning of Worlds in Sikong Tu’s Twenty-Four Modes of Poetry
Paula M. Varsano
On Blind Spots
8 Hidden in Plain View: Concealed Contents, Secluded Statues, and Revealed Religion
James Robson
9 The Vernacular Story and the Hiddenness of Value
Sophie Volpp
10 Absence and Presence: The Great Wall in Chinese Art
Lillian Lan-ying Tseng
The Languages of Synecdoche
11 Synecdoche of the Imaginary
Stephen Owen
12 “The Disarrayed Hills Conceal an Old Monastery”: The Dynamics of Poetry and Painting in the Northern Song
Eugene Wang
Just Words
13 Manifesting Sagely Knowledge: Commentarial Strategies in Chinese Late Antiquity
Michael Puett
14 The Yi-Xiang-Yan Paradigm and Early Chinese Theories of Literary Creation
Zong-qi Cai
Contributors
Index
Illustrations 3.1 Zhi Lin (b. 1959), detail from Drawing and Quartering , Five Capital Punishments in China . 3.2 Tomb painting, early third century CE, Luoyang . 3.3 Rubbing of a pictorial stone, Han Dynasty, Shandong . 3.4 Tomb painting, 176 CE, Anping, Hebei Province . 3.5 Map showing imperial progresses of the First Emperor and Emperor Wu of the Han . 6.1 Torso, from Andreas Vesalius, De fabrica corporis humanis (1543) . 6.2 Neijingtu , from Zhang Jiebin, Leijing tushuo (1624) . 6.3 From Andreas Vesalius, De fabrica corporis humanis (1543) . 6.4 From Gu Shicheng, Yangyi daquan (1760) . 6.5 From Wang Xixin, Waike qieyao (1847) . 6.6 From Gu Shicheng, Yangyi daquan (1760) . 6.7 From Gu Shicheng, Yangyi daquan (1760) . 6.8 From Gu Shicheng, Yangyi daquan (1760) . 6.9 From Gu Shicheng, Yangyi daquan (1760) . 6.10 From Gu Shicheng, Yangyi daquan (1760) . 6.11 From Gu Shicheng, Yangyi daquan (1760) . 6.12 From Andreas Vesalius, De fabrica corporis humanis (1543) . 6.13 From Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (1796) . 6.14 Created by Kuriyama . 6.15 Neijingtu , from Zhang Jiebin, Leijing tushuo (1624) . 6.16 From Andreas Vesalius, De fabrica corporis humanis (1543). 6.17 From Andreas Vesalius, De fabrica corporis humanis (1543) . 6.18 From Andreas Vesalius, De fabrica corporis humanis (1543) . 6.19 From Andreas Vesalius, De fabrica corporis humanis (1543) . 6.20 From Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors (1533) . 6.21 From Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors (1533) . 6.22 Created by Kuriyama . 6.23 Created by Kuriyama . 8.1 Front and back of Hunan statue, photograph by Robson . 8.2 Contents of a Hunan statue, photograph by Robson . 8.3 Woodcut showing the backsides of statues with cavities, from Dubose, The Dragon, Image, and Demon. 10.1 The Great Wall as Seen at the Nankou, Showing the Badaling Gate. 10.2 Xu Bing, Ghosts Pounding the Wall , 1991 . 10.3 Xu Bing, Ghosts Pounding the Wall , 1991 . 10.4 Section of a Tower. Photo by William Edgar Geil, 1909 . 10.5 Xu Bing, Ghosts Pounding the Wall , 1991 . 10.6 Liu Kuiling, Spring Coming to the Pass and Mountains , 1926 . 10.7 Liu Kuiling, Harmonious Landscape , 1927 . 10.8 A Parcel of the Long Wall of China . Engraved illustration. From Johannes Nieuhof, Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperour of China , 1669 . 10.9 The Great Wall of China . Drawn by Thomas Allom and engraved by J. Sands. From Allom, China, in a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits of that Ancient Empire , 1834 . 10.10 Liu Kuiling, Spring Wind at the Northern Frontier , 1932 . 10.11 The Border Town . Engraved illustration. From Gao Zeyu, Linyu xianzhi , 1929 . 10.12 Shi Lu, Beyond the Ancient Great Wall , 1954 . 10.13 Map showing the noncombat zone under the Tanggu Armistice in 1933 . 10.14 Zhao Wangyun, Luowenyu After the War: The Grand Terrain Feature That Strongly Enhances Defense , 1934 . 10.15 Zhao Wangyun, Luowenyu After the War: The Town in Its South , 1934 . 10.16 Zhao Wangyun, Luowenyu After the War: A Bird’s Eye View , 1934 . 10.17 Zhao Wangyun, Luowenyu After the War: Donkeys Beyond the Great Wall . From Zhao Wangyun saishang xiesheng ji , 1934 . 10.18 The Combat between the Hu and the Han. Mid–first century. Stone carving on the west wall of the shrine at Xiaotangshan in Changqing, Shandong . 10.19 The Combat between the Hu and the Han. Mid–first century. Stone carving in a tomb at Chengguan in Zouxian, Shandong . 12.1 Forlorn Monastery Amid Autumn Hills , eleventh century . 12.2 Forlorn Monastery Amid Clearing Peaks , eleventh century . 12.3 Autumn Colors of the Streams and Mountains , early twelfth century . 12.4 Li Gongnian, Winter Evening Landscape , ca. 1120 .
Acknowledgments
The fourteen essays collected in this volume are revised versions of papers presented at a two-day conference held at the University of California, Berkeley, in September 2007. The title of the conference, like that of this book, was The Rhetoric of Hiddenness in Traditional Chinese Culture, and the impetus behind it was the recognition that the evocation of hiddenness—or, more precisely, the subtle interplay between the hidden and the manifest—pervades many aspects of premodern Chinese cultural production. From the earliest divination texts to the great novels of the late imperial period, from the practice of ritual to graphic representations of the body, some form of hiddenness can be counted on to appear, whether as a formal device, an interpretable theme, or—as in the most interesting and complex cases—both. Yet the role played by hiddenness in premodern Chinese culture had only been explored in its particular instances: as central to the study of allusion, gardens, eremitism, or disguises; or as implicit in the discussion of some broader topic, such as literary hermeneutics or studies of Daoist and Buddhist forms of enlightenment.
Perhaps the sheer ubiquity of this feature of cultural expression, and the reality that it is common in some form to all cultures and civilizations, made it unthinkable to attempt to examine it from an interdisciplinary or synthetic perspective. And so I am especially grateful that so many colleagues from such a wide range of disciplines responded immediately and enthusiastically to my call for papers, so many years ago. And, as we discovered over the course of our conversations, hiddenness—whether enacted rhetorically, poetically, or practically—can be thought of as marking the point where a range of epistemological, aesthetic, moral, political, and social issues converge: that place where various modes of knowledge (such as discernment, cognition, recognition, or intuition) can be observed as shaping—and being shaped by—aesthetic, social, and moral values and circumstances.
In the following pages, contributors have taken a particular instance of hiddenness as a starting point from which to examine their chosen texts with an eye to discerning: the motives and methods of concealment (as enacted by the authors, protagonists, or practitioners), the criteria guiding the choice of the “object” deemed worthy of dissimulation, or the implicit or explicit conditions for the revelation that object. The combined effect of this