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Item On the Chinese character 土 (Earth)(The Commercial Press, Beijing China, 2022-11-01) Huang, Weijia; He, AnitaItem Memories of Harvard 哈佛追忆二三事(The China Press, 2019-03-10) Huang, WeijiaItem On the Chinese character 数 (number)(The Commercial Press, Beijing China, 2022-09-01) Huang, Weijia; Yang, TingtingItem On the Chinese character 公 (public)(The Commercial Press, Beijing China, 2022-07-01) Huang, Weijia; Chu, SiyiItem Futurity: contemporary literature and the quest for the past by Amir Eshel(Project Muse, 2016) Gillman, AbigailItem The labor of secrecy: interpreting parables from the Bible to Kafka(2021-12-06) Gillman, AbigailItem On the character 感（feel）(The Commercial Press, Beijing China, 2022-05-01) Huang, Weijia; He, AnitaItem On the character 览 （view）(The Commercial Press, Beijing China, 2022-03-01) Huang, Weijia; He, AnitaItem Arkadii bessmertnii (Dostoevskii o dushe, prebyvaiushchei vne tela)(Russian Academy of Sciences, 2021-12-01) Corrigan, Yuri; Kasatkina, T.A.Volume on the "state of the field" with regard to Dostoevsky's "Adolescent."Item Dostoevsky in the 21st century(2021-12-01) Corrigan, YuriRoudtable with Stefano Aloe, Carol Apollonio, Kornelija Ičin, Sergei Kibalnik, and Boris Tikhomirov.Item Rube stories and paradigmatic crimes as narrative modulators at thresholds of cultural change(2021-06-27) Schwartz, Peter J.This essay investigates two species of a larger genus of narrative (“narrative modulators”) characterized by its function as a sort of compromise formation addressing recurrent anxieties and tensions at major thresholds of cultural change. One of these is a story type linked with cinema’s early reception: that of the “credulous spectator,” figured in early film and film lore as the country bumpkin or “rube” who, misperceiving the projected image as real, runs from the oncoming train or from the wet of onscreen waves or tries to enter the story; I extend this type beyond cinema to include precinematic literary examples. I’ve coined the term “paradigmatic crimes” to describe stories of criminal acts used to address pressing cultural concerns at given historical junctures as a second type of “narrative modulator.” As with “rube stories,” what unifies “paradigmatic crimes” as a story type is their specific function as “narrative modulators” in moments of cultural change. My hypothesis is that functionally similar stories appear at structurally comparable thresholds of media change in various cultures at various times, and that the similarities are to be explained mainly morphologically (i.e. mainly at the abstract level of their capacity to modulate cultural change).Item On the Chinese character 动 (move)(The Commercial Press, Beijing China, 2022-01-01) Huang, Weijia; Liu, JueItem On the Chinese character 演 (evolve)(The Commercial Press, Beijing China, 2021-09-01) Huang, Weijia; Tan, YunfeiItem On the Chinese character 野 (wild)(The Commercial Press, Beijing China, 2021-07-01) Huang, Weijia; Yang, TingtingItem On the Chinese character 休 (rest)(The Commercial Press, Beijing Chin, 2021-05-01) Huang, Weijia; Yang, TingtingItem On the Chinese character 借 (borrow)(The Commercial Press, Beijing China, 2021-03-01) Huang, Weijia; Tan, YunfeiItem On the Chinese character 通 (through)(The Commercial Press, Beijing China, 2021-11-01) Huang, Weijia; Tan, YunfeiItem Better than sex? Masaoka Shiki's haiku on food(Oxford University Press, 2018) Vincent, James K.; Stalker, N.K.This chapter analyzes the food passions of Meiji-era poet and inventor of the modern haiku Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902). Bedridden for his final five years, he continued to obsessively consume and write about choice morsels he demanded from his family and disciples although his body was no longer capable of digesting them. The chapter illustrates the deceptive simplicity in Masaoka’s poetry and prose on food, and how his use of descriptive minimalism, lists, and personification worked to impart the “essences” of food and the (homo)social relationships evoked by eating. It suggests that Masaoka employed minimalism because language was insufficient to wholly convey one individual's sensual experience to anotherItem On the Chinese character 智 (wisdom)(The Commercial Press, Beijing China, 2021-01-01) Huang, Weijia; Tan, YunfeiItem Engaging students online through an OER poetry project(2020-09-22) Malykhina, Svitlana; Prokopyeva, Nadiya