The Sign of Jing 景 in Modern Chinese Poetry: Experience, Memory, Time and Space

Author: Wai-ying Chan(Department of Chinese,Lingnan University)

Vol.&No.：Vol. 47, No.2
Date：October 2002
Pages：105-120
DOI：10.6210/JNTNULL.2002.47(2).02

Abstract：

Jing景is an important element in Chinese poetry which has been, explicitly or implicitly, a focus of discussion among literary critics. Despite or perhaps because of its "transcendental" implications, this term has mainly been explored in classical Chinese poetry; its use in modern Chinese poetry has seldom been analyzed. The present essay attempts to utilize the literary interpretations of Jing and Jingjie 境界of Jao Tsung-i 饒宗頤(1916- ), Xiao Yao-tian蕭遙天 and Ye Jia-ying葉嘉瑩(1924- ), with reference also to the ideas of Tuan Yi-fu 段義孚, in order to discuss the sign of Jing via semiotic theory, according to which every interpretation relies upon the relationship between the sign and the meaning of itself.

Keywords：Space　Memory　Time　Experience　Jing

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