Aiqing Wang
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

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Syncretism of Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism in Liaozhai Zhiyi in Terms of Filial Piety Aiqing Wang
Heritage of Nusantara: International Journal of Religious Literature and Heritage Vol. 10 No. 2 (2021): HERITAGE OF NUSANTARA
Publisher : Center for Research and Development of Religious Literature and Heritage

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Liáozhāi Zhìyì is one of the representative compilations in the genre of zhìguài ‘strange writing’ during the Qing (1644-1912) era, and it conveys filial piety through narration and authorial commentary. This research scrutinizes narratives regarding the preponderant construal of filial piety, so as to explore the harmonious contemporaneous of religious thinking and behavior in Qing China. This research conducts interpretative and hermeneutic research on four narratives in Liáozhāi Zhìyì, namely, Xí Fāngpíng, Lè Zhòng, Sìshí Qiān, and Qiánbǔ Wū, and  also refers to classic treatises regarding filial piety. Given the fact that narratives in Liáozhāi Zhìyì themed by or appertaining to filial piety entail elements of three religions simultaneously. This study propounds that it illuminates amalgamation of Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism, i.e. sānjiàohéyī, in seventeenth-century China.
Male Writers of DānměiLiterature: An Analysis of Fēitiānyèxiáng Aiqing Wang
Heritage of Nusantara: International Journal of Religious Literature and Heritage Vol. 10 No. 1 (2021): HERITAGE OF NUSANTARA
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In this paper, I investigate dānmÄ›i as a ground-breaking literary genre by means of scrutinising an illustrious male writer pseudonymed FÄ“itiānyèxiáng, and I propound that his works are exemplary as online writing. As a growing Chinese Internet literature, the female-oriented dānmÄ›i genre, aka Boys Love, has attracted legions of heterosexual fangirl producers and consumers as well as a meagre amount of their male counterparts. Among male dānmÄ›i writers, who are in an absolute minority, FÄ“itiānyèxiáng is celebrated for a wide range of innovative themes and magnificent storylines, and his fiction is replete with profound literary and historical allusions and elaborate and meticulous depictions. Furthermore, notwithstanding a non-reversible bipartite dichotomy between seme (top) and uke (bottom) roles, FÄ“itiānyèxiáng’s writing is not featured by feminisation of uke, which is clichéd characterisation in not only the dānmÄ›i subculture, but also classical and modern Chinese literature. More significantly, FÄ“itiānyèxiáng’s narratives are reality-oriented, addressing adverse circumstances in a real-world context and hence rendering characters more multi-faceted, and he does not circumvent realistic issues or create over-romanticised representation, analogous to his equivalent pseudonymed Nánkāngbáiqǐ.