Chinese Sources for AfterWards:From Premodern Poetry,Paintings,and Medical Texts to Modern Novels,Film,and Documentaries

This paper focuses on Chinese sources suggested for a narrative medicine(NM)program,called AfterWards.Dr Lauren Small established AfterWards in 2014 and has been coordinating it since out of the Pediatrics Department at Johns Hopkins Medicine.In early 2019,she started giving a series of lectures and workshops about AfterWards to Chinese medical educators and clinicians in Beijing and Shanghai.She created an AfterWards Facilitator’s Guide based on Western-language sources for workshop participants.She also started to organize with Jiang Yuhong(Peking Union Medical College)a workshop for Chinese colleagues to be held at Johns Hopkins Medicine in October 2019.They invited the author to participate.The idea was hatched then to develop Chinese source materials following the AfterWards structure for an updated Facilitator’s Guide that Dr Small had initially written.A typical one-hour AfterWards session consists of a specific five-part structure:a literary text or artwork,an associated theme,discussion topics,a writing exercise,and shared reflection.While the content of the program always changes from session to session,the basic structure remains the same.This paper summarizes the types of Chinese sources and their related narrative-medicine themes that were originally selected for inclusion in the updated AfterWards Facilitator’s Guide intended for Chinese colleagues.These sources about coping with sick family members,aging,and illness ranged from the textual(classical Chinese poems on aging and diagnostic forms for training students)and visual(premodern Chinese paintings and murals of medical encounters)to the fictive(novels)and performative(contemporary Asian-American film in English and Chinese-language film and documentaries).

Discussion on the Relation between Garden Landscape Constitution and Ancient Chinese Poetry and Paintings

From the perspective of culture-based source,the author considered that the ancient Chinese poetry and paintings not only embodied the harmony and unity thought of man and nature,but also were the emotional attachment of Chinese literati.As a diverse and comprehensive aesthetic art,landscape expressed material and spiritual culture doubly,the spiritual connotation of which was inextricably linked within ancient Chinese poetry and paintings.In addition,ancient Chinese poetry and paintings can be directly used in landscape composition,such as the widely used in plaques,inscriptions,couplets,poems and inscriptions,carved beams and painted pillars,painting with words and so on.Chinese literati integrated the ethereal realm of poetry and paintings into garden art,making landscape endow with poetic charm.Therefore,the landscape revealed the traces of literature and arts in aesthetic idea and taste,pushing Chinese garden to a higher aesthetic realm.This study pointed the right way to the future of modern landscape which advocated ecological and harmonious development.

The Image and Text Relationship in TANG Yin＇s Scroll of Poetry and Painting

This paper seeks to examine the image and text relationship in TANG Yin＇s scroll of poetry and painting from three aspects： The first aspect focuses upon the schema type of its image and text relationship in physical form; the second aspect, explores the text＇s/poetry＇s functions of anchorage and relay while appreciating those images/paintings; the third aspect, traces the semiosis process of image, exploring how image and text as cultural products in the epistemological world mediates with the phenomenological world

On the Symbiotic Relationship between Pre-Raphaelite Poetry and Painting - A Case Study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris

The poetry and painting of such Pre-Raphaelite artists as Rossetti and Morris are intimately linked in terms of both the theoretic base and the techniques adopted in the process of creation,so much so that the interaction between the two could be labeled symbiotic.The paper aims to trace the origin of this kinship by adumbrating the relationship between poetry and painting from ancient Greece to the 19th century,illustrating the art aesthetic of John Ruskin(his defense for poetry and painting as sister arts and his philosophy of beauty in particular)as the foundation for the two target artists'practice,and examining the diverse techniques employed in their artistic production.

Building Landscape Art with Study of Buddhism in Poetry and Drawing

Many aspects have very important effects on garden art,such as landscape poetry,landscape painting,or related poetic theory,painting theory.Among them,the characteristics of the Buddhism of poetry and painting provide a basis on creating Zen State in garden.The ideal state of poetry constitutes the aesthetic realm of garden and its gardening techniques.

Appreciating Ancient Chinese Poetry (Chinese-English Bilingual)

The following are two poems by well known chinese poet Li Qing zhao(1084-C.1151),who lived hme SouthernSong Dynasty(11 27-1279)、The poems are translated by Chinese Canadian N.C.Doc.Li Qingzhao was a native ofZhangqiu in Qizhou(now in Shandong Province).Her early life was spent in affluence,and she and her husband,Zhao Mingcheng,devoted themselves to collecting and arranging callgraphy,painting and seals.This idyllic lifecame to an end afterjin troops had invaded the Central Plain and moved to the south of China.Her early poetrydescribes mostly her leisure life,while her late works are full of sorrow for her husband,who had died,and for hernative land in the Central Plain.She writes in a straightforward manner,and her wording is both elegant and mild.

Painted in Oil, Composed in Ink： Late-Qing Ekphrastic Poetry and the Encounter with Western-Style Painting

This essay explores the poetic responses of several Qing-dynasty poets to their encounter with Western-style oil painting. Unfamiliar with Western post-Renaissance techniques, most notably the use of perspective and of oil paints, these poets expressed their anxiety, distaste, curiosity and appreciation of Western aesthetics and cultural practices through their poems. By focusing on previously un-translated poems of Weng Fanggang 翁方纲 （1733-1818）, Li Xialing 李遐龄 （1768-1832）, Kang Youwei 康有为 （1858-1927） and others, I argue that these poems function as metaphors for the complex ways in which China＇s late imperial elites negotiated their country＇s encounter with the West, both as a tight-knit group bound by dynastic conventions and as a loose network of individual thinkers whose varied talents allowed for highly original reflections on the cultural potential of East-West encounters. I will show that--while strictly adhering to traditional Chinese prosodic conventions--these poets through their creative and nuanced poetic commentaries on Sino-Western relations achieved an unusual degree of cultural cross-fertilization. Intrigued by the ＂foreignness＂ of the art works they set their eyes on, these poets, I will illustrate, were able to expand the horizons of poetic discourse without surrendering to the lure of the foreign or abandoning indigenous formal conventions.

Research progress on and prospects for virtual brush modeling in digital calligraphy and painting

As the crown of the scholar's four jewels,the brush has occupied a cherished position in the culture of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy since its invention.In virtual painting,virtual brush modeling plays the most important role.A powerful virtual brush model can truly reflect the characteristics of a real brush and enhance the reality of virtual painting.By reviewing the state of the art in virtual brush modeling,we summarize the basic principles,merits,and drawbacks of typical modeling methods,and discuss simulation results based on empirical methods and physical methods separately.The influences of brush-paper,paper-ink,and human-computer interactive devices on virtual brush modeling are analyzed briefly.The main chal-lenges and problems in virtual painting are analyzed,and the prospects for research on virtual brush modeling in the future are put forward.

The Art of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Mounting

The history of Chinese painting and calligraphy mounting can date back to the Warring States period(475-221 BC).This unique craftsmanship saw its heydays in

Discussion on the Appraisal of Ancient Chinese Calligraphies and Paintings

Throughout Chinese history there have been many outstanding calligraphers and painters who have left behind numerous masterpieces.There have also been endless copycats,forgeries and ghost-creations bringing much trouble and chaos to the appreciation and study of ancient Chinese calligraphies and paintings.Based on certain theories and practices of calligraphy and painting appraisals,this paper summarizes eight basic approaches to the appraisal of ancient Chinese calligraphies and paintings used to separate the true from the false.

Development and Evolution of Papermaking in Ancient China based on the Uses and Forms of Paper

In the past,scholars have divided the history of Chinese papermaking into different stages based on the development of ancient papermaking technology,emphasizing the development and progress of papermaking in different historical periods but paying less attention to the changes in the form of paper.Here,the stages are defined based on changes in use and function rather than technological developments.When this approach is combined with the history of printing,books,calligraphy,and painting,the history of Chinese papermaking can be divided into the writing paper,writing and printing paper,printing paper,and calligraphy and painting paper periods.Different periods of paper have significant differences in texture,form,and performance owing to their different applications.This significant difference provides a reference for the identification of ancient papers and reveals the internal connection between the history of printing,books,calligraphy,painting,and papermaking.