Canadian-Daoist Poetics, Ethics, and Aesthetics An Interdisciplinary
This monograph takes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to 20th and 21st -century Canadian Daoist poetry, fiction and criticism in comparative, innovative and engaging ways. Of particular interest are the authors’ refreshing insights into su
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CanadianDaoist Poetics, Ethics, and Aesthetics An Interdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Study
Canadian-Daoist Poetics, Ethics, and Aesthetics
John Z. Ming Chen • Yuhua Ji
Canadian-Daoist Poetics, Ethics, and Aesthetics An Interdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Study
John Z. Ming Chen College of Foreign Languages and Cultures Xiamen University Xiamen, China
Yuhua Ji Department of English Xiamen University Xiamen, China
ISBN 978-3-662-47958-2 ISBN 978-3-662-47959-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-47959-9
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Daoism and Canadian Literature Foreword
Canada. Why should we take it as a starting point for our multinational Daoist project? Why not America? Why not Britain or Germany? The answers are, paradoxically, simple and complex. The simple ones may run the full gamut of surface attractiveness in size, position, language, culture, nature, and colors: Canada is big, in fact, the biggest country in the world in terms of territory; it sits on the North Pole, half submerged in unspoiled water, with much pristine land “from coast to coast to coast,” as CBC anchorman Peter Mansbridge likes to repeat. Canada is one of the few countries that turned bilingual and multicultural much earlier than most other countries and is deemed a peace-loving and peace-keeping country replete with red salmon and red maple leaves on white snow. Simple answers can run endlessly, but we will let the cat out of the bag: Mary Wu, our English composition teacher, came from Canada, more than three and a half decades ago, so did Dr. Robert Cosby, our American literature professor in g
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