Jianghu: the children of rivers and lakes and Chinese modernity

 

Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Awdur: WENNING, MARIO
Fformat: artículo original
Statws:Versión publicada
Dyddiad Cyhoeddi:2026
Disgrifiad:In Chinese philosophy, literature, and cinema, the concept of jianghu 江湖 has served as a placeholder for a fleeting space at the margins of society. It refers to a precarious and dangerous counter-community inhabited by free individuals. They live in the margins of the established order and know how to navigate rivers and lakes. Despite its capacity to adapt, the world of Jianghu is often depicted as being threatened and replaced by modernization processes. Its dwellers are outcasts who nevertheless inhabit an alternative social order that stands in tension with the normative demands of ordinary modern society. Jianghu inhabitants are committed to a set of jianghu-norms. The chapter traces the normative ambivalence of jianghu characters in the classic Daoist sources to then focus on the fate of jianghu in modern China as depicted in Jia Zhangke’s 2018 film “Ash is Purest White” (江湖兒女).
Gwlad:Portal de Revistas UCR
Sefydliad:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Iaith:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/4923
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rriea/article/view/4923
Allweddair:Jianghu
Jia Zhangke
Ash is Purest White
La ceniza es el blanco más puro