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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Translation › peer-review
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Translation › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Some Admire Wisdom, Others Do Not
A2 - Hird, Derek
A2 - Liu, Petrus
A2 - Rofel, Lisa
PY - 2024/2/9
Y1 - 2024/2/9
N2 - Desire, love, and rejection are poignantly explored through same-sex and heterosexual dynamics in this story through the narrator’s reflections on his childhood. His contemplations of the deaths he encountered as a child add a level of spiritual meditation. Like Spinoza’s free man, the narrator aspires to think about life, but is stuck with memories of deaths of friends and family members: suicides by hanging, shooting, drowning, a stillborn child, a child who dies from illness. For the narrator, life is more frightening than death. Holding onto the Christian beliefs that his grandparents turned to amid the chaos of China’s twentieth century, the narrator counts himself among those who admire death as an aspect of God’s sublime wisdom. By sharing his memories of death and desire under a regime where these topics are not always speakable, he hopes to move a little closer to freedom.
AB - Desire, love, and rejection are poignantly explored through same-sex and heterosexual dynamics in this story through the narrator’s reflections on his childhood. His contemplations of the deaths he encountered as a child add a level of spiritual meditation. Like Spinoza’s free man, the narrator aspires to think about life, but is stuck with memories of deaths of friends and family members: suicides by hanging, shooting, drowning, a stillborn child, a child who dies from illness. For the narrator, life is more frightening than death. Holding onto the Christian beliefs that his grandparents turned to amid the chaos of China’s twentieth century, the narrator counts himself among those who admire death as an aspect of God’s sublime wisdom. By sharing his memories of death and desire under a regime where these topics are not always speakable, he hopes to move a little closer to freedom.
KW - death
KW - desire
KW - childhood
KW - sublime wisdom
KW - Christianity
M3 - Translation
SN - 9781478030065
T3 - Sinotheory
SP - 20
EP - 44
BT - Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet
PB - Duke University Press
CY - Durham, NC
ER -