Category: Literary Geography

• Tianxia of the Mind

  

  So what do I mean by my post’s title, ‘Tianxia of the Mind”? I am referring to the need for Tianxia, above all, to gain ritual power, this power being specifically the power to ‘transform any regional space into the center of the world.’ That is, a notion (Tianxia) must have the power to create not only a nation (China) as an ‘imagined community,’2but to give that community, or empire, a geographical grounding. In this sense place becomes space,3 and our bodies are now contained within a network of power, now subjects in a ‘bio-polity.’ 

  Dr. Sophia Kidd

  October 27, 2021

  Cultural Studies, Genre of Geographical Literature, Geography, Literary Geography, New Silk Roads, Political Economy of Culture, Regional Metaphysics, Sophia Kidd

  Belt and Road Initiative, China, Chinese Culture, Chinese Studies, International-Style, New Silk Raods, One Belt One Road

• Morning readings…in medias res… research on ‘culture’ paving the New Silk Roads (1)

  

  Flipping through Xinhua and South China Morning Post this morning, I clicked thru a few headlines about Chinese State-Owned Enterprises calling in non-essential workers from Myanmar, US-China performativity on both sides, and also about the Oxford-trained presence in US President Joe Biden’s cabinet (this last from Peter Frankopan’s re-Tweet). I’m also going through a book, […]

  Dr. Sophia Kidd

  March 16, 2021

  Continuities, Cultural Studies, Genre, Genre of Geographical Literature, Geography, Literary Geography, New Silk Roads, Political Economy of Culture, Regional Metaphysics

  Chinese Geography, Classical Chinese Geography, Classical Chinese Literature, D. Jonathan Felt, Metageographies of Early Medieval Literature, Structures of the Earth