The Rhetoric of Hiddenness in Traditional Chinese Culture

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Lowered Curtains in the Half-Light: An Introduction Paula M. Varsano I. The Art of Withholding 2. The Ruling Mind: Persuasion and the Origins of Chinese Psychology David Schaberg 3. Beliefs about Social Seeing: Hiddenness (wei ) and Visibility in Classical-Era China Michael Nylan 4. Woman in the Tower:"Nineteen Old Poems"and the Poetics of Un/concealment Xiaofei Tian 5. Hiding Behind a Woman: Contexts and Meanings in Early Qing Poetry Wai-yee Li II. The Lessons of Distraction 6. Hiddenness of the Body and the Metaphysics of Sight Shigehisa Kuriyama 7. Worlds of Meaning and the Meaning of Worlds in Sikong Tu's Twenty-Four Modes of Poetry Paula M. Varsano III. On Blind Spots 8. Hidden in Plain View: Concealed Contents, Secluded Statues, and Revealed Religion James Robson 9. The Vernacular Story and the Hiddenness of Value Sophie Volpp 10. Absence and Presence: The Great Wall in Chinese Art Lillian Lan-ying Tseng IV. The Languages of Synecdoche 11. Synecdoche of the Imaginary Stephen Owen 12."The Disarrayed Hills Conceal an Old Monastery": The Dynamics of Poetry and Painting in the Northern Song Eugene Wang V. Just Words 13. Manifesting Sagely Knowledge: Commentarial Strategies in Chinese Late Antiquity Michael Puett 14. The Yi-Xiang-Yan Paradigm and Early Chinese Theories of Literary Creation Zong-qi Cai Contributors Index