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Weng Shou-ming at IFFR. Fujian Blue. Atmospheric, energetic and topical début by the young Chinese Weng is situated in his home province of Fujian. The first part is about the petty crimi. VPRO Tiger Awards Competition. Only Child, Upward, Downward, Forward, Backward, Rightward and Leftward. Not a film with easy chatter.
In Fuijan Blue, Weng Shou-ming shows how the thirst for money and riches rules in the Chinese province of Fuijan. Rich men are continually on business trips while young criminals extort sums from their wives at home.
- Intellectual Context
- Philosophical Anthropology
- Redefinition of The World
- The Unity of Knowledge and Action
- Recent Scholarship on Wang Yangming
- References and Further Reading
Neo-Confucians, above all, urged people to engage in what they thought was “true learning,” which led to the genuine realization of the self. However, the cultural landscape of early and mid-Ming dynasty China (1368-1644 CE) did not unfold as Neo-Confucians wished. To understand the shared theoretical challenge that Wang Yangming confronted, one sh...
In Wang’s mind, given the fact that the practitioners of “vulgar learning” devote their attention only to the accumulation of external knowledge, what is potentially problematic in Cheng-Zhu style of “investigation of things” is its search for moral principle (li) in the external world (as well as in the mind, xin [hsin]). Wang believed that the in...
Wang wanted to show that moral awareness depended on the self. While the importance of the moral agent is quite understandable in the moral sphere, it begs the question of what kind of relation moral principle has to the world out there if the ontological status of moral principle hinges solely on the moral agent. In other words, how could it be th...
Wang’s theory of the unity of knowledge and action (zhixing heyi) is probably the most well-known aspect of Wang’s philosophy. Some of the most puzzling aspects of Wang’s theory of the unity of knowledge and action can be best understood by way of Wang’s conception of self and world. The issue of the relationship between knowledge and action concer...
Leaving aside Wang Yangming’s importance in his own time, he deserves attention because of his tremendous, long-lived influence on Chinese intellectual history. Not surprisingly, therefore, important studies of Wang Yangming have been produced all the way up to the present. In Anglophone scholarship, the work of Frederick Goodrich Henke (1916) and ...
Araki Kengo, et al, comp. Yōmeigaku Taikei. 12 vols. Tokyo: Meitoku shuppansha, 1971-73.Chan, Wing-tsit, trans. Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wang Yang-ming.New York: Columbia University Press, 1963.Chan, Wing-tsit. “The Ch’eng-Chu School of Early Ming.” In Self and Society in Ming Thought, ed. W. T. de Bary (New York: Columbia University Press, 1970): 29-51.Chen Lai. Youwuzhijing: Wang Yangming zhuxue de jingshen (The Realm of Being and Non-being: The Spirit of Wang Yangming’s Philosophy). Beijing: Renmin Chubanshe, 1991.Movie: Fujian Blue. Chinese: 金碧輝煌. Director: Weng Shou Ming. Writer: Chen Tao, Lin Yi Le. Producer: Zhang Xian Min, Weng Xiu Ping, Kondo Teiko, Lin Fan. Cinematographer Hai Tao, Shang Yi, Wang Yan. Release Date: 2007. Runtime: 91 min. Language: Mandarin.
Weng Shou-ming: "Some people think I have guts" April 2008 - The director from Fuijan believes he is an individualist among today's generation of Chinese film makers.
Shot on location in Fujian’s coastal towns and on Pingtan Island in the Taiwan Strait, with a cast of non-professionals playing characters very much like themselves, Weng’s debut feature reveals why and how so many young Chinese pay to have themselves smuggled in containers to the West.
The towering figure of Wang Shou-jen 3E tP t has almost pletely absorbed whatever attention was paid to the intellectual history of Ming times. This phenomenon as such is not surprising since Wang is without doubt the most original and the most in- teresting philosopher of this era, since, furthermore, thinkers coming.
