Practicing the Sublime, Raising the Marginal Self: The Chinese Muslim Writer Zhang Chengzhi's Narrative of Adventure

• Main Author: Dang, Xiayin
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: adventure; Jahriyya; landscape; sublime identity; Zhang Chengzhi
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss43/5; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/2076/viewcontent/KK_2043_2C_202024_205_20Regular_20section_20__20Dang.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This paper examines the concept of “adventure” in a series of stories by a well-known Chinese Muslim writer Zhang Chengzhi (b. 1948). Zhang is famous for searching out and depicting landscapes, especially in northwest China. This paper will explore in what ways adventures in landscapes become a cruc...