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1 Abstract: This article uses the Wuse Colors of Things chapter of Liu Xie's Wenxin diaolong The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons as an example to discuss an important change in the conception and representation of nature in classical Chinese poetry from early medieval to late imperial times i. e. the increasing realism and materiality in its explicit critical and theoretical discourse which constantly trends toward and tries to approximate the real material world. This shift I argue was a paradigmatic one and was largely responsible for the decline of the bixing-centered classical poetic tradition in the early modern period. I further argue that the new model that emerged out of this paradigm shift rooted in a highly technical regime of reading and writing executed from inside out as the poet and poetic critic take full control of the process and taking descriptive precision as one of its most venerated goals was compared with the ancient model based on metaphor and illumination a relatively modern one. That I choose the Wuse chapter as the center of my discussion is because Liu Xie's beautifully crafted masterpiece not only marked the end of the ancient metaphorical tradition by giving it a most memorable presen- 16

2 tation but was also the new model's first important articulation and as such had tremendous literary historical and cultural significance. Key words: the Wuse chapter of Wenxin diaolong metaphor realism paradigm shift temporal-spatial framework subjectivity materiality I106 A

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11 conservator of culture Walter J. Ong representing the world not as a float of objects strung out before one's eyes but rather as a happening or event something going on

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