<P> The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons (Chinese: 文 心 雕 龍; pinyin: Wén Xīn Diāo Lóng) is a highly influential work on Chinese literary aesthetics . Dating from the 5th century, its author, Liu Xie, composed the work in fifty chapters (篇) according to the principles of numerology and divination found in the Book of Changes or I Ching . The work also draws on and argues against the 3rd century author Lu Ji's work the Wen fu 文 賦 ("On Literature"). Liu Xie wished to give a complete and internally consistent account of literature . Among his contributions is his remarkable notion that affections are literally the medium of literature, and language merely the product . </P> <Ul> <Li> Liu, Xie The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons . Shih, Vincent Yu - chung trans., Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1983 . </Li> <Li> Liu, Xie . Dragon - Carving and the Literary Mind . Translated into English by Yang Guobin . Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2003 . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Liu, Xie The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons . Shih, Vincent Yu - chung trans., Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1983 . </Li>

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