{"id":699,"date":"2019-03-20T12:25:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T19:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/?p=699"},"modified":"2019-03-26T12:40:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T19:40:33","slug":"dr-xinmin-liu-associate-professor-participates-in-wsus-2019-academic-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/2019\/03\/20\/dr-xinmin-liu-associate-professor-participates-in-wsus-2019-academic-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Xinmin Liu, associate professor, participates in WSU 2019 Academic Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"

\""Dr.On Mar. 28, Dr. Xinmin Liu<\/a>, associate professor of Chinese and comparative cultural studies, will present his ideas on human-land relationships for the second consecutive year at the WSU Academic Showcase.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Xinmin<\/a> will discuss the traditional Chinese ethic <\/span>Rendi qihe<\/span><\/i> (human-land affinity) in relation to how humans can interact and habitat non-human life in harmony, he said in his abstract.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis has all to do with the climate change and global warming,\u201d Xinmin<\/a> said.<\/span><\/p>\n

People have tried to understand the non-human physical surroundings by it\u2019s predictability and regularity. However, nature is chaotic, irregular, and unpredictable, Xinmin<\/a> said. <\/span><\/p>\n

In Xinmin<\/a>\u2019s presentation, he will explain the cognitive affect that humans need to restore in order to have a more harmonious relationship with the land. Humans need to go through embodied cognition and embedded perception to understand nature, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In embodied cognition, one must rely on the visceral senses to perceive the world. In embedded perception, one must put your physical self in the nature, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Xinmin<\/a> has studied how humans try to refashion nature since graduate school. Mainly he has focused on the Chinese garden, which is a cultural concept on how humans try to remap and refashion the land, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMost of our urban centers [and] cities are designed in abstract. They don\u2019t get any direct visceral exposure to the surroundings. It\u2019s even worse in China,\u201d Xinmin<\/a> said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In China, people don\u2019t go to the place they are going to create a building, he said. His presentation critiques the notion that people can sell land resources and consume them regardless of the ecological perils, he said in his abstract.<\/span><\/p>\n

Xinmin<\/a>‘s presentation can be viewed by the public between 9 a.m. to noon on Mar. 28 in M.G. Carey Senior Ballroom in the CUB.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Mar. 28, Dr. Xinmin Liu, associate professor of Chinese and comparative cultural studies, will present his ideas on human-land relationships for the second consecutive year at the WSU Academic Showcase.\u00a0 Xinmin will discuss the traditional Chinese ethic Rendi qihe (human-land affinity) in relation to how humans can interact and habitat non-human life in harmony, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wsuwp_accessibility_report":[]},"categories":[510,512],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[332],"wsuwp_university_org":[420,452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}