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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 286–323.
Published: 01 November 2015
... development was driven forward by the exploration of the musical and rhythmic properties of the Chinese language in poetic form. Given that Chinese classical poetry was born from music, the sound and rhythm of poetry are of great importance. Chinese is a monosyllabic language in which each graph has just one...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 250–275.
Published: 01 November 2018
... not received much attention to date. With this analysis, I not only present a new angle on aspects of Chinese poetic language in the Tang but also show possible areas of continuity between qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The idea of word vectors is based on the insight that a word's meaning...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 47–78.
Published: 01 April 2022
... brand is the laying bare—in plain analytical language—of the mechanism of Chinese poetics, long grudgingly guarded as some ineffable ( zhike yihui buke yanchuan 只可意會不可言傳) secret. 1. Barry, Beginning Theory , 5 . 2. English translation of Liu Yong's 柳永 (ca. 987–ca. 1053) “Gelianting” 隔簾聽...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 444–480.
Published: 01 November 2015
... in the Chinese language, but why is it that prose is formed with lines of four and six syllables? Why is the four-six form favored in essays rather than in poems? And what is the aesthetic principle behind four-six prose? These are the questions that this essay attempts to answer. It is argued that poetic...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 163–202.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... By applying these theories through the lens of accentuating the changes in language register—so indicative of the sanqu 's poetic style—we were able to make meaningful and deliberate diction decisions with regards to which elements of the original Chinese to preserve, and which to alter. Xue Angfu uses...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 258–285.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., statistically significant relationships between particular sounds and particular semantic domains, whether language specific or motivated by more general cognitive tendencies. An example from modern Mandarin leads to a broader consideration of this phenomenon within Old Chinese (OC), with particular reference...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 8–46.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Poems ). Paris : Seuil , 1977 . Cassirer, Ernst . Language and Myth . Translated by Susanne K. Langer . New York : Dover , 1946 . Cassirer, Ernst . “ Some Reflections on Chinese Poetic Language and Its Relation to Chinese Cosmology .” Translated by Stephen Owen...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 545–572.
Published: 01 November 2015
... -separated line is by default a topic+comment construction, such a connective-linked line is almost invariably a subject+predicate construction. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Chinese poetic language monosyllabic Chinese characters Chinese prosody prosodic and thematic rhythm...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 420–438.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to enduring larger issues in the study of Chinese poetry. We must first mention, if only briefly, the well-known universalizing tendency of Chinese poetic language seen, for example, in the general avoidance of pronouns, proper names, and other denotative features. Together with a corresponding preference...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 573–576.
Published: 01 November 2015
... literature, with a particular focus on the poetry and poetics of the Song dynasty. SHENGLI FENG is professor of Chinese linguistics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Yangtze Scholar Chair professor at the Beijing Language and Culture University. He received his PhD in linguistics from...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., Eoyang, and Li help destabilize the neat binary that defined Chinese/Western poetics in an earlier era. In part because the earliest European attempts at categorizing Chinese language and culture, mentioned above, took place in early modernity, and the technologies that pushed modernity not only...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 273–275.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 ALEXANDER DES FORGES is professor of Chinese and chair of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of Mediasphere Shanghai: The Aesthetics of Cultural Production...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 438–440.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 JING CHEN is an instructor and a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on pre-1900s Chinese poetry and poetics, traditional Chinese literary...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 203–214.
Published: 01 November 2016
...” underlying modern Chinese literary culture. This special issue seeks to look into the multifarious dimensions of classical-style poetry and, by extension, classical-style prose and poetics in modern times. In eleven articles, it touches on a spectrum of themes such as the reinterpretation of classical...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 215–232.
Published: 01 November 2016
... a new form of poetry by eliminating the shackles of classical poetic conventions; and (2) vernacular language should be used instead of classical Chinese. Along the same lines, when Hu published his seminal essay “Tan xinshi” 談新詩 (On New Poetry) in 1919, he proposed that Chinese words have their own...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 November 2015
... composition being unified by sound, I have provided an analytical account of the gestalt of Chinese poetic form, with sound as its foundation. This collection of ten articles has shown that sound does not merely echo the sense in Chinese poetry. On the level of individual words, many nonconceptualized...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2022
... in a Western language and/or from perspectives informed substantially by non-Chinese scholarship occupy within the full ambit of Chinese literary studies? If scholarship written in English or other Western languages is for the most part pitched primarily to non-Chinese audiences, what are its strengths...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 105–130.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and motivation. The unique nature, status, and function of poetry for self-expression and communication in Chinese culture and society facilitated women's entry into the dominant genre for writing the self. 73 How did women then inscribe their gendered selves in a poetic language that had been established...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 232–234.
Published: 01 April 2020
... into the transmedia reinvention of language and culture as a response to historical violence, she studies the multifarious ways in which Chinese literature and culture has been shaped and reimagined from premodern to modern times. LU KOU is assistant professor of Chinese at Bard College. He is a medievalist...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 359–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of Manchu culture: the Manchu language and hunting skills? This articles argues that, despite deliberate staging through various fashions of his image as the ruler of a multiethnic empire, Qianlong failed in sending his message to his diverse subjects because, truly enthralled by Chinese poetry, he could...