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The Richness of Ambiguity: A Mencian Statement and Interpretive Theory and Practice in Premodern China
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 262–288.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Zong-Qi Cai Abstract The four-character statement “ Yi yi ni zhi ” 以意逆志 by Mencius on how to interpret the Book of Poetry has won praise from critics of all persuasions for nearly a millennium. How could this Mencian statement become a credo for so many different and often mutually opposed...
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Mencian Reincarnations: Mercy and Forgiveness in the Seventeenth-Century Chinese Novel Predestined Marriage That Awakens the World
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 292–316.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and vengeance. This article will focus on this much-understudied but elementary theme of mercy and forgiveness in the novel in four aspects. First, it analyzes the concepts of the compassionate heart and innate conscience in Mencius and their currency in the Predestined Marriage . Second, it discusses...
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What Do Jokes Reveal about Trust in Ming Work Relations?
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 367–396.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Confucius lists as one of his three desires to act in such a way as to earn the trust of , and perhaps also to trust , his friends. Mencius, too, uses xin to describe a fundamental virtue. Asked why he called someone “a good man—a true man,” Mencius explained, “The desirable is goodness. Those who...
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What Was Good Writing (or Reading) in Eleventh-Century China? Rethinking Guwen and Its Relation to Daoxue
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 336–359.
Published: 01 November 2017
... as the person to continue “the way of the sages” and expresses Shi's wish to serve Sun just like the disciples of Confucius, Mencius, Yang Xiong, Wang Tong, and Han Yu. 22 The third letter was presented to Sun Fu 孫復 (992–1057). Unlike Zhao Shimin or Sun Shi, Sun Fu did not pass the examination and had...
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The Ancient Chinese Arts of the Ear: Etymology, Meteorology, Musicology
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 432–460.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... A prince demanded of famous music master Kuang, “I have heard that you can know a person's life span; please tell me” 吾聞汝知人年之長短，告吾. Yizhou shu , 73 . 22. Mark Csikszentmihalyi argues that the Mencius' s famous phrase haoran zhi qi 浩然之氣, commonly translated as “overflowing” or “flood-like energy...
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The Art of Chinese Prose: A Critical Introduction
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 339–381.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., “Ming-Qing Letters and Funerary Inscriptions.” 14. Liu X., Yigai , 42 . 15. Ibid. 16. Baldick, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms , 167 . 17. Yang, Mengzi yizhu , 265–66 ; translated in Lau, Mencius , 253–55 . Slightly modified. 18. Mao shi Zheng...
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The Epistolary Self and Psychological Warfare: Tuoba Tao's 拓跋燾 (408–452, r. 423–452) Letters and His Southern Audience
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the saying of Mencius 孟子: “He cannot be led astray by riches and honor, moved by poverty and privation, or deflected by power or force. This is what I call a great man” 富貴不能淫，貧賤不能移，威武不能屈，此之謂大丈夫. 13 This reference to “great man” and Tuoba Tao's professed honesty confirm the image of a truthful ruler who...
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Heroes Play by the Rules: Yu Yue's Pedagogy for the Eight-Legged Essay
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 235–267.
Published: 01 November 2020
... retribution by disgruntled local tutelary spirits to resentment among local officials toward his refusal to pay bribes. Two of the three topics' passages Yu took from Mencius were alleged by Cao to encourage “rebellion” ( fan 反 ) and “insubordination” ( wujun 無君), respectively, and although the emperor...
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Journeys to the West: Travelogues and Discursive Power in the Making of the Mongol Empire
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 60–86.
Published: 01 April 2020
... his negative opinion of Qiu and his followers? This brings us to the Record of the Journey to the West , by Yelü Chucai. With a preface dated 1229, the text attacks Qiu Chuji for being heterodox, and Yelü positions himself as a successor of Mencius 孟子 (ca. 372–ca. 289 BCE), who seeks to correct...
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Multiple Otherness: Identity Politics in the Taiping Civil War
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 215–231.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Normative Relationships” are the pairs of relations between ruler and subject, father and son, brothers, husband and wife, and friends. The earliest explication of these relationships and the standards for them appears in Mencius , 60 . 14. On verbal enactment of violence, see Butler, Excitable...
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Emperor Qianlong's Literary Aggrandizement in the Eighteenth Century
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 438–460.
Published: 01 November 2023
... was Ban Gu; 遷史好奇班亦爾， 4 Mencius has already seen [the same problem] in the “Completion of the War.” 子輿早及〈武成〉篇。 15 In the over three-hundred-character commentary attached to this poem, the emperor provides detailed evidential research to explain his doubts. First, he states that he does...
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What Remains of Mountains and Waters: Fragments, Mutilation, and Creation in Early Qing Literature and Culture
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 137–168.
Published: 01 April 2019
... belief in (or myth of) the relationship between suffering and accomplishment, best articulated in the Mencius : “When Heaven intends to confer on a person a great responsibility it first visits his mind and will with suffering, toils his sinews and bones, subjects his body to hunger, exposes him...
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The Ultimate Sanqu Song: Yao Shouzhong's “The Complaint of the Ox” and Its Place in Tanaka Kenji's Scholarship on Sanqu
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 12–30.
Published: 01 April 2021
... monk. 34. According to an anecdote recounted in Mencius IA7:4, King Xuan of Qi 齊宣王 (r. 319–301 BCE) once saw an ox that was about to be slaughtered to consecrate a bell with its blood. Moved by its frightened appearance, the king had the ox replaced by a sheep. 35. I follow...
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Defining the “Finest”: A Northern Song View of Tang Dynasty Literary Culture in the Wen cui
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 306–335.
Published: 01 November 2017
... continued the work of Yang [Xiong] and Mencius is indeed correct. When we come to Attendant-in-Ordinary Jia Zhi, Rectifier of Omissions Li Han, Yuan Jie of Rongzhou, Dugu Ji of Changzhou, Lü Wen of Hengzhou, Rectifier of Omissions Liang Su, Cultured Duke Quan Deyu, Advisor to the Heir Apparent Liu Yuxi...
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Beef, Fish, and Chestnut Cake: Food for Heroes in the Late Imperial Chinese Novel
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 119–147.
Published: 01 April 2018
.... Legge, Works of Mencius , 411 . 20. Liu, Zhanguoce jianzheng , 620 . All translations are my own, except as noted. 21. Stephen West wrote an article on the saying established in the Song dynasty that fish and rice were the staples of the south while mutton, hare, and wheat were those...
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Dehumanized Voices and Traumatic Articulations in Late Nineteenth-Century Chinese Classical Tales
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 148–171.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... 34. Ibid., 102–3. 35. Miles, “From Mobility to Stability,” 522 ; Elman, From Philosophy to Philology , 105 . 36. Xuan, Yeyu qiudeng lu , 102 . 37. Ibid., 103. 38. In Mengzi 5A/1, Mencius views Shun's wailing as an expression of resentment and yearning ( yuanmu 怨慕...
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The Ancient Qin 琴, Musical Instrument of Cultured Chinese Gentlemen
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 April 2016
... in the sounds of his qin . Mencius 孟子 (372–289 BC) said, “People always love those who love people, and people will always respect those who respect people.” 21 He also said that those of intensive humanity ( ren ) love people. 22 A loving gentleman must particularly push the process of loving others...
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Performing the Emperor: Sui Jingchen's “Han Gaozu Returns to His Home Village”
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to this homecoming is matched by the actions of the local populace. When an entreaty by village elders does not delay the emperor's first attempt to depart, the entire village mobilizes to send Gaozu off on his journey. Recalling the image of the citizens of Bin 邠 following good King Tai 大王 in Mencius , Sima Qian...
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The Huang Kan Commentary on the Analects : A Critical Examination
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 382–410.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Classics and the Mencius), which was revised and augmented by Ogyū Kan 荻生觀 (1673–1754), among others. The Qijing Mengzi kaowen was well received in both Chinese and Japanese academic circles and was the only work written by a Japanese author to be included in the Siku quanshu . When Nemoto Sonshi 根本遜志...
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Lust as Prerequisite: Eroticism in The Story of the Stone
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 129–159.
Published: 01 April 2017
... be alluring and captivating, but in essence it is impermanent and illusory. On the other hand, se also signifies physical beauty, which is almost always related to sexuality. When King Xuan of Qi (fourth century BC) admitted to Mencius (372–289 BC) that he was fond of se , 84 he expressed his interest...
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