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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 383–411.
Published: 01 November 2019
... misunderstandings that lead to grave injustices. 8 Arguably the most famous play written by one of the Suzhou playwrights, Shiwu guan was quite popular well past its time of composition, as evidenced by the inclusion of five scenes in the high Qing drama anthology Zhuibaiqiu 綴白裘 (A Patchwork Coat of White...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 65–89.
Published: 01 November 2014
... in distinctive ways, this article aims at a better understanding of the xinxi 新戲 (new plays) of Suzhou as an important regional phenomenon of cultural production. Qinlou yue in the book's physical form makes use of the realms of both commercial and private printing to appeal to Ming loyalist sentiments...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of the renxiong from this new community is not untroubled; in resisting the genre's compulsive imposition of wholeness, Dushu sheng dramatizes the fractures and exclusions that made possible the restoration of order in the early Qing. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Suzhou plays chuanqi...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 92–133.
Published: 01 April 2015
..., calligraphies, and paintings that he produced. He began with ten poems in 1503, prompted by an illness that kept him from enjoying the seasonal blossoming of spring fruit trees in the Suzhou area. Shen's intention was to record his meditations on the passage of time and human mortality, but the act of writing...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 43–91.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Lihong Liu Abstract This article examines birthday albums, a genre that combines paintings and literary texts in calligraphy, produced by a group of peer artists and writers to celebrate birthdays of elders in the Wu region (Suzhou) during the mid-Ming period (1450–1550). Each album pairs paintings...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 96–136.
Published: 01 April 2019
...–1636) famously promoted. Instead, Chen's eclectic and experimental work, which concentrated primarily on depictions of the human figure, often demonstrated his interest in popular Suzhou painting and contemporary woodblock-printed book illustration. His work hardly fit the artistic paradigms that some...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 125–154.
Published: 01 November 2014
... . Wang, Yanning . “ Qing Women's Poetry on Roaming as a Female Transcendent. ” Nan Nü: Men, Women, and Gender in China 12 , no. 1 ( 2010 ): 65 – 102 . Wang Yingzhi 王英志 . “Yuan Mei Guixiu shihua” 袁枚闺秀诗 (). Suzhou daxue xuebao 蘇州大學學報 ( Suzhou University Journal ) 2 ( 2009 ): 53 – 54...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 289–311.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... The first poem in Miscellaneous Poems of a Floating Life tells us that Shi was born in an ancient house in Hangzhou next to an old school. When he was four, he went with his parents from Hangzhou to Suzhou's Wuque Bridge 烏鵲橋, because the imperial examinations had been abolished only recently, and his...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2015
... Zhengming 文徵明 (1470–1559), his disciple from Suzhou, who was also one of the cultural elites celebrated in a birthday album that Lihong Liu examines. In addition, Liu explores the organization and production process of the birthday albums to illuminate the differing strategies employed in coping...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 115–147.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., animate statues, and dumb puppets as vehicles for the expression of collective anger in plays associated with writers in the Suzhou circle. Zhou Shunchang 周順昌 (1584–1626) curses a statue of Wei Zhongxian 魏忠賢 (1568–1627) in Qingzhong pu 清忠譜 (Registers of the Pure and Loyal); Mao Wenlong 毛文龍(1576–1629...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 336–378.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... For example, James Cahill and Jerome Silbergeld viewed the horse as a zoomorphic representation of the Song yimin , pathetic but not devoid of dignity. 1 After the fall of the Song dynasty, Gong retired to Suzhou, and painting provided the means for him to make a living. 2 Although Emaciated Horse...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 367–396.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., mistakes at work, and the way a sociological perspective on the division of labor leads to new questions about Ming society. Feng Menglong was a Suzhou gentryman whose works illumine Ming society well beyond the gentry. Feng widely collected, rewrote, and edited stories, plays, poems, jokes...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 57–80.
Published: 01 April 2023
... anthologies. Within Jiangsu, Yangzhou was second only to Suzhou and Changzhou. 7 Shi Mei and Dai Jian expand the geographical concept of “Yangzhou” in slightly different ways, but both draw from a demarcation of the area that can be traced to the Qing scholar Ruan Yuan 阮元 (1764–1849): a broader “Huaihai” 淮...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 160–179.
Published: 01 April 2017
... . For the cult of Master Tanyang, see Waltner, “T'an-yang-tzu.” 36. See Zhang Junfang, Yunji qiqian , 11.14a . 37. Zhongguo and Suzhou, Daojiao dacidian , 164 . 38. Ibid., 909. 39. Qian Xi, “Ji Daluo zhu xianzi” 寄大羅諸仙子, in Qian Xi, Yunzaixuan shiji bitan , 1405 . 40. Shi...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 207–248.
Published: 01 April 2015
... and more particularly Suzhou artisans played the major role in this project, on which they correspondingly left a deep mark. Qianlong (reigned 1736–95), however, was a man of a different stripe, who as he came into his own became attracted to showiness, extravagance and novelty for its own sake...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 235–267.
Published: 01 November 2020
... eventually chose as the name of his Suzhou studio (Chunzaitang), as well as his collected works ( Chunzaitang quanji ). 84 Over half of these essays date from the year 1841, when as a twenty-year-old licentiate ( shengyuan 生員) he composed them as playful practice pieces ( youxi zhi bi...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Fiction in Late Imperial China . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 1998 . Hu Quanzhang 胡全章 . “ Qiu Weixuan: Bei chenfeng de wanqing xiaoshuo pipingjia ” 邱煒萲:被塵封的晚晴小說批評家 ( Qiu Weixuan: A Neglected Late-Qing Fiction Critic ). Suzhou jiaoyu xueyuan xuebao 蘇州教育學院學報 ( Journal of Suzhou...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 313–338.
Published: 01 November 2020
...), Xiao Dezao 蕭德藻 (1151, jinshi ), and Jiang Kui, were all in its close proximity—Fan in Wuxian 吳縣 (present-day Suzhou), Xiao and Jiang in Wucheng 烏程 (present-day Huzhou)—making meetings and gatherings possible. Yang's rich experience in both the provinces and the capital and his acquaintance with fellow...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 375–410.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Commercial Printings (6) Government Printings (2) Title Edition Title Edition Xian Qian liang Han wenkuai 先秦兩漢文膾 Wanli-Tianqi, NCL Qin-Han wen 秦漢文 1524, Suzhou, NCL Qin-Han wen chao A 秦漢文鈔 A 1583, Hangzhou, NCL Buduo ji 不多集 Ming, Shanxi, NCL Qin-Han wen chao C 秦漢文...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 215–231.
Published: 01 April 2020
... rich because of the gifts bestowed on him by the Daoist. In the tenth year of the Xianfeng reign (1860), the Taiping rebels overran the Suzhou and Songjiang area. By that time, Zhu had died and his offspring had moved to other regions. One day, a Taiping king and his troops attack the city. Passing...