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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 195–224.
Published: 01 April 2022
... perspectives in order to account for the importance of space to humanity. Meanwhile, space/place has been a fairly prominent subject in the study of medieval China. This essay contrasts Western general and local theories and Sinological studies to show their divergent and overlapping concerns...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 425–457.
Published: 01 November 2022
... not be highly valued in contemporary musical aesthetics. Chinese musicians used to have the remarkable ability and enthusiasm to adapt foreign instruments to suit the local musical aesthetics. Such a tradition can be called zhongti xiyong 中體西用 (to apply Western techniques for practical purposes while...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2022
... segments of society. Their understandings of the “classics” may well have differed substantially from our own conceptions of such works. Manling Luo surveys the expansive terrain of what she separates into two categories of spatiality, “general theories” and “local theories,” and their potential...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 422–428.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of Western scholars supposed to have subscribed to this idea of early Chinese ritual as “rule book,” but regardless of whether the listed scholars are in fact guilty of such a blanket misconception (the list includes, in a broad-minded gesture, one of the coauthors of this essay), it is a notion that does...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the roles of sound in Western poetry. In Chinese poetry, too, sound is an echo to the sense, and much more. However, the primacy of sound in Chinese poetry has long been overlooked. A demonstration of the pivotal roles of sound in various major genres is the primary goal of this special issue. Each article...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 258–288.
Published: 01 November 2016
... literary and cultural studies, with Western theory taking precedence over Chinese subjects (and subjectivities). But one cannot help noting that some of the most critical voices are themselves empowered by, or even sustaining, the Western canon they set out to subvert. Overcoming such a dilemma does...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 235–267.
Published: 01 November 2020
... jingxue , 114–15 . 55. Yu, “Lilishuo” 禮理說, in Binmeng ji , 2.13b–15a. 56. While generally advocating principled resistance, this did not preclude the use of force against Western intruders. He cites Peng Yulin on five reasons why the Qing should not sue for peace with France during the Sino...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 105–130.
Published: 01 April 2022
... difference began to drive sociohistorical research, textual analysis, ideological critique, and theoretical frameworks, generating new inquiries and innovative approaches and methodologies. Below I review several significant developments in Western feminist literary theory and criticism from the late 1970s...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 517–521.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that his work, which laid the theoretical foundation for the study of paratexts, is “a synchronic and not a diachronic study.” 6 In other words, his book aims to draw a general picture of paratexts (mainly in Western literature), rather than delineate their history. Guo and Li's collection adds...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 47–78.
Published: 01 April 2022
... not just describe how but also try to explain why Western theories work in the study of Chinese poetry. Through a close reading of numerous examples, they find that two unique features of the “refined” language used in recent style poetry that account for the characteristics of its texture and other poetic...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 256–272.
Published: 01 April 2022
... identity in the age of algorithms? The scandal of involution is the failure of a specified indicator to grow in prescribed fashion; the precise indicator varies, but it is ordinarily one privileged due to its significance to modernization narratives that take the Western European experience...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., such that “lyrical tradition” becomes an encompassing concept for many to distinguish Chinese literary tradition from its Western counterpart. 1 In Chinese literary thought, emotion is consistently conceptualized through verbal patterning and visual manifestation. This convergence has become synonymous...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 522–528.
Published: 01 November 2023
... as the most historically influential personalities of the late Three Kingdoms period and the beginning of the Western Jin dynasty, the most conspicuous node during this period is the Zhulin qixian and later Sima Zhao 司馬昭 (211–265). By the end of Jin dynasty, social networks of scholars no longer exist...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 148–178.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of the government by selling bamboo shoots to the local greengrocer. That is the sort of person I am. However much I may be enthralled by the lark and the rape blossoms [i.e., Western poetry and the material culture associated with it], I am still mortal enough to have no desire to camp out in the middle...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 163–202.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to the theory and practice of the literary translation of Chinese poetic forms. 19. Schlepp, “ Sanqu ,” 813 . 20. Quoted in Schlepp, “ Sanqu ,” 809 . 21. For the foundational work on such writers, see Chen, Yuan Xiyu ren Huahua kao . In Western scholarship on sanqu , this group has also...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 43–91.
Published: 01 April 2015
... are substantiated by its season, locale, and Wen's enchantment with the vivid scene. This contrasts with the poetic imagery of this place; poetry's semiotic evocation projects an immaterialized and thus unstable spatiotemporal presence of the actual scene. 79 Figure 12. Map of the western part of Suzhou...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 432–460.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to establish a tuning system is that it was inherently impossible to find any one system to satisfy the expectation of natural perfection implied by the correlative worldview. The Pythagorean circle of fifths ( sanfen sunyi ) method does not “arrive” where it started. 78 Generations of Chinese and western...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 26–56.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., is addressed to Cuiwei Hill 翠微山, once known as Pingpo Hill 平坡山, located in the same general area (it is described by various gazetteers and by Gong himself as a southern extension of the Western Hills). This latter site evokes a haunting pair of images from the departing Gong: Cuiwei Hill sits beside...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 155–185.
Published: 01 November 2014
... (Cultural and Literary Features of Han Dynasty Memorials and Debates), noted the general paucity of references to the Western Zhou and Shang models in memorials through Han Wudi's reign, also the propensity of the leading figures at the court of Han Chengdi to cite Western Zhou “precedents” (pseudo...
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Nobody's Genre, Everybody's Song: Sanqu Songs and the Expansion of the Literary Sphere in Yuan China
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 29–64.
Published: 01 November 2014
... justly lay claim to the status of a cultural heartland with deep roots in the Chinese past. At the same time, the Lower Yangzi region was also the only area within China that neither suffered disastrous population losses nor endured the economic retrenchment of North China or Western China (Sichuan...
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