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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 175–202.
Published: 01 April 2016
... the first to reprint Yuan zaju as the representative literary genre of that era. Long the major source for Western translations of early Chinese drama, the Yuanqu xuan has been selectively drawn on, according to the different aims of its translators: the plays have been used for language study, observation...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 113–138.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., and they have been widely appreciated as a “literary-cultural phenomenon” unrelated to music per se. Standard histories of Chinese literature typically interpret the interaction between Song dynasty ci song lyrics and Yuan dynasty sanqu songs and song-drama as a natural evolution of literary forms. To be sure...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 239–271.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., photographs, and paintings—replete with sensuous and affective images of the past become the loci of memory in which these historical figures lived. Lamentation and reminiscence are also conducted through performance of historical dramas whose gestures of mourning and remembrance allowed Yuan to cultivate...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 307–340.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Wang Shih-Pe; Erxin Wang Abstract Through detailed analysis of several case studies, this essay investigates a special form of sanqu 散曲 song, namely, songs that embed references to dramas ( quzhong daixi 曲中帶戲). A long song suite ( changtao 長套) by Yuan author Sun Jichang 孫季昌 (fl. 14th century...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
... forms and their paralinguistic associations that were, in the words of Yuan song and drama critic-cum-anthologist Zhou Deqing 周德清 (1277–1365), designed to “startle” audiences. 28 Sinological work on Chinese plays has used different approaches to tease out the ways that playwrights and actors alike...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 203–235.
Published: 01 April 2021
... drama, where the climax typically occurred in the third of the four acts, sanqu were often organized around the delivery of a punch line at the end of the song ( moju 末句). However, such mixing of registers was handled differently across the corpus of extant Yuan sanqu . In a subset of songs...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2021
... ; on Liang Yizhen's Yuan Ming sanqu xiaoshi , see Idema, this issue. 14. See Sun, Yeshiyuan gujin zaju kao ; Idema, “Why You Have Never Read a Yuan Drama” ; West, “Text and Ideology” ; and Tan, “Sovereign and the Theater.” 15. Tan, “Emerging from Anonymity.” This formulation...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 341–370.
Published: 01 November 2021
... indebted to my fellow panelists, and to Xiaofei Tian and Wai-yee Li, in particular, for their inspiration and encouragement. Ming recensions of Yuan drama cast character manipulation as a courtesan's skill. 56 Editions of Guan Hanqing's 關漢卿 (ca. 1234–ca. 1300) Zhao Pan'er fengyue jiu fengchen...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 476–482.
Published: 01 November 2022
...-p'a chi (1980). Unlike zaju 雜劇, or Yuan drama, and chuanqi 傳奇, or Ming drama, which have had a good number of English translations of their representative works and studies of their famous playwrights, such as Guan Hanqing 關漢卿 (ca. 1241–1320), Wang Shifu 王實甫 (ca. 1250–1337), Tang Xianzu 湯顯祖 (1550...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Ariel Fox Abstract This article explores the late imperial imagination of the nonhuman other by way of a curious creature that appears in the southern drama Dushu sheng . Midway through the play, set in the early years of the Yuan dynasty, the young literatus protagonist is abandoned on a remote...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Corrected Yuan Editions of Thirty Zaju Dramas ). Lanzhou : Lanzhou daxue chubanshe , 1988 . Ning Zongyi 寧宗一 . “ Sui Jingchen lun” 睢景臣论 ( Discussion of Sui Jingchen ). Nankai xuebao 南开学报 ( Nankai Journal ) ( 1996 ): 10 – 18 . Owen, Stephen . “ ‘I Don't Want to Act as Emperor Any More...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 12–30.
Published: 01 April 2021
... could be read as explicit social criticism. Tanaka, who as a student of Aoki Masaru 青木正兒 (1887–1964) had been trained in reading Yuan drama, had started his study of sanqu with detailed studies of works by Liu Zhi 劉致, especially his two sanqu titled “Submitted to Surveillance Commissioner Gao” 上高監司...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 236–238.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and in textual form, as well as its social, ritual, political, and intellectual implications. Her dissertation, “Playing Roles: Literati, Playwrights, and Female Performers in Yuan Theater” (2019), investigates how Yuan zaju drama reshaped Chinese culture by bridging the gap between inherently oral popular...
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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
..., in order to explicate Chinese literati interest in vernacular belles lettres such as song and drama. 3 Others, by contrast, have contended that the literary world, particularly in the urban centers in the Jiangnan region, was largely unaffected by changing sociopolitical constellations of Yuan rule...
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In Praise of This Prosperous and Harmonious Empire: Sanqu , Ming Anthologies, and the Imperial Court
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 139–162.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Library (now National Library of China) is readily available in the Xuxiu Siku series, vol. 1740. Cilin #9.4 appears on pp. 273–74. 24. For example, Cilin #9.1, titled “Chunsi” 春思, is a sanqu song suite by the Yuan writer Lan Chufang 蘭楚芳, and Cilin #9.2 is taken from act 4 of the drama...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 163–202.
Published: 01 April 2021
...,” translation into another language can be an opportunity to reinvent that musicality in different ways. The six short essays that follow consider sanqu songs from the corpus of diasporic writers from the Yuan dynasty, with a view toward enriching the repertoire of translation strategies for sanqu in terms...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 89–112.
Published: 01 April 2021
... the function of sanqu may have differed from that of other sanqu writers, such as the Four Great Writers and Qiao Ji. Such writers earned fame not only for writing sanqu works but also for their creation and/or production of zaju (song-drama), another genre constituting yuanqu 元曲 (Yuan dynasty songs...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of the Literary Sphere in Yuan China .” Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 1 , no. 1–2 ( 2014 ): 29 – 64 . Sieber, Patricia . Theaters of Desire: Authors, Readers, and the Reproduction of Early Chinese Song-Drama, 1300–2000. New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2003 . Sima Qian 司馬遷...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 232–234.
Published: 01 April 2020
... by Maghiel van Crevel, Tian Yuan Tan, and Michel Hockx, 2009). She received the Academia Sinica Research Award for Junior Research Investigators and the Taiwan Wu Dayou Research Award from the Taiwan's National Council of Science. She was one of the recipients of the first Scholarly Monograph Award...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 248–278.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... In fact, by the Song and Yuan dynasties, monks in novels and dramas were most often depicted as undisciplined. Although the dharma name “Wujie” was not very common, stories of monks who break the precepts on drinking, killing, stealing, speaking nonsense, or licentiousness were. This phenomenon could...
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