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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 169–194.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Maram Epstein Abstract This article focuses on Zaisheng yuan as an intertextual work of creative fiction that draws from male-authored xiaoshuo fiction as well as earlier literary tanci novels. This case study discusses Zaisheng yuan as a key text in an affective archive of narrative works written...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 96–136.
Published: 01 April 2019
... landscape, this composition presents an assembly of parts that do not easily cohere. Figure 1. Chen Hongshou (1598–1652), leaf from Album of Birds, Flowers, and Landscapes , 1630–32. Ink and colors on silk, 20.95 × 15.24 cm. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 131–169.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... The second wave followed in the 1990s after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In both cases, the grand collective narratives of the past suddenly came undone, and the doors to suppressed identities and state-controlled archives came unlocked. Following Halbwachs's insight that “no memory...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Patricia Sieber Abstract The essay provides a brief review of how certain approaches to theatricality evolved in response to particular theatrical archives or repertoires in non-Chinese contexts. It then considers a number of recent studies of Chinese drama and theater in light of the following...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 294–296.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of the Ming Qing Women's Writings digital archive and database project ( https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/mingqing/ ) and editor in chief of the Women and Gender in China Studies series published by Brill. She is the author of Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China (eBook...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 137–168.
Published: 01 April 2023
... not survived, the poems they wrote on or about paintings constitute archival materials that enable us to excavate their visual and affective experiences. The female gaze examined in this study was inscribed in their poetic and, in one case, prose ekphrasis. These ekphrastic texts were written in conjunction...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 214–249.
Published: 01 November 2018
... textual sources, whether primary source documents or earlier compilations and studies, are almost always obscured. We may know that a historian consulted archives, gathered documents, and, much more rarely, perhaps even traveled to gather evidence and observations in the process of preparing his work...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 205–238.
Published: 01 April 2019
... affectively and individually. Negotiating between a traumatic past and a living present, Canzhi created a unique and readily recognizable icon of Qiu Jin. She mobilized the rich discourse of filiality and proved time and again that she was the one most closely resembling her mother, a filial daughter...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of the recent decade, contributors to this special issue offer archival-based research with the intention of enriching our understanding of the history of emotions, the image-text relationship, and the affective experience of Chinese culture. These authors have collected a body of work that begins to address...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 105–130.
Published: 01 April 2022
... writings that were kept in rare book archives in major libraries in China; women's voices suddenly became recoverable in these heretofore out-of-reach and unknown source materials. And third was the intersection of new literary research on Ming-Qing women writers with developments in feminist theory...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 155–185.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of individual authorship probably depended upon the formation of a new set of imperial libraries (replacing or supplementing the older archives) in the twenty-year period from 26 to 6 BC, also the gradual development of new bibliographic tools by the reformers at Chengdi's court, who meanwhile proposed...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
...–1796) and widely read by elite cloistered women. Mapping out the “affective world/archive” of Zaisheng yuan , Epstein outlines the major modes of narratives through which the author resisted patriarchal norms, including rejecting the scholar-beauty ideals, replacing romantic qing 情 with women's...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 125–154.
Published: 01 November 2014
... typeset editions to facsimile reprints to an online digital archive, greatly expanding the potential for innovative approaches and new research questions. 5 Therefore, both recent scholarship and the availability of sources make possible a comparative perspective in which to locate the subject...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 322–359.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of the imagined literary relations of late medieval poets can provide a useful starting point for pursuing new understandings of Chinese literary history. Such an overview hints at some of the ways in which the collapse of a nearly three-hundred-year-old political power affected the poets living through...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 43–91.
Published: 01 April 2015
... and image, which are nonhierarchical, like terms in Chinese xing 興 (metaphoric operation, which can be understood as “affective images”) in which “example” and “category,” “phenomena or situations,” and “qualities or attributes” do not supersede or transcend each other. 73 My earlier analysis...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 276–321.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of words may affect imagery created by the words in poems. We can quantify information about word positions like those shown in figure 4 in different ways. We may record that there are two and four instances in which bairi 白日 (white sun) appears at the first and tenth characters (not counting...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 60–86.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... For example, Jack Weatherford argues, “For seven-hundred years, Li Zhichang's account was accepted as the sole record of the discussions between Chinggis Khan and the sage, as Yelü Chucai's report had disappeared from the libraries and archives of China, and scholars began to suspect that it had never existed...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 419–443.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., proudly announces the completion of Yun zuan , claiming that it “can now be hidden in the famous mountain, with its copies kept in various stone archives, 28 so that one may see how shallow all the jades out there are and sneer at the fact that the hanging gold is still dangling” 方可藏彼名山, 副諸石室, 見群玉之為淺...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 26–56.
Published: 01 April 2016
... archives, and its multifaceted, multicultural residents. Even in the many poems extolling the peace and beauty of the hills of Hangzhou or Kunshan, his nostalgia for Beijing remains largely unabated. Both this reference to an essay of two decades before and the image of the ghoul-haunted, bone-littered...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 186–215.
Published: 01 November 2014
... times, such poetry primers were not highly valued by the elite class. Thus both archival sources and scholarship on them are relatively limited. As guoxue 國學 (traditional Chinese learning) education for children has become increasingly important in present-day China in recent years, new primers...
