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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... to the two anonymous reviewers for the articles of this special issue and to Yuefan Wang for her unfailing editorial assistance throughout the project. The studies in this special issue offer new insights into authorship and agency of both women and men in late imperial China. They range widely...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 195–220.
Published: 01 April 2023
...). In this anthology commissioned by the Shunzhi emperor on behalf of his mother, Fu's commentary emphasizes both the agency of individual women and the mutual resonance of personal virtue and political order. He not only praises the exemplars' virtue but also their agency, intelligence, and strategy. He explicitly...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 267–293.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Guojun Wang; Guo Yingde Abstract Recent studies of Chinese history and literature have revealed the important role of violence—actual and representational—in constructing gendered subjectivities in late imperial China. This article investigates the relationship between violence and female agency...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 105–130.
Published: 01 April 2022
... analysis. Feminist theory was never monolithic, even when it was Eurocentric; theories were drawn from a plurality of different disciplines and schools. Concepts that came into currency—gender, gaze, voice, agency, subjectivity, authorship, and so on—from poststructuralist, postcolonial, cultural, and film...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 175–202.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., the earliest printings from the fourteenth century were most likely based on lead performers' role texts, printed as aids for the audience. The author will also compare changes introduced into the texts by Ming theatrical agencies and their court performances, with the editorial policy of Li Kaixian, among...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 258–288.
Published: 01 November 2016
... a position of (moralist, political, or intellectual) sincerity, we tend to stop short of grappling with the “authenticity and viability” of our own theoretical frameworks regarding the subjects under critique. It has become a commonplace to criticize the uneven development of discursive agency in Chinese...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 249–250.
Published: 01 April 2015
..., cultural mapping, and garden culture. Among her publications are Exquisite Moments: West Lake and Southern Song Art (New York: China Institute, 2001) and Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010). She is currently working on two book projects...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2021
... associated with the Ming court—court agencies, members of the imperial family, and literati that enjoyed imperial patronage—have come fully into view. 14 Tan's article shows that such philological rigor also benefits the study of sanqu , particularly since the Ming court was actively involved...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 273–275.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China (2008, 2016) and coeditor of The Inner Quarters and Beyond: Women Writers from Ming through Qing (2010) and Representing Lives in China: Forms of Biography in the Ming-Qing Period 1368–1911 (2018). MARTIN KERN, the Joanna...
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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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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
... recent scholarship has given increasing attention to the significant roles and impact of the Ming court agencies in the collection, transmission, and shaping of Chinese drama texts, less is known about the case of sanqu songs in the similar milieu. The nature of sanqu as a poetic genre also lends...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 322–359.
Published: 01 November 2018
... with peers. An exchange poem is not just a representation of a connection between a poet and addressee. It is an object with its own agency (it acts on others) and with an embedded agency (it is a vessel by which others' intentions are extended). Poems are not static evidence of some preexisting...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 397–424.
Published: 01 November 2022
... ( 2004 ): 1 – 58 . Fong, Grace S. Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China. Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2008 . Furth, Charlotte . A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History, 960–1665 . Berkeley : University of California Press...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 56–95.
Published: 01 April 2019
... for the system to accommodate the agency and worth of the individual, but its hermeneutic function is purely negative; it is that against which what we can explain struggles. The managing function of the emotive, rather than the actuality of the emotion, remains the primary object of investigation. In effect...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 163–202.
Published: 01 April 2021
... video conferencing to create a kind of conversational workshop, with engaged exploration and observation that nonetheless left the translators' works marked by their own agency. In this dynamic process of communal conversation and individual writing, everyone reflected, wrote, and translated in and out...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 476–480.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of the imperial family, see Hui-shu Lee, Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010). 2. Ping Foong, “Guo Xi's Intimate Landscapes and the Case of ‘Old Trees, Level Distance,’” Metropolitan Museum Journal , no. 35 (2000): 87–115. 3. Most...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 429–434.
Published: 01 November 2021
... and implicit rules of operation dissolves the issues of the mutual determination between society and culture. It also allows him to explain how institutional agency worked its way through difficult times and mutated into something entirely different. Although Mühlhahn's scope of analysis includes culture...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 57–84.
Published: 01 April 2016
... scenes, unapologetically conducting herself with “masculinity” in a patriarchal Confucian society in which only men seem entitled to subjectivity and autonomy. Establishing such an ideal reveals the author's vision and celebration of a virtuous wife's potential agency and power. Unlike most virtuous...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 1–28.
Published: 01 November 2014
... with the names of consorts on it, presented to the emperor after dinner. But likewise there is no concrete reference cited. See Yu, Yanhuan , 323–24 . 9. Most of this information comes from Tsai, The Eunuchs . 8. John Dardess notes that many non-Chinese made up the members of the two agencies...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 466–472.
Published: 01 November 2022
... the “overlapping interaction” between print and manuscript by citing literati agency, with “the use of print as mediated by elite writers' literary, economic, and social desires” rather than as an “outcome of technological ascendency” (5), McLuhan rebukes the notion of “use” by mocking a gun rights scripted line...
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