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Performing the Role of Playwright: Jia Zhongming's Sanqu Songs in the Supplement to The Register of Ghosts
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... Moreover, a proper interpretation of Jia's songs also helps us better understand the performativeness of sanqu as a genre. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 social role performance an impersonal and imperial perspective popular and elite cultures Lu gui bu 錄鬼簿 (The Register...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2021
... shifted the geographic center of Zhong's Lu gui bu from Hangzhou to the newly instituted capital of Beijing, thus overlaying Zhong's localist perspective with an imperially centered one. For another, in quite a few cases Jia took liberties to endow the playwrights with historical as well as fictional...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2016
... poetry palace-style poetry subjectivity focalization A couple of decades ago, Yu-kung Kao published an article in which he laid out in clear, workmanlike terms the technical changes undergone by ancient Chinese poetry as it evolved from relatively impersonal, archetype-based songs and rhymed...
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Performing the Emperor: Sui Jingchen's “Han Gaozu Returns to His Home Village”
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2021
... their knowledge about royal excursions, to which the outlandish yet highly detailed descriptions in the second and third stanzas unequivocally refer, with the strange perspective of the song suite's narration, in which imperial regalia are depicted as farcical stage props. The historical account of Gaozu's...
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Cultural Memory and the Epic in Early Chinese Literature: The Case of Qu Yuan 屈原 and the Lisao 離騷
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 131–169.
Published: 01 April 2022
... as a composite textual configuration into which are inscribed the nostalgic ideals and shifting aspirations of Han imperial literati. This Han social imaginaire recollects the noble exemplar of the old Chu aristocracy; the dual prophecy of the fall of Chu to Qin and of Qin's subsequent collapse; the religious...
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Theories of Spatiality and the Study of Medieval China
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 195–224.
Published: 01 April 2022
... acquire their existence. Although Xiong's analysis of how Chang'an embodied imperial and geomantic ideals is certainly relevant, what Lefebvre points to is much broader and more far-reaching, that is, a reorientation of perspective by using spatiality as a critical lens for examining social phenomena...
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Beef, Fish, and Chestnut Cake: Food for Heroes in the Late Imperial Chinese Novel
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 119–147.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Yan Liang Abstract This article explores the functions that food, as a narrative trope, has played in the characterization and storytelling of three prominent martial arts novels in late imperial China: Shuihu zhuan 水滸傳 (Water Margin), Sanxia wuyi 三俠五義 (Three Gallant Men and Five Loyal Brothers...
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The Rhyme Book Culture of Pre-Tang China
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 419–443.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Meow Hui Goh Abstract Due to the Tang's and later imperial courts' enforcement, yunshu 韻書 (rhyme books) such as Qieyun 切韻 (Spelling Rhymes), Yunlue 韻略 (Concise Rhymes), and Hongwu zhengyun 洪武正韻 (Standard Rhymes of the Hongwu Reign Period) came to exert extensive linguistic and cultural influence...
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Genre Conflation and Fictional Religiosity in Guilian meng (Returning to the Lotus Dream)
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... “ Religious Traditions in Chinese Civilization: Buddhism and Taoism .” In Heritage of China: Contemporary Perspectives on Chinese Civilization , edited by Paul S. Ropp , 138 – 63 . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1990 . Brook, Timothy . “ Rethinking Syncretism: The Unity of the Three...
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Nostalgic Fragments in the Thick of Things: Yuan Kewen (1890–1931) and the Act of Remembering
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 239–271.
Published: 01 April 2019
... an impersonal objectivity, his narrative voice betrays throughout a genuinely fond and occasionally heartrending tone. To make sense of this pull in Yuan's narrative voice, it helps to recall what John Updike claimed about biographical writing: “Perspectives are altered by the fact of being drawn; description...
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Fashioning Cosmopolitan Desires: The “Bamboo Branch Lyrics” Poetry Genre in Late Chosŏn Korea
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 317–348.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Argounès . Mapping the World: Perspectives from Asian Cartography . Singapore : National Library Board , 2021 . Smith, Richard J . Mapping China and Managing the World: Cosmology, Cartography, and Culture in Late Imperial Times . New York : Routledge , 2013 . Sŏ Kŏjŏng 徐居正. 1474...
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Some “Han” Fu on Things
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 265–291.
Published: 01 November 2024
... 太平御覽 (An Imperial Panorama of Heavenly Peace; compiled during the late tenth century), collections that were put together centuries after the fall of the Han. Not only this, but we know that during the early medieval era, poets (both named and anonymous) frequently produced pieces by drawing...
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The Attendant's Lament: Loan-Sharking, Squeeze, and Extortion in the Yangzhou Novel Fengyue meng (Seductive Dreams)
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 April 2018
... Dreams ). Beijing : Beijing daxue chubanshe , 1990 . Hsieh Bao Hua . Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China . Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2014 . Huang, Martin . “ Dehistoricization and Intertextualization: The Anxiety of Precedents in the Evolution of the Traditional...
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What Remains of Mountains and Waters: Fragments, Mutilation, and Creation in Early Qing Literature and Culture
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 137–168.
Published: 01 April 2019
... Shi Kefa 史可法 (1601–45) to write a memorial alerting the Hongguang emperor to the urgency of the situation by drawing a parallel between the ruins and the country's turmoil: “The imperial tombs lay devastated, mountains and rivers boil in a seething cauldron” 陵廟荒蕪,山河鼎沸. 3 As the Ming suffered...
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What Do Jokes Reveal about Trust in Ming Work Relations?
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 367–396.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Sarah Schneewind Abstract This article looks at jokes in a collection dating to about 1610 from the perspective of occupational sociology of the Chicago school. Sociological concepts such as technique, object of technique, and guilty knowledge suggest aspects of the lives of ordinary people who...
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What Noise Does a Psychotic Door Listen To? Information, Intermediality, and Guo Baochang's Peking Opera Film Dream of the Bridal Chamber
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 199–231.
Published: 01 April 2024
...) and starring the famous female impersonator Cheng Yanqiu 程硯秋 (1904–1958). Set in the second century, the original play portrays a new couple separated by war and death. Directed by Guo Baochang 郭寶昌 (1940–2023), the acclaimed producer behind the phenomenal TV drama series Dazhai men 大宅門 (Grand Mansion Gate...
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Whither Theatricality? Toward Traditional Chinese Drama and Theater ( Xiqu 戲曲) as World Theater
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
... an innovative way to delineate “deictic fields,” that is, particular perspectives within the fictional subworld that the spectator is meant to access and shift between. In his close reading of Huolang dan 貨郎旦 (The Street Vendor in the Female Role), Schoenberger identifies two simultaneous, character...
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Demon-Immortal Monkey: Categories of Being in the Cosmos of Journey to the West
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 403–437.
Published: 01 November 2023
... peacefully coexist, each speaking their own language, “the birds in their tongue, and the beasts in theirs” 禽有禽言,獸有獸語 (1.4), and all divorced from any officially established type of imperial authority. Monkey is its ruler, though in the view of celestial authority, he is a demon-ruler because he pretends...
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Su Shi Renders No Emotion
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 15–55.
Published: 01 April 2019
... paintings” and profiting from his impersonation—an impersonation that Su makes a point of tying to Wen's literary skill and accomplishments as an official. Referencing the two hundred fifty bolts of silk that had been at the crux of the joke regarding the ten-thousand-foot bamboo reinforces...
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