Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 58
Search Results for animals
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Image
in Describing Objects in Tang Dynasty Poetic Language: A Study Based on Word Embeddings
> Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture
Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 2. Animate objects in relation to happiness ( xi 喜) and worries ( chou 愁)
More
Journal Article
Chen Hongshou's Laments
Available to Purchase
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 96–136.
Published: 01 April 2019
... in a story. Hence, Chen animated the actors in his paintings with emphatic gestures and poses, complementing their expressive bodies with more subtly shaped facial features. But Chen's incorporation into his painting of what was at the time readily identified as “print” disturbed his figural compositions...
FIGURES
| View All (17)
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Paula Varsano Abstract The essays collected in this special issue all respond to a single question: how have the producers of Chinese literature, thought, art, science, and popular culture conceived of their relationship with the nonhuman beings—creatures organic and inorganic, animal...
Journal Article
The Ultimate Sanqu Song: Yao Shouzhong's “The Complaint of the Ox” and Its Place in Tanaka Kenji's Scholarship on Sanqu
Available to Purchase
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 12–30.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Wilt L. Idema Abstract Starting from a discussion of Yao Shouzhong's sanqu suite “The Complaint of the Ox,” in which the slaughtered animal lays its plaint before King Yama, this article calls attention to the scholarship on sanqu of the Japanese scholar Tanaka Kenji (1912–2002) of the 1950s...
Journal Article
Cauldron, Copper, Cash: Medieval Bronze in Motion and Flux
Available to Purchase
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 91–114.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Jeffrey Moser Abstract Medieval Chinese thinkers conceptualized ancient bronzes in anthropocentric terms—as mute, inert objects that required the engagement of a perspicacious human subject for their value to become apparent. They also regarded bronzes as animate things that had the capacity to act...
Journal Article
Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Dushu sheng and the Limits of Community in the Early Qing
Available to Purchase
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 April 2020
... barbarians animals conquest dynasties In the thirteenth act of Dushu sheng 讀書聲 (The Sound of Reading), a chuanqi 傳奇 (southern drama) attributed to the early Qing Suzhou playwright Zhang Dafu 張大復 (before 1610–after 1661), the poor orphaned student Song Ru 宋儒 finds himself alone on a strange...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Voices from the Other Side: Exploring Nonhuman Agents and Their Narrative Function in the Zhuangzi
Available to Purchase
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 22–47.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., as a literary strategy intended to illuminate the universality of violence and the criminal essence of human culture ( wen 文). [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 divination sacrifice animals legal violence environmental history The Zhuangzi...
Journal Article
Demon-Immortal Monkey: Categories of Being in the Cosmos of Journey to the West
Available to Purchase
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 403–437.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of the categories and types of being that exist in the cosmology of the novel and that span the divides between god, immortal, human, demon, and animal. The novel's main words for category or species of being are zhong , lei , or zhonglei 種類. Monkey is a cross-category being who, despite his mutability...
Journal Article
Manuscript and the Human in Modern China
Available to Purchase
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 172–198.
Published: 01 April 2024
... have been alive—and are understood to be dead once they are made into a brush. Deploying the presumptions of historical biography, Han Yu not only animates the inanimate brush but also reanimates its elements; a decidedly nonhuman object is granted humanity through the framework of life writing...
FIGURES
| View All (9)
Journal Article
Simian Episteme, circa 1200
Available to Purchase
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 48–90.
Published: 01 April 2024
... creature, unexpected as it may seem, becomes clear once a conception of the animal's kaleidoscopic capacity to invoke and contest specific sonic environments built on both metaphorical and ecological grounds is laid bare. This unveiling of the mixed modality steers us toward the underrecognized role...
FIGURES
| View All (15)
Journal Article
The Crying Statue in Early Qing Drama
Available to Purchase
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 115–147.
Published: 01 April 2024
... This article considers the ethical significance of animate objects in Chinese theater by investigating the ambiguous figure of the living statue in early-Qing chuanqi 傳奇 drama. I look specifically at the complicated negotiations between a seventeenth-century playwright Hong Sheng 洪昇 (1645–1704) and late...
Journal Article
Describing Objects in Tang Dynasty Poetic Language: A Study Based on Word Embeddings
Available to Purchase
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 250–275.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Figure 2. Animate objects in relation to happiness ( xi 喜) and worries ( chou 愁) ...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
Journal Article
Multiple Otherness: Identity Politics in the Taiping Civil War
Available to Purchase
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 215–231.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... 9 In the edict titled “Receiving the Mandate of Heaven to Attack the Barbarian,” Taiping rebels expound on the animal origins of the Manchu rulers and their sins, portraying them as the demonic aliens that should be eliminated. First, the edict sets up an antithesis between the barbarians...
Journal Article
Knowledge, Emotion, and Imagination: Negotiating Cultural Boundaries in The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean
Available to Purchase
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 115–148.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the expanding knowledge of the world and the demand on a novelist to animate his characters (even barbarians) through conversation, action, and emotion facilitate a process of imagining the other that could end up, however subtly, connecting “us” and “them”? By focusing on the war scenes and the voyagers...
Journal Article
On Translating Mountains and Seas : A Review Essay
Available to Purchase
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 487–513.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., with his fiery red hair and the blistering heat, seems a bit trite. Paradoxically, Goldblatt displays a penchant for absurd, hyperbolic embellishment, yet in his hands, these fantastical animals and deities of ancient China are domesticized and Westernized, tamed into banal clichés of what a young adult...
Journal Article
Some “Han” Fu on Things
Available to Purchase
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 265–291.
Published: 01 November 2024
... with lavish descriptions of plants, animals, and precious stones. 3 Indeed, numerous scholars have drawn a connection between the fu as a genre and a prior literary tradition of “enumeration” (also fu ), a poetic technique that made use of detailed, elaborate lists to paint vivid pictures of people...
Journal Article
What Noise Does a Psychotic Door Listen To? Information, Intermediality, and Guo Baochang's Peking Opera Film Dream of the Bridal Chamber
Available to Purchase
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 199–231.
Published: 01 April 2024
... in the Communist bloc after the suppression of this capitalistic “pseudoscience” was lifted in the wake of Stalin's death in 1953. 10 Succinctly defined by Wiener as “the entire field of control and communication theory, whether in the machine or in the animal,” 11 cybernetics provides a methodology...
FIGURES
| View All (9)
View articletitled, What Noise Does a Psychotic Door Listen To? Information, Intermediality, and Guo Baochang's Peking Opera Film Dream of the Bridal Chamber
View
PDF
for article titled, What Noise Does a Psychotic Door Listen To? Information, Intermediality, and Guo Baochang's Peking Opera Film Dream of the Bridal Chamber
Journal Article
Horse Language and Improvised Memorials: Gong Kai's Equine Paintings and Song Loyalism
Available to Purchase
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 336–378.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that a horse is not a horse is not as good as using a non-horse to explain that a horse is not a horse” 以馬喻馬之非馬，不若以非馬喻馬之非馬也. 34 The way Zhuangzi uses animals, especially horses, sheds light on some reasons Gong Kai chose equine imagery as his signature artistic vehicle. In Zhuangzi chapter 24, “Xu...
FIGURES
| View All (12)
Journal Article
Mencian Reincarnations: Mercy and Forgiveness in the Seventeenth-Century Chinese Novel Predestined Marriage That Awakens the World
Available to Purchase
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 292–316.
Published: 01 November 2024
... animals to protecting our wives and children, and to protecting common people. But if we extend the heart of hardness to our external world, then we cannot stop killing sheep and then bulls. When we cannot stop killing bulls, we gradually begin to kill people. When we cannot stop killing people...
View articletitled, Mencian Reincarnations: Mercy and Forgiveness in the Seventeenth-Century Chinese Novel Predestined Marriage That Awakens the World
View
PDF
for article titled, Mencian Reincarnations: Mercy and Forgiveness in the Seventeenth-Century Chinese Novel Predestined Marriage That Awakens the World
Journal Article
The Efficacious Landscape: On the Authorities of Painting at the Northern Song Court
Available to Purchase
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 476–480.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Song court and utilized different animals as coded messages to refer to these incidents in his painting. 4 Outside of the Song court, landscape paintings also played an important role in the cultural and religious expressions in neighboring states, such as Western Xia 西夏 (1038–1227). For example...
1
