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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 486–490.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., Hong lou meng is ultimately the story of the inscribed Stone itself, rather than just the story of Jia Baoyu 賈寶玉 and Lin Daiyu 林黛玉 or the Jia 賈 family, and the textual evolution of Jia Baoyu in particular suggests the ways that “real” late imperial literati lives were produced intertextually. Wu...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 129–159.
Published: 01 April 2017
... in the making of the novel as a whole, particularly through the making of Baoyu 寶玉. I argue that yin , as the focus of Baoyu's early adolescence, is what the novel wrestles with in many of its early chapters. I show that lust is not only the prerequisite for the protagonist but also a prerequisite...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 207–248.
Published: 01 April 2015
... in a parallel world occupied by the Zhen family, is itself the projection in the human realm of a divine garden otherwise known as the Land of Illusion, which Jia Baoyu visited in his dream in chapter 5. If we accordingly see the Land of Illusion as the original and the Grand Prospect Garden as its copy...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 504–508.
Published: 01 November 2019
... a bannerman perspective that did not necessarily reflect the emphases in the Chinese versions. Chiu notes, for example, a zidishu version of Baoyu’s 寶玉 visit to the dying Qingwen 晴雯 (Skybright) in Hong lou meng in which Qingwen's vulgar sister-in-law questions Baoyu about a series of marriage rituals...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 341–370.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Anecdotes,” 186–88 . In chapter 5 of Honglou meng , Jia Baoyu 賈寶玉 journeys to the Land of Illusion ( Taixu huanjing 太虛幻境), where he is presented with glyphomantic omens of the fates of the women in his family. Baoyu's inability to decode these portents becomes a central theme in the novel. See also...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Shang Wei Through close reading of Grannie Liu's tour through the Grand Prospect Garden and Jia Baoyu's encounter with his mirrored reflection, Shang demonstrates how The Story of the Stone sets in motion the illusionistic paintings of the time by describing the viewers' reactions to them...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 412–431.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Penglai right after her success in the examinations. The incident of course is reminiscent of Jia Baoyu's similar departure in Honglou meng , when the boy leaves the mundane world to become a monk after earning a juren 舉人 degree. Yet as Tang Guichen leaves the country where her cohorts engage...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 160–179.
Published: 01 April 2017
... to find Jia Baoyu's 賈寳玉 lost jade. As the Jia family was located in the North, most family members had never heard of such a divination practice. It is Xing Xiuyan 邢岫煙, a visitor to the Grand View Garden, who heard of its practice in the South and thus implored Miaoyu to try it. See chap. 95, in Cao...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 April 2016
... despair. Of course, it is not only natural scenes of mountains and waters that are suitable for playing the qin ; there are also artificial scenes fitting a cultured person's ideals. In The Dream of the Red Chamber , that famous work of Chinese classical literature, Jia Baoyu 賈寶玉 asks Lin Daiyu 林黛玉...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 57–84.
Published: 01 April 2016
... in Baoyu's dream is Jianmei 兼美, or Two-in-One. In his Archetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber , 43–53 , Andrew H. Plaks also suggests that Daiyu and Baochai function as bipolar characters that complement each other, although he does not specifically discuss the topic in terms of de...
