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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 November 2019
... . The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2007 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 vernacular fiction religion genre syncretism book market Guilian meng 歸蓮夢 (Returning to the Lotus Dream...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 375–410.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... Comparing these models has the potential to reveal much about how literary tastes and reading publics were shaped at the intersection of the government school system and the book market, and to revise the twentieth-century narrative of Ming literary history. This narrative, which specialists...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 169–204.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., sometimes before the albums were published. 15 Images were even sent out for free, with ads for products such as cigarettes and soaps. 16 While they capitalized on the general popularity of the hundred beauties genre in book markets, the newer albums can be seen as conscious transformations...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 429–434.
Published: 01 November 2021
... ( 2020 ): 52 – 69 . Mühlhahn is critically aware of the timeliness of his new book. And he must have worked at breakneck speed to bring it out to the public. In the acknowledgment at the end of the book, he writes: “We live in a time of unsettling and violent global dislodgment, similar...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 115–148.
Published: 01 April 2020
... throughout China, 8 and made a living as a writer/editor in the publishing industry of the Jiangnan area. In the flourishing book market where a few years earlier publication of Shidetang's 世德堂 hundred-chapter Xinke chuxiang guanban dazi xiyou ji 新刻出像官板大字西遊記 (Newly Engraved, Illustrated, Large-Character...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 466–472.
Published: 01 November 2022
... be told. Son opens the book with Chinese literati's mixed feelings toward print since the sixteenth century: less costly self-publishing rendered reputation achievable during one's lifetime but also provoked suspicions of diminished merit. Meanwhile, such ambivalence toward print also motivated...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 359–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., poetry, fictions, and drama. 20 Market-driven sales of books allowed poets and critics without political clout to establish themselves as competing authorities in defining standards of literary excellence. The emergence of critics and poets such as Zhong Xing 鐘惺 (1574–1624) and Chen Zilong in the late...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 96–136.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., the demands of the book market had transformed readers' expectations of pictorial storytelling across social boundaries. Within an illustrated book of fiction or drama, the appearance of emotional actors was anticipated as an element of the pictorial narrative. Moreover, a single illustration in a book, which...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 175–202.
Published: 01 April 2016
... families who diversified their investments. Profiting from tax credits based on examination status, these families could amass huge private fortunes and live in great luxury. Combined, such fortunes and luxury created a large market for high-quality leisure readings by the end of the sixteenth century...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 438–460.
Published: 01 November 2023
... in 1749, we can assume that copies of this collection quickly appeared in public book markets. Regarding circulation in other provinces, a memorial presented by Qian Weicheng 錢維城 (1720–1772) in 1765 marked a giant step toward the circulation of Qianlong's collections: Grand Secretary and Governor...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 216–247.
Published: 01 November 2017
... as a collectible item translates to market value, of which he is keenly aware and makes deliberate use. His gift to Zhuo Qishun may be viewed as recompense to a messenger for his trouble. I conclude with some observations on cross-class sociality between literati and commoners in Su Shi's time and the peculiar...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 195–224.
Published: 01 April 2022
... source of inspiration, calling The Production of Space “arguably the most important book ever written about the social and historical significance of human spatiality and the particular powers of the spatial imagination.” 26 To Soja, there has been a longstanding omission of space and an emphasis...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., such as “Women's Suffrage in the United States” 美國女子選舉. With twelve issues in total, each selling around eight thousand copies, the journal was circulated in large numbers through the retail and wholesale structures of the modern book market. 37 These copies reached the audiences in ways that traditional...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 399–421.
Published: 01 November 2021
... boys were transcribing books” (入門童僕盡鈔書). 20 Because scribes mainly worked for money and their work was the least creative in the process, they were looked down on and were paid a very low salary. 21 Since marginalia were marketable, booksellers hired scribes to transcribe, and even forge...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 322–359.
Published: 01 November 2018
... years' worth of local phone books can give a definitive history of Cleveland's telecommunications. Such large data sets can provide outlines of general structures and new ways of seeing the archive that may prompt a closer look at some previously overlooked part. That is why I have accompanied all of my...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 487–513.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Guji chubanshe , 1980 . 22. Among recent artistic productions inspired by SHJ are artworks by Qiu Anxiong 邱黯雄, shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and a theater performance featuring vocalists and puppets entitled Book of Mountains and Seas created by Beth Morrison...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 367–396.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and as the historian Natalie Zemon Davis did when she created the movie The Return of Martin Guerre before the book. 10 Take the three occupations in the epigraph (joke 461). The man with a stuffy nose wakes up the blacksmith, who mistakes his snores for the sound of the bellows. The blacksmith must strike...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 383–411.
Published: 01 November 2019
... for some much-needed food. First, however, he buys some rodenticide-laced cakes to deal with the rats that are destroying his books. When Youhui brings the rings to Yuwu's shop, Yuwu angrily accuses him of carrying on an affair with Sangu. Yuwu's son Jinlang goes to confront Sangu about this supposed...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 April 2019
... by the legendary emperor Shun, recorded in the Book of Documents : I bid you, Kui, the emperor said, to preside over music and educate our sons, [so that they will be] straightforward yet gentle, congenial yet dignified, strong but not ruthless, and simple but not arrogant. Poetry expresses the heart's intent...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 425–457.
Published: 01 November 2022
... the importance of homogeneity over heterogeneity due to the constant need for political unity and demand of a single market. However, cultural identity cannot be constructed by homogeneity alone since the boundary of culture can only be best identified when examining its heterogeneity. Pipa and guqin , which...
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