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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 341–370.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Thomas Kelly Abstract Jin Ping Mei cihua 金瓶梅詞話 (Plum in the Golden Vase) displays an unprecedented interest in breaking apart and reassembling the components of words. This essay asks where the Cihua edition's fascination with character manipulation (a procedure the author refers to as chaibai...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 324–346.
Published: 01 November 2015
... transitional stage that was likely initiated with an intuitive act of creativity rather than an intentional manipulation of tones to obtain a particular known effect. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 tonal prosody in poetry tonal contrast quantitative study early pentasyllabic poems...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 258–285.
Published: 01 November 2015
... are the historical, etymological ones that unite cognates ( tongyuan ci 同源詞, lit. “words of common origin”). 4 For instance, Jiang points reasonably to the you wen shuo 右文說 (right-hand character-component theory) approaches of the Song period 宋 (960–1279), with their focus on systematic connections between...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 347–379.
Published: 01 November 2015
... evidence to support the correspondence they tried to establish above, namely, that the two Chinese characters song 頌 and ji 偈 are translations of the Sanskrit words śloka and gāthā , respectively: 15 song 頌 corresponds to Skt. śloka (hymn of praise or glory), and ji 偈 corresponds...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 April 2020
... (1618–?) notes upon reaching Ningguta 寧古塔 (in modern-day Heilongjiang Province) that “their customs are simple and honest,” as Yim observes in “Exile, Borders, and Poetry.” Malleable boundaries characterize the representation of cultural others. Precise definitions of cultural difference can...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 486–490.
Published: 01 November 2020
... human life, its storytelling is what makes meaning. In this way, my book is a critique of the mainstream humanist Stone scholarship, which often reads the text as a reflection of the characters as historical figures or constructed (but “real”) persons. I would argue that while the novel is centrally...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 47–78.
Published: 01 April 2022
... therefore proposes an audacious and probably controversial concept: the antithesis between a “character language” ( wenzi yuyan 文字語言 or ziyu 字語) and a “voice language” ( shengchuan yuyan 聲傳語言 or shengyu 聲語). 36 Neither depends on the other to exist. As an ontological entity, character language...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2020
... justifications (or the lack thereof) for military invasions, calculation of material gains, dissemination and manipulation of gossip, and anxiety over deception and revelation. Moreover, through its distinctive style, the document represents a heroic, candid, self-revealing ruler and fashions a conception...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 November 2015
... are randomly arranged. The results of these statistical comparisons reveal that tonal contrast found in these three collections arose out of an intuitive fondness for musical cadence rather than an intentional manipulation of tones to achieve a desired aesthetic effect. Song also notes that the proportion...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 96–136.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of unruly or excessive emotions. These points are indisputable, but I return to the incongruence between word and visual image as an additional way to explain the bland, unchanging features of the elite male figure that characterized its pictorial representation. The illustrations in Tianxing daomao...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 209–215.
Published: 01 November 2017
... attend to the connection that was perceived between the aesthetic qualities of writing and the moral character of its author, any opposition between wen and dao largely disappears. At the same time, Cheng calls attention to the essential role that the classics played in both programs of learning...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 115–148.
Published: 01 April 2020
... 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 Official Edition of the Journey to the West, 1592) was a striking success, and publishers and writers were constantly in search...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 56–95.
Published: 01 April 2019
... psychology and exterior conditions. It also indicates that, as far as the compact is concerned, the operable distinction between sincerity and insincerity was not the nature of one's private state of mind but the character of the form through which that state of mind manifests. Internal feeling was important...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 89–112.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of level-tone characters ( xiapingyixian 下平一先) in Pingshuiyun . In addition, in his “Xihu qiuye” written to the tune Shuixianzi , Zhang selected he 何, duo 多, mo 磨, ge 歌, and suo 娑, all of which belong to the rhyme category of the fifth group in the second part of level-tone characters...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 397–424.
Published: 01 November 2022
... that reflected women's social roles more positively where courtesans became increasingly marginalized. 26 Yang Wan, a courtesan turned concubine/wife living in the transitory period of late Ming and early Qing, manipulated the different meanings of gui to represent her self-image in transformation...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 April 2019
... but also by the etymological root of the word zhi itself. In the ancient small seal script, the word zhi vertically combines two parts: and . According to many scholars, is a picto-ideograph of feet stepping on the ground, while is a simple pictograph of a heart. The structure of this character...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 425–457.
Published: 01 November 2022
... 1b. Construction of qin pipa (housed in the Shōsōin, Nara, Japan). Figure 1b. Construction of qin pipa (housed in the Shōsōin, Nara, Japan). The constructions of the two instruments have some marked differences. In physical features, hu pipa is characterized by its crooked neck, 17...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 286–323.
Published: 01 November 2015
... ultimately moved toward greater tonal regulation similarly is due in large part to greater attention to the role of musical rhythm. 68. Zong-qi Cai has characterized the yuefu “Mulberry on the Bank” as a “compendium of repetitions” and argues that the wider variety in the use of repetition...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 7–33.
Published: 01 April 2020
... hegemonic ambition. The author examines the uses of history to manipulate notions of shared roots and radical difference. (3) Since the negative qualities attributed to barbarians come up in speeches, we need to consider the rhetorical context of moralizing otherness. Whether the issue is debates...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 137–174.
Published: 01 April 2016
... Plan ] and from the Luo [River] there emerged a turtle displaying an inscription of fifty-six characters, which is what is meant by ‘the Luo produced a text.’” 34 From the Shangshu zhonghou , we learn that “Lord Yao 堯 was nearing the age of seventy and was repairing the embankments on the [Yellow...
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