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Plays within Songs: Sanqu Songs from Literary Refinement ( ya ) to Popular Appeal ( su )
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 307–340.
Published: 01 November 2021
... play in an appeal to the literati aesthetic of lyrical indirection. Another, shorter song suite from the Ming, this one by an anonymous author, incorporates chuanqi play titles with little literary embellishment, catering to popular tastes. Finally, set to the tunes “Pipo yu” 劈破玉 and “Gua zhen'er” 掛真兒...
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A Couple of Soles: A Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century China
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 435–441.
Published: 01 November 2021
...” for the mother's name, thereby more clearly distinguishing between their names. However, these problems are minor and cannot obscure the merits of the translation, which are ample. Other useful paratextual material included in the book is the list of “Dramatis Personae and Their Role Categories.” Chuanqi...
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Fresh Faces for Those Full of Emotions: Zhu Suchen's Qinlou Yue
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 65–89.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Yingde Guo; Xiaoqiao Ling Abstract Unlike Zhu Suchen's 朱素臣 (1621?–after 1701) other extant chuanqi plays that survive only in manuscripts, Qinlou yue 秦樓月 (The Moon Shining upon the Qin Tower) was printed in a deluxe woodblock edition during the Kangxi period. This carefully executed imprint...
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From Stage Scripts to Closet Drama: Editions of Early Chinese Drama and the Translations of Yuan Zaju
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 175–202.
Published: 01 April 2016
... Yuankan zaju sanshizhong Ming court drama Gaiding Yuanxian chuanqi Yuanqu xuan Almost from the moment of publication, the Yuanqu xuan 元曲選 (Selection of Yuan plays) established itself as the most popular edition of early zaju 雜劇 plays. Edited by Zang Maoxun 臧懋循 (1550–1621) and printed in two...
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Top Graduate Zhang Xie: The Earliest Extant Chinese Southern Play
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 476–482.
Published: 01 November 2022
...-p'a chi (1980). Unlike zaju 雜劇, or Yuan drama, and chuanqi 傳奇, or Ming drama, which have had a good number of English translations of their representative works and studies of their famous playwrights, such as Guan Hanqing 關漢卿 (ca. 1241–1320), Wang Shifu 王實甫 (ca. 1250–1337), Tang Xianzu 湯顯祖 (1550...
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Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Dushu sheng and the Limits of Community in the Early Qing
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of the renxiong from this new community is not untroubled; in resisting the genre's compulsive imposition of wholeness, Dushu sheng dramatizes the fractures and exclusions that made possible the restoration of order in the early Qing. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Suzhou plays chuanqi...
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Playing against Type: The Moral Merchant on the Early Qing Stage
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 383–411.
Published: 01 November 2019
... than in the long-form southern dramas ( chuanqi 傳奇) that were crowding the studies and the stages of late imperial Jiangnan. Though the merchant is not a frequent presence in chuanqi texts, when he does appear he is often found lurking in the narrative margins, his circulation of literati objects...
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Ming Qing xiqu xuba zuanjian
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 517–521.
Published: 01 November 2023
... nearly all the subgenres in premodern Chinese drama: xiwen 戲文 (southern plays), zaju 雜劇 (variety plays), chuanqi 傳奇 (full-length plays), and difangxi 地方戲 (local operas). At the end are two indexes of text titles and authors’ names, which help readers quickly locate items relevant...
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Contributors
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 294–296.
Published: 01 April 2023
... literature, with more than twenty published books and more than two hundred academic papers. As an expert of classical Chinese philology, he has authored or coauthored monumental studies on Chinese drama, such as Comprehensive Narratives of Chuanqi Dramas during the Ming and Qing 明清傳奇綜録 (1997...
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The Crying Statue in Early Qing Drama
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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...
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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
... preoccupation with tragedy has overshadowed the recognition of the comic genius of Chinese drama, such a nuanced consideration of Chinese humor challenges longstanding clichés. 36 In her analysis of the seminal piece of the chuanqi 傳奇 (mature Southern drama) tradition, Tang Xianzu's 湯顯祖 (1550–1616...
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Gender and Violence: The Multivalent Voices of a Cannibalized Concubine in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 267–293.
Published: 01 April 2023
... to sacrifice herself. The ambiguity regarding the concubine's agency gave rise to inventions, elaborations, and revisions in later writings about the story, especially in theatrical works. Shuangzhong ji 雙忠記 (Record of Two Loyal Subjects, hereafter Two Loyal Subjects ) is a chuanqi 傳奇 (lit.: transmit...
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Unquiet Qing : The Course of Lovesickness in the Modernization of Chinese Literature
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 379–402.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., some of which are rarely discussed in English scholarship from the perspective of love writing. Richly supported with works of drama and various fiction subgenres (e.g., chuanqi tales, huaben novellas, vernacular novels, stories of legal cases), this article traces the evolution and disappearance...
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Cultural Self-Definition of Southwest Chieftains during the Ming-Qing Transition
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 167–191.
Published: 01 April 2020
... dynasty, Kong was greatly interested and tried to study its origin. In 1694, in collaboration with Gu Cai, Kong wrote a chuanqi 傳奇 (southern drama) play titled Xiao hulei 小忽雷, a tale about fidelity in romantic love represented by the xiao hulei . In his “ Taohua shan benmo” 桃花扇本末 (Complete Account...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 273–275.
Published: 01 April 2022
... at the University of San Francisco. His research has focused on intersections of institutional change and literary expression in late premodern China and Japan. Recent publications include a translation (with Ying Wang) of a 1651 chuanqi drama Lianxiangban 憐香伴 (The Fragrant Companions) and studies of poetry...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2022
... to it thanks in part to Jesuit moral preoccupations. Sieber discusses the exceptionally rich variation in language registers and their rhetorical manipulation in all three of the early theatrical genres ( zaju 雜劇, nanxi 南戲, and chuanqi 傳奇) and notes how the attention to language use in which recent...
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Where Have All the Guixiu Gone? Chinese “Women of Talent” at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2023
...: Baihua Writing, Gender, and Identity in Late Qing China. ” Twentieth Century China 45 , no. 1 ( 2020 ): 85 – 104 . Zhang Yunhe 張允和 . Zuihou de guixiu 最後的閨秀 ( The Last Guixiu ). Beijing : Sanlian shudian , 2012 . Zuo Pengjun 左鵬軍 . Wanqing minguo chuanqi zaju kaosuo 晚清民國傳奇雜劇考索...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of chuanqi dramas, collective authorship of folk opera, and male actors performing (authoring) female characters onstage. The study demonstrates that, as folk opera shifted further away from the literati writing tradition, the concubine character in those works exhibits increasing agency in contention...
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Like Not Like: Writing Portraits in The Peony Pavilion
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 134–172.
Published: 01 April 2015
... in narrative fiction. 14. Brook explains various aspects of the late Ming economy in Confusions of Pleasure . 13. Guo, Ming Qing chuanqi shi , 236, 239–40 . Zeitlin cites Guo, in Phantom Heroine , 131–32 . 12. Swatek, “Feng Menglong's Romantic Dream ,” 190 ; Swatek, “Plum...
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Multiple Otherness: Identity Politics in the Taiping Civil War
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 215–231.
Published: 01 April 2020
... out. Its author clearly sought to emulate the canonical seventeenth-century southern play ( chuanqi 傳奇) Taohua shan 桃花扇 (The Peach Blossom Fan), which had attempted, through romantic tragedy and lyricism, to make sense of the political upheaval accompanying the Ming-Qing dynastic transition...
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