...Lei Chen Abstract This article ventures a new approach to capture the subtlety of the shi / ci distinctions by reading and comparing the representation of space in shi and ci , an approach that avoids traditional Chinese impressionism, on the one hand, and superficial Western formalism...

...Ye Ye; Erxin Wang Abstract When examining songs in Chinese literature, we can distinguish among literary, musical, and communal aspects of their circulation. Sanqu songs became popular in the form of musical texts in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, but the ci song lyrics, by the Southern Song dynasty...

...Ronald Egan Abstract This article explores the phenomenon of Song dynasty poems that have contested meanings in early (Song period) sources. Examples in both the shi and ci poetic forms are given. Each highlights a different aspect of poetic meaning as created and re-created through the interplay...

..., Yuan Jie, Bai Juyi, Yuan Zhen, and Li Qingzhao, however, this article shows how yuefu , shi , and quzi ci poets reappropriated the idea of “music bureau” pieces to experiment with, and stand in for, even older, Confucian ideals on the relationship of lyrics to music and morality. By citing examples...

... to the reduplicative vocabulary, or dieyin ci 疊音詞, of the Book of Odes corpus. The author presents a series of persistent associations between sound and meaning in this subset of the OC lexicon, with statistical evidence adduced in support of their cognitive reality for OC speakers. Finally, this article offers...

... and 1960s, which culminated in his 1969 article “Gendai sankyoku no kenkyū” (A Study of the Sanqu Songs of the Yuan Period). In this long and highly original article, Tanaka first traced the origin of sanqu back to the tradition of vernacular ci of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that resulted...

... in the song lyric” (45–46). When one hears a singing girl performing “her” love song created by a male ci writer, one is listening to a formulaic duet “in the voice of others” (or daiyan 代言). This voice of others, however, was so “light and lovely” ( zaisan qingqiao 再三輕巧). Its expressive melodious tone...

... research interests include Tang-Song poetry, literary communication, and digital humanities. His publications include The Chronicle of the Life of Zhang Yuangan (1989), Studies on the Diasporic Song Ci Poets (1992), Chronicles of the Lives of Song Dynasty Ci Poets (1994), A History of Tang-Song...

... in ancient times, they depicted the romance of the breeze and the moon, and toyed with the images of flowers and grass. They were capable of nothing more than accumulating volumes of shi and ci collections lamenting spring and separation. However, such things cannot be viewed as learning. 古之號稱才女者，則批風抹月...

... romantic tunes, could inflict on an candidate aspiring to public office. 14 With the compilation of the Huajian ji 花間集 (Collection from among the Flowers, preface 940), at the tenth-century court of Shu, Ouyang Jiong 歐陽炯 (896–971), the preface writer, boldly presented the writing of ci 詞 song lyrics...

.... Although it also played an essential role in fostering the formal beauty of musical genres with relatively humble origins, such as ci 詞 (song lyric) and sanqu , parallelism is often associated with the classical literary style enjoyed by cultural elites because the organization of parallel lines...

.... Most of Shang's extant writings—seventy-six shi poems, fifty-six ci poems, and one essay—are collected in Shang furen Jinnang ji 商夫人錦囊集 (Lady Shang's Collection in a Brocade Bag, hereafter Jinnang ji ). 17 The collection is appended to her husband's selected works Qi zhonghui gong yiji 祁忠惠公...

... literary history have been translated and studied, such as the Han woman scholar Ban Zhao (49–ca. 120) and especially the renowned ci 詞 (song lyric) poet Li Qingzhao 李清照 (1084–ca. 1145), and even a few other women poets in China's past outside of the canonical purview, such as Xi Peilan 席佩蘭 (1762–after...

.... 1. One hundred twenty-five poems are collected in Yuan, Collected Works of Tao . 2. Bai Juyi, “Ti Xunyang lou zi ci hou shi Jiangzhou Sima shi zuo” 題潯陽樓自此後詩江州司馬時作, in Bai shi Changqing ji , juan 7. 3. Du Fu 杜甫 (712–770), “Yi xing wu shou, qi san” 遺興五首其三, in Qiu, Du shi xiangzhu...

... to reference sanqu , that is, the so-called yuefu 樂府. 9 Importantly, no definitive agreement was reached, and as a result, as Ye Ye has observed, in the Ming dynasty sanqu songs continued to encroach on literary terrain previously occupied by relatively more respected forms, such ci song-lyrics...

... dynasty. In doing so, they point to several key moments when these two sets of concerns were sharply distinct, and others when they cross-pollinate to significant effect. References Ashmore, Robert . “ The Banquet's Aftermath: Yan Jidao's Ci Poetics and the High Tradition .” T'oung Pao 88...

... and Literature, Fudan University. His research focus is the study of ci 詞 (song lyrics). He has completed his dissertation, “The Phases of Elegant Ci: A Multidimensional Study of Song Lyrics' Refinement during the Tenth through Twelfth Centuries.” ZHU GANG 朱剛 is professor and associate department head...

... received his PhD from Fudan University in 2009. His research spans topics ranging from ci (song lyrics) of the Song dynasty to the various genres of late imperial literature. He is interested in ci (song lyrics) and sanqu (songs); scholar-official literature; literary transition during the Song, Yuan...

... cousin Wuke 無可. 3. Su Shi, “Shu ‘Guiqulai ci’ zeng Qishun” 書歸去來詞贈契順 (Calligraphy of “Homeward I Hie,” Presented to Qishun), SSWJ , 69.7873–74 . Unless otherwise indicated, all translations in this article are mine. 2. Here I read 紹聖二年 (1095) for 紹聖三年 (1096). Su Mai would not have waited...