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Secret Laid Bare: Close Reading of Chinese Poetry

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Xinda Lian
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 47–78.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9681150
Published: 01 April 2022
...Xinda Lian Abstract In the most exciting results of linguistic criticism of poetic function in classical Chinese poetry, one sees an ideal integration of microattention to texts and macroinvestigation of grammars of Chinese poetics. The greatest contribution of this close reading of the sinologist...
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Whose Voice Is It Anyway? A Rereading of Wang Changling's “Autumn in the Palace of Everlasting Faith: Five Poems”

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Paula Varsano
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 1–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-3461796
Published: 01 April 2016
... in his attributive essay “Lun wenyi” 論文意 [On Writing]), this article performs a close reading of the perceptual cues featured in the five heptasyllabic quatrains, “Autumn in the Palace of Everlasting Faith” 長信秋詞. Borrowing the term focalization from recent theories of visual narrativity (most notably...
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Networks of Exchange Poetry in Late Medieval China: Notes toward a Dynamic History of Tang Literature

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Thomas J. Mazanec
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 322–359.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-7257015
Published: 01 November 2018
... of late medieval poetry, which in turn prompt close readings of the sources. These readings lead to four conclusions about the history of late medieval poetry: (a) Buddhist monks were hubs of literary activity, (b) the poet Jia Dao became an increasingly important site of connection over time, (c...
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Voices from the Crimson Clouds Library: Reading Liu Rushi's (1618–1664) Misty Willows by Moonlit Dike

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Hui-Shu Lee
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 173–206.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-2887589
Published: 01 April 2015
... a close reading of Liu's and Huang's paintings and Qian's inscriptions on the scroll, this article aims to explore the macrocultural milieu of the time by examining, on the one hand, these two female paradigms of reclusion, and on the other the collective sentiment and memory of the catastrophe...
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Exile, Borders, and Poetry: A Study of Fang Xiaobiao's “Miscellaneous Poems on the Eastern Journey”

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Lawrence Yim
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 192–214.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8313585
Published: 01 April 2020
... was exiled to Ningguta 寧古塔, a remote town close to the borders of then Chosŏn Korea. The author conducts close readings of a series of poems titled “Miscellaneous Poems on the Eastern Journey” (Dongzheng zayong), written by Fang on his journey to Ningguta. The author studies not the historicity...
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Returning Empty-Handed: Reading the Yifanfeng Corpus as Buddhist Parting Poetry

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Jason Protass
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 383–419.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-4179541
Published: 01 November 2017
... manuscript of Yifanfeng has allowed researchers to revisit the last decade of sinophone scholarship on this text. The current essay, based on close reading of the entire Yifanfeng , illuminates the broader use of occasional poetry within Buddhist monastic communities of the Song Dynasty (960–1279...
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Virtuous Wives and Shrews in Feng Shuangfei : Empowering Female Characters Through a Revision of Stereotypes

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Wenjia Liu
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 57–84.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-3461820
Published: 01 April 2016
... for a libertine husband like Yishao. Through close reading, the author demonstrates how this female writer assesses and reimagines the standards of ideal women established by the classics and their male authors. 19. Ibid., 2193. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 virtuous wife shrew...
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Tao Yuanming in Recently Unearthed Epitaphs from the Sui and Tang

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Hu Kexian, Yuan Zhang
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 461–482.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8042016
Published: 01 November 2019
... appreciated as a poet, and his literary vocabulary was widely borrowed and imitated. However, a close reading of epitaphs illustrates that Tao's image as a moral exemplar was perhaps even more prominent than his role as esteemed poet. He was invoked to suggest the comparable personal traits of the tomb owner...
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The Art of Chinese Prose: A Critical Introduction

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Zong-qi Cai
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 339–381.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8745658
Published: 01 November 2020
..., drawn from antiquity through the Qing, reveals how continual innovations in extratextual patterning and textual patterning have given rise to manifold and inherently related prose forms over the millennia. The close reading also sheds light on these prose forms' distinctive artistic features, as well...
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Performing the Role of Playwright: Jia Zhongming's Sanqu Songs in the Supplement to The Register of Ghosts

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Wenbo Chang
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 59–88.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8898622
Published: 01 April 2021
...Wenbo Chang Abstract This article investigates how sanqu composition modifies the social contract of poetic composition in how a text is mediated between authorship and social identity, through a close analysis of Jia Zhongming's sanqu songs written in the supplement to The Register of Ghosts...
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Toward an Innovative Poetics: Wang Changling on Yi 意 And Literary Creation

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Zong-qi Cai
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 180–207.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-3780764
Published: 01 April 2017
...Zong-qi Cai Abstract This article reveals the coherent theory of literary creation hidden within the multivalence of the term yi in Wang Changling's (ca. 698–ca. 756) writings on poetry. A close and intertextual reading demonstrates how Wang deftly appropriates various Daoist and Daoist-inspired...
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Introduction

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Thomas J. Mazanec, Jeffrey R. Tharsen, Jing Chen
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 179–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-7256950
Published: 01 November 2018
... that close reading can then explicate. Chao-lin Liu (with Mazanec and Tharsen) also proposes ways of understanding the macroscopic patterns of Tang poetry. The main purpose of Liu et al.'s article is to introduce readers to the possible applications of a textual algorithm Liu developed, FindCommon...
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Eroticism and Other Literary Conventions in Chinese Literature: Intertextuality in “The Story of the Stone.”

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Mary Scott
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 486–490.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8745736
Published: 01 November 2020
... is a notable recent contribution to the inexhaustible scholarly conversation about intertextuality in Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 (Dream of the Red Chamber). It is grounded in wide-ranging and critically astute reading of Ming-Qing fiction and drama and in a close reading of the many textual variants of Hong lou meng...
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How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity through the Tang

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Christopher M. B. Nugent
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 481–485.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8745723
Published: 01 November 2020
... these readings in a critique of the claim that a known historical figure, Qu Yuan 屈原 (343?–278? BCE), composed the works. The first of the three How to Read Chinese Poetry volumes also includes a close reading of Li Sao (by a different scholar), which notes that some have questioned the historical facticity...
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Writing for Print: Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China

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Ling Hon Lam
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 466–472.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9965697
Published: 01 November 2022
... associates' commentaries, which, as Son remarkably illustrates, reads like a live chat on printed pages. Such nonlinear looping within a close circle effectuates what I would call presentness , as hinted by Wang Zhuo's title Jin Shishuo 今世說 (Contemporary Tales of the World , 1683), which Son...
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Introduction

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Shang Wei
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 1–7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-2887529
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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The Elusiveness of Commonality: Late Twentieth-Century Sinology and the Search for a Shared Lyric Language

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Paula Varsano
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 8–46.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9681137
Published: 01 April 2022
... the whole understandable, not through simplification but through its opposite, the practice of close reading. Where this article manifests its compatibility with Liu's evolving program and where it goes further than their own article on Du Fu's “Autumn Meditations,” however, is in its willingness to develop...
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Transgressive Typologies: Construction of Gender and Power in Early Tang China

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Maram Epstein
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 487–491.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8042045
Published: 01 November 2019
... of Transgressive Typologies are Doran's close readings of a wide range to texts associated the figure of Wu Zetian that reveal the extent to which the historical record reflects the history of gender anxieties rather than provide a transparent view of her life and court. 1. For example, R. W. L. Guisso...
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Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture

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Yue Zhang
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 499–505.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9965764
Published: 01 November 2022
... of discussing Wang Anshi's place in Chinese literati culture and convincingly and critically analyzing many materials. Yang discovers, proposes, and solves the problems of an impressive amount of firsthand materials through meticulous close reading of many primary sources, including several large compendia...
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Yufa yu shijing—hanshi yishu zhi poxi 語法与詩境—漢詩藝術之破析 (Grammar and Poetic Vision: Deciphering the Art of Classical Chinese Poetry)

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Xinda Lian
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 401–407.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-11423529
Published: 01 November 2024
... commentators’ insights with his own analytical close reading, Cai discovers that, by the interaction between the “forward movement” and the “backward withdrawal,” Fang Dongshu means the horizontal intraline and interline concatenation created by rhetorical questions, linking couplets, and other cohesive...
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