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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 113–138.
Published: 01 April 2021
...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...
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in Networks of Exchange Poetry in Late Medieval China: Notes toward a Dynamic History of Tang Literature
> Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture
Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 8. Network map of poems exchanged with contemporaries, colored according to algorithmically assigned communities (uses the built-in modularity algorithm of Gephi 0.9.2, with a resolution of 1.2). The clusters are more coherent, corresponding to groups of closely associated poets within
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 383–419.
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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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2021
... communicative purposes, what Ye Ye calls “communal texts” ( shehui wenben 社會文本), thereby extending the public utility, reach, and visibility of sanqu songs. For instance, while metaphorical uses of “inner elixirs” in the sanqu of some elite writers have received some attention, a large body of highly...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2015
..., are deeply entangled within a larger system of significance. An equally subtle and insightful reading of both texts and paintings can also be found in Hui-shu Lee's case study, which is concerned primarily with gender and the self-fashioning and mutual communications of two female painters through puns...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 131–169.
Published: 01 April 2022
... : Verso , 2013 . Nora, Pierre . Les lieux de mémoire ( The Places of Memory ). 3 vols. Paris : Gallimard , 1984 – 1992 . Nugent, Christopher M . “ Structured Gaps: The Qianzi wen and Its Paratexts as Mnemotechnics .” In Memory in Medieval China: Text, Ritual, and Community , edited...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 375–410.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of 1.0. For colors, see text. Figure 6. Anthology modularity classes, with a resolution of 0.9. For colors, see text. Figure 6. Anthology modularity classes, with a resolution of 0.9. For colors, see text. How should we label the three communities revealed in figure 4? To begin...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 458–465.
Published: 01 November 2022
... process and generated a somewhat different outcome than in South Asia. East Asian language communities were sharply divided from one another, despite a cosmopolitan written language. They were net importers of Sinitic texts and made few attempts to disseminate their vernacular readings of Sinitic, which...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 163–202.
Published: 01 April 2021
... with a start text,” 18 how might we balance the demands for sinological accuracy and literary effect or, better still, bring them into a fruitful dialogue with each other instead of pitting them against each other in dismissive opposition? To address such a challenge, genre might hold one of the keys...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 399–421.
Published: 01 November 2021
... salary. 21 Robert Darnton's communication circuit encompasses a wide range of agents to describe book production and consumption in the West. No less complex in China, the history of a text is often found carefully recorded in its marginalia. As marginalia were duplicated and disseminated...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 442–447.
Published: 01 November 2021
... important to understand how readers explain and comment upon a text. The meaning of a text is not fixed, and it depends on the reader's horizon of expectation and the specific intellectual and historical milieu of that reader. Intertextuality, which deals with textual memory and cultural borrowings...
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Nobody's Genre, Everybody's Song: Sanqu Songs and the Expansion of the Literary Sphere in Yuan China
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 29–64.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Patricia Sieber Abstract This article examines two key texts from early fourteenth-century Hangzhou to explore how they shaped the process of textualization of a new genre, the so-called sanqu songs. The article argues that both of these texts, the seminal anthology of the genre, the Yangchun...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 60–86.
Published: 01 April 2020
... for colophons. The text portrays a world filled with ritual and culture, and Li seems to take pleasure in naming many of the participants of this elite community. In this way, he builds an environment that eventually forms a sharp contrast with what the travelers witness on their journey—especially the jarring...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 438–440.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Chinese documents, the application of machine learning to dating and authorship attribution of premodern Chinese texts, and the study of text reuse relationships in the premodern Chinese corpus. Since 2005, he has developed and managed the Chinese Text Project ( ctext.org ), a widely used online digital...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 504–508.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Suet-ying Chiu's new book is the first comprehensive study in English on zidishu 子弟書 (bannerman tales), a late Qing performance genre most closely identified with the banner community of Beijing. A full-length study of zidishu is long overdue. This one answers all the questions that arise from...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 241–261.
Published: 01 November 2014
... . Rouzer, Paul . Articulated Ladies: Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2001 . Samei, Maija Bell . Gendered Persona and Poetic Voice: The Abandoned Woman in Early Chinese Song Lyrics . Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2004...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 43–91.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Lihong Liu Abstract This article examines birthday albums, a genre that combines paintings and literary texts in calligraphy, produced by a group of peer artists and writers to celebrate birthdays of elders in the Wu region (Suzhou) during the mid-Ming period (1450–1550). Each album pairs paintings...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 306–335.
Published: 01 November 2017
... techniques to inscribe antiquity, Han Yu, and his mid-Tang favorites across different categories and at different levels of the anthology, thereby writing literary history and re-creating a literati community. From the framing preface down to the organization of texts within individual juan...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 April 2017
... that it was a document from the Northern school community and not from the Southern school as originally thought. These discoveries have shown that the Northern school discussed “sudden awakening” in texts that predate the activities of Shenhui. Thus, we know the old cliché “Southern sudden, Northern gradual...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
... is primarily a function of the theater or whether it is independent of theatrical activities. Even if the discussion is limited to theater itself, scholars largely agree that theater is a type of social communication, 9 but they are not necessarily in agreement on what theater's primary medium...
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