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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 308–337.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and the monopoly of memory were crucial tools to claim cultural privilege in the highly competitive community of elite literati. The peculiar nature of the anecdote as a cross between private and public matters, as well as between local and universal knowledge, lends itself perfectly to carrying out the various...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 466–472.
Published: 01 November 2022
... communities with transregional impacts. Son's ultimate achievement lies in ascribing back to the print medium per se the social processes surrounding it, not as its origins or explanatory causes but as effects testifying to its structure of temporality, which challenges us to rethink how a media history can...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of humaneness ( ren 仁) and righteousness ( yi 義), because they were able to achieve self-realization in adversity. He thus expands the scope of Confucian values to be more open and inclusive. Moreover, Zhong first constructs a universal community of writers across time, space, and the limit of his personal...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2021
... kinds of audiences but also, in the process, developed new functionalities. As the articles demonstrate, in doing so the genre often broke down boundaries between popular, ritual, court, and literati realms; between indigenous and foreign practitioners; between musical, literary, and communicative uses...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2020
... a variety of strategies to prevail in the competitions of political authority and legitimacy. This article examines the northern emperor Tuoba Tao's (408–452, r. 423–452) self-representation in his letters delivered to the southern audience at the height of the two states' military struggle. Scholars have...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 442–447.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., and competition were some of the main channels through which writers demonstrated their literary competency. Exchange poetry was a vehicle for intellectual dialogue, and a brilliant correspondence could result in fame and fortune in the local community and in the political arena. Sun Chuo was exceptionally...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 85–107.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., also enjoyable. 敗亦可喜 Leisurely, carefree! 優哉游哉 4 Chatting on and on with you. 聊復爾耳 64 The line illustrates both a go-playing strategy and the much deeper concept that we should not seek victory at the expense of others' death, for the best sort of competition requires compromise...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 241–261.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of poetry and diplomacy. Scholars have focused on fushi as seamless political communication, the celebration of a common cultural heritage, and the formalization of ritual judgment. I discuss how the practice of fushi negotiates political and cultural differences. How does it bear on the distinction...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 336–359.
Published: 01 November 2017
... between the intense competition and unorthodox styles in examination papers. Yao Mian 姚勔 ( jinshi 1059), memorialized in 1092, rejected a proposal to lift the word limit for several examination subjects. Yao complained that examinees' writing was already too lengthy on account of the pressure...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 169–194.
Published: 01 April 2023
... in the public sphere through official discourses of recognition and commemoration,” it falls to those within the community to create their own “alternative affective public sphere” that as a collective force legitimates critiques of hegemonic power structures and provides an outlet for imagining “emotional...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 397–424.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Renshen [1632] 壬申午日遙憶四首 [I] hear from afar the painted boats merging with the heavy mist, 遙聞畫舫接煙濃 2 So many poets entered their embroidery works. 多少詞人競綺羅 May I ask who won the competition? 借問爭先誰第一 4 [I] expect right now his face must be flushed from wine. 料應此際醉顏酡 29...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 235–267.
Published: 01 November 2020
... both moral fastidiousness and intellectual acuity. But he cautioned that the enterprise definitely was far from sacrosanct and, moreover, that its practice should not be extended beyond the formative years of education and youthful competition. Even while sharing tips with his students and relatives...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 359–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... The efflorescence of literary creativity, as well as acute competition and fierce debate among rival poets, had challenged the view that Tang verses were the epitome of poetry. During the early Kangxi reign, poets such as Qian Qianyi 錢謙益 (1582–1664) and Wang Shizhen 王士禎 (1634–1711) did not subscribe...
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In Praise of This Prosperous and Harmonious Empire: Sanqu , Ming Anthologies, and the Imperial Court
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 139–162.
Published: 01 April 2021
... official life and from the center of the political world. In short, as one modern critic has summarized, Yuan sanqu are often regarded as “the songs of the frustrated” 失意者的歌 and represent a “displaced community” 失落的群體, hence making the genre unsuited for use as a panegyric. 4 Reading sanqu songs...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 258–288.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., and if the written word ( wen ) is not a sign but a schematization, then there can be no competition for dominance. Each level of wen , that of the world and that of the poem, is valid only in its own correlative realm; and the poem, the final outward form, is a stage of fullness.” 22 Though it has adopted...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 137–168.
Published: 01 April 2023
... process as competition between the visual and the verbal. Heffernan characterizes it after Mitchell as “a struggle for dominance between the image and word” 8 and further argues for the power of verbal representation—ekphrasis—over the visual image in the former's ability not only to describe what...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 419–443.
Published: 01 November 2015
... elite men defined themselves and their cultural communities, some of them took on the compilation of rhyme books to express their intellectual and cultural selves. Whether during times of political division or unification, these emerging experts of tones and rhymes continued to hone their skill...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 313–338.
Published: 01 November 2020
...' particular concerns and constraints. He thus became something of a spokesperson for this community. 55 When not in the capital, Yang spent the other half of his four-decade-long official career in various provincial posts and in his hometown of Jishui. Their geographical features and natural landscape...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2016
... as applied by Mieke Bal), and applying it to these poems over the course of this close reading exercise, the essay demonstrates that the lyric power of these poems stems not from the communication of the poet's inner state on the specific occasion that inspired his writing but from his use of the senses...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 19–55.
Published: 01 April 2017
... of song lyrics about his garden. These song lyrics depict Aromal Arbor as a social space for banquets and a gathering place for a community of northern refugees and their allies. Xiang's song lyrics comprise the first layer of texts that memorialize the garden as a “space of resistance...
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