Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 119 Search Results for
court literature
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 203–235.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., the article focuses on three subsets of songs: songs that foreground everyday vignettes, songs that celebrate festive occasions at court, and songs that revisit the exemplars of Chinese literature, history, and religion. The article suggests that everyday songs and court-oriented songs prized the aesthetic...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 175–202.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., the earliest printings from the fourteenth century were most likely based on lead performers' role texts, printed as aids for the audience. The author will also compare changes introduced into the texts by Ming theatrical agencies and their court performances, with the editorial policy of Li Kaixian, among...
Journal Article
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
... uncovering the status and place of such songs in the court milieu and beyond. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 sanqu songs anthology court literature emperor drama Any reader who picks up the Ming dynasty qu anthology Yongxi yuefu 雍熙樂府 (Songs of Harmonious Peace...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 105–130.
Published: 01 April 2022
... . Tian, Xiaofei . “ Illusion and Illumination: A New Poetics of Seeing in Liang Dynasty Court Literature .” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 65 , no. 1 ( 2005 ): 7 – 56 . Vitiello, Giovanni . Review of The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature , edited by Kang-i Sun Chang...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2021
... classics destined for modern consumption. Thus, in contrast to many other orally connected genres of middle and late imperial times, sanqu succeeded in moving, albeit in historiographically overdetermined ways, into the modern canon of traditional Chinese literature. In North American sinology, James...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2020
...), and You Ya 遊雅 (406–461). 20 According to Xiaorong Zheng, “The Pingcheng era of the Northern Wei saw a difficult growth of literature heavily influenced by politics. The only prosperous period in the literature of this era was roughly from 408 to 450.” 21 These elite members of the court played...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 155–185.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Michael Nylan Abstract A long-standing interest in material culture led me to reconstruct the material conditions associated with the massive library project initiated at the late Western court of Han Chengdi (r. 33–7 BC), for which very little material evidence now remains other than two small...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 232–234.
Published: 01 April 2020
... and culture has been shaped and reimagined from premodern to modern times. LU KOU is assistant professor of Chinese at Bard College. He is a medievalist and scholar of Chinese literature with research interests in court culture, poetry, medieval historiography, and the global Middle Ages. He is currently...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 487–491.
Published: 01 November 2019
... became the stuff of the collective romantic fantasy that came to define his reign. In contrast, Wu Zhao, whose sexual relations with a variety of men in the court are a favorite theme of pornography, knew when to sacrifice her personal pleasures (and her lovers) for the sake of political power...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 483–495.
Published: 01 November 2022
...: Shiji ; “xu” of the Taishigong shu ; writings by Liu Xiang and Liu Xin; genealogies ( pudie 譜牒); author's prefaces ( zixu 自序) and supplemental biographies ( biezhuan 別傳); masters literature ( zishu 子書); court documents ( chaoting dang'an 朝廷檔案); lyrics and rhapsodies ( cifu wenzhang 辭賦文章...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 476–480.
Published: 01 November 2020
... on the period after the eleventh century during the reign of Huizong and the court of the Southern Song at Lin'an 臨安 (present-day Hangzhou). Similar to the central argument in the Foong's book, such scholars as Patricia B. Ebrey and Hui-shu Lee have also observed the closely linked relationship between...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 287–312.
Published: 01 November 2020
... writings or if this was simply a common explication of Buddhist doctrine. The wording and style of the sentences, however, hint at the former. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 donor inscriptions Northern Wei Buddhist epigraphy Northern Dynasties literature Huifu Temple...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 448–470.
Published: 01 November 2016
... effectively nurtured a discourse on loyalism in Hong Kong literature. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Sung Wong Toi 宋王臺 Autumn Chants on the Terrace of the Song Emperors 宋臺秋唱 Chen Botao 陳伯陶 loyalism Song history in Kowloon In 1915 Chen Botao 陳伯陶 (1855–1930), 1 a Qing dynasty...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 207–248.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Shang Wei Abstract This paper seeks to interpret The Story of the Stone with reference to the visual culture of the Manchu court. It argues that the Yongzheng reign (1723–1735) inaugurated a new era of visual culture when jia (the unreal or fiction) became itself a productive concept...
FIGURES
| View All (6)
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., to be called Han Great Ancestor? 白甚麼改了姓更了名喚做漢高祖。 [ QYSQ , 543–45] 1. See Sieber, “Rethinking the History of Early Sanqu Songs” and “Nobody's Genre, Everybody's Song.” See also West, “Literature from the Late Jin to the Early Ming.” 9. Sima, Shiji , 389–90 . 10...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 261–286.
Published: 01 November 2021
... (508–555) valued scholarly learning still more and regarded literature as a relatively insignificant talent or minor accomplishment. Xiao Gang represents a departure—by placing literary talent above scholarship, he catered to the fashion among the Liang Dynasty's nobility for reciting poetry...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 34–65.
Published: 01 April 2018
... in Early Chinese Historiography . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2007 . Li, Wai-yee . “ Shishuo xinyu and the Emergence of Aesthetic Self-Consciousness in the Chinese Tradition .” In Chinese Aesthetics: The Ordering of Literature, the Arts, and the Universe in the Six...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 249–250.
Published: 01 April 2015
... on text-image relationships. His primary focus is on literati culture of the Northern Song and its immediate aftermath, though he has also published on landscape painting of the tenth and eleventh centuries, court art of the late Northern Song, loyalist art of the Song-Yuan transition, and most recently...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
... . Chang, Wenbo . “ Performing the Role of the Playwright: Jia Zhongming's Sanqu Songs in the Supplement to The Register of Ghosts .” Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 8 , no. 1 ( 2021 ): 59 – 88 . Chen, Liana . Staging for the Emperors: A History of Qing Court Theatre, 1683–1923...
1
