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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...
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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...
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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
... 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 14. This reads differently from the version transmitted in the anthologies: “A nation blessed in this gentle...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 105–130.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Chinese Woman’ in the Western Academy: A Critical Review .” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 22 , no. 1 ( 1996 ): 115 – 51 . Tian, Xiaofei . “ Illusion and Illumination: A New Poetics of Seeing in Liang Dynasty Court Literature .” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 65...
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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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2020
...). 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 an important part...
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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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 232–234.
Published: 01 April 2020
... and scholar of Chinese literature with research interests in court culture, poetry, medieval historiography, and the global Middle Ages. He is currently working on a book manuscript on rhetoric and legitimacy in early medieval China. It studies various forms of cultural exchange between court centers...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 476–480.
Published: 01 November 2020
... to this discussion of ecocritical art history is Huiping Pang, “Strange Weather: Art, Politics, and Climate Change at the Court of Northern Song Emperor Huizong,” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies , no. 39 (2009): 1–41. 2. Ping Foong, “Guo Xi's Intimate Landscapes and the Case of ‘Old Trees, Level Distance...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 487–491.
Published: 01 November 2019
...). Doran's focus on themes within each text, rather than fine-grained attention to generic differences or the historical context within which each work was produced, allows her to discuss a satisfyingly broad range of texts. However, as someone who is not a specialist in Tang literature, I would have...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 438–460.
Published: 01 November 2023
...–1210). 8 Lu You's commentaries focus on providing context and explanation; they function as a link between his work and earlier literature and simultaneously disclose details of his life and contemporary social customs. 9 In addition, the self-commentaries of the Song dynasty represent...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 113–138.
Published: 01 April 2021
... at the imperial court, such as Xia Yan 夏言 (1482–1548), Lu Shen 陸深 (1477–1544), and Liao Daonan 廖道南 (1494–1548), self-consciously included the sanqu songs to celebrate imperial worship in their individual collections of refined literature, which might be due to the solemnity and honor of writing occasioned...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 483–495.
Published: 01 November 2022
... 1 exhaustively enumerates the work's source materials across nine categories: 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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 287–312.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Wenming took control of the court as regent for the child emperor Xiaowen, after which she continued to retain her hold on power until her death in the year 490. 42 During her reign as the de facto ruler of the Northern Wei, imperial court eunuchs were key members of the empress dowager's political...
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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...
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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. 42. Su Zedong, excerpted from “My Inscriptions on the Illustration of Autumn Chants on the Terrace of the Song ” 自題宋臺秋唱圖. See Song tai qiu chang (1917), 1. 43. Translator's note: This line contains another allusion to “Recalling...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., remonstrance on the part of lower-status court entertainers succeeds, in part, by using rhetorical strategies mirrored by Sui Jingchen's village narrator. In each of several anecdotes recounting ironic corrective in the courts of Qi 齊, Chu 楚, and Qin 秦, court entertainers pretend ignorance about underlying...
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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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 34–65.
Published: 01 April 2018
... governing elite. The article closes with an examination of how the Han elite grappled with the problems presented by the deceptiveness of appearance. Ultimately, this “somatic interpretation” of Han political culture explores some of the same issues vital to scholars of literature and philosophy: How do we...
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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...
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