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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 397–424.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Jiani Chen Abstract This article examines the poetic collections of the Ming woman writer Yang Wan 楊宛 (ca. 1600–ca. 1647), whose transformation of identity from a courtesan celebrity to a gentry wife was one of the most representative in the category of courtesan turned concubine/wife. Her marriage...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 173–206.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Hui-Shu Lee Abstract Misty Willows by Moonlit Dike , painted in 1643 by the celebrated courtesan-turned-gentry-lady Liu Yin (1618–1664, better known as Liu Rushi), and documented by the literary talent Qian Qianyi (1582–1664), serves as the definitive statement on the romantic and artistic union...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 65–89.
Published: 01 November 2014
... features an array of paratextual elements: preface; illustrations with matching poems by prominent seventeenth-century literati figures; a poetry collection by Chen Susu 陳素素, a Yangzhou courtesan cast as the heroine of the play; and an appendix with women writers' poems commenting on Susu's poetry...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 April 2018
... imperial literature has focused on talented courtesans, relegating to the background their more mundane counterparts and the uneducated and struggling underlings who surround them. In pushing these topics to the center, Fengyue meng proves a valuable source for inquiry into fiction and society in post...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 341–370.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., the courtesan's riddles can now be heard by confounded characters within the diegesis. 42. Plum , 2:32.256 . 43. JPMCH , 32.9b. 44. Fu, Jin Ping Mei yinyu jiemi , 148 . 45. Plum , 2:32.256 . See note 30 on 540. 46. JPMCH , 32.10a. 47. For this reading of tui...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 56–90.
Published: 01 April 2017
... literature are so evocative of space-bound and performance-oriented practice as ci poetry. The early literati ci , written to various entertaining melodies and performed by trained musicians, professional courtesans, and singing girls, were usually situated in urban settings, entertainment quarters, inner...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
... that role happened to represent. In its capacity to give a nuanced voice to previously undervoiced characters such as maids, courtesans, widows, and young women in distress, zaju theater redrew the boundaries of public discourse. 30 In a related vein, Regina S. Llamas's work on nanxi 南戲 (early...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2015
..., wordplay, and shared visual codes and symbols. At the center is Liu Yin 柳隱 (1618–1664), a courtesan turned gentry lady whose original name was Yang Ai; she later adopted the surname Liu (Willow) to refashion herself as a recluse (as signified by her personal name, Yin). She also called herself Liu Rushi 柳如...
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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
... known as zaju 雜劇 (song-drama) has absorbed the lion's share of modern scholarly attention to qu culture, arguably it is the sanqu songs that can be shown to have brought together successive generations of court officials, military and civil administrators, clerks, commoners, and courtesans within...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 169–204.
Published: 01 April 2019
... trend. 6 As Liu Qiulan points out, Yan's work was a product of combining the longer lienü tradition with the late Ming literati's connoisseurship of beautiful women that started with the courtesans' quarters. 7 While generally borrowing from earlier traditions, Yan Xiyuan adopted a nuanced...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 420–438.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to, see Bossler, Courtesans , 190–96 . 4. Zhu, Zhu Xi ji , 2:725–72 . 5. Huang, Shan'gu shi jizhu , 11.386–88 . 6. Huihong, Lengzhai yehua , 8.70–71 . 7. Hu, Tiaoxi yuyin conghua: qianji , 47.323 , quoting Hong Jufu shihua 洪駒父詩話 (Hong Jufu's Talks on Poetry). 8...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 232–234.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan: Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals (2016). Her most recent publications include Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge: Two Memoirs about Courtesans (2020), Keywords in Chinese Culture (2020), and The Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan Reader: Key Topics in China's Oldest...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 April 2021
... hand, his literary talent was recognized by political authorities, and he was accepted into the elite circle of literati, yet on the other hand, he was still an outsider whose works and activities lay outside the elite value system. In a sense, Jia was like those famous courtesans recorded in Qinglou...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 57–84.
Published: 01 April 2016
... in a traditional woman's role once married, abandoning unconventional masculine characteristics. We see this in fiction such as Shi Xiangyun 史湘雲 in Honglou meng and the Thirteenth Sister in Ernü yingxiong zhuan . On the other hand, in late Ming and early Qing, courtesans were often considered androgynous...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 12–30.
Published: 01 April 2021
... the voice of abandoned courtesans, but it would appear they felt equally at ease in impersonating male characters. Such an impersonation may be easy to detect when the status of the impersonated character is so different from that of the author, as in the case of Sui Jingchen and an old peasant. However, we...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 105–130.
Published: 01 April 2022
... 1829) and Wu Zao 吳藻 (ca. 1799–1862), 8 the very idea of women having a literary culture in the late imperial period was far from apparent. In 1988, Paul W. Kroll's condescending book review of Jeanne Larsen's translation of Tang courtesan Xue Tao's 薛濤 (768–831) poetry, Brocade River Poems...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 383–411.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of merchant functions within the play as a narratively expedient way station on his path from loyalist fisherman to God of Wealth. In Zhan huakui 占花魁 (Winning the Prize Courtesan), fellow Suzhou playwright Li Yu 李玉 (ca. 1610–after 1667) departs from the source material to make the oil peddler Qin Zhong 秦鐘...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 203–235.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and playwrights, and the occasional courtesan among others. 5 However, we ignore anonymous songs ( wuming 無名) at our peril. Such nameless creations could emanate from the ranks of court functionaries tasked to provide occasional songs or ritual hymns, 6 as well as from the popular realm of everyday life...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 307–340.
Published: 01 November 2021
.... In addition the narrator employs two famous pairs of lovers from the dramatic tradition to describe Yingying's predicament: will Zhang Sheng turn out to be like the devoted scholar Shuang Jian 雙漸, who is loyal to the courtesan Su Xiaoqing 蘇小卿, or like the faithless scholar Wang Kui 王魁, who abandons...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 360–382.
Published: 01 November 2017
... ( The Complete Prose of the Song Dynasty ). Shanghai : Shanghai cishu chubanshe , 2006 . Bossler, Beverly . Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2013 . Bossler, Beverly . Powerful Relations: Kinship, Status, and the State...
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