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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 115–148.
Published: 01 April 2020
... have confirmed its historical value, evaluated its literary achievement as fantastic literature, or criticized its plagiarism, this article situates the novel within the context of the late-Ming publishing boom and expanding world knowledge and examines how its author negotiates cultural boundaries...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 425–457.
Published: 01 November 2022
... is Chinese music?, is often obscured. In a sense, we have to define the boundary of Chinese music to determine what new elements should be integrated and what traditional features should be preserved. Chinese music is a highly diverse and complex system, yet traditional Chinese culture emphasizes...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 167–191.
Published: 01 April 2020
...) the possibility of empathy for an outsider who inevitably casts an imperial gaze upon his cultural other. I demonstrate that, during the Ming-Qing transition, the boundaries between Han and non-Han peoples on the southwest periphery became more negotiable with the enterprising effort of educated chieftains...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 215–231.
Published: 01 April 2020
... explores the multiple political, moral, and cultural implications embedded in the idea of otherness. Unpacking the propaganda discourse of both the Taiping rebels and the Qing government, the author investigates the making of the political enemy by opposing regimes. In particular, the construction...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 April 2020
....” The negotiation of social and political boundaries also figures in the male protagonist's bigamous union with a boatman's daughter and the daughter of a Mongol official in “Exit, Pursued by a Bear” by Ariel Fox. The Mongol wife in “Exit” taps into self-consciously articulated questions of cultural identity...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): iii–vi.
Published: 01 November 2014
... journals should enable us to deliver JCLC to a broader audience. Through all the ways described above, we hope to usher in a new kind of Chinese literary scholarship that will transcend traditional national and cultural boundaries. In-depth collaboration between Chinese and Western scholars is only...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 7–33.
Published: 01 April 2020
... coexistence. As the only barbarian given a voice on the question of cultural boundaries in Zuozhuan , Juzhi deftly uses historical retrospection to manipulate notions of shared roots and radical difference to achieve maximum political advantage. Juzhi implicitly realigns cultural difference and moral...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 8–46.
Published: 01 April 2022
... metaphor in which Sinology is likened to a map bounded on all sides by natural boundaries, boundaries set by the presumably shared cultural and historical knowledge of those who built its textual tradition. The “disciplines” of our own time and place, believes Mote, can only be superimposed on that map...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2021
... attributes while presenting them as epigones of the splendor of imperial rule. In short, his sanqu songs straddled the boundaries between historiography and urban culture in an effort to blend urbane and courtly ideals in the figure of a new type of literatus: the sexually voracious, preternaturally...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 412–431.
Published: 01 November 2019
... important cultural institutions, this article considers the protagonist Tang Ao's 唐敖 voyage to bizarre, fantastical islands, narrated in the early chapters of the novel, as an account of his conversion from examination scholarship to fiction creation. From these islands, his symbolic realm of fictionality...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 471–474.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., and the Modern Chinese Revolution.” HAOSHENG YANG is associate professor of Chinese language and literature at Miami University of Ohio. A specialist of late Qing, modern, and contemporary Chinese literature and culture, she is the author of A Modernity Set to a Premodern Tune: Classical-Style Poetry...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
... to unsettle cultural stereotypes that have coalesced around traditional Chinese musical theater in Western contexts on the one hand and to broaden comparative discussions of drama and theatricality on the other. Finally, I will sketch out some possible future avenues of inquiry that could contribute...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 499–505.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Yue Zhang bnuzhangyue@gmail.com Xiaoshan Yang . Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2021 . 366 pp. ISBN 99780674262904 (hardcover). Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 April 2020
... renxiong to xiong or xiongxiong , and the play ends with the erection of a Divine Bear Shrine 神熊祠. While the fluidity of the boundary between man and monkey is one that still preoccupies modern philosophical and scientific inquiry, Dushu sheng reflects the expansiveness of the premodern imagination...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 509–512.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to be understood and celebrated across disciplinary and area-studies boundaries. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Li Xiaorong's newest book, The Poetics and Politics of Sensuality in China , in many ways complements and enriches the literary and gender dimensions engaged in her equally...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 89–112.
Published: 01 April 2021
... was a traditional cultural elite expressing and defining himself through poetic practice, but he was simultaneously a brand-name author of popular songs who enjoyed nationwide fame and a broad network of personal relationships across societal boundaries. Zhang understood and utilized different poetic functions...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 312–334.
Published: 01 November 2016
...-awareness and subsequent renegotiations of the boundaries of the self and its representation. Fundamental conceptual issues came into play in this culturally distinctive combination of visuality and textuality, which had a significant and lasting influence on ideas of the modern self in the twentieth...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., excellent reasons to reject the use of the term as a tool of literary or cultural analysis. Unless, that is, we engage in the time-honored practice of pouring new wine into an old bottle. For all their potential to evoke a range of unwanted implications, subjectivity and subject still emerge as uniquely...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 91–128.
Published: 01 April 2017
... how these practices contributed to our understanding of pre-Tang poetic tradition and the history of literature remains little studied. Recent scholarship on the reception history of pre-Tang tradition has paid attention to the fluidity of its literary texts in the manuscript culture era, suggesting...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 April 2019
...: to rediscover the role of emotion in traditional Chinese painting, and to assess the impact of nontextual visuality—graphic prints, photography, physical objects, or locales—on the emotive import of premodern and modern literary and cultural productions. To situate our inquiry in its proper context, we...
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