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Manuscript Culture in Late Western Han, and the Implications for Authors and Authority
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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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Tao Yuanming: A Symbol of Chinese Culture
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 216–240.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Xingpei Yuan Abstract A writer of enormous impact on Chinese literary history, Tao Yuanming 陶淵明 (ca. 365–427) became a cultural symbol through his deep and pervasive influence on generations of scholar-officials. What emerged was the image of an individual pure and high-minded, freethinking...
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Defining the “Finest”: A Northern Song View of Tang Dynasty Literary Culture in the Wen cui
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 306–335.
Published: 01 November 2017
... his selections to defend the necessity of wenzhang 文章 (literary composition) in governance and literati culture more broadly defined. Although this view of literature's importance was challenged by later Daoxue adherents, the Wen cui gives us an important window on the more catholic and diverse...
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What Remains of Mountains and Waters: Fragments, Mutilation, and Creation in Early Qing Literature and Culture
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 137–168.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Yingzhi Zhao Abstract This article examines the discourse and representation of canshan shengshui (devastated landscape) in early Qing literature and culture through a focused interpretation of the works of Ming loyalists Zhang Dai (1597–1684) and Wang Fuzhi (1619–92). Connecting aesthetics...
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Identities and Literary Culture in Qing China: Manchu Emperors as Chinese Poets, Readers, and Publishers
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 359–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of Manchu culture: the Manchu language and hunting skills? This articles argues that, despite deliberate staging through various fashions of his image as the ruler of a multiethnic empire, Qianlong failed in sending his message to his diverse subjects because, truly enthralled by Chinese poetry, he could...
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The Rhyme Book Culture of Pre-Tang China
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 419–443.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Meow Hui Goh Abstract Due to the Tang's and later imperial courts' enforcement, yunshu 韻書 (rhyme books) such as Qieyun 切韻 (Spelling Rhymes), Yunlue 韻略 (Concise Rhymes), and Hongwu zhengyun 洪武正韻 (Standard Rhymes of the Hongwu Reign Period) came to exert extensive linguistic and cultural influence...
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Truth Becomes Fiction When Fiction Is True: The Story of the Stone and the Visual Culture of the Manchu Court
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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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How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity through the Tang
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 481–485.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Christopher M. B. Nugent Zong-qi Cai , ed. How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity through the Tang . New York : Columbia University Press , 2018 . xxvi , 297 pp. ISBN 9780231185370 (paperback). Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 How...
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Marginalia Transcription and Scholarly Culture in the Qing Dynasty
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 399–421.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Wei Yinzong Abstract In the Qing, transcription of marginalia became common scholarly practice, involving a number of different people who created a new reading culture. This article follows the marginalia trail of scholar and calligrapher He Zhuo 何焯 through various transcribers and others involved...
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Mouvance in Medieval Chinese Textual Culture: Lunyu 論語 in a Dunhuang Florilegium
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 170–194.
Published: 01 April 2022
... (but in multiple copies there). I argue that by shifting our gaze away from the classics as they functioned in the context of official educational culture and the exam system in the Tang, we not only get a different perspective on the classics; we may, to a meaningful extent, get different classics. My...
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Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 499–505.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Yue Zhang [email protected] 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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Zaisheng yuan and the Writing of Women's Culture
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 169–194.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Siao-chen's pathbreaking work on tanci as a highly intertextual genre focuses on the place of tanci in the formation of an identifiable women's culture as seen in the development of women's reading communities and women's authorial self-fashioning in the autobiographical comments many tanci...
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Cultural Identity and Cultural Difference in Zuozhuan
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 7–33.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Wai-yee Li Abstract There is no fixed categorical term for barbarians in Chinese. Specific groups are identified as “aliens” or “cultural others” through words like Man 蠻, Yi 夷, Rong 戎, and Di 狄, but all four terms can be specific or categorical. It is often said that the us-versus-them formula...
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The Ancient Qin 琴, Musical Instrument of Cultured Chinese Gentlemen
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Tian Qing (田青); 田青 Abstract What does music convey to people living within a culture? How is it understood? How should we approach the study of music when we want to attain a synthetic and comprehensive view of musical activities in human culture? This article explores the cultural interface...
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Bannerman Tales (Zidishu): Manchu Storytelling and Cultural Hybridity in the Qing Dynasty
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 504–508.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Mary Scott Elena Suet-ying Chiu . Bannerman Tales (Zidishu): Manchu Storytelling and Cultural Hybridity in the Qing Dynasty . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2018 . 366 pp. ISBN 9780674975194 (hardcover). Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Elena...
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Knowledge, Emotion, and Imagination: Negotiating Cultural Boundaries in The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean
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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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Cultural Self-Definition of Southwest Chieftains during the Ming-Qing Transition
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 167–191.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Siao-chen Hu Abstract This article explores how chieftains on the southwest periphery during the Ming-Qing transition conducted long-term plans to formulate cultural and literary heritages that had an affinity with Han Chinese mainstream culture but also retained indigenous qualities. The author...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Wai-yee Li Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Who are “cultural others”? While the question often has broad ethnic reverberations, the articles in this special...
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Cultural Memory and the Epic in Early Chinese Literature: The Case of Qu Yuan 屈原 and the Lisao 離騷
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 131–169.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Martin Kern Abstract The present essay combines the theory of Cultural Memory with ideas about textual repertoires, composite text, and distributed authorship that in recent years have been advanced in studies of early and medieval Chinese literature. In its first part, the essay introduces...
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The Boundary of Chinese Music: A Cultural and Aesthetic Comparison between Pipa and Guqin
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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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