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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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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 April 2016
... of the traditional Chinese musical instrument, the guqin . It brings to light the interconnections of ideas and images of this instrument with the expressive resources of Chinese culture, and it studies the symbolism of this music in terms of its orientations toward cosmological views of life, human comportment...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 30–56.
Published: 01 April 2023
... garden literature. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Shang Jinglan Allegory Garden garden literature memory culture symbol Chinese garden literature has a long history—almost as long as that of the classical gardens that appeared in the pre...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 137–168.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., explain the frequent use of this spatial phrase in the writings of Ming loyalists to symbolize loss, the fallen dynasty, and its exiled loyal subjects. Just as canshan shengshui are detached from their original locality, Ming loyalists are torn from their own cultural environment and political system...
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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): 448–470.
Published: 01 November 2016
... reimagining these Song-era symbols and the legacy of the Southern Song legitimized loyalist characteristics and dispersed identities within a community of traditionalist scholars. These poems' literary techniques and historical imagination reendow Guangdong and Kowloon with cultural density; historical traces...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 397–424.
Published: 01 November 2022
...: the pleasure quarter and the inner chamber. Yang Wan's identity transformation and her strategic exploration of the gendered spaces along with their diverse symbolic codes contribute to our knowledge of the social, textual, and cultural mobility of late imperial China. [email protected]...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 461–482.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of Guo Ziyi's Nephew Guo Ti in Tang Dynasty and the Relationship between the Two Guos ). Kaogu yu wenwu 考古與文物 ( Archaeology and Cultural Relics ) 4 ( 2014 ): 81 – 88 . Yuan Xingpei 袁行霈 and Alan Berkowitz . “ Tao Yuanming: A Symbol of Chinese Culture .” Journal of Chinese Literature...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 April 2024
... environmental humanities: “Humanist thinkers understand that environmental problems are not simply technological or policy issues. Rather, they are implicated in a world where cultural symbols, political systems, and religious values still rule the way people produce, consume, and govern their lives. Hence...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 199–231.
Published: 01 April 2024
... no less at maintaining the steady states of Chinese culture (epitomized by traditional opera) when taking on the treacherous milieu called modernization (in the form of cinema). The whole problematic of opera films—in which one is forced to choose filtering out formulaic operatic gestures or realistic...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2015
... musing to yet another level. In this special issue on the literature and visual culture of early modern China, Shang Wei's paper comes last, addressing Sitou ji 石頭記 (The Story of the Stone), a landmark novel authored by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹 (ca. 1715–ca. 1763). Unlike nearly all previous novels...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 258–288.
Published: 01 November 2016
... literary and cultural studies, with Western theory taking precedence over Chinese subjects (and subjectivities). But one cannot help noting that some of the most critical voices are themselves empowered by, or even sustaining, the Western canon they set out to subvert. Overcoming such a dilemma does...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 April 2021
... role types are established with stereotypical gestures, costumes, props, settings and so on, Jia's songs made abundant use of literary tropes, cultural symbols, historical or fictive archetypal figures, and tableaux vivants rich in material details. Blending these ingredients with a pinch of factual...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 258–285.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Jonathan Smith Abstract The present study begins with an introduction to “sound symbolism” from a cognitive linguistic perspective. Such frameworks provide that while the relationship between sound and meaning within the lexicon is in general arbitrary, languages may also feature specific...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 487–491.
Published: 01 November 2019
...–10), which celebrate a winter snowfall as auspicious, as somehow parallel to Wu Zetian's celebration of the unseasonable yin snowfall. Despite the close attention to constructions of gender and the deployment of yin-yang symbolism in Transgressive Typologies , the discussion of both is weakened...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 476–480.
Published: 01 November 2020
... scrutiny was “a new era in art” (187) because it was during this period that landscape painting was transformed into its lofty status in the subsequent dynasties as a symbol of literati culture. Though art historical studies exist on individual artists and paintings, sustained and comprehensive...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 172–198.
Published: 01 April 2024
... for the discussion of the future of writing, it was only one facet of cultural production during this period. Examining the representation of styluses across media allows us to understand pens and brushes as resonant cinematic symbols that articulated the changing relationship between art and politics throughout...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 232–233.
Published: 01 April 2024
... current book project deals with the symbolical and legal use of tools, measures, and numbers in shaping Chinese political culture. CHLOE ESTEP is assistant professor of modern Chinese and Sinophone literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. Her current book project, provisionally titled “Print...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 19–55.
Published: 01 April 2017
... problem. As both a native of Kaifeng and a literatus with close family connections to the Song imperial clan, Xiang Ziyin became a highly symbolic figure after 1127. His personal history evoked a high cultural moment of the recent past, the court of Emperor Huizong (1082–1135), and the conflicting...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and its persistent relationship to the intensity of light. Focusing on the reduplicative words of two identical syllables ( dieyinci 疊音詞) so common in the Shijing — zang-zang 牂牂, jiu-jiu 糾糾, and the like—Smith suggests the existence of a comparable “sound symbolic” phenomenon in the Old Chinese...
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