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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
... Chambers,” in this issue. 84. Ibid., 70. yuefanw2@illinois.edu 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...
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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. 12. E.g., Baimen xinliu ji 白門新柳記...
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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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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 (2019) 6 (2): 461–482.
Published: 01 November 2019
... scholar-official community. We believe these newly unearthed epitaphs provide relatively solid entry to study the scholar-officials' perception and reconstruction of Tao as cultural symbol under a wider social scope. Third, these epitaphs cover a long historical period—from 602 to 941, or the entire...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Zizhang to construct his persona. In The Register , the only information about Shi is the two plays attributed to him: Rains outside the Bamboo Window and Listening to Zither at the Bamboo Dock . In traditional Chinese culture, bamboo symbolizes moral uprightness, and zither music symbolizes ideal...
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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 (2015) 2 (2): 258–285.
Published: 01 November 2015
... . “ Sound-Size Symbolism .” In Phonology. Vol. 2 of Universals of Human Language , edited by Greenberg Joseph , 525 – 68 . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 1978 . Verhagen, Arie . “ Language, Culture, Nature: Exploring New Perspectives .” In Linguagem, Culturae e Cognição: Estudos...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 487–491.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the symbolic importance of women's subservient status in the parallel cosmological and social realms. Empresses Ma 馬 (39–79) and Deng 鄧 (81–121) of the Eastern Han both held long-term control of the throne but “retained the pretense of rule by proxy” (29) and were depicted as upholding the conventional...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 476–480.
Published: 01 November 2020
... 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 investigation on this period is sparse. Much of the current art historical studies on the Song have focused...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 19–55.
Published: 01 April 2017
... historiographic and epistemological 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...
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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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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 April 2022
... reason barred from participation in higher culture,” and Carine Defoort and Ge Zhaoguang 葛兆光 state that Derrida's delimiting of the possibility of Chinese philosophy must remind “Chinese people of the denigrating statements made by . . . many Westerners . . . on the nonexistence or nonvalue of ancient...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 425–457.
Published: 01 November 2022
... depicted as wind blowing through the pine trees, since not only is there a strong resemblance in the aural and visual images (either physically present or mentally constructed) between a guqin and a pine tree, but they both also symbolize absolute integrity and lofty ambition in the traditional culture...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 335–356.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Haosheng Yang Abstract This article examines modern Chinese writer Nie Gannu's 聶紺弩 (1903–86) poetic exploration of the meaning of life and poetry in times of both personal crisis and sociopolitical crises in China from the 1950s through the mid-1970s. Before and during the Cultural Revolution, Nie...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 250–275.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of objects playing an important role in the construction of a verse. Sometimes they are mere units of metaphoric language: a fan can be used to symbolize a woman; bamboo, a noble literatus. Sometimes they are just necessary elements to define the setting and mark the mood of a verse: wind, water, or cicadas...
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