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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 12–30.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in the detailed description of daily life, including its less pleasant aspects. He next noted how sanqu , through impersonation, transformed the tradition of yongwu poetry by allowing the objects of description to speak in their own voice. Seeing the true originality of the genre in the combination of these two...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 175–202.
Published: 01 April 2016
... of Chinese daily life, and appreciation of Chinese literature. The author concludes by noting the growing interest in both Japan and the English-speaking world of scholars and translators, in earlier editions of Yuan drama. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Zheng Qian Xu Shuofang...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 367–396.
Published: 01 November 2022
... as a complex issue. The professional relations suggest a more plebian, but not simple, outlook on the fundamental Confucian value of trustworthiness. sschneewind@ucsd.edu Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Ming daily life humor occupational sociology xin 信 A man...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 397–424.
Published: 01 November 2022
... activities and multiple aspects of her boudoir life. Yang Wan's daily routine includes literary composition and womanly work. The significance of literary composition in Yang Wan's life is conspicuous since the large number of her poems compiled into the four poetry collections have been handed down to our...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 268–286.
Published: 01 November 2020
...。知君不再見，欲去且少留. 22 In this way, we see someone accepting exile into his own daily life, utilizing diaspora as a method of reconstructing himself and his spiritual world. Su Shi embraced what he could not change “asking about your life achievement” 問汝平生功業, and he answered himself instantly...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 335–356.
Published: 01 November 2016
... it. When both the political authorities and his familiar social circle plagued his daily life with overt hostility, he managed to reclaim the dignity of a persecuted intellectual by writing classical-style poems. The extreme tension caused by tragic circumstances even triggered a display of his indomitable...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 313–338.
Published: 01 November 2020
... that began with the Tang dynasty. This cultural development provided contrast and background not only for the rise of Yang Wanli but also for the Rivers and Lakes poets of the next century. 52. For a general account of life in Kaifeng and Hangzhou, see Gernet, Daily Life ; Levine, “Walls and Gates...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 481–514.
Published: 01 November 2015
...”: “one who sustains a kingdom or a family, upon meeting with evil, addresses it just as the farmer applies himself to the removal of weeds” 為國家者，見惡，如農夫之務去草焉. 37 Du Fu is also talented at absorbing material for bi-xing 比興 (evocation) from all corners of daily life, giving expression to his...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 April 2018
... at restaurants, parties and scenes of daily life at brothels, and outings in Yangzhou, all along weaving in the stories of the five couples and their interactions with clerks, runners, gangsters, servants, and others who circulate around the brothel. The five men become sworn brothers, consciously basing...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 26–56.
Published: 01 April 2016
... better to study under the guidance of Tibetan and Mongolian clergy, whose knowledge is evidently more accurate, less corrupted by lay values, and better integrated into daily life than in China proper. 34 And in his astonishing conclusion, he presents the essay to his son, apparently in the hope...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 113–138.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., amateur and professional writers, literati, and playwrights. In other words, sanqu songs no longer gained their new artistic vitality merely from within a circumscribed literary community but penetrated communal life more broadly. Through the repurposing of a particular literary genre, the form...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 411–469.
Published: 01 November 2020
...” 杜甫詠雨詩芻議 (A Tentative Discussion of Du Fu's Poems on Rain) notices diverse innovative achievements in Du Fu's poems on rain. Du Fu's poetry represents many scenes and details of daily life, which has attracted much attention as the research of daily life becomes strengthened in the twenty-first...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 195–224.
Published: 01 April 2022
... de Certeau underscores the tension between the individual's agency in their spatial practice and the structural constraints they have to negotiate. The fixed grid of city streets, for example, is like the grammar of language, which determines the limits of one's spatial movements in daily life...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 322–359.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to Buddhism only through the “lay Buddhism of capital poetry.” 29 Rather, their daily life as religious professionals seeped its way into their poems. Nonmonastic poets were expected to represent their connections to Buddhists in their works, too. In my database, 1,457 of the 10,869 exchanges...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 148–178.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of his life. Contextualized in both the turbulence of Meiji Japan (1868–1912) and the Chinese poetic and philosophical traditions, this piece offers a comprehensive overview of the thematic and formal features of Sōseki's 1916 kanshi . Perpetually torn between the pursuit of secular success...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 341–370.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of discussion within the narrative. If through its genetic relation to the formatting of daily-life encyclopedias ( riyong leishu 日用類書), the Cihua “creates a multilayered, variegated, nonlinear narrative in its account of the everyday,” cultivating a mode of reading at ease with “inserted genres and borrowed...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 57–84.
Published: 01 April 2016
... , as well as the poetry collection Beichuang yin'gao 北窗吟稿 (Draft Chantings from the North Window), no longer extant. Little is known about Cheng Huiying's personal life. According to Shen Shanbao 沈善寶 (1808–1862), the earliest biographer, Cheng Huiying supported herself by teaching in a private school...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 492–503.
Published: 01 November 2019
... a significant historical shift in which “the city emerged into writing, not as an achievement of human artifice, but as an extension of nature” (181). He explains that “by the early Song dynasty, writers began to perceive natural, daily rhythms in the life of cities. If the literary men of the Tang had looked...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 289–311.
Published: 01 November 2016
... a studious life of daily peace and asceticism; Buddhism had an especially strong influence on him. “Master Yellow-Heart” 黃心大師 (Huangxin dashi), a fictional piece set against a Buddhist backdrop, was written during this period. (The main character in the work, Master Yellow-Heart, was originally named Amber...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 216–240.
Published: 01 November 2014
... declared himself ill and returned home to a life in reclusion, where he often sang and recited “Leaving for Home!” to express what he too felt. In his own poetry, he compared himself to Tao. 45 Tao's works have attracted attention from scholars in the West as well. Charles Budd, Arthur Waley, Amy...
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