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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 403–437.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that governs the novel. He is a human-like monkey, who is also an aspiring immortal, who was once a miscreant demon, who moreover never completely sheds his demon-like behavior. Journey to the West pays particular attention to the taxonomy of beings, which therefore needs a more detailed examination than has...
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 5. Anonymous, formerly attributed to Li Tang 李唐 (c. 1050s–after 1130), Expelling Demons from the House , sixteenth century. Hanging scroll (mounted on panel), ink on silk, 190.8 × 104.1 cm. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: Gift More
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 215–231.
Published: 01 April 2020
... and the Qing government sought to arouse fear as well as hatred among the masses, thereby mobilizing them to embrace violence. 3 Taiping propaganda strategically used the term yao 妖 (evil spirit, demon, the Devil) to dehumanize and demonize the Manchus and their supporters. 4 In their historical...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 87–114.
Published: 01 April 2020
... they have taken up with. In stories about educated men who encounter such women, the man typically repudiates the woman once he understands the truth about what she is. But Wang Fu and Cui San are a different sort of man, whose endearment and dedication even after their lovers are revealed to be demonic...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the dominant culture. From the iniquities of merchants in Hong Mai's stories (Egan) to the mutual demonization of the Taiping rebels and the Qing government (Jin), we see a whole array of negative judgments. The bestial metaphor is not uncommon. In a remark dated to 661 BCE, the Qi 齊 minister Guan Zhong 管仲 (d...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the Fragrance Smelling Sect (Wenxiang jiao 聞香教), with himself as master (Wenxiang jiaozhu 聞香教主). Wang is also said to have “started the White Lotus Sect and founded the Great Vehicle Teachings” 起白蓮教,為大乘教, 40 hence his association with the White Lotus Sect. In the novel, Wang is turned into a demonic person...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 236–238.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., representations of ghosts and monsters, and images of demons and deities. JENN MARIE NUNES is the author of two books of poetry: Those People (2020), winner of the National Poetry Review Press Book Prize, and AND/OR (2015), winner of the Switchback Books Queer Voices Award. She holds an MFA from Louisiana...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 483–486.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of the other family members are fatally poisoned by the Daoist's witchcraft. Here and in the tale “Using Dream Sorcery to Rob a Family” (“Sorcery,” 196–99), religious adepts present a far greater danger to ordinary folk than do the women so often demonized as succubi in Ming fiction. The Book of Swindles...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 336–378.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., “Hero as the Spiritual Legacy of his Culture,” 321–25 . 90. For example, Sturman has persuasively posited that the demons symbolize the famous Tang imperial consort Yang Guifei 楊貴妃 (d. 756) and her clan as an analogy for censurable individuals with traits that are traditionally associated...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 148–178.
Published: 01 April 2018
...) . . . ...... A day of leisure, no debt collectors; 一日清閒無債鬼 6 Ten years' livelihood, in the hands of the demon of poetry. 十年生計在詩魔 . . . ...... [ Zenshū no. 178] To be sure, as a professional novelist, Sōseki does not depend on poetry for a living. The word shimo (demon of poetry) in line 6...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 444–480.
Published: 01 November 2015
... The halls are filled with snakes and beetles, 壇羅虺蜮, 40 By stairs contend deer and flying squirrels. 階鬥麏鼯。 13=NVOO Wood sprites and mountain demons, 木魅山鬼, 42 Field rats, wall foxes, 野鼠城狐。 22=NN( )NN Howling in the wind, shrieking in the rain, 風嗥雨嘯, 44 Appear at night, take...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 148–171.
Published: 01 April 2024
... into words: While I was sick in Ziyang, I listened to the rain drip and drop in sorrow, and I watched candle flames flicker in bleakness. Time and again, I dreamed of home, thousands of miles away. The ghosts of autumn were about to whisper, and the demons of disease had just arrived...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2021
... that the piece “transmits to later generations the ding 鼎 (bronze tripod) of the Emperor Yu 禹 [such that] before it there is no place for demons and monsters of later ages to hide their [true] forms” 《高祖還鄉》是留給後人的禹鼎,使後世的魑魅在它前面無所逃其形 ( “Sui Jingchen lun,” 17 ). The song suite is included in Yang Chaoying's 楊朝英...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 129–159.
Published: 01 April 2017
... and plum blossom fair” 黃沙枯髑髏,本是桃李面. 82 Chapter 27 of Journey to the West , in which the Monkey King battles the demon Lady White Bones, is a popular episode that has been reinterpreted across media and genres: while Tripitaka and Pigsy are confused by the demon's appearance—she transforms herself...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 96–136.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Figure 5. Anonymous, formerly attributed to Li Tang 李唐 (c. 1050s–after 1130), Expelling Demons from the House , sixteenth century. Hanging scroll (mounted on panel), ink on silk, 190.8 × 104.1 cm. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: Gift...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 7–33.
Published: 01 April 2020
... out into the wilds along the four borders to confront the beasts and demons” 投諸四裔,以禦螭魅 ( ZT Wen 18.7c, 1:574–75, 609 BCE). 41 Ke stops short of equating “the clans of the four evil ones” or “the beasts and demons” with barbarians. That association is made in Shiji (1.28): 42 And so Shun...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 487–513.
Published: 01 November 2023
...怪,这种怪物长着人的身子、黑色脑袋、竖着长的眼睛。它是山泽中的恶鬼,古时驱邪的大傩(音挪)中,专门有雄伯来吞食它。 My literal translation: Mei ( ) is 魅, pronounced mei . Mei are ghostly demons and monsters. This kind of strange creature has a human body, a black head, and long vertical eyes. It is a malevolent spirit of mountains and marshes...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 258–288.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., and Nietzsche. Above all, he called attention to the poet's “Satanic power” to transgress and demolish the status quo, thus giving his poetic vision a negative, even demonic, thrust. Lu Xun likened such a demonic power to that of Mara, the fiendish deity of the Sanskrit tradition, the devil. For a tradition...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 115–148.
Published: 01 April 2020
... (A Brief History of Chinese Fiction) categorizes this work among the “novels of gods and demons” ( shenmo xiaoshuo 神魔小說) and considers it an inferior imitation of both Xiyou ji 西遊記 (The Journey to the West) and Fengshen yanyi 封神演義 (The Investiture of the Gods), 1 the multifaceted nature of Xiyang...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 383–419.
Published: 01 November 2017
... discussion of demons and deluded mental states associated with the five skandhas (beginning midway through the ninth fascicle [ T. 19, no. 945, p. 147, b4] and running through the tenth fascicle). The Buddha teaches Ananda the dissolution of the five skandhas through profound samādhi that reveal ever more...