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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 175–202.
Published: 01 April 2016
... the first to reprint Yuan zaju as the representative literary genre of that era. Long the major source for Western translations of early Chinese drama, the Yuanqu xuan has been selectively drawn on, according to the different aims of its translators: the plays have been used for language study, observation...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Patricia Sieber Abstract The essay provides a brief review of how certain approaches to theatricality evolved in response to particular theatrical archives or repertoires in non-Chinese contexts. It then considers a number of recent studies of Chinese drama and theater in light of the following...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 307–340.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Wang Shih-Pe; Erxin Wang Abstract Through detailed analysis of several case studies, this essay investigates a special form of sanqu 散曲 song, namely, songs that embed references to dramas ( quzhong daixi 曲中帶戲). A long song suite ( changtao 長套) by Yuan author Sun Jichang 孫季昌 (fl. 14th century...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 113–138.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., and they have been widely appreciated as a “literary-cultural phenomenon” unrelated to music per se. Standard histories of Chinese literature typically interpret the interaction between Song dynasty ci song lyrics and Yuan dynasty sanqu songs and song-drama as a natural evolution of literary forms. To be sure...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Ariel Fox Abstract This article explores the late imperial imagination of the nonhuman other by way of a curious creature that appears in the southern drama Dushu sheng . Midway through the play, set in the early years of the Yuan dynasty, the young literatus protagonist is abandoned on a remote...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and engage issues often associated with early modern fiction and drama, including authenticity, imposture, and interpolations of author, character, player, reader, and audience. In Sui's song suite particular attention is lavished on descriptions of some of the objects used in the procession...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 248–278.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of Wuzu Shijie's dharma mind and the successor to the orthodox Yunmen lineage. This article also shows that when the story of Su Shi's past life was introduced into dramas and novels in vernacular society and incorporated with the Honglian stories, Wuzu Shijie was misrepresented as Chan master Wujie...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 239–271.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., photographs, and paintings—replete with sensuous and affective images of the past become the loci of memory in which these historical figures lived. Lamentation and reminiscence are also conducted through performance of historical dramas whose gestures of mourning and remembrance allowed Yuan to cultivate...
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In Praise of This Prosperous and Harmonious Empire: Sanqu , Ming Anthologies, and the Imperial Court
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 139–162.
Published: 01 April 2021
... uncovering the status and place of such songs in the court milieu and beyond. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 sanqu songs anthology court literature emperor drama Any reader who picks up the Ming dynasty qu anthology Yongxi yuefu 雍熙樂府 (Songs of Harmonious Peace...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 267–293.
Published: 01 April 2023
... celebrate political loyalism, they collectively eschew the political themes regarded as sensitive topics by the Qing court. At the same time, the dramas demonstrate an unequivocal critique of foiled masculinity. Integrating national trauma and ethnic tensions, the dramas represent the concubine character...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 273–275.
Published: 01 April 2022
... at the University of San Francisco. His research has focused on intersections of institutional change and literary expression in late premodern China and Japan. Recent publications include a translation (with Ying Wang) of a 1651 chuanqi drama Lianxiangban 憐香伴 (The Fragrant Companions) and studies of poetry...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 236–238.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 WENBO CHANG received her PhD in East Asian languages and civilizations with a concentration in Chinese literature from Arizona State University in May 2019. Her primary area of research is premodern Chinese drama both as staged performance...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 294–296.
Published: 01 April 2023
... drama, such as Comprehensive Narratives of Chuanqi Dramas during the Ming and Qing 明清傳奇綜録 (1997) and An Anthology and Study of Prefaces and Postscripts in Ming Qing Drama 明清戲曲序跋纂箋 (2021). His representative monographs include A History of Chuanqi Dramas in the Ming and Qing 明清傳奇史 (1999, 2012...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 486–490.
Published: 01 November 2020
... to a particular kind of text. She discusses the first section as a response to earlier erotic fiction and the second as a response to romantic drama. The third—and this is perhaps the most fascinating part of Wu's book—runs up against the perennial question of the how to read the last forty chapters of Hong lou...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 476–482.
Published: 01 November 2022
...-p'a chi (1980). Unlike zaju 雜劇, or Yuan drama, and chuanqi 傳奇, or Ming drama, which have had a good number of English translations of their representative works and studies of their famous playwrights, such as Guan Hanqing 關漢卿 (ca. 1241–1320), Wang Shifu 王實甫 (ca. 1250–1337), Tang Xianzu 湯顯祖 (1550...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the An Lushan Rebellion (755–763). In contrast to the emphasis on Zhang's loyalty and sacrifice, a group of drama scripts and performances starting from the early Ming dynasty rescued the concubine character from oblivion and imbued her with multivalent types of agency—as a concubine, a knight-errant, a loyal...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 341–370.
Published: 01 November 2021
... novelists. In doing so, however, they efface the Cihua 's unruly celebration of contingency, the novel's seductive insinuation that it might be written otherwise. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Jin Ping Mei riddles character manipulation games Zhang Zhupo Yuan drama...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2021
... for this issue were incubated. In April 2019 we honored Steve's many accomplishments during a career spanning half a century with another a conference held at ASU: “The Aesthetics of Embodiment: Drama, Ritual, and Food in Traditional Sinitic Culture.” In what seems the now lost and longed for world of in-person...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 383–411.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to the bottom. This particular imagination of merchant and scholar as distinct social and moral categories is nowhere more evident than in the long-form southern dramas ( chuanqi 傳奇) that were crowding the studies and the stages of late imperial Jiangnan. Though the merchant is not a frequent presence...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 203–235.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., but he was at court for the 1314 song and hence most likely witnessed its performance in one form or another. 79. Tian, “Stage Directions in the Performance of Yuan Drama,” 413 . As Tian notes, in at least eleven instances, characters who have died a violent death get up immediately and exit...
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