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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 235–267.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Stephen Roddy Abstract The prominent classicist and educator Yu Yue (1821–1907) argued, often doggedly, on behalf of the worth and relevance of the examination essay (specifically the eight-legged essay or bagu ), to the extent of even producing a popular essay primer as late as the 1880s...
View articletitled, Heroes Play by the Rules: Yu Yue's Pedagogy for the <span class="search-highlight">Eight</span>-<span class="search-highlight">Legged</span> <span class="search-highlight">Essay</span>
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 256–272.
Published: 01 April 2022
... anticipate the effects of surveillance capital in the twenty-first century. When a so-called eight-legged essay folds back into its own prose both literally and figuratively, can we simply dismiss the complex interiority that results? Or does it speak as well to our contemporary anxieties about individual...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 339–381.
Published: 01 November 2020
.... In the Ming-Qing, excelling in the eight-legged essay brought as much distinction as poetry writing during the Tang. Given prose's profound cultural significance, it is not surprising that traditional prose forms became a prime target of attacks during the New Culture Movement and the May 4 Movement...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2022
... aesthetic and sociopolitical ramifications, to the understanding of classical prose, specifically the genre of examination prose known popularly as the “eight-legged essay” or, in its normative name, the “prose of our time” ( shiwen 時文). Beginning with involution's history of use in debates over late...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 515–544.
Published: 01 November 2015
...纔提倡起《史記》來；明歸有光及清桐城派更力加推尊，《史記》差不多要駕乎《漢書》之上了。這種優劣論起於二書散整不同，質文各異；其實是跟著時代的好尚而轉變的。(See Zhu, Jingdian changtan , 75 ) 11. In his discussion of the transformation of essay writing, Zhu Ziqing discusses the eight-legged essay, which reached the height of its popularity in the Ming: “‘Leg’ refers...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 359–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
... who published his own writings in the Ming-Qing period. There were essays on classical themes and topics, historical figures, commemorative essays, poetry, and even zhiyi 制藝 (eight-legged essays). The collection contained exercises in the full array of literary genres a literatus would be required...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 148–178.
Published: 01 April 2018
... (Recollections), Flutsch offers an excellent if somewhat general discussion of the forms and techniques of the sixteen kanshi included in this 1911 essay. See Flutsch, “Introduction,” 21–24 . 10. Bourdaghs, “Natsume Sōseki and the Theory and Practice of Literature,” 635 . A similar appraisal was made...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 248–278.
Published: 01 November 2017
... but found nothing interesting to talk about, so each of them recalled their dreams and told them to Dongpo. Dongpo said, “When I was eight or nine years old, I had a dream in which I was a monk traveling around the Shanyou 陜右 [Shanxi]. When my mother was newly pregnant, she dreamed of a monk coming to her...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 357–399.
Published: 01 November 2016
...-legged” essay. Ultimately the crucial issue is how Lu Xun, steeped as he was in so pervasive a legacy of prose writing, nevertheless transcended its limitations and evolved something uniquely his own. When we examine his earliest baihua essays—the suiganlu 隨感錄 [Random Thoughts] pieces written in 1918...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 134–172.
Published: 01 April 2015
... . Tang's proclivity toward structural juxtapositions may reflect the discipline of the bagu wen 八股文 (eight-legged essay), of which he was an acknowledged master. 2. I have used Xu Shuofang's 徐朔方 annotated edition of the Wanli-period Huaide tang 懷德堂 imprint of The Peony Pavilion . Quotations from...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 215–232.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... References Blackmur, R. P. “ Language as Gesture .” In Language as Gesture: Essays in Poetry , 3 – 24 . New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1952 . Chen Shih-hsiang 陳世驤 ( 1912–71 ). Literature as Light against Darkness: Being a Study of Lu Chi's “Essay on Literature,” in Relation...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 371–398.
Published: 01 November 2021
... the tensions between Manchu gender roles and family structure, on the one hand, and Chinese ritual norms of status and gender, on the other. Ritual propriety is the heart of Fu Yijian's anthology. The Nei ze yanyi has eight major sections, on filial piety 孝 ( xiao ), respect 敬 ( jing ), teaching 教 ( jiao...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 425–457.
Published: 01 November 2022
... strings 17 strings Fret None None None None Bridge 1 bridge 1 bridge 1 bridge 2 bridges Playing method With nails Without nails With nails With nails Holding With a stand On the leg With a stand With a stand Tuning Pentatonic Heptatonic Pentatonic Pentatonic...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 403–437.
Published: 01 November 2023
... openings and eight holes” ( jiuqiao bakong 九竅八孔; 1.2), which correspond to the “Nine Heavenly Palaces and the Eight Trigrams” ( jiugong bagua 九宮八卦; 1.3), the first of these referring to Daoist heavens and the second abstract symbols that organize and explain all phenomena in the cosmos. The nine openings...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 192–214.
Published: 01 April 2020
... by wood tied together, or to build a bridge, or to pave it with dirt, in order to get across. What we experience is what is described in the Han shu where it talks about a place full of mud in Liaodong. This is the most painful leg of the eastern journey. 峻嶺相連，盡日在深溪亂石間，俗呼為十八嶺，其實不止十八也。嶺麓皆插大河中。兩嶺相接處必有淺瀬界...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 216–247.
Published: 01 November 2017
... function of gift calligraphy therein. In addition to Su Mai's letter, Zhuo Qishun brought a set of ten poems by Shouqin 守欽, abbot of Dinghui Temple. Su Shi reciprocated with eight matching poems, which he prefaced thus: “Abbot Shouqin of Dinghui Temple in Suzhou sent his disciple Zhuo Qishun...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 241–261.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Wai-Yee Li Abstract Zuozhuan (ca. fourth century BC) records many instances of statesmen who recite or chant odes ( fushi ), mostly from the extant Shijing , to convey their political vision, policy recommendation, or diplomatic finesse. This essay examines the implications of this confluence...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 43–91.
Published: 01 April 2015
... in anthologizing and canonizing literary masters of the past. 25 Arguably the most salient example is Mao Kun's 茅坤 (1512–1601; 1538 jinshi [metropolitan degree holders]) compilation of the Tang Song ba dajia wenchao 唐宋八大家文鈔 (Anthology of Prose of the Eight Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties). 26...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 48–90.
Published: 01 April 2024
... creature” 有王孫之狹獸. 23 That the macaque was referred to as wangsun unequivocally bespeaks the anthropomorphized reception of the animal. By the late medieval period, the jocular image of the macaque in literature takes a dark turn. In Liu Zongyuan's 柳宗元 (773–819) thickly allegorical work “Essay...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 November 2019
... attached a piece of his own writing—in the form of a playful eight-legged examination essay—in the comments. See Su'an zhuren, Xiuping yuan , 266 . For a study of Su'an's use of vernacular fiction as a site for self-expression and social engagement, see M. Li, “‘Carving the Complete Edition.’” 14...
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