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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2021
... performance, Sui's work begins a process of unsettling not just the reigning emperor or current dynasty but the stability of ritual display as a legitimating form. A dislocation evident in the split between village and empire has progressed to a divide between the perceptual worlds of performer and spectator...
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 4. Anonymous, “Emperor Minghuang Looks upon His Reflection,” from Illustrated Stories of Former Emperors and Their Subjects , seventeenth century. Hand scroll, ink on paper, 24.1 cm high. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: Gift
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 359–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Kai-Wing Chow Abstract The Qianlong emperor bequeathed the largest number of Chinese poems of any emperor, and perhaps of any poet, in the history of imperial China. But how do we make sense of the fact that Qianlong had been adamant in maintaining and preserving what he considered the essence...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 448–470.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Ko Chia-cian Abstract Just a few years after the overthrow of China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing dynasty loyalist Chen Botao 陳伯陶 (1855–1930) assembled scholars at the Terrace of the Song Emperors 宋王臺 (Song Wang Tai, or Sung Wong Toi) in Hong Kong Kowloon to compose and recite poetry...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 371–398.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Jessica Dvorak Moyer Abstract During the first half century of the Qing dynasty, Manchu emperors commissioned massive publication projects on the Chinese classics. In early Qing interpretations of classics on the family, negotiations between Manchu and Han family and gender norms furthered...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2020
... a variety of strategies to prevail in the competitions of political authority and legitimacy. This article examines the northern emperor Tuoba Tao's (408–452, r. 423–452) self-representation in his letters delivered to the southern audience at the height of the two states' military struggle. Scholars have...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 195–220.
Published: 01 April 2023
...). In this anthology commissioned by the Shunzhi emperor on behalf of his mother, Fu's commentary emphasizes both the agency of individual women and the mutual resonance of personal virtue and political order. He not only praises the exemplars' virtue but also their agency, intelligence, and strategy. He explicitly...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 279–305.
Published: 01 November 2017
... scroll, Su Shi wrote out his “Rhapsody on Pine Wine of Zhongshan” as a single piece, and the Qianlong emperor himself made calligraphic copies of this work. The stone engraving, calligraphy models, and Qianlong imperial copy of these compositions all have differences, which have greatly complicated...
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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 (2018) 5 (1): 34–65.
Published: 01 April 2018
... that the emperor enjoyed making the palace women at the marketplace fight each other to put on advancing worthies hats. 43. An anecdote in Liu, Shishuo xinyu (2:333) , about Cao Cao's 曹操 (155–220 CE) reception of a Xiongnu envoy shows that conceptions current in the early Eastern Han about credulous...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 1–28.
Published: 01 November 2014
...). Zhengde you Jiangnan 正德游江南 ( The Zhengde Emperor Gallivants in the South ). Changsha : Yuelu shushe , 2004 . Hsieh, Andrew . See Xie Zhengguang. Hummel, Arthur , ed. Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period . Washington, DC : US Government Printing Office , 1943–44 . Ji Yun 紀昀 (1620...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 483–495.
Published: 01 November 2022
... author” ( wanmei zuozhe 完美作者) necessary? Runse hongye bases its arguments on author studies, and Ban Gu as “author” plays a leading role. Chapters 2–5, the book's core arguments, focus not as much on the Hanshu as on Ban Gu during the reigns of Emperors Ming and Zhang. With a hand on every aspect...
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in The Possibilities and Limits of a Genre: Lyrical Pictures from the Ming
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Published: 01 April 2015
Figure 5. Xiang Shengmo, Painting on Li Bai's “ Seeing off Degree Candidate Wang for His Visit to the Emperor ” 項聖謨， 《送王孝廉覲省》 The painting is currently preserved in the Shanghai Museum.
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 137–174.
Published: 01 April 2016
... Emperor Wu 武帝 of the Western Han as the official academic scripture. History records that Emperor Wu “degraded the other schools and promoted the Six Classics” and “established the great scholars of the Five Classics,” 2 whereupon ancient Chinese academics entered an enlightened and flourishing age...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 476–480.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of their time and place. The period under consideration is roughly the second half of the eleventh century, from the reign of Emperor Shenzong 神宗 (r. 1067–1085) and Emperor Zhezong 哲宗 (r. 1085–1100) to the first years of Emperor Huizong 徽宗 (r. 1100–1126). This period has been the subject of intense...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 169–194.
Published: 01 April 2023
... intertextuality Chen Duansheng Without any desire to settle into conjugal bliss, Cross-dressed, she sets her will on repaying [the emperor] in whatever small way she can. 琴瑟無心偕伉儷,衣冠有志報涓埃。 —Chen, Zaisheng yuan , 57.797 The corpus of tanci 彈詞 novels written by women during the late imperial period...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 19–55.
Published: 01 April 2017
... and Kinship Fortunes for the Shih of Ming-chou . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 1986 . Ebrey, Patricia Buckley . Emperor Huizong . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2014 . Egan, Ronald . The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China . Cambridge...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 207–248.
Published: 01 April 2015
... in several different senses: counterfeiting, forging, deceiving, disguising, masquerading, making-believe, and so on. Emperor Qianlong once ordered the court artisans to chisel away his own signature from the surface of an inscription board and replace it with his grandfather's. In another instance, he had...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 261–286.
Published: 01 November 2021
...). See Cao and Liu, Weijin nanbei chao wenxue biannian shi , 448–50 . According to commentary in the most recent punctuated edition of Liang shu , the first character indicating younger sister in Dao Qia's report ( mei 妹) should be the character for concubine ( shu 姝)—otherwise Emperor Wu's changing...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 239–271.
Published: 01 April 2019
... Pu Tong in the classic episode titled “Witnessing the Tragedies” (Candu 慘睹; aka Bayang 八陽) of the famous kunqu play Qianzhong lu 千忠戮 (Tragic Killings of the Loyalists). This drama follows the story of Emperor Jianwen 建文帝 (1377–1402) of the early Ming dynasty, who disguises himself as a monk...
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