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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 115–148.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu Abstract The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean , a late sixteenth-century novel loosely based on the historical expeditions commanded by Zheng He (1371–1433), is a peculiar mixture of factual accounts of foreign lands and fantastic narrative. While previous studies...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 1–28.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Keith McMahon Abstract Literary and historical sources assumed ulterior, even diabolical, motives in the man who voluntarily became a eunuch. If he was lucky, he could become the ruler's confidant and even usurp imperial power. Focusing on Ming eunuch Wei Zhongxian (1568–1627), the article...
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Published: 01 November 2014
Waist tag for eunuch of the imperial stables, Ming Dynasty. Photo by Li Ling, Haidian District Museum, Beijing
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 483–486.
Published: 01 November 2019
... noise bothers him. “What a rat!” exclaims Zhang Yingyu. “Wanting to do away with someone else's goose, he ended up losing his own cloth.” And as the stories “A Eunuch Cooks Boys to Make a Tonic of Male Essence” (“Kidnapping,” 145–49) and “Eating Human Fetuses to Fake Fasting” (“Monks and Priests,” 179...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 April 2020
...); the foundation of political legitimacy and authority, as in Ming Tak Ted Hui's “Journeys to the West” and Siao-chen Hu's “Cultural Self-Definition of Southwest Chieftains”; or imagining the world beyond China, as in Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu's study of The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean (Sanbao...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 287–312.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., in particular, seems aimed at recent historical events: the attempted extermination of Buddhism under Emperor Taiwu 太武帝 (408–452, r. 423–452), only forty years before, was never far out of mind. The following section introduces the donor of the piece, a court eunuch by the name of Wang Yu 王遇 (?–504...
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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
... series) was graced with a preface by a certain “Chunshan” 春山 from Ansu 安肅 (modern Hebei Province), who has been identified as a eunuch named Jing Ju 荊聚. 16 In both Guo Xun and Jing Ju, we can see that the publication of the anthology, in various editions, was associated with the imperial court...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 57–84.
Published: 01 April 2016
... island rebels in the East China Sea. More important, they prove their loyalty to the Ming emperor and, in the end, successfully eliminate the evil usurper—the notorious eunuch Liu Jin 劉瑾 (?–1510) and his partisans in the central government. Meanwhile, in their private lives, Lingyun marries Zhang...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 175–202.
Published: 01 April 2016
... functions attended by officials, and the Office of Bell and Drum (Zhonggusi 鍾鼓司), a eunuch agency that performed inside the inner palace for the entertainment of the imperial family. A late Ming source indicates that the scripts of plays performed on such occasions were to be submitted to a court censor...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 34–65.
Published: 01 April 2018
... that the educated elite experienced during the reigns of Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling due to the ineptness of these rulers, domination of the court by unruly eunuchs and imperial relatives, and brutal persecution of political opposition. Under the assault of all these forces tearing at the fabric of the moral...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 339–381.
Published: 01 November 2020
...，背筐，手長鑱，爲除不潔者，引入，微指左公處。則席地倚牆而坐，面額焦爛不可辨，左膝以下筋骨盡脫矣。史前跪，抱公膝而嗚咽。 When Zuo Guangdou was imprisoned by the [eunuch's] secret police, Shi Kefa kept watch by the [prison] gate day and night. But the tyrannical eunuch's guards were extremely vigilant; not even a servant from Zuo's own household could sneak...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 90–124.
Published: 01 November 2014
... they each composed a poem on the topic. 70 The passage begins with the eunuch Xu Kun's love of literary scholars, narrating an anecdote about his relationship with Hang Shijun, which brings up the story of Zheng Huwen and his poem on the red bean, and then extends to discuss Liang Yaofeng's...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 216–247.
Published: 01 November 2017
....” 99 It did not take five hundred years for the price of Su Shi's calligraphy to skyrocket. Less than twenty years after his death, as the imperial court began to build a collection of his calligraphy, the price was set at ten thousand cash a sheet. The eunuch Liang Shicheng 梁師成 (d. 1126) paid three...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 371–398.
Published: 01 November 2021
... air of his surroundings; sovereign and minister became like father and son.” 40 Fredric Wakeman describes this intimate ruling style as a Manchu cultural characteristic that contrasted strongly with the ruling style of late Ming emperors, who were close to their eunuchs and very distant from...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 397–424.
Published: 01 November 2022
... with the character gui 閨 (boudoir) in the title, which emphasized her new identity as a gentry wife in the inner chamber. Yang Wan's remarriage, after the death of Mao Yuanyi, to a notorious imperial relative who aligned himself with corrupt eunuchs put her at the center of a controversy, especially during...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 65–89.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., Readings , 37–49 . 52. Liu Fen (?–842) failed to pass the civil service exam because he attacked the eunuchs' usurpation of power at court. 53. “Xiuxiang” 繡像 (Illustrations), in Zhu, Qinlou yue , 1b . 54. In her discussion of the courtesan's game of playing the examination candidate...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
... for strict segregation to be maintained between the ruling minority and the populace at large, even if such bans were unevenly enforced. The exception were the Manchu rulers themselves who recruited eunuchs and professional performers to enact plays in Ming-dynasty costume at court to relish the imaginative...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 7–33.
Published: 01 April 2020
... attack two years later ( ZT Annals 9.4, 1:624–25, 600 BCE), but that event is unmarked in Zuozhuan . In 571 BCE, Qi attacked Lai again but turned back because Lai bribed the Qi eunuch leading the campaign ( ZT Xiang 2.1, 2:894–95). According to Shiji , Yan Ying hailed from Lai ( SJ 62.2134)—perhaps...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 96–136.
Published: 01 April 2019
... that “gaze and speak” ( gupan yuyan 顧盼語言). 32 The observations of the scholar and traveler Xie Zhaozhe 謝肇浙 (1567–1624) are more expansive, but he claimed that only eunuchs and women were curious about the stories that painters illustrated. 33 For this they were ridiculed, Xie noted...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 248–278.
Published: 01 November 2017
... there—they do not indicate he was monk Wuzu Jie. The record in which Su Shi clearly acknowledges his past life as Wuzu Jie is the “Su Shi chen chao daoyi” 蘇軾襯朝道衣 (Su Shi Wears Buddhist Robe inside His Court Garment) entry in Huihong's Lengzhai yehua : Emperor Zhezong asks the Right Eunuch Chen Yan 陳衍, “What...
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