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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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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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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
.... In his commentary, Zhang makes clear that the shopkeeper is in the wrong for not tolerating the sentient being whose 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...
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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
.... 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). The Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary, the General who Pacifies the West, Internal Minister of Personnel, 33 and Duke...
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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
... 了. 15 The more widely circulated 1566 edition of Yongxi yuefu (reprinted in the Sibu beiyao 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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 57–84.
Published: 01 April 2016
... 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 Feixiang 張飛香, Yishao's elder sister (and takes Zhang Liyu 張麗玉, Zhen Daya 真大雅, and Murong Zhu 慕容珠 as his concubines), while Yishao marries Mu...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 522–528.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and the larger and more conspicuous the nodes become. Those larger nodes are at the center of a social circle. In the late Han dynasty and the first half of the Three Kingdoms period, the interpersonal relationships were concentrated around anti-eunuch political leaders, such as Chen Fan 陳蕃 (d. 168), eminent...
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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 (2024) 11 (1): 115–147.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of the transfer of her body for reburial, her flesh had decomposed and only the brocade perfume sachet remained on her chest. After the reburial, the eunuchs presented the sachet to the Emperor Emeritus who put it in his sleeve. He also ordered a painter to sketch a portrait of the late Precious Consort and hang...
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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 (2014) 1 (1-2): 90–124.
Published: 01 November 2014
... 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 matching piece. The reader is left with no clear idea about whether the passage...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 216–247.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... The eunuch Liang Shicheng 梁師成 (d. 1126) paid three-hundred-thousand cash for his “Inscription on the Stone Bridge of Yingzhou” (英州石橋銘). Another eunuch, Tan Zhen 譚禎, paid fifty-thousand cash for three characters Su Shi wrote on the plaque of a scholar's studio. 100 1. “Linghai” refers...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 339–381.
Published: 01 November 2020
... 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 past them. After a long time, Shi Kefa heard Zuo Guangdou had been tortured with a branding...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 371–398.
Published: 01 November 2021
... emperors, who were close to their eunuchs and very distant from their ministers. Qing rulers used paternalism as a political strategy to ensure their ministers' personal loyalty and forestall factionalism. 41 Although the Xiao jing already frames the ruler-minister relationship in affective terms...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 65–89.
Published: 01 November 2014
... 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, Dorothy Ko points out, “The scholar-official's...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 397–424.
Published: 01 November 2022
...). The other is those 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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 292–316.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., they offer to use their connections to help secure his position. They propose to go to the Directorate of Sacrifices ( Sili jian 司禮監) and bribe its head eunuch Wang Zhen 王振, since the director's two subordinates are Liang Sheng's maternal uncle and Hu Dan's grandfather. But this plan does not come to pass...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
... were forbidden from attending theatrical performances in playhouses in order 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...
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