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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 90–124.
Published: 01 November 2014
... life and poetry mentioned Zhao Yi and Zhang Xuecheng's critique of the financial motivations in the writing of the work but remained suspicious of the credibility of the criticism. In addition, the Taiwanese scholar Wang Yirong conducted a cultural analysis of the work from the perspectives...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 383–411.
Published: 01 November 2019
...蹭蹬。我每江湖上行走，最有忌諱的。 丑： 纔是這位客人說，士農工商，你一句我一句，說出這一樁事體來。出門不吉利，河南斷斷不該去了。依我學生，還把船兒移泊楓江，各人出個小分，從新賽過了願，擇個上吉之日，另往南路，或是浙江，或是福建，前去脫卸可好。 外： 這位客長說得有理。分付船家，不消過關去了。列位，我與你大家中艙穩坐，用過晚膳，移住楓江泊船便了。 65 In the first scene with the Xiong brothers, we see ritual obligations subjugated to financial decisions. Here...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 244–266.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the issue with his brother. Consequently, often they could afford only two meals a day. To make matters worse, his father often entertained friends even though their financial situation was quite dire. His mother did not have any jewelry left to pawn. She exemplified what was often celebrated in literati...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2021
... moves between quelling rebellion and rulership in the capital; he composes poetry, sings, converses, drinks, feasts, and makes pronouncements that become law. This Han Gaozu is a motive force: an emperor who takes a central role and commands the stage. By contrast, the ruler in Sui's song suite...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 483–495.
Published: 01 November 2022
... (Treatise on Financial Administration), “Dili zhi” 地理志 (Treatise on Administrative Geography), and “Yiwen zhi” 藝文志 (Bibliographic Treatise)—have remained important discussion topics, Hanshu has largely been approached as historical reference material, rather than as an object of direct study. 1 Chen...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 April 2017
.... Rather, Hu demonstrated how to be motivated by questions. Some notable examples include Hu's work on the authorship of the Platform Sūtra , on the significance of Shenhui's sermon at Huatai in 734, and on Shenhui's successful participation in the imperial government's selling of ordination certificates...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 205–238.
Published: 01 April 2019
... parents. Thus, for a woman to devote herself to her birth mother was highly unusual and potentially subversive to patrilineal gender norms. 44 Despite such prescriptive norms, daughters had traditionally drawn cultural and financial resources from their natal families with which to build their lives...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 357–399.
Published: 01 November 2016
... he published in the journal Hyōfū 飇風 (The Tempest) in June 1973 . 29 Some years later in Yasō , Kitaoka wrote that what had motivated her initial study was the way some scholars generalized about Lu Xun's early thought and early essays without having examined them in any detail: I started...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 148–171.
Published: 01 April 2024
... on this particular collection's masterfully veiled motives: “Each person and each object, in the obscurity, subtlety, intricacy, and implicitness of their portrayal, was the product of thoughtful consideration, showcasing the author's adeptness at both rational discourse and emotional expression” 凡一名一物，其隱微曲折，無不抉摘而出之...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 November 2019
... readers. At the same time, commercial printing also rendered these fiction authors subject to market rules and demands. Su'an is especially frank as he reflects on the paradox of indulging in elitist self-expression while also catering to the market: “The motivation behind writing this book...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the same mistake by disregarding or executing the spy, who is in fact on their side? Tuoba Tao's candid posturing would augment uncertainty about the released spy and torment the southern court to search for the northern ruler's hidden motives. In the end, this self-revelation appears to be another...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 87–114.
Published: 01 April 2020
... that this is the gods' way of making good on their threat to take back all the wealth they had given to merchant Yang (especially since they would have known that he greedily planned to give them only one-tenth of his wealth). This is not just a financial catastrophe for him; it is a mortal punishment. The details...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 175–202.
Published: 01 April 2016
... that plays from this project had been preserved, but their location remained a mystery until six plays were rediscovered on the shelves of Nanjing Tushuguan (Nanjing Library). In his preface and postface, Li Kaixian has left us a detailed description of his motives in producing the collection, as well as his...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 248–278.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Chuyuan, he also said, “Letan [Huaicheng] was indeed a dead end.” He agreed with Wenyue's criticism. 36 So both the image of Wuzu Shijie and the story that Su Shi's previous incarnation was Wuzu Shijie were very likely fabrications of Huihong. There must be some agenda motivating...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 19–55.
Published: 01 April 2017
... to the peace treaty process with the Jin dynasty, before and after it was concluded. Based on his father's friendship with Xiang Ziyin and his own understanding of Xiang's motivations, Hu Hong wrote his “Account of Conduct” for Xiang after he died. In the closing passage of Hu's “Account of Conduct,” he...
