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... 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Chinese literary studies Sinology comparative literature formalism Chinese poetry As the study of what we now call “premodern” China gained traction among students in the postwar United States, the question of how it should be approached emerged...

... the mother's status as wife or concubine of the father could complicate the son's commemoration and raise questions about the proper ways in which the son could show respect to his different mothers (whether formal mother or concubine mother), especially when his own birth mother happened to be his father's...

... of poetry and diplomacy. Scholars have focused on fushi as seamless political communication, the celebration of a common cultural heritage, and the formalization of ritual judgment. I discuss how the practice of fushi negotiates political and cultural differences. How does it bear on the distinction...

...Lei Chen Abstract This article ventures a new approach to capture the subtlety of the shi / ci distinctions by reading and comparing the representation of space in shi and ci , an approach that avoids traditional Chinese impressionism, on the one hand, and superficial Western formalism...

... of his life. Contextualized in both the turbulence of Meiji Japan (1868–1912) and the Chinese poetic and philosophical traditions, this piece offers a comprehensive overview of the thematic and formal features of Sōseki's 1916 kanshi . Perpetually torn between the pursuit of secular success...

...), and it represented a breakthrough in the formal development of Chinese poetic genres. The lines of shi poetry are made up of a “balanced foot” and an “unbalanced foot,” with the balanced foot in the front and the unbalanced foot following behind. Pentasyllabic shi poetry flourished during the Han dynasty, and its...

... potential and also, by the use of expressive rhythm as a guiding force, to strictly maintain the fundamental distinction between poetry and prose. In considering why Du Fu's work is considered shishi 詩史 (history in poetry), we must recognize the critical formal expedient provided by this important creative...

... Chinese poetry, they can show some of the paradigmatic groups of images and their distribution between concepts of happiness and sadness, loneliness and companionship. Finally, topical grouping of poems on things is discussed and explored with the help of fingerprints to look for formal principles behind...

... about textual histories. The majority of evidence ultimately derives from insights that can be gleaned from within the classical corpus itself, either from within the same text or from material recorded elsewhere in the corpus. Scholars of these texts have long used formal similarities between...

...,” and carried in nonspecific ways by “contemporary witnesses within a memory community.” Cultural Memory, by contrast, comprises the “mythical history of origins” and “events in an absolute past”; it is “organized, extremely formal,” and shaped in “ceremonial communication” and “festival”; it is expressed...

... the formal conventions of muzhi recovered from other Song cemeteries and preserved in the collected writings of Song literati. But in addition to these lengthy formal inscriptions, a number of other inscriptions were found on the grave goods. Most are short commemorative texts that appear to have been...

... a defensive reaction to shore up the classical heritage, with only slight modifications. Moreover, the essay format of the Taiping regime was formally indistinguishable from bagu , retaining nearly all of its constituent elements. In any case, Yu rejected deviation from Confucianism itself, nor was he...

... and close reading of the poem we went over above, 5 the examination of the “internal evidence” found in the poetic text itself is far from enough. Reading the poem in its original Chinese certainly helps with a more intimate understanding of the formal features of the poem: 咫尺鳳衾鴛帳， 欲去無因到。 鰕鬚窣地重門悄。 認...

... verse and the trendy style of sanqu , which I define as “regulated songs,” through a detailed analysis of the formal qualities of his sanqu songs, such as extrametrical words, parallelism, and rhyme. However, the literary style of Zhang's sanqu songs cannot be understood merely as a combination...

...: “Today an enlightened Son of Heaven sits on the throne. You can come out of reclusion and serve!” 12 This piece of descriptive parallel prose vividly reminds us of the landscape poetry written by Xie Lingyun 謝靈運 (385–433) just decades earlier; its salient formal features may be best demonstrated...

... and their autonomy vis-à-vis the formal state structure instead. But is involution something measured only by the numbers? I have remarked elsewhere on the fact that Geertz draws the concept of involution not from the fields of political science, anthropology, sociology, or economics but rather from Alexander...

... [ zhongyan 重言]) are, they need a carrier—an organizing formal scheme that is equally sensuous. I will show that one of the most basic and effective building blocks of Zhuangzi's formal scheme is its cumulative structure. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 cumulative structure adding...

... narrative, or poetry, or architecture or painting, even as it often drew on the imaginative and formal resources of these other modes?” 14 Indeed, in a third approach to theatricality, the formal aspects of the artistic creation, transmission, and reception of playscripts are at the heart...

... this lived experience of occupational fluidity and social hybridity is largely effaced from the late imperial stage, during the seventeenth century a group of chuanqi playwrights from the commercial and cultural center of Suzhou began experimenting with the formal and narrative possibilities of chuanqi...

.... Sanqu has been mostly consistently understood as part of what has been variously called “vernacular,” “plain Chinese,” “colloquial,” or “hybrid” literature. To be sure, among poetic genres sanqu songs most readily accommodated a mash-up between formal and informal registers of language. Given...