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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 444–480.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Shengli Feng; Ash Henson Abstract The term pianwen 駢文 (parallel prose) comes from the main characteristic of the genre, while its other name—literally, “four-six prose” in Chinese—comes from its form. Theoretically, the aesthetic of the four-six configuration for Chinese writers is rooted...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and Henson take a balanced blending of poetry and prose rhythms to be the hallmark of “parallel prose” ( pianwen 駢文). They argue that the “four-six prose,” an alternate name of parallel prose, literally reveals the origin of this genre as a hybrid of poetry and prose. Using Bao Zhao's 鮑照 (417–450) “Wucheng...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 339–381.
Published: 01 November 2020
... because it is built on the latter's staple of four-character and six-character lines. Coming to the Qi-Liang period, parallelistic patterning practically became the standard rubric for writing prose as well as poetry, at least as far as literati writings are concerned. Considering the prevalence...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 438–460.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Library of the Four Treasuries is specially designed for my poems and prose, and yet I would not do it. I command that these six chapters of my poems and prose shall be removed. . . . My poems and prose on selected books from the Four Treasuries shall be separately attached to the first chapter of each...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 306–335.
Published: 01 November 2017
... deepest antiquity, taking the Two Emperors and Three Kings as his foundation, and the six classics and four teachings as his ancestral teacher. 22 From this height, he surpassed all others and was the first to chant the “literature of antiquity”; he prevailed over the restless flow of confusion...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 275–330.
Published: 01 November 2019
... are presented with four lines of six, six, seven, and five graphs each in an AaαA rhyme scheme; similar to the previous section, the he yun cross-rhyming words that fall in phrase-final position employ nasal final consonants, “intimate” ( qin 親 *tshin) and “good men” ( liang 良 *raŋ), and provide another...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 481–514.
Published: 01 November 2015
... poets, one rarely finds long-form wugu pieces that present straightforward episodic accounts by primary means of the prose line. Li Bai's ancient-style poems are largely pseudo-folk songs or ballads ( yuefu ; gexing ) in the Han-Wei and Six dynasties 六朝 (222–589) manners; mid-to-long form wugu...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 411–437.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Studies in the Age of Big Data ). Xueshu luntan 學術論壇 ( Academic Forum ) 12 ( 2015 ): 99 – 105 . Mao Yingxiang 毛應翔 , ed. Zhang Mengze xiansheng ping siliu canhua 張夢澤先生評選四六燦花 ( Selected and Commentated Four-Six Prose by Zhang Mengze ). Haikou : Hainan chubanshe , 2000 . Mather, Richard...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 515–544.
Published: 01 November 2015
... attention to parallel syntax, fine phraseology, and the tonal regulation that would later characterize pianwen 駢文 (parallel prose). 10 Indeed, in the evolution from fu , to pianwen , to the four-six subcategory of pianwen , and finally to bagu 八股 (eight-legged essay), 11 careful attention...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 192–214.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of banishment, and their treatment of the trope of exile and exilic experiences in poems and prose writings is worthy of serious study. This article is a study of the exilic writings of the especially important yet understudied poet Fang Xiaobiao (1618–?), who in the wake of the examination scandal of 1657...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 545–572.
Published: 01 November 2015
... (?–312?) observes, Poems of ancient times have three-character, four-character, five-character, six-character, seven-character, and nine-character lines. They normally have four-character lines as the main body, interspersed with one or two lines of other kinds. In later times each type...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 261–286.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., he shows respect for all four prominent literary figures, She Yue, Xie Tiao, Ren Fang, Lu Chui. But he also indicates recognition of the popular contemporary evaluation that considered Shen Yue famous for rhymed poetry and Ren Fang for his unrhymed prose. This is in line with Liu Xiaochuo's view...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 375–410.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... When we examine the anthologies belonging to the purple community, we do in fact find a few that fit the Tang-Song school model. The Guwen guanjian , Wenzhang guifan 文章軌範 (Standards of Literary Composition), Tang-Song si da jia wen chao 唐宋四大家文鈔 (Prose by the Four Masters of the Tang and Song...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 179–185.
Published: 01 November 2018
... powerfully articulated and deeply felt in a visual form. The next four articles offer various takes on the celebrated poetry of the Tang dynasty (618–907). The boldest, methodologically speaking, is Mariana Zorkina's article on “poems on things” ( yongwu shi 詠物詩). Zorkina uses distributional semantics...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 336–359.
Published: 01 November 2017
...-syllables, with the first two as subject, the last as verb. Such a structure produces a sense of imbalance and abruptness when read out loud. In contrast, the last excerpt consists of phrases in four and six character-syllables (typical structure of conventional parallel prose), and none of the sentences...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 113–138.
Published: 01 April 2021
... ban) 全明散曲（增補版） (The Complete Ming Sanqu Songs: The Supplementary Edition). Ji'nan : Qilu shushe , 2016 . Xinke tianxia simin bianlan santai wanyong zhengzong 新刻天下四民便覽三台萬用正宗 ( Newly Carved for the Reading Convenience of the Four Kinds of People under Heaven: The Orthodox Lineage of a Myriad...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 471–474.
Published: 01 November 2016
... her PhD at Princeton University. Before joining the Yale faculty in 1982, she was curator of the Gest Oriental Library and East Asian Collections at Princeton. Chang is the author of The Evolution of Chinese Tz'u Poetry: From Late Tang to Northern Sung (1980), Six Dynasties Poetry (1986...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 279–305.
Published: 01 November 2017
... with him back to Dingzhou to enjoy at the time he wrote this inscription. In all, Qianlong added four inscriptions to the scroll over a forty-six-year period. In the first one he writes about the calligraphy in the scroll and its characteristics. The second broaches more technical matters in the use...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 137–168.
Published: 01 April 2023
... in 1851 in four juan with a self-preface 自序 ( Zixu ), most likely to celebrate her fiftieth birthday. But the extant edition, printed in 1859, contains an added juan 5 and includes at the end a set of self-inscriptions 自題 ( Ziti ), written in prose, on eight autobiographical paintings titled “Fuke...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 148–178.
Published: 01 April 2018
... and can be further divided into jueju 絕句 (quatrains) and lüshi 律詩 (regulated verse). 45 In the seventy-five kanshi composed during the Meian period, seventy-four are in the recent style, with only one in guti shi 古體詩 (ancient-style poetry) ( table 2 ). 46 In addition to the Gozan poets...
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