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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 96–136.
Published: 01 April 2019
... considers the dilemma that painters faced in general when they represented an expressive body: How could the display of emotion in gesture and facial expression be contained within the bounds of propriety? The author examines, in particular, how Chen Hongshou 陳洪綬 (1598–1652) resolved this dilemma in two...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 239–271.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., photographs, and paintings—replete with sensuous and affective images of the past become the loci of memory in which these historical figures lived. Lamentation and reminiscence are also conducted through performance of historical dramas whose gestures of mourning and remembrance allowed Yuan to cultivate...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 215–232.
Published: 01 November 2016
... © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 natural rhythm Hu Pu'an Chen Shih-hsiang Chinese poetics gesture In September 1915, while the renowned Chinese scholar Hu Shi 胡適 (1891–1962) was riding a train from Ithaca, New York, to New York City, he came up with the declaration: “When does...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 312–334.
Published: 01 November 2016
...—an iconic gesture of anti-Manchu sentiment. Zhou then sent the photograph, together with a seven-character quatrain inscribed on the back, to his friend Xu Shouchang 許壽裳 (1883–1948) ( figure 1 and figure 2 ). 1 Personally Inscribed on a Small Picture 自題小像 This spirit tower holds no plan 靈台無...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 April 2019
... analyzes the visual display of strong emotion through gesture and facial expression while further exploring the incongruities of the pictorial conventions between paintings and printed illustrations. She shows us how Chen Hongshou, a late Ming dynasty painter, combines emphatic figural gestures, poses...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
... reenactment or moralizing self-expression, but instead, its linguistic habitus—the quotidian language, the excess of meanings, and the clash of storylines—gestures toward an erosion of the kind of interpretive authority encoded in the classics and in historiography. In an essay on the Southern adaptation...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 203–214.
Published: 01 November 2016
... lyricist in China” ( zhongguo zui wei jiechu de shuqing shiren 中國最為傑出的抒情詩人) 4 in Lu Xun's eyes, composed classical-style poetry when the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War drove him into exile. A gesture of cultural nostalgia notwithstanding, these poets brought about an alternative engagement...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 492–503.
Published: 01 November 2019
... hypostasized category of “nature” in the essay. De Pee is a sophisticated analyst, so the absence of a historicizing gesture is surprising. In the Tang, nature was in the realm of “Heaven-and-Earth” or perhaps the more dynamic “Creative Transformation,” but I suggest that for the Northern Song...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 April 2020
... gesture” 招介. When that does not work, it “angrily throws stones” 恨介擲石 before “throwing itself in the water and rolling off stage” 自投水滚行下. 23 The unexpected emotional performance given by the renxiong does not happen in isolation from the larger moral drama of the play. Rather, it can be seen...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 476–480.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of the imperial rule under Shenzong. The centralization of power is maintained through proper rituals, and any changes to these rituals become an important gesture that would signal the changing ties of political fortune. In chapter 2, the rituals depicted in Li Gonglin's handscroll Xiaojing tujuan 孝經圖卷...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2021
... agency. Sui's work does not depict a powerful general and monarch but instead a player in a scripted performance. Sui Jingchen's Han Gaozu demonstrates no warm human connection with the local residents in the district where he once served. A casual gesture for those prostrate around him to rise...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 56–95.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of involving material things in their experience of this connection. The most striking of these, and the one that gestures to the deeper processes at work in their selection of the grave goods, was the ancient practice of inscribing vessels with commemorative inscriptions. The implements that members...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 422–428.
Published: 01 November 2021
... book,” but regardless of whether the listed scholars are in fact guilty of such a blanket misconception (the list includes, in a broad-minded gesture, one of the coauthors of this essay), it is a notion that does not survive a cursory reading of even the first three books of the Analects , much less...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 134–172.
Published: 01 April 2015
... by its lovely mottled patterns. He opens the box to find a scroll secreted within. Unrolling the scroll, defined in stage directions as kanhua jie 看畫介 (“taking a look at a painting” gesture), he is astonished to find a depiction of the bodhisattva Guanyin 觀音 ( MDT 24.16; PP 138). Liu takes the box...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 60–86.
Published: 01 April 2020
... out to the west toward the end of their lives with the hope of educating the barbarians. This humble gesture paradoxically affirms the connection between the two. That the Quanzhen sect was building an analogy between Laozi and Qiu Chuji is evident, especially if we consider other materials...
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Nobody's Genre, Everybody's Song: Sanqu Songs and the Expansion of the Literary Sphere in Yuan China
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 29–64.
Published: 01 November 2014
... a preface for his seminal anthology, a gesture most likely informed by Guan's status as a local celebrity in Hangzhou. 59 To my knowledge, this is the first time that a literatus with a visibly bicultural background legitimated a new literary genre in Chinese. 60 Guan produced a brief, witty...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 April 2021
... time attended to Jia with their hands cupped before the chest as a gesture to show their admiration. Later in his life, Jia moved to Lanling [modern Linyi] and settled down there. Among his works there are Sounds Left behind by Cloud and Water and other collections that still circulate in the world...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2016
... gestures that justify the oft-mentioned comparison of Wang Changling and Li Bai (in the writing of heptasyllabic quatrain, that is), 29 this lyric subject functions not merely as a presumed locus of feeling but also as an expressive tool that itself can be refracted, split, and re-formed to powerful...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 216–247.
Published: 01 November 2017
... illustrates that social gestures, whimsicality, self-expression, and cathartic release could be achieved simultaneously in a calligraphic act: One day, Su Zizhan was sitting idly inside the Hanlin Academy when, on the spur of the moment, he ordered his attendants to bring him some paper and a brush...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 131–169.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of capturing the unifying knowledge in a manner that will preserve it. Also familiar is the fact that this knowledge is customarily performed through multimedia staging in which the linguistic text is inseparable from voice, body, mime, gesture, dance, rhythm, and ritual action. . . . Through regular...
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