...Ying Wang yingwang@mtholyoke.edu Jiushan Shuhui . Top Graduate Zhang Xie: The Earliest Extant Chinese Southern Play . Translated and introduced by Regina S. Llamas . New York : Columbia University Press , 2021 . xii, 464 pp. ISBN 9780231197939 (paperback); ISBN 9780231197922...

... received his bachelor's degree and master's degree in classical Chinese literature from Seoul National University. IAN MCNALLY graduated from The Ohio State University in 2019 with a master's degree in East Asian studies. His research focused on martial arts history and identity in Qing period China...

..., and strategies for humanistic research, teaches courses and leads workshops on data science and natural language processing, and mentors students interested in developing new digital and computational research methods. During his graduate studies, he received a Fulbright award for his Digital Etymological...

... of the complexity of medieval Chinese literature, especially the sophisticated relationship between poetry and history. It is highly recommended for scholars of Chinese literature, advanced undergraduate classes, and graduate seminars on Chinese literature, particularly premodern Chinese literature between the Han...

.... By implementing this rigorous editorial process, we aim to reach the highest standards of academic publishing. JCLC addresses two different audiences. Research articles are written by and for Chinese and Western literary scholars, including advanced graduate students. Feature essays introduce different...

... at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia. His undergraduate studies in Chinese language and culture at Columbia were followed by graduate work at the University of Hawaii (MA in Chinese literature), as a fellow of the East-West Center, and at the University of California at Berkeley (PhD...

... Southern drama) has drawn attention to the linguistic facets of the theatrical. As she notes with regard to the earliest extant Southern play, Zhang Xie zhuangyuan 張協狀元 (Top Graduate Zhang Xie, 1408) “the verbal repertoire makes use of the ambiguity of language, puns, homophones, quips on the formation...

... on Chinese literature or culture at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. It is well organized, discusses compelling topics, and has laid a solid foundation for future studies on medieval Chinese literature and culture. This review article is supported by a Start-up Research Grant (SRG2019-00197...

.... Yang also consults secondary scholarship in Chinese, English, and Japanese to rigorously contextualize his own ideas. Many of the materials, including the poems, were translated into English for the first time by Yang. This book is highly recommended for both undergraduate and graduate courses...

... smooth path of examination competition and eventual success in achieving the jinshi degree, followed by several years of government service. But his tenure in officialdom was relatively brief, especially compared to most of his fellow graduates of the 1849 metropolitan examinations, which were presided...

... factional politics and scholarly disputes. Despite repeated efforts by the imperial court to channel the graduates' allegiance from the examiners to the emperor, the postexam celebrations often became occasions for examiners to foster personal ties with their “pupils” ( mensheng 門生). 38 Bian Bin...

... that for this to happen at that time, Li would have most likely needed to have passed the highest level of the imperial examination system. During the Qianlong period, among the over three hundred candidates that could pass each metropolitan-level examination, around forty to sixty of these jinshi 進士 (palace graduate...

... dedicate this special issue to Stephen H. West, my adviser during my graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In February 2017, Steve hosted the conference “Voicing Alterity: East Asian Texts in the Languages of Others” at Arizona State University (ASU), where some of the ideas...

... and below came in, but only Chen Shengqing's name was on it. Wu looked perplexed and could not explain it. Before long, the names of the top five graduates were released, with each of the remaining four of Wu's candidates placed at the top of their respective examination category, like pearls strung...

... graduates of Beijing University, Yang invited Zhu Ziqing to join him in the work of academic planning. 10 In 1930, Yang left Tsinghua for Shandong to establish Qingdao University, leaving departmental affairs in the hands of Zhu. 11 It can be said that Yang and Zhu changed the conception of “Chinese...

... experienced it in my own work on Lu Xun's early essays. In just one example, I remember being shouted down at an introductory meeting with the chairman of the Department of Chinese Literature at the Peking University, where I arrived as a foreign graduate student 33 in September 1981 when I said I...

... waves. The boatman, however, warns him that the more marvelous the spectacle, the greater the chance it is occupied by beasts and demons. To illustrate his point, he relates the story of Zhu, a juren 舉人 (graduate of the provincial imperial examinations) who after failing the civil examination...

... of poem to be written after the completion of the ninety-day summer retreat or whenever a student graduates or leaves; he illustrates the mode with two examples for Japanese monks headed off to Yuan China, written by Daichi Sokei 大智祖継 (1290–1367), who himself had spent ten years in China. The phrase...

...: This is the well-known phrase “ bu li wen zi ” (不立文字). 9. See Shen, Hai ri lou zha cong , juan 5 and 6, especially pages 185, 188, and 195–97. 10. See Hu Songping, Hu Shizhi xiansheng nianpu , 2:570 . See also Hu Shih, “Chanzong shi cao gao,” 9:56–57 . 11. As a graduate student in 1915...

... into the pavilion and said to a clerk there, “Where is Graduate Ye? Please go tell him we are here.” Ye had no choice but to come out to meet them. They bowed twice to him and delivered this speech: “Sir, since your outstanding reputation fills the Yangtze region, we as government entertainers from Zhenzhou...