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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 336–359.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Hsiao-wen Cheng Abstract This essay proposes a new perspective on Guwen 古文 (Ancient-Style Writing) in the mid-eleventh century and Cheng Yi's 程頤 Daoxue 道學 (Learning of the Way) based on two interconnected approaches. The first involves an analysis of wenqi 文氣 and the yong 用 (efficacy) of wen...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 515–544.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Chen Yinchi; Paula Varsano Abstract While few would contest the importance of phonology and aural considerations in the study of classical Chinese poetry, the musicality of guwen (ancient-style prose essays) writing has attracted little attention thus far. This article redresses this imbalance...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 375–410.
Published: 01 November 2018
... was also included in Yipin yihan . Other xiaopin anthologies also included writings by or about women that were not included in Wen zhi . In both Yipin yihan and Guwen pinwai lu , for example, we find a text titled “Wen Shangyuan furen” 問上元夫人 (Question to the Lady Shangyuan), excerpted from the Han...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 306–335.
Published: 01 November 2017
...) and guwen categories, defend the value of antiquity in literary composition. That defense found a ready audience among Northern Song readers invested in reforming contemporary literary writing. But that narrow view is balanced and tempered by the anthology's surprisingly catholic representation of writers...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 209–215.
Published: 01 November 2017
... in the euphuistic, parallel style. His anthology thus came to be known for championing genres and styles of writing associated with guwen values, and he explicitly endorsed such values in his preface. This anthology thus was both prescient and influential in preparing the way for the guwen “ancient-style...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 November 2015
... creation of all kinds—not just poetic composition but the writing of prose as well. These guwen writers stressed sound as the sole intermediary between the spiritual (the spirit 神and vital breath 氣) and the technical (words, sentences, sections, and a completed composition). Given the pivotal importance...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 357–399.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., writing: The roots of the “Lu Xun style” lie in traditional Chinese literature. The specific legacy Lu Xun inherited, according to Wang Yao 王瑤， is the classical prose ( guwen 古文) of the Wei-Jin period 魏晉 (220–420) and earlier. It may be called sanwen 散文 as opposed to the more ornate and decorative...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 382–410.
Published: 01 November 2020
... li yun 裏云 (inside it says), the original edition of the Xing Bing commentary should have been recorded on the reverse of the paper and later added to the body text. The first fascicle of the Guwen Jiushukao 古文舊書考 (Examinations of Ancient Writing and Old Books) by Shimada Kan 島田翰 (1879–1915) echoes...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 179–185.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., and historiographers drew extensively from this new resource to write their histories. By representing these texts' notes as a network, Nicoll-Johnson not only sheds light on the multipolar relations between many texts but also provides a new visual metaphor for the production and circulation of such texts...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 155–185.
Published: 01 November 2014
... hills tentatively identified as the former sites of the Tianlu ge and Shiqu ge palace libraries. Research into that library project of 26–6 BC has prompted new insights into manuscript culture in early China, especially as it relates to questions of authorship and what was considered “fine writing...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 256–272.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Publications , 2021 . Des Forges . “ Who Am ‘I’ in the Ming and Qing? First-Person Dynamics in Modern Prose ( shiwen ) Examination Essays and Classical Prose ( guwen ) Prefaces .” East Asian Journal of Sinology 15 ( 2021 ): 9 – 46 . Duara, Prasenjit . Culture, Power, and the State: Rural...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 339–381.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Yu wenji huijiao jianzhu 韓愈文集彙校箋注 ( The Works of Han Yu, with Collected Collations and Annotations ). Vol. 3 . Beijing : Zhonghua shuju , 2010 . Liu Zunju 劉尊舉 . “‘Yi guwen wei shiwen’ de chuangzuo xingtai yu wenxueshi yiyi” “以古文為時文”的創作形態及文學史意義 ( “Writing Eight-Legged Essays in the Style...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 444–480.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the relationship between rhythmic structure and word arrangement in parallel prose and verse of classical Chinese and is not merely limited to the preface “Teng Wang Ge Xu” by Wang Bo. We thank the anonymous reviewer for bringing this to our attention. 23. The translations are from Luo, Guwen guanzhi...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 91–114.
Published: 01 April 2024
... , quoting Mitchell, What Do Pictures Want? , 156–57) . 18. Bennett, Vibrant Matter , ix . 19. My translation follows Wu, Monumentality , 5 , with some modifications. My analysis of the text benefited from Wu Hung's discussion of the same text (1–17), as well as Campany, Strange Writing...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 545–572.
Published: 01 November 2015
... in fact chose to foreground syllable count and interline rhythm. Significantly, the count of characters or syllables per line is the oldest criterion for defining and classifying poetic genres. In Wenzhang liubie lun 文章流別論 (On the Differentiation and Evolution of Refined Writing), Zhi Yu 摯虞...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Poets and Cultural Androgyny. ” In Feminism/Femininity in Chinese Literature , edited by P. Chen and W. Crothers Dilley , 21 – 31 . New York : Rodopi , 2002 . Chen Zhenpeng 陳振鵬 and Zhang Peiheng 張培恆 , eds. Guwen jianshang cidian 古文鑑賞辭典 ( Dictionary for Appreciation of Classical...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 48–90.
Published: 01 April 2024
... yet again in a manner markedly consistent with those of the monkey and those of Shakyamuni. Xiyan Liaohui writes: At midnight he saw the morning star, and in the mountains, made a cold remark. 夜半見明星，山中添冷話 Before he had emerged from the mountains, that remark had traveled the world: 腳未出山來，此話行天...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 335–356.
Published: 01 November 2016
... was thrice denounced—as a member of the Hu Feng clique in 1955, as a rightist in 1957, and as a counterrevolutionary in 1967 for his critique of the extreme political measures of the time. Political persecution spurred Nie's serious interest in writing classical-style poetry, in which he redefined the role...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 289–308.
Published: 01 November 2014
... . Sima Qian 司馬遷 (145?–86? BCE). Shiji 史記 ( Historical Records ). Beijing : Zhonghua , 1959 . Wang Guowei 王國維 (1877–1927). Guan tang ji lin 觀堂集林 ( Collected Writings of Wang Guowei ). Beijing : Zhonghua , 1959 . Wei Zheng 魏 , comp. Suishu 隋書 ( History of the Sui ). Beijing...
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In Praise of This Prosperous and Harmonious Empire: Sanqu , Ming Anthologies, and the Imperial Court
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 139–162.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and their readers, Yuming He well illustrates the circulation of content across commercial, literati, and court milieus. For example, through a survey of the printing history of the popular prose anthology Guwen zhenbao 古文真寳 (True Treasures of Ancient-style Writing), she demonstrates that the anthology long...
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