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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
... Xiangru 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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 306–335.
Published: 01 November 2017
... finally found a very receptive climate after the work was printed in 1039, almost twenty years after Yao's death. By then, Ouyang Xiu and others were seeking to promote the guwen style—a moderate, balanced approach to prose writing—as the Song Dynasty standard. The fact that Yao's approach to reading...
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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
... foundation of literary 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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 357–399.
Published: 01 November 2016
... In his chapter in Lu Xun and His Legacy , an edited collection of papers, Lee addresses the early essays, 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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 382–410.
Published: 01 November 2020
... 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 this view. However, the whereabouts...
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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
... investments of time and effort; it is no accident that Cherishing Time Associations ( xiyin hui 惜陰會) and Cherishing Written Character Associations ( xizi hui 惜字會) flourished during the Ming and Qing. 30 At the same time, “leisure” pursuits such as novel reading, writing occasional classical prose...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 339–381.
Published: 01 November 2020
... genres, see Deng, Qing dai baguwen , 165–77 . 33. On the influence of ancient-style prose on the writing of eight-legged essays, see Liu Zunju, “‘Yi guwen wei shiwen’ de chuangzuo xingtai.” 34. For a parody of the eight-legged essay, see HTRCProse , C14.2, You Tong 尤侗, “How...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 444–480.
Published: 01 November 2015
... dynasty, its writers were conceited due to their ability to make sentences colorful, sound nice, and to decorate them with flowery language. 西漢之時、雖屬韻文，而對偶之法未嚴。東漢之文，漸尚對偶，若魏代之體，則又以聲色相矜，以藻繪相飾。 Since the Eastern Han, persuasive writing has usually used single lines and single words, matched up with one...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 545–572.
Published: 01 November 2015
... on Chinese characters. 2 Ironically, such critiques brought Chinese characters into the limelight of Chinese literary scholarship. The mid-twentieth century witnessed earnest endeavors by Sinologists to unlock the secret of Chinese poetic art by tracing its root in Chinese writing. Among the seminal works...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 April 2023
... not be in accord with one's nature and feeling. If one is not in accord with one's nature and feeling, how can one write poetry? 3 As Grace Fong explains, Shen Cai, like Yuan Mei 袁枚 (1716–1797) and the circle of women poets around him, embraces a theory of poetry as an expression of the self, of natural...
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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
... : State University of New York Press , 2006 . 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...
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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
... 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 captured the attention of commercial editors...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 113–138.
Published: 01 April 2021
... by the compilers or disseminators based on the subject matter rather than inherited directly from its original author. In this regard, the writing of stereotyped subject matter, what is typically judged a defect from an author-centered aesthetic perspective, provided potential vitality that expanded the text's...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 216–240.
Published: 01 November 2014
... from officialdom; as his body began to fail him in old age, he grasped the present while pursuing the past and could not help but sigh. From the central couplets on, he turns to write about his delight in moving away and building a residence. The emotional tone abruptly shifts with the line “I have...
