... Li E Abstract The Southern Song poet Yang Wanli is known for his Chengzhai style, prominent features of which include humorous language, easy syntax, and nature as the source of inspiration. This article examines two characteristics of Yang's nature poems that contribute to the development of his...

.... The sanqu 's use of performance tropes expands the scope of criticism in this humorous piece past concerns about Yuan rulership, or even the imperial institution, to broader questions of representational instability and uncertainty. These shifts implicate readers in a social and political critique...

...). The Yifanfeng parting poems apply Buddhist themes and Chan humor to the mode of parting poetry, notably deviating from Song Dynasty norms of parting poems. The parting verses use poetic forms to express religious ideals and to adorn the culmination of Nanpo's pilgrimage to China. A mode of poetry...

... wore the mantle of the entire classical tradition, Nie Gannu expresses the deepest despair through deceptively humorous rustic topics, and Wang Xindi's grief over separation and loss recall Du Fu's poetry of the An Lushan Rebellion. Although the thirty years between the establishment of the People's...

... as a complex issue. The professional relations suggest a more plebian, but not simple, outlook on the fundamental Confucian value of trustworthiness. sschneewind@ucsd.edu Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Ming daily life humor occupational sociology xin 信 A man...

... oeuvre as a whole and how he positioned his work within the cultural and literary landscape. Thus, my translation takes into consideration Xue's broader project as a poet, as well as the position of sanqu in his literary sphere. This includes his humorous series portraying prominent Chinese figures...

... throughout the play both as humor—perhaps intended as a parody of the object under consideration—and also to underscore the fictional nature of the theater.” 33 For example, when the female lead Poorlass seeks out her newly graduated husband, the gatekeeper says, “Oh, it's just a fake female” in allusion...

... literary history, religion, and literati culture in medieval China. He is currently writing his dissertation, “The Poetics of Banter: Miscellany Writing and Literati Culture in Northern Song China (960–1127).” He explores how humorous writing reflected and shaped new literary, religious, and political...

... published on Chinese wit and humor, representations of ghosts and monsters, and images of demons and deities. JENN MARIE NUNES is the author of two books of poetry: Those People (2020), winner of the National Poetry Review Press Book Prize, and AND/OR (2015), winner of the Switchback Books Queer...

... been categorized and deemed deviant in a particular era. In this spirit Goldin's essay on incest narratives begins by noting that just as it often requires considerable historical imagination to recover the humor in ancient jokes, the landscape of sexual deviancy in early imperial and medieval China...

... ) and the doctrines of emptiness and universality of Buddha-nature are fundamental to the poems given to Nanpo, as is the famous Chan delight in irony, humor, and nonsense. All of this makes for treatment of a friend's departure that is utterly different from the conventions of mainstream parting poetry, and we thus...

... and sheng roles, and the first prologue contains a short piece of All Keys ( zhugongdiao 諸宮調), a form of chantefable popular in the Song, Jin, and Yuan times. The plot development follows the two parallel threads of Zhang Xie and Poorlass Wang, juxtaposed with each other; and humor and comic routine...

... Xue's most distinctive sanqu is a series of over twenty songs that treat various figures from Chinese religion, history, and literature in a humorous fashion. 64 I examine two of those, one about a Confucian exemplar and one about a Daoist patriarch, as examples of literati experiments with mixed...

... practices and official historiography for maximum humorous effect, also relies on that same reader's familiarity with the argot of the stage. In contrast to other theatrical recognition scenes that bridge opposing points of view, the song's closing stanza sharpens the dissonance between royal pageant...

... humorously invites the reader to enter another level, to cross the border of gender differences. In his poem he uses the phrase “greasy powder, leftover rouge” ( fenni zhican 粉膩脂殘) to compare himself to a woman cast out by society, as related in the beginning of his self-commentary: “Flicking my sleeve, I...

... exuberance over what had been irrevocably passed into history. Although the ultimate demise of bagu came only at the end of his life, something of this poem's mixture of lament for and humorous chiding of the form was anticipated in Yu's earlier career as an essayist. In penning the 1856 essay topics...

... in classical and vernacular language to humorously comment ( xiti 戲題) on a photograph of himself. Who is this person? Is this me? Is this really me? Dozens or hundreds of years ago, there was already a me, but this is not today's me; dozens or hundreds of years later, there is still a me...

..., and borrowing oral language, as well as personifying the application of argumentation and humor. Concerning Du Fu's ballads, Xin Xiaojuan's Du Fu gexing yishu yanjiu 杜甫歌行藝術研究 (A Study of the Art of Du Fu's Ballads) is a monograph characterized by deep and subtle ideas. Chronologizing more than 140 of Du...

... combine a literary sensibility of eremitic reclusion with a spirit of mocking the pursuit of fame and fortune ( bishi - wanshi 避世-玩世) while featuring a humorous, frank, and sincere literary style, a popular and unrefined language, and an aesthetic tendency to valorize ugliness. 5 As for Ming dynasty...

... (“Humor” Explained, with Examples), LXQJ , 5:360. For Lu Xun's mockeries of contemporary gentry Buddhists, see also “Duanwujie” 端午節 (Dragon Boat Festival), LXQJ , 1:563; “Gudu zhe” 孤獨者 (The Misanthrope), LXQJ , 2:93; and “Qingzhu huning kefu de nayibian” 慶祝滬寧克復的那一邊 (That Side Which Is Celebrating...