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From Watōnai to Coxinga: Shaping and Reshaping Identities in the Kokusenya Kassen
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 370–394.
Published: 01 November 2024
... its characters’ identities. Such an inquiry is not only political or philosophical but also theatrical, since a practical consideration in bunraku 文楽 (puppet theater) is precisely how to distinguish the characters that the puppets represent. Focusing on the characters’ identity shifts, particularly...
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Identities and Literary Culture in Qing China: Manchu Emperors as Chinese Poets, Readers, and Publishers
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 359–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
... not restrain himself from writing poetry in Chinese. In light of the theory of multiple identities and acculturation of John Berry, it is reasonable to argue that Qianlong, despite his unambiguous identification with the Manchus as the conquering ethnic group, in tortuous ways had come to embrace the identity...
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Cultural Identity and Cultural Difference in Zuozhuan
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 7–33.
Published: 01 April 2020
... on military strategy, the choice of war or peace, or the etiquette of presenting the spoils of victory, we see how attention to particular motives and circumstances driving historical developments results in a complex and nuanced picture that resists simplistic and moralized formulations of cultural identity...
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Multiple Otherness: Identity Politics in the Taiping Civil War
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 215–231.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of a religious and political enemy is vital to Taiping identity formation. The author focuses on marginal figures in historical and fictional accounts who traverse political boundaries and constitute a third category beyond demarcations of “us” and Other in Taiping propaganda and its Qing counterpart. In short...
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Space and Identity: Self-Representation of a Ming Nanjing Courtesan in Transformation
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 397–424.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Jiani Chen Abstract This article examines the poetic collections of the Ming woman writer Yang Wan 楊宛 (ca. 1600–ca. 1647), whose transformation of identity from a courtesan celebrity to a gentry wife was one of the most representative in the category of courtesan turned concubine/wife. Her marriage...
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The Power of Nostalgia: Memory, Identity, and Authority in the Shishuo xinyu
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 308–337.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... In the collection, the public display and use of personal memory of the cultural past are taken as means to preserve cultural legacy, construct cultural identity, and establish cultural authority in the elite literati community. Cultural memory gained much significance after the migration of the Western Jin 西晉 (265...
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Who Am I? Identity, Resistance, and Resilience in the Classical-Style Poetry of Nie Gannu
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 335–356.
Published: 01 November 2016
... that a country without poets risks losing its unique cultural identity because only poets can articulate the genuine voice of a people's soul. While Lu exhorts “the warriors of the spirit” to arise in China and bring a genuine new voice to wake the Chinese people from their deep sleep, he also admits...
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Performing the Role of Playwright: Jia Zhongming's Sanqu Songs in the Supplement to The Register of Ghosts
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Wenbo Chang Abstract This article investigates how sanqu composition modifies the social contract of poetic composition in how a text is mediated between authorship and social identity, through a close analysis of Jia Zhongming's sanqu songs written in the supplement to The Register of Ghosts...
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Inward Turns, Then and Now
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 256–272.
Published: 01 April 2022
... identity in the age of algorithms? [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 involution eight-legged essay productivity subjectivity parallelism The term involution ( neijuan 內卷) has enjoyed a certain vogue for decades in Sinological circles...
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Virtue and Women's Authorship in Chinese Art History: A Study of Yutai huashi (History of Painting from Jade Terrace)
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 221–243.
Published: 01 April 2023
... painted, its acknowledged author, Tang Shuyu, draws connections between women authors (defined broadly here to include both artists and writers) and virtuous women. First, her organization of the text's first five chapters foregrounds the social identities of women painters—a system that hints...
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“She Whistles Freely Shunning Companions”: The Embedded and Transcendent Selves of Poet-Painter Wang Liang in the Eighteenth Century
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., and social exchange. I delve into her extant poetry and commentary about her to present her life and art as a contrapuntal play between embedded and transcendent modes of identity and expression. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 poetry weiqi Go gender...
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Demon-Immortal Monkey: Categories of Being in the Cosmos of Journey to the West
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 403–437.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Keith McMahon Abstract A little-studied aspect of the Monkey character 孫悟空 (Sun Wukong) in Wu Cheng'en's 吳承恩 Xiyou ji 西遊記 (Journey to the West) is his identity in terms of category of being, that is, how he fits into and rebels against the cosmic system of the ranking and classifying of beings...
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The Boundary of Chinese Music: A Cultural and Aesthetic Comparison between Pipa and Guqin
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 425–457.
Published: 01 November 2022
... the importance of homogeneity over heterogeneity due to the constant need for political unity and demand of a single market. However, cultural identity cannot be constructed by homogeneity alone since the boundary of culture can only be best identified when examining its heterogeneity. Pipa and guqin , which...
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Where Have All the Guixiu Gone? Chinese “Women of Talent” at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Xiaorong Li Abstract Guixiu 閨秀 (cultivated gentlewomen of the inner chambers) and cainü 才女 (women of talent) arguably became authorly identities (referring to women writing in classical verse) as women's literary culture took shape in Ming-Qing China. However, the guixiu and cainü were gradually...
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Gendering the Planchette: Female Writer Qian Xi's (1872–1930) Spiritual World
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 160–179.
Published: 01 April 2017
... creations was significant in meeting her emotional needs, highlighting her identity as a talented woman, and demonstrating the worth of her very existence. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 wielding the planchette Qian Xi Qing female writer female immortals imagination...
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Sound Symbolism in the Reduplicative Vocabulary of the Shijing
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 258–285.
Published: 01 November 2015
... in OC -aŋ concerns openness of space. Relatively clear examples of such words among the identical reduplicatives of the Odes appear to be *hlaŋ-hlaŋ 湯湯, *maŋ-maŋ 芒芒, *ʔjaŋ-ʔjaŋ 泱泱 and *ljaŋ-ljaŋ 洋洋, all used in reference to vast open spaces of land or water. The set produces a p -value of 0.013...
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Between the Interior and the Artifactual: Reading the Ci Space
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 56–90.
Published: 01 April 2017
...), and the poem insinuates his disgraceful affair with a courtesan and his atonement for her faux pas. 9 The anecdote identifies, in unambiguous language, the courtesan as the persona and occupant of this boudoir. Her identity as the owner of the boudoir is key to the enactment of this given space, as I shall...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of any writing identity. . . . then it matters not who writes.” Miller further argued that “the postmodernist decision that the Author is dead, and subjective agency along with him, does not necessarily work for women and prematurely forecloses the question of identity for them.” 2 By the 1990s...
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Digital Approaches to Text Reuse in the Early Chinese Corpus
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 186–213.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to be determined by a straightforward identity comparison: cat and catch are two distinct and unrelated tokens, despite the latter containing the former, because they are not identical sequences of symbols—no further analysis of the structure of the tokens themselves is required to determine...
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Lore and Verse: Poems on History in Early Medieval China
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 514–516.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., actively appropriated and adapted historical lore to their own ends. His analysis of their literary practices is enhanced by his understanding of the theories related to historical memory and formation of cultural identity. In short, Zhang's work has enriched our understanding of the history of poetic...
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