.... A series of modern social reforms (e.g., coeducation and free marriage), however, while they impact the appetite for classical lovesickness narratives, fail to fundamentally shake the cognitive paradigm and writing strategy that employs the trope of illness to express passionate feelings. The classical...

... archaeologists are ill-informed about the periods they study (not Li Ling, needless to say). In my limited experience, those who think “what you see is what you get” tend to rely on the textbook truisms they mastered in high school. I was recently reminded of this when perusing two recent books based...

... through the peculiar prism of Guo Baochang's 2005 opera film Chungui meng 春閨夢 (Dream of the Bridal Chamber). And that prism particularly takes the form of a series of moon gates ( yueliang men 月亮門), an architectural trope invoked throughout the film signifying the cybernetic circuit of gateways...

... it is not possible to identify Xue as a member of a diasporic Islamic community. Instead, this corpus shows Xue's mastery of the Chinese literary tradition: his songs mention prominent poets of the past and abound in Chinese literary tropes. 45 Given Xue Angfu's ethnocultural background and its absence...

... the trope of female cross-dressing in Zaisheng yuan to create a space of interiority in which to explore “the plight that the patriarchal system imposes on the desiring woman in both the inner and outer spheres.” 23 In her loquacious autobiographical passages, Qiu Xinru 邱心如 (fl. 1845), the author...

...Najung Kim Abstract The loyalist painter Gong Kai (1222–1307) utilized the historical literary trope of the ji 驥 horse, the fine steed capable of covering one thousand li in a day, as an essential part of his artistic rhetoric in response to the violent Song-Yuan dynastic turn. Drawing literary...

... of “Slicing Off a Piece of Flesh to Cure the Illness” (Gegu liaobing 割股療病) and the accompanying self-inscription is the filial act known as gegu , which sons, daughters-in-law, and daughters undertook by slicing off a piece of flesh from their arm or thigh to use as medicine to cure a parent's illness. 81...

... does not condemn that custom. Fu addresses both poverty and peer pressure in his commentary on biographies of widows who resisted the admonitions of well-meaning neighbors, parents, and parents-in-law to remarry; one such woman even resisted her own seriously ill husband's dying wish that she would...

... collection of his poems written after 1751. See Hummel, Eminent Chinese , 1:147 . 46. This line could also be translated as fighting for the initiative, a term for taking the lead in a section of the board. See the Hanyu dacidian 漢語大辭典 for this definition. 47. A trope for the pleasures...

... the conventional trope of boudoir plaint by deploying her personal experience and memories of the pleasure quarters—the “opposite space” of the boudoir. Now in the role of a confined and longing wife, she imagined the poetry contests and extravagant banquets in the pleasure quarters and implicitly complained about...

... memento. The trope of seeing the painter in the painting later becomes so commonplace it is easy to lose sight of how extraordinary this was at the time and how specific Su was in applying it to Wen Tong. The process was under way by the late 1060s, when the Su brothers and Wen were in mourning...

..., and smells of Hangzhou from Southern Song texts thus replicate, in reverse direction, the attempts of the twelfth- and thirteenth-century authors to devise effective tropes and suitable genres that would preserve their living impressions of the city in writing” (xviii). The introduction does not discuss...

... on mortality. By reconstructing Hong's innovations in the handling of both the trope of a living image and tales surrounding Lady Yang's portrait, I suggest that the affective power of the crying statue ultimately inheres in its resistance to full animation. What matters for Hong Sheng is not so much...

... Judging by the activities of contemporary intellectual circles, we've gotten used to selecting Chinese subjects [for literary study] in terms of Western concepts. For good or ill, this has become an inevitable tendency. 現在學術界的趨勢，往往以西方觀念(如「文學批評」)為範圍去選擇中國的問題；姑無論將來是好是壞，這已經是不可避免的事實。 —Zhu Ziqing, “Ping Guo...

... that the precise meaning of the word metaphor as used in Western literary criticism is contested at best, she turns to the possibilities of its application in the Chinese tradition, observing that, while “most critics have taken for granted the existence of tropes equivalent to those which pass for ‘metaphor...

..., calligraphies, and paintings that he produced. He began with ten poems in 1503, prompted by an illness that kept him from enjoying the seasonal blossoming of spring fruit trees in the Suzhou area. Shen's intention was to record his meditations on the passage of time and human mortality, but the act of writing...

...” was a commonly employed trope in the first half of the seventeenth century, though one that ultimately had roots in early times. For more on this, see Sturman, “Art of Reclusion,” especially 16–35. 40. The preface title and notes are recorded in fascicle 15 of Wang Qishu's (1728–1799) Xie fang ji 撷芳集...

... for inappropriate, ill-placed memories), place holds in by giving to memories an authentically local habitation: by being their place-holder.” 24 Pathways, horizons, and things appear as images, or in images as the loci, linked to their concrete emplacement in memory. For Bachelard, localization in the spaces...

... themselves as fairy maidens exiled from paradise to a dirty world—the Red Dust—and Ling Zhiyuan is not alone in using this trope for self-representation on her twentieth birthday. 35 These poetic gestures by adolescent girls may also be interpreted as a self-performed rite of passage that expresses...

... of famous local artists and calligraphers, though he is too ill-educated to appreciate them. In a later chapter he has literati friends compose couplets to give to his courtesan-mistress, Shuanglin 雙林 (Paria), but the couplets, unbeknownst to him, conceal dirty hints, which the literate Shuanglin notes...