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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 403–437.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that governs the novel. He is a human-like monkey, who is also an aspiring immortal, who was once a miscreant demon, who moreover never completely sheds his demon-like behavior. Journey to the West pays particular attention to the taxonomy of beings, which therefore needs a more detailed examination than has...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 160–179.
Published: 01 April 2017
... the poetry and prose of a female writer, Qian Xi, and her writing activities associated with this divination. Qian claims that the spirits she communicated with include several female immortals and her deceased husband. Some of the questions the author explores are: What are the characteristics of Qian's...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 April 2023
... zhuan 神仙傳 ( Biographies of Divine Immortals ). Siku quanshu 四庫全書, Wenyuange edition. Taipei : Taiwan shangwu yinshuguan , 1983 , 子部 14, 道家類. Sima Qian 司馬遷 . Shiji 史記 ( Records of the Grand Historian ). 10 vols. Beijing : Zhonghua shuju , 1985 . Songshi 宋史 ( Song Dynastic...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 297–335.
Published: 01 November 2023
...: the two Buddhistic statements are immediately followed by a lengthy mention of ancient Daoist hermits and their environs. The principal figures brought up there, such as Dawei, Guangchengzi, and Xu You, are all immortals and deities found in native Chinese legends. Since the locations with which...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 85–107.
Published: 01 April 2016
... expresses the idea that in the long journey of life, a constant and settled mind is of the utmost importance. Poems written by the literati reflect the attraction that go held for so many. Whether they touched upon the immortal realm or reclusion, observing chess or meeting friends over a game, most...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 412–431.
Published: 01 November 2019
... its efficacy in enabling one to “reach sainthood and enter the realm of immortality” ( rusheng chaofan 入聖超凡), 4 Tang Ao cuts off the root and puts it in his mouth. Immediately he feels invigorated, but soon he has a stomachache, followed by a loud fart with a foul smell. All of a sudden he...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 57–80.
Published: 01 April 2023
... was believed to be one of the three islands where immortals lived: Penglai, Fangzhang 方丈, and Yingzhou. 76 Penglai, as mentioned earlier, was an alternative name for Mount Luofu. Emerald City or Bicheng referred at once to a land of immortals and to the landscapes of Guangdong. 77 It was also the style...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the Huangdi Yinfu jing 皇帝陰符經 (Yellow Emperor's Scripture of the Hidden Contact, also known as Yinfu jing 陰符經): not only is Yinfu jing one of the most sacred texts in Daoism, but it can also be interpreted as a military instruction manual. 43 That the White Ape Scripture belongs to a Daoist immortal...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 203–235.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of the kind of motley costume worn by the actor-cum-immortal Lan Caihe 藍采和, see Augustin, “Daoist Image,” 141 . 75. As Tian Min notes, over time, the number of stage directions for Yuan plays increased from an average of 10.7 per play (Yuankan 元刊 plays) to 51.52 per play (Zang Maoxun's 臧懋循 Yuanqu...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 125–154.
Published: 01 November 2014
... anxiety and an underlying wish for transcendence as they leave behind a world of idyllic innocence and enter adulthood and marriage. In Ling's poem, her self-image combines the Daoist persona of an immortal maiden banished to earth from the Jasper Pool, the dwelling of the Queen Mother of the West...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 420–438.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of immortals, where the erotic element is suppressed almost to the point of erasure, turns out to be a transformation rather easily achieved. The language of the poem was already euphemistic (referring to the singing girls as goddesses), has plenty of ambiguous feminized imagery (e.g., sloping hills for curved...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 115–147.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., or her immortal soul. My reading of “Crying Statue” proceeds from Wu Yiyi's comments to consider how the object in this act unsettles and exceeds expectations for chuanqi as a genre preoccupied with totality and closure. We see this tendency most clearly in the fact that Yang's wooden likeness appears...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 89–112.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in other sanqu works by Zhang. [ Shuangdiao ] Tune: Shuixianzi , “Xihu qiuye” 西湖秋夜 (Autumn Night of the West Lake) Eating immortals' food in the boat 7 雲子船中飯 (○•)○○• Hearing girls singing on the lake 8 雪兒湖上歌 (•○)○•○ [ QYSQ , 760] [ Shuangdiao ] Tune: Shuixianzi...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Zhongming ‘Lingbo xian’ diaoci” 試論賈仲明凌波仙吊詞 ( A Tentative Study on Jia Zhongming's Elegies to the Tune of Immortal Skimming over Waves ). Yangzhou shiyuan xuebao (shehui kexueban) 揚州師院學報(社會科學版) ( Journal of Yangzhou Normal College: Social Sciences Edition ), no. 2 ( 1993 ): 20 – 23 . Hong Keyi 洪...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 30–56.
Published: 01 April 2023
... gardens and relied more on the perceived immortality of words. Those who were not able to afford a costly construction project managed to create an ideal garden on paper through painting and writing, leading to the popularity of writings about imaginary gardens in both the late Ming and Qing (1644–1912...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 57–84.
Published: 01 April 2016
... in many female-authored tanci , the two heroes are the reincarnations of immortals, sent down to earth to reestablish morality. In the public sphere, the sworn brothers serve the court with their extraordinary military skill, pacifying the Tufan rebellion on China's southwestern border and defeating...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 232–233.
Published: 01 April 2024
... specializes in classical poetry and poetics from the third through the eleventh centuries, with particular interest in literature and subjectivity, traditional literary criticism, and the theory and practice of translation. She is author of Tracking the Banished Immortal: The Poetry of Li Bo and Its Critical...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 163–202.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and refreshing images conjured up by Xue. Additionally, as the subjects of ridicule are immortals, Confucian exemplars, or prominent historical, cultural figures, the audience is very likely to experience a sense of relief or release. Such release might occur when the audience sees that the revered figures...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 April 2020
...) by the Hangzhou writer Yang Erzeng 楊爾曾 (fl. 1590–1602). Like Song Ru, Han Qing 韓清, the cousin of the titular immortal Han Xiangzi 韓湘子, encounters a terrifying beast when lost in a forest: “He saw a renxiong , its entire body and face covered in fur with only a pair of glowing red eyes shining through” 只見一個人熊,滿身滿...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 273–275.
Published: 01 April 2022
... in poetry, the history and poetics of traditional literary criticism, and the theory and practice of translation. She is the author of Tracking the Banished Immortal: The Poetry of Li Bo and Its Critical Reception (2003), translator of François Jullien's Eloge de la fadeur (2004), and editor...