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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 1–28.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Keith McMahon Abstract Literary and historical sources assumed ulterior, even diabolical, motives in the man who voluntarily became a eunuch. If he was lucky, he could become the ruler's confidant and even usurp imperial power. Focusing on Ming eunuch Wei Zhongxian (1568–1627), the article...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Lu Kou Abstract The Northern Wei dynasty (386–534) unified north China in the fifth century CE and stood as a powerful rival to the Liu Song dynasty (420–479) in the south. As military campaigns and diplomatic exchange between the two dynasties became more frequent, both courts strove to deploy...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 371–398.
Published: 01 November 2021
... relationship with imperial power. 2 But the early Qing publication projects, which have been described as a strategy for “inculcating submissiveness on a newly-conquered and restive people” 3 and for channeling the “ethical puritanism” of Qing scholars toward support of the state, 4 represented...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 359–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Elliot speaks of the enormous treasure of collectibles in the palace in comparative terms: “It is as if Qianlong wished to create a microcosm within the palace walls. Such were the demands of universality. Just as the expansion of imperial power in Europe led to the creation of museums in which...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 195–220.
Published: 01 April 2023
... women legitimized their power. Ellen Soulliere has shown that Ming imperial women's involvement with the publication of women's instruction books generally coincided with moments of crisis within the polity or dynastic line, serving to legitimate a contested succession, to recenter Chinese social norms...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., rather than the confirmation of the monarch's power and presence depicted in historical accounts, initial stanzas of the song suite show instead an extravagant and bizarre spectacle. In addition to pennants, ritual weaponry carried by the imperial honor guard is read by Sui's narrator as farm...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 487–491.
Published: 01 November 2019
... refers to the theory that these interlinked northern traditions of ruthless violence against members of the imperial household and simultaneous empowering of the women who took the mother's place may have helped legitimate Wu Zhao's rise to power, Doran unfortunately does not tie these threads back...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 483–495.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Xu Jianwei; Hardy Stewart 1. [Translator's note: For “treatise” ( zhi 志) titles, I largely follow Wilkinson, Chinese History . For official titles, I largely follow Hucker, Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China . More generally, I have consulted Cang, Shiji cidian...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of the “minor arts.” Chang argues that, to address such a predicament, Jia's sanqu songs constructed a host of identities for an idealized image of a model playwright while giving an imperial twist to his posthumous appraisals of men ostensibly far removed from the centers of political power. For one, Jia...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 203–235.
Published: 01 April 2021
... can dismiss the humor out of hand as blasphemous screed, can chuckle and be content with momentary amusement, or can attempt to hold two very different views in tension—Lao Laizi the moral exemplar and Lao Laozi the fool, Lü Dongbin the all-powerful savior and Lü Dongbin the would-be bohemian—and take...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 267–293.
Published: 01 April 2023
... epitomizes the nuanced dynamic between individuals and Confucian social norms in late imperial China. Through an exhaustive study of filial practices in Qing China, Maram Epstein proposes that passions and orthodox ideology were equally powerful in motivating filial piety. 77 By exploring “women's...
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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
...–1542) for the imperial court, was first printed in 1531. 12 Guo Xun was the great grandson of Guo Ying, one of the heroic founders of the Ming dynasty. He inherited the title of Marquis of Wuding in the early years of the Zhengde reign (1506–1521) and later rose to power in the Jiajing court. 13...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 34–65.
Published: 01 April 2018
... to nominate Emperor Zhi's successor was Liang Ji 梁冀 (d. 159 CE), the imperial relative who had dominated court politics as general-in-chief ( Da jiangjun 大將軍) since 141 CE, prompting regular resistance to his abuses of power. In one instance, Chen Xiang 陳翔, secretary in attendance on the imperial counselor...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 195–224.
Published: 01 April 2022
... the imbrication of space in all aspects of human society: as a medium of power, it is the very means through which social relations acquire their existence. Although Xiong's analysis of how Chang'an embodied imperial and geomantic ideals is certainly relevant, what Lefebvre points to is much broader and more far...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 509–512.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Xiaorong's newest book, The Poetics and Politics of Sensuality in China , in many ways complements and enriches the literary and gender dimensions engaged in her equally luminous 2012 monograph, Women's Poetry of Late Imperial China: Transforming the Inner Chambers . In her earlier work, Li focused...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 169–194.
Published: 01 April 2023
...: Narrating Filial Love during the High Qing . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2019 . Epstein, Maram . “ Patrimonial Bonds: Daughter, Fathers, and Power in Tianyuhua . ” Late Imperial China 32 , no. 2 ( 2011 ): 1 – 33 . Fattal, Alexander . “ Definition: Counterpublic...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 336–359.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... [Shi Yannian] alone can conjure up powerful and magnificent words; the words meet and complete a poetic piece. Further, the unstoppable qi and uplifted idea float beyond the lines. Students are unable to track the boundaries of his poems and emulate him. Is he not the bold and powerful among poets...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 476–480.
Published: 01 November 2020
... in specific buildings in the Northern Song palaces at Bianliang 汴梁 (present-day Kaifeng). The propagandistic significance of the painting's symbolic subjects is evidently instrumental in the reification of the imperial rule under Shenzong. The centralization of power is maintained through proper rituals...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 155–185.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of individual authorship probably depended upon the formation of a new set of imperial libraries (replacing or supplementing the older archives) in the twenty-year period from 26 to 6 BC, also the gradual development of new bibliographic tools by the reformers at Chengdi's court, who meanwhile proposed...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 429–434.
Published: 01 November 2021
... was the essence of China's acute crisis in the nineteenth century. Its early modern imperial state not only survived the crisis but also maintained its territorial integrity and emerged out of the Japanese occupation as one unified state. The ensuing civil war drove the nationalist power to establish a client...
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