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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 (2023) 10 (2): 438–460.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and Text Value of the Self-Commentaries of Mid-Tang Poetry ). Wenxian jikan 文獻季刊 ( Philology Quarterly ), no. 2 ( 2010 ): 39 – 50 . Xiang Xuan 項旋 . Huangquan yu jiaohua: Qingdai Wuyingdian xiushuchu yanjiu 皇權與教化：清代武英殿修書處研究 ( Imperial Power and Moral Transformation: A Study on the Printing...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 413–418.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., in the debate between Huan Xuan 桓玄 (369–404) and Master Huiyuan 慧遠 (334–416), the imperial power attempted to suppress religion, but Huiyuan responded to this imperial suppression with a strategy of “translation as citation” (17). Saussy discusses not only translation strategies but also the direction...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 371–398.
Published: 01 November 2021
... commissioned massive publication projects on the Chinese classics. 1 Classical scholarship had long had a mutually legitimizing 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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 359–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... Just as the expansion of imperial power in Europe led to the creation of museums in which ‘everything under the sun’ was displayed, so in Qing China the expansion of central power resulted in the formation of a collection reflecting plentitude and magnificence.” 45 The wide range of interests...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 195–220.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Xiaozhuang commissioned the Nei ze yanyi , with its preface by the emperor himself, she was using a time-honored strategy by which imperial women legitimized their power. Ellen Soulliere has shown that Ming imperial women's involvement with the publication of women's instruction books generally coincided...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in the articles and activities of local life, demonstrates an odd inability to comprehend any symbolic significance in the imperial display. As a result, 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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 487–491.
Published: 01 November 2019
... threat to the male-identified yang order: private wealth is si 私 as opposed to the communal gong 公 order; sex and materiality, like women, embody the destructive power of se 色 (desires). This symbolic vocabulary became the basic language of much of late imperial fiction; I wish Doran had provided...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 483–495.
Published: 01 November 2022
... to consider the following: Why did the desire among literati to create new imperial classics fade away after the middle Eastern Han? Considering the preface to the Taishigong shu , Sima Qian 司馬遷 (ca. 145–86 BCE) did not in fact seek to imitate the Five Classics; rather, he felt he was creating a new classic...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 461–486.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Shoufu Yin Abstract A vast array of “vernacular” novels from late imperial and modern China feature well-edited official documents such as decrees, edicts, and memorials. The present study argues that these long-overlooked official documents offer unique access to creative political ideas...
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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
... ): 182 – 98 . Crump, J. I. Songs from Xanadu . Ann Arbor : Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan , 1983 . Elman, Benjamin A. “ Imperial Politics and Confucian Societies in Late Imperial China: The Hanlin and Donglin Academies .” Modern China 15 , no. 4 ( 1989 ): 379...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 267–293.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... The variegated female agency represented in literature and theater 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...
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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
...–41 . Shanghai : Shanghai guji chubanshe , 1995 . Yu, Pauline . “ Poems for the Emperor: Imperial Tastes in the Early Ninth Century .” In Rhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court Culture: China, Europe, and Japan , edited by David R. Knechtges and Eugene Vance , 73 – 93...
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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
... imperial metageography and had enduring influences in later history. Focusing on a specific collection, one of my own articles explores different kinds of power dynamics regarding city residents' engagements with space and the textual representations of those engagements. A memoir of the ruined capital...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 509–512.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to truly open late imperial Chinese poetry studies to realize the potential that a more consistent engagement with gender not just as a theme but also as a discipline could bring to the field. One could also wonder how powerful xiangyan as a countercultural force truly was if Shen Deqian and others could...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 169–194.
Published: 01 April 2023
...: Daughter, Fathers, and Power in Tianyuhua . ” Late Imperial China 32 , no. 2 ( 2011 ): 1 – 33 . Fattal, Alexander . “ Definition: Counterpublic. ” In International Encyclopedia of Anthropology , edited by Hilary Callan Hoboken . NJ : Wiley Online Library , 2018 . https...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 476–480.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of the imperial rule under Shenzong. The centralization of power is maintained through proper rituals, and any changes to these rituals become an important gesture that would signal the changing ties of political fortune. In chapter 2, the rituals depicted in Li Gonglin's handscroll Xiaojing tujuan 孝經圖卷...
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