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A Flavor All Its Own: Some Theoretical Considerations on Sanqu Songs as Mixed-Register Literature
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 203–235.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Patricia Sieber Abstract This article proposes a new typology of the sanqu corpus. The discussion analyzes a cross section of sanqu songs in terms of how they engaged with language registers, on the one hand, and how they recontextualized existing motifs and media, on the other. Specifically...
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In Search of Pure Sound: Sanqu Songs, Genre Aesthetics, and Translation Tactics
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 163–202.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of musicality and other salient features of the genre. The six essays discuss, respectively, pronouns, rhyme, punctuation, language registers, allusion, and citational practice. In contextualizing such strategies theoretically and illustrating them with examples, the short essays seek to contribute more broadly...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2022
... to it thanks in part to Jesuit moral preoccupations. Sieber discusses the exceptionally rich variation in language registers and their rhetorical manipulation in all three of the early theatrical genres ( zaju 雜劇, nanxi 南戲, and chuanqi 傳奇) and notes how the attention to language use in which recent...
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Whither Theatricality? Toward Traditional Chinese Drama and Theater ( Xiqu 戲曲) as World Theater
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
... to the imbrication of language registers, phrasing, and mood, Chinese theater critics from the Yuan dynasty onward commented on the peculiar texture of dramatic language. While some critics found drama too vulgar to count it among wenzhang 文章 (belles lettres) properly speaking, 27 others were entranced...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2021
... own solution for extended fictional narrative was the notion of an “encyclopedic novel” that mediates its narration through countless other imprints. 20 Taking its cue from Shang's genre-based approach, my article approaches a sampling of sanqu through the issue of language registers...
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Top Graduate Zhang Xie: The Earliest Extant Chinese Southern Play
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 476–482.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... As the earliest extant nanxi play, Top Graduate is close to the folk tradition in aesthetics and language; thus, the choice of the language register in English should be able to reflect these features. Llamas's translation is clear, smooth, and readable, providing her readers with a pleasant and enjoyable...
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Performing the Emperor: Sui Jingchen's “Han Gaozu Returns to His Home Village”
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2021
... ‘Dajia lubu tushu zhongdao’ yanjiu.” 25. Sui, Quan Yuan sanqu , 544 . 26. As literary works through the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries show an expansion of language register and broadening of voice, changes in Yuan administration shift effective political expression past the bounds...
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Nobody's Genre, Everybody's Song: Sanqu Songs and the Expansion of the Literary Sphere in Yuan China
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 29–64.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., cosmopolitanism, and urban culture. 40. Wang, “Cong Yuankanben,” 245–48 . In Zhong Sicheng's Register , among the two generations of qu writers who were active in the South because they had relocated there, had official ties to the area, or were born there, many did not write zaju plays, and those who...
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On Translating Mountains and Seas : A Review Essay
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 487–513.
Published: 01 November 2023
... is temporally distant and thus strange to contemporary readers. When a translation uses an archaic register, it is the words that readers encounter as strange; only when readers encounter the same text written in familiar, contemporary language do they fully recognize that the strangeness arises from content...
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Manuscript Culture in Late Western Han, and the Implications for Authors and Authority
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 155–185.
Published: 01 November 2014
... for which evidence still remains that prompts my first observation registered above regarding redating. 29 A clear picture emerges: following the legends claiming that Kongzi had culled nine-tenths of the Odes to produce the 305 poems in the Odes classic 詩, and whittled down the Documents...
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Plays within Songs: Sanqu Songs from Literary Refinement ( ya ) to Popular Appeal ( su )
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 307–340.
Published: 01 November 2021
... yuefu in their title, but they are all, with the exception of Yuefu qunyu , exclusively devoted to single-stanza sanqu songs ( xiaoling 小令) and song suites composed of multiple tunes ( taoshu 套數, also known as santao 散套). 2 Similarly, in his Lugui bu 錄鬼簿 (Register of Ghosts, ca. 1345...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 203–214.
Published: 01 November 2016
... to register the schizophrenic nature between, and within, classical and modern script systems, and throughout his career he never ceased to question the assumption of the total communicability of language and writing. Aside from writing iconoclastic subjects with recourse to the vernacular language, Lu Xun...
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The Translator's Mirror for the Romantic: Cao Xueqin's Dream and David Hawkes’ Stone
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 395–400.
Published: 01 November 2024
... , translated by David Hawkes and John Minford . Shanghai : Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press , 2012 . Fan, Shengyu . “ The Lost Translator's Copy: David Hawkes’ Construction of a Base Text in Translating Hongloumeng .” Translation Review , no. 100 ( 2018 ): 37 – 64 . 2...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 November 2015
...: the tetrasyllabic poems of the Shijing 詩經 ( Book of Poetry ) and the pentasyllabic poems of the Han dynasty. Jonathan Smith begins from linguists' observations of nonarbitrary relationships between sound and meaning in many languages: in English, for instance, consider the /gl/ of glare , glow , and gleam...
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A Dialectic between Genres and Extension of Poetic Functions: Zhang Kejiu's “Regulated Songs”
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 89–112.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., as Zhang Kejiu's poem above demonstrates, uses carefully crafted sentences, refined language, and illusions from classical works, which keeps the emotions of the text in a state of potentiality—feelings unexpressed directly, but hinted at through muted gesture. 1 West also warned against...
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Parallel Prose and Spatiotemporal Freedom: A Case for Creative Syntax in “Wucheng Fu”
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 444–480.
Published: 01 November 2015
... in the Chinese language, but why is it that prose is formed with lines of four and six syllables? Why is the four-six form favored in essays rather than in poems? And what is the aesthetic principle behind four-six prose? These are the questions that this essay attempts to answer. It is argued that poetic...
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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
... that Monkey's hairy ugliness and inability to completely transform into a human are immaterial in light of the fantastic skills he commands, without which the pilgrimage would fail. In the language of Journey to the West , Monkey is a demon-immortal ( yaoxian 妖仙), which is not a category of thought in animal...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... human-nonhuman interface language silence voice In April 2023 a group of scholars of premodern and modern China, working in a variety of subdisciplines, gathered to consider one central question: how have the producers of Chinese literature, thought, art, science, and popular culture conceived...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2015
... the willow image to announce her new role as the wife of Qian Qianyi 錢謙益 (1582–1664), a leading poet of the time, while celebrating their romantic and artistic union in a visual language, despite her physical absence from the painting. Also interesting is how, as Lee demonstrates, Huang Jieling 黃皆令 (ca. 1620...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2016
... writings. 4 In short, the Chinese lyric subject is the unnamed entity imagined as living in and responding to the world and consequently, unavoidably, expressing itself in poetry. This subject is accessible and interpretable only inasmuch as it is bodied forth in poetic language. This formulation...
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