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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 483–486.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Katherine Carlitz Zhang Yingyu . The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection . Translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk . New York : Columbia University Press , 2017 . xxxvi , 226 pp. ISBN 9780231178631 (paperback); ISBN 9780231178624 (hardcover...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 307–340.
Published: 01 November 2021
...) is the best-known example of a pastiche of zaju play titles and dramatic protagonists intended to stimulate and guide readers' imagination. When late Ming dramatist Shen Jing 沈璟 (1553–1610) imitated Sun's pastiche song suite, he painstakingly sought to disrupt the obvious association between lyric and invoked...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 115–148.
Published: 01 April 2020
... have confirmed its historical value, evaluated its literary achievement as fantastic literature, or criticized its plagiarism, this article situates the novel within the context of the late-Ming publishing boom and expanding world knowledge and examines how its author negotiates cultural boundaries...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 169–204.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Xiaorong Li Abstract The “hundred beauties” ( baimei 百美) genre, begun in the late Ming and established during the Qing, conventionally depicted one hundred “beautiful women” ( meiren 美人), selected from Chinese history through woodblock print portraits, biographies, and poems. During...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 96–136.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Anne Burkus-Chasson Abstract Historians of Chinese literature and philosophy have written extensively about the significance of emotion ( qing 情) in late Ming times (1522–1644). But how did a pictorial image manifest emotion, and how were its visible signs of emotion conceptualized? This article...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 397–424.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Yang Wan poetry collections late Ming Nanjing space Yang Wan 楊宛 (ca. 1600–ca. 1647) was a well-known courtesan of late Ming Nanjing who left us with possibly the only extant series of individual collections by a Nanjing courtesan from her...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 175–202.
Published: 01 April 2016
... publishing venture is well known. A huge influx of silver from Japan and Latin America into China from the sixteenth century onward had greatly contributed to the late Ming's economic boom, especially in the Jiangnan area. Not only merchants profited from these developments but also the established gentry...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 509–512.
Published: 01 November 2019
... stifle its exuberance and its appeal to men of letters for more than two hundred years. More pointedly, while of course Li's focus is shi poetry, it would have been interesting to see her engage a bit more with the legacy of the late Ming poetic material she so deftly analyzes in the first part of her...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 375–410.
Published: 01 November 2018
... movement is exactly identical to that of the late Ming movement.” 9 This twentieth-century narrative was not invented out of whole cloth. Rather, it was an attempt to piece together disparate Ming and Qing dynasty sources into a genealogy of the New Literature movement. 10 More recent studies...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 1–28.
Published: 01 November 2014
... shuju , 1995 (1965). Fang Ruhao 方汝浩 (late Ming). Chanzhen houshi 禪真後史 ( Later Tales of the True Way ). Hangzhou : Zhejiang guji chubanshe , 1987 . Fang Xuanling 房玄齡 (579–648). Jinshu 晉書 ( Book of the Jin ). Beijing : Zhonghua shuju , 1974 . Findly, Ellison . Nur Jahan...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 November 2019
... another love story nor a religious tract, nor even the sum of both. 2 Its narrative amalgamation exemplifies the continuation of the late-Ming cultural trend of syncretism—the combination of different practices and beliefs. Aptly defined by Giovanni Vitiello as “an effort to renegotiate received...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
... allusions is designed to intervene in the literary and philosophical debates of the late Ming period (1550–1644). Specifically, she argues that the language usage by minor characters serves as a foil to romantic heroine Du Liniang 杜麗娘’s richly textured, imaginative use of what has been variously called...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 April 2020
... land of Xiaoyang Country 梟陽國. Shanhai jing jiaozhu , 319 . The rhetorical slippage between barbarian and beast was common in the late Ming (see, e.g., He, Home and the World , 236–38 ), though perilous in the early Qing. 37. The text's attitude toward the ruling mandate of ethnic others...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 486–490.
Published: 01 November 2020
... the celebration of qing , with a correspondingly diminishing emphasis on lust ( yin 淫). But since physical desire is inseparable from qing and since the distinction between yu and yin is hard to define except in retrospect, she starts by focusing on how late Ming erotic fiction shaped the narrative...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 341–370.
Published: 01 November 2021
... talent for realist fiction.” Hsia, Classic Chinese Novel , 157 . 16. Shang, “‘ Jin Ping Mei ’ and Late Ming Print Culture,” 218–19 . See also Shang, “Making of the Everyday World.” 17. For a brief introduction to “Chinese riddling,” see Plaks, “Riddle and Enigma in Chinese...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of authorship that resonated through the late imperial period and beyond. Certain Yuan and early Ming sanqu songs became a platform for reflections on the newly constituted medium of mature zaju 雜劇 theater. Strikingly, such ruminations did not take the form of an evaluative ranking of the sort Li Qingzhao 李...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 249–250.
Published: 01 April 2015
... in historical ways of seeing and the relation between words and images. Most recently, she has begun work in the field of environmental history as it pertains to late Ming gardens. She is the author of Through a Forest of Chancellors: Fugitive Histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an Illustrated Book from...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 272–273.
Published: 01 April 2019
... words and visual images variously interact in illustrated books and inscribed paintings from the late Ming period. Her first book, Through a Forest of Chancellors: Fugitive Histories in Liu Yuan's “Lingyan ge,” an Illustrated Book from Seventeenth-Century Suzhou (2010), considers how Liu Yuan...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 383–411.
Published: 01 November 2019
... this sense of righteousness is rare indeed” 老客長這般仗義，也是難得的哩. 56 Unlike Youlan, whose foray into the commercial sphere is preceded by many years of Confucian studies, Tao Fuzhu has no formal education on which to draw. As with the late Ming valorization of qing 情 (sentiment), the righteousness...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 91–128.
Published: 01 April 2017
... in various formats in late imperial China. This practice of anthologizing pre-Tang poetic works, informed by previous tradition as well as contemporary fashion, in turn shaped perceptions of the poetry and, further, the conceptualization of literary history in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Yet precisely...
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