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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
... baixue , and the first biographical compendium, the Lugui bu , sought to uncouple social status from literary reputation to varying degrees. The article suggests that the anthology made a case for a universalist poetic practice open to diasporic and Chinese writers, while the biographical collection took...
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Toward an Innovative Poetics: Wang Changling on Yi 意 And Literary Creation
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 180–207.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Zong-qi Cai Abstract This article reveals the coherent theory of literary creation hidden within the multivalence of the term yi in Wang Changling's (ca. 698–ca. 756) writings on poetry. A close and intertextual reading demonstrates how Wang deftly appropriates various Daoist and Daoist-inspired...
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Defining the “Finest”: A Northern Song View of Tang Dynasty Literary Culture in the Wen cui
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 306–335.
Published: 01 November 2017
... his selections to defend the necessity of wenzhang 文章 (literary composition) in governance and literati culture more broadly defined. Although this view of literature's importance was challenged by later Daoxue adherents, the Wen cui gives us an important window on the more catholic and diverse...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., such that “lyrical tradition” becomes an encompassing concept for many to distinguish Chinese literary tradition from its Western counterpart. 1 In Chinese literary thought, emotion is consistently conceptualized through verbal patterning and visual manifestation. This convergence has become synonymous...
View articletitled, Introduction: Emotion, Patterning, and Visuality in Chinese <span class="search-highlight">Literary</span> Thought and Beyond
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Identities and Literary Culture in Qing China: Manchu Emperors as Chinese Poets, Readers, and Publishers
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 359–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and preserving what he considered the essence of Manchu culture: the Manchu language and hunting skills? Even if we consider modifications by literary officials, there is no reason to doubt the massive poetic output of the emperor. What would his sui generis achievement in literary production mean to him...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 203–214.
Published: 01 November 2016
... provocative power more than any form of New Literature. The complex implications of modern classical-style Chinese poetry have yet to be carefully studied. Indeed, the genre prods one to rethink the multiple strains in the genesis and development of Chinese literary modernization. It calls attention...
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From Modernity to Tradition: Zhu Ziqing's Chinese Literary Criticism
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 233–257.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Leonard Kwok Kou Chan Abstract Is “literary criticism” a foreign concept? What is the impact of the reception of literary criticism on the modern studies of Chinese literature? Zhu Ziqing's 朱自清 (1898–1948) conception of the function of literary criticism is illustrative of these questions. Zhu...
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Chinese Literary Thought in Modern Times: Shi , Xing , and Shishi
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 258–288.
Published: 01 November 2016
... literary and cultural studies, with Western theory taking precedence over Chinese subjects (and subjectivities). But one cannot help noting that some of the most critical voices are themselves empowered by, or even sustaining, the Western canon they set out to subvert. Overcoming such a dilemma does...
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Visualizing Alternative Literary Canons in Ming Dynasty China (1368–1644): A Preliminary Case Study
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 375–410.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., and their contents represent a valuable resource for studying the formation of taste during this crucial moment in literary history. But how are we to compare the contents of such a large group of anthologies, when each individual anthology contains at least a few hundred individual selections? How might...
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Exploring Chinese Poetry with Digital Assistance: Examples from Linguistic, Literary, and Historical Viewpoints
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 276–321.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., in their demonstrations. They demonstrate sophisticated software that allows researchers to extract source material that meets multiple search criteria, which may consider words, poets, collections, and time of authoring, paving the way for new explorations of Chinese poetry from linguistic, literary, artistic...
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Apocrypha and Literary Rhetoric of the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasty Periods
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 137–174.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Xu Xingwu Abstract Since the Qing dynasty, the relationship between the apocrypha and literature has concerned scholars working on the Wenxuan 文選 (Selections of Refined Writings) and Wenxin diaolong 文心雕龍 (The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons). Apocryphal texts emerged in the Han dynasty...
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The citation network of pre-Tang literary anthologies in the 1500s. Data de...
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in Reinventing the Pre-Tang Tradition: Compiling and Publishing Pre-Tang Poetry Anthologies in Sixteenth-Century China
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Published: 01 April 2017
Figure 4. The citation network of pre-Tang literary anthologies in the 1500s. Data derived from prefaces, titles, and tables of contents of the anthologies. Graph made with Gephi.
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Eroticism and Other Literary Conventions in Chinese Literature: Intertextuality in “The Story of the Stone.”
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 486–490.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Mary Scott I-Hsien Wu . Eroticism and Other Literary Conventions in Chinese Literature: Intertextuality in “The Story of the Stone.” Amherst, NY : Cambria Press , 2017 . 214 pp. ISBN 978160979770 (hardcover). Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 I-Hsien Wu's book...
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Yuan-Ming Sanqu Songs as Communal Texts: Discovering Their Literary Vitality from a New Research Perspective
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 113–138.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Ye Ye; Erxin Wang Abstract When examining songs in Chinese literature, we can distinguish among literary, musical, and communal aspects of their circulation. Sanqu songs became popular in the form of musical texts in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, but the ci song lyrics, by the Southern Song dynasty...
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The Divided Liang Dynasty Literary World Seen through the Liu-Dao Dispute
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 261–286.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Wang Xiaomeng; Jing Chen Abstract The tension between the literary styles of Liu Xiaochuo 劉孝綽 (481–539) and Dao Qia 到洽 (490–527) can be understood as a debate between poetic genius and a more scholarly focus, signaling a confrontation between the capital's literary camps in the Putong reign 普通 (520...
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Emperor Qianlong's Literary Aggrandizement in the Eighteenth Century
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 438–460.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to establish authority over the literary field. Copies of his poems were creatively produced and circulated through various official channels to reach the largest audience. During his reign, Qianlong's writings were elevated to a high position by himself and his officials. However, this elevation...
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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
... play in an appeal to the literati aesthetic of lyrical indirection. Another, shorter song suite from the Ming, this one by an anonymous author, incorporates chuanqi play titles with little literary embellishment, catering to popular tastes. Finally, set to the tunes “Pipo yu” 劈破玉 and “Gua zhen'er” 掛真兒...
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The travels of Yao He. His long-term residence in or near the capital of Ch...
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in Networks of Exchange Poetry in Late Medieval China: Notes toward a Dynamic History of Tang Literature
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Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 9. The travels of Yao He. His long-term residence in or near the capital of Chang'an made him central to mid-ninth-century literary networks. Based on events as chronicled in Fu, Tang Wudai wenxue , vols. 2 and 3.
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Networks of Exchange Poetry in Late Medieval China: Notes toward a Dynamic History of Tang Literature
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 322–359.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Figure 9. The travels of Yao He. His long-term residence in or near the capital of Chang'an made him central to mid-ninth-century literary networks. Based on events as chronicled in Fu, Tang Wudai wenxue , vols. 2 and 3. ...
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Feminist Theories and Women Writers of Late Imperial China: Impact and Critique
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 105–130.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Grace S. Fong Abstract Feminism , feminist theory , feminist literary theory were already highly contentious in what they represented to Euro-American critics and theorists in the 1980s, when scholars in Chinese literary studies began sustained research on women writers in late imperial China (ca...
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