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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 268–286.
Published: 01 November 2020
... to survival, both physical and spiritual, and the suddenness of this suffering, exilic writings were produced in enormous quantities, but also in high quality, drawing on the profound experiences of the writers. Zhang Xuesong 張學松, in recent research, has closely studied ancient diaspora literature, and he...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 486–490.
Published: 01 November 2020
... (literature): while the mythic stone is personified and its journey is created to represent human life, its storytelling is what makes meaning. In this way, my book is a critique of the mainstream humanist Stone scholarship, which often reads the text as a reflection of the characters as historical figures...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 203–235.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., the article focuses on three subsets of songs: songs that foreground everyday vignettes, songs that celebrate festive occasions at court, and songs that revisit the exemplars of Chinese literature, history, and religion. The article suggests that everyday songs and court-oriented songs prized the aesthetic...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 131–169.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Martin Kern Abstract The present essay combines the theory of Cultural Memory with ideas about textual repertoires, composite text, and distributed authorship that in recent years have been advanced in studies of early and medieval Chinese literature. In its first part, the essay introduces...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 506–509.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Published by Shanghai Federation of Social Science Associations Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 The Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture is pleased to feature select titles from Academic Monthly , a journal highly regarded in Chinese academia. Since its founding...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 57–80.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Binbin Yang Abstract Yangzhou was known for its “women” but not for women's literature. Underlying literary imaginations about the beautiful women of Yangzhou were salt wealth and a commerce of women serving the wealthy during the late imperial period. The notoriety of this commerce seemed...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 267–293.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Guojun Wang; Guo Yingde Abstract Recent studies of Chinese history and literature have revealed the important role of violence—actual and representational—in constructing gendered subjectivities in late imperial China. This article investigates the relationship between violence and female agency...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 137–168.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Yingzhi Zhao Abstract This article examines the discourse and representation of canshan shengshui (devastated landscape) in early Qing literature and culture through a focused interpretation of the works of Ming loyalists Zhang Dai (1597–1684) and Wang Fuzhi (1619–92). Connecting aesthetics...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 360–374.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... The data for this article come from the “Platform for Geographical and Chronological Information on Tang-Song Literature” (Tang-Song wenxue biannian xidi xinxi pingtai jianshe 唐宋文學編年系地信息平台建設), a project of the National Social Science Fund of China run by the first author, Wang Zhaopeng. In the five years...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 322–359.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., and social relations. 1 In this article I go beyond such historical uses of literature in favor of doing literary history. That is, I do not mine poetry for historical facts but instead systematically analyze the corpus of extant Tang exchange poetry to describe changes in the complex web of literary...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 167–191.
Published: 01 April 2020
... were inevitable, understanding the southwest chieftains' cultural policy is important in the study of cultural others in Chinese literature. This article examines a case of a tusi family in Hubei Province and their enterprising efforts across generations to come to terms with Chinese art, literature...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 448–454.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of five of the seven masters who died during the plague and compilation of their literary writings. Cao Pi wrote “Letter to Wu Zhi” (Yu Wu Zhi shu 與吳質書) and “Discourse on Literature” (Lunwen 論文) to discuss Jian'an qizi and his emotions over the loss of his friends. The second was Xie Lingyun's 謝靈運 (385...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 442–447.
Published: 01 November 2021
... and writing inspired by Mikhail Bakhtin, Pierre Bourdieu, Roger Chartier, and Julia Kristeva. The book is organized chronologically, with a scope that spans from the Jian'an period (196–220) to the Liu Song period (420–479). Swartz's central argument is that early medieval Chinese literature was inseparable...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 499–505.
Published: 01 November 2022
... on premodern Chinese literature, as well as topic courses on Chinese poetry or Chinese literati culture. Overall, Yang's book is balanced in its approach to the issues, well structured, and well organized. This review article is part of my Multiple-Year Research Grant project (MYRG2020-00018-FAH) from...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 306–335.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Anna M. Shields Abstract In the reception of Tang literature during the Song Dynasty, the anthology Wen cui 文粹 (Literature's Finest), compiled by the Northern Song scholar Yao Xuan 姚鉉 (968–1020) in 1011, survives as the earliest attempt by an individual scholar to provide a comprehensive overview...
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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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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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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 105–130.
Published: 01 April 2022
... studies proved to be useful tools in feminist literary studies. Some came to be deployed in scholarship on women's literature in historical China. In this context, I reflect on theoretical approaches in significant studies of women's writing of late imperial China and consider the impact or critique...
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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 (2021) 8 (2): 261–286.
Published: 01 November 2021
... (508–555) valued scholarly learning still more and regarded literature as a relatively insignificant talent or minor accomplishment. Xiao Gang represents a departure—by placing literary talent above scholarship, he catered to the fashion among the Liang Dynasty's nobility for reciting poetry...
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