... of the Northern Song dynasty in 1126–27. Investigating the dialogue of major figures such as Li Gang (1083–1140), Hu Hong (1105–61), Zhou Bida (1126–1204), Fan Chengda (1126–93), Lou Yue (1137–1213), and Zhu Xi (1130–1200) writing in a range of genres ( shi poetry, song lyrics, personal letters, travel diaries...

..., Hong lou meng is ultimately the story of the inscribed Stone itself, rather than just the story of Jia Baoyu 賈寶玉 and Lin Daiyu 林黛玉 or the Jia 賈 family, and the textual evolution of Jia Baoyu in particular suggests the ways that “real” late imperial literati lives were produced intertextually. Wu...

...]). However, the self-commentary of poem 41 points in another direction, as described. Thus it seems that the “Chamber of Literary Selection” ( Wenxuan lou 文選樓) 58 in this context refers mainly to the editorial office of Creative Weekly Magazine 創造週報 (Chuangzao zhoubao) and was unrelated...

... the fact that nearly all zidishu were composed in Chinese and that most are based on classic works of Chinese fiction, such as Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 (Dream of the Red Chamber) and Liaozhai zhiyi 聊齋志異 (Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio). The first question, of course, is what this genre tells us about...

... and 1930s. The modern Chinese study of Chan history may begin with Shen Zengzhi 沈曾植 (1850–1922). Shen never published a monograph on the subject, but the Hai ri lou zha cong 海日樓札叢 (Collected Notes from the Hairi Tower) compiled by his disciples includes several brief but important essays. 9 Shen...

... 朝陽榭 (Water Terrace of the Morning Sun), and Huaxin Lou 花信樓 (Flower Message Towered Pavilion). Qian Qianyi commemorated these sites in both his essays and poems. 12 In particular, he composed a set of poems extolling eight scenes of the mountain villa in 1637 that were extensively circulated...

... haste she leaves the door slightly ajar. Down-on-his-luck gambler Lou Ashu (“Ratty”) 婁阿鼠 passes by and spies the pile of coins at the foot of Hulu's bed. When Hulu wakes up midrobbery, Ashu stabs him to death and flees. On the road near Wuxi, Shujuan encounters Youlan, who is making his way from...

...” or, at least, fit Rui and Lou's stated criteria of musical potential. Writing a musical “old shi ” or, as Li Bai 李白 (701–62) was especially famous for doing, bending but not breaking the prosodic guidelines was likely a much greater challenge, since it required an understanding of where deviation would...

...Figure 3. “Spring Thought in the Fragrant Boudoir” ( Xianggui chunsi 香閨春思), from Wu Youru, Haishang baiyantu 海上百艷圖 (Portraits of One Hundred Beauties of Shanghai). Shanghai: Wenrui lou, 1908, 34. ...

... white hair be substituted with black hair as a legitimate poetic metaphor? Or, if a commonplace in a poem to express sadness is a tower (partly because the words for sadness [ chou 愁] and tower [ lou 樓] rhyme), 13 what can the tower be substituted with? And when such legitimate-within...

... the Lakeside Tower” (Deng chishang lou 登池上樓), and “Rhapsody on Dwelling in the Mountains” (Shanju fu 山居賦), Xie adeptly uses allusions to the Yijing to express the emotions stirred by his direct experience of nature. Modern scholars often consider Xie's landscape writing realistic, a view that this chapter...

..., Early Chinese Texts , 181 . 31. Lou, Wang Bi ji jiaoshi , 125–26 ; Lynn, Classic of the Way and Virtue , 141–42 . 32. Shen, Lidai lunhua , 69 ; Bush and Shih, Early Chinese Texts , 181 . 33. Shen, Lidai lunhua , 69 ; Bush and Shih, Early Chinese Texts , 182 . 34...

... collections, including A Tower for the Summer Heat (1992; original title Twelve Towers , Ch. Shier lou 十二樓) and Silent Operas (1996; Ch. Wusheng xi 無聲戲). Although a late arrival, A Couple of Soles is a wonderful addition to the list as the first of Li's theatrical pieces to be made available...

... and was appointed director of the Ministry of Revenue ( hubu langzhong 户部郎中), and subsequently governor of Lianzhou 廉州, in Guangdong province. An expert book collector, Jiang Gao had learned to identify editions from He Zhuo in He's studio and the Jiang's Zhushu Tower library (Zhushu lou 貯書樓, alternate name Cishu...

.... 1. One hundred twenty-five poems are collected in Yuan, Collected Works of Tao . 2. Bai Juyi, “Ti Xunyang lou zi ci hou shi Jiangzhou Sima shi zuo” 題潯陽樓自此後詩江州司馬時作, in Bai shi Changqing ji , juan 7. 3. Du Fu 杜甫 (712–770), “Yi xing wu shou, qi san” 遺興五首其三, in Qiu, Du shi xiangzhu...

..., was a courtesan who later became the concubine of a high official and starved herself to death after he died” on the Yanzi lou 燕子樓 (Swallow Tower). See Idema and Grant, The Red Brush , 360 . 69. “Mingyuan tiyong,” 5b . 70. Wang Duanshu's song to the tune “Qinlou yue,” in ibid., 5a. 71. Gu...

... military situation of the Ming state, the inscribed letter is not merely about personal worries or distress. It is about the drunkard's concern for the imperial house. Thus, Chen's fragmentary letter calls to mind a long-admired essay entitled Yueyang lou ji 岳陽樓記 (Record of the Multistoried Building...

... with “Green Green the Grass on the Riverbank,” in Mi-Lou , 20. 16. The lineage of shi voyeurism can be traced back to “Green Green the Grass on the Riverbank” 青青河畔草 in the “Nineteen Old Poems” 古詩十九首, followed by the palace-style poetry of the Six Dynasties. In the fu genre, the origin of voyeurism...

... near affording. 8 The fees that the yamen charged were commonly called lougui 陋規 (customary fees), though this term does not appear in the novel. Lougui refers to unwritten rules, in which the word lou carries the sense of lowly, mean, and vile. The fees were considered normal...