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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 30–56.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Yuefan Wang Abstract The late Ming (16th–17th cent.) witnessed the newfound popularity of garden writing. This article questions how gentry women negotiated this traditionally male-dominant genre and even employed it to respond to the dynastic change. By analyzing the writings of a family...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 195–220.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and Mongolian imperial women and his own as a Chinese male scholar at the beginning of the Qing. References Carlitz, Katherine . “ The Social Uses of Female Virtue in Late Ming Editions of Lienü Zhuan .” Late Imperial China 12 , no. 2 ( 2011 ): 117 – 48 . Chen Qingfan 陳慶蕃 et al. Xuantong...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 April 2023
... an independent life and a self-image, echoed by observers, of Daoist detachment from the proverbial dust of the world while cultivating relationships with prominent male mentors and female artists across Jiangnan. As poet, painter, and player of the zither and the game of Go, Wang Liang at times articulated...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 169–194.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Maram Epstein Abstract This article focuses on Zaisheng yuan as an intertextual work of creative fiction that draws from male-authored xiaoshuo fiction as well as earlier literary tanci novels. This case study discusses Zaisheng yuan as a key text in an affective archive of narrative works written...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 57–84.
Published: 01 April 2016
... for a libertine husband like Yishao. Through close reading, the author demonstrates how this female writer assesses and reimagines the standards of ideal women established by the classics and their male authors. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 virtuous wife shrew female writer tanci...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 65–89.
Published: 01 November 2014
... and portrait. Such a design points to an editorial choice to stage both a male-centered literati reading community and a cohort of women writers from the Jiangnan area who gather to celebrate women's literary talent on the book page. By examining how these two bodies of readers reach a sense of solidarity...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 379–402.
Published: 01 November 2023
... mutual affection of separated lovers, the other the one-sided passion, whether of unrequited (usually male) love or of one part of a couple longing for reunion. We argue that the notorious lovelorn figures in late Ming (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) legal cases and Qing scholar-beauty xiaoshuo...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... subject of the state, and a goddess. This study examines the relationships among multiple types of authorship: literati authorship of chuanqi dramas, collective authorship of folk opera, and male actors performing (authoring) female characters onstage. The study demonstrates that, as folk opera shifted...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 105–130.
Published: 01 April 2022
... for anything but a male audience. This fact, however, has not stopped some enthusiasts lately from discovering—or, rather inventing—such a tradition, presumably to show that sinology can be just as fashionable as other fields when it comes to “gender issues.” 9 Despite the sarcastic tone toward...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 137–168.
Published: 01 April 2023
... by the Yuan art critic Tang Hou 湯垕 (active 1322): “Looking at a painting is like looking at a beautiful woman” 看畫如看美人. 3 In this assertion, “woman” is treated as the object of the male gaze, both literally and metaphorically. Craig Clunas aptly summarizes the implication of this analogy in Ming visual...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 267–293.
Published: 01 April 2023
... as embodying values beyond wifely loyalty. The dramas discussed in the previous section, composed by literati playwrights, still revolve around male figures. Another group of dramas that remained popular until the twentieth century further place the concubine character at the center of the story...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 435–441.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of the names with a footnote or endnote. In fact, this would provide a consistency in the translated script, as some characters' names such as the male protagonist's and his mentor's names are only given in pinyin but not translated. Or, alternatively, use “angel” for the daughter's name and “fairy...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 509–512.
Published: 01 November 2019
... between the late Ming and the early Republican era and thus transports its readers to the wai 外 (literary), outer, male-gendered realm, an equally genred sphere in which male poets and authors relied on xiangyan 香艷 (fragrant and bedazzling) as a cornerstone for their aesthetic and political movements...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 476–482.
Published: 01 November 2022
... career success. The play starts with the male protagonist, Zhang Xie 張協, a young scholar of humble origins from Chengdu 成都 Prefecture of Sichuan 四川 Province, leaving home and traveling to the imperial capital for the examination by trekking through rugged hills and unruly waters. Zhang loses his money...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 11–29.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Mao Qiling Xu Zhaohua Shang Jinglan Shang Jinghui male mentor of gentry women In his ninety years of life, Mao Qiling 毛奇齡 (1623–1713) experienced the fall of the Ming, the turmoil thereafter, and the growing acceptance of Qing rule. A loyalist and an outstanding poet and scholar, he endured...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 487–491.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., first jointly with Gaozong and then on her own, for about fifty years, quelling internal and foreign rebellion and generally fostering stability. Yet, in most later sources, her rule is remembered primarily in terms of excess, cruelty, and dalliance with much younger male consorts” (7). One need only...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 34–65.
Published: 01 April 2018
... Studies 47 , no. 1 ( 1987 ): 5 – 30 . Hinsch, Bret . Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1992 . Huang Liuzhu 黃留珠 . Qin Han shijin zhidu 秦漢仕進制度 ( Qin-Han Institutions for Recruitment and Advancement...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 160–179.
Published: 01 April 2017
..., or fuji 扶乩 in Chinese, 1 started during the Song (960–1279) dynasty, when this practice was considered a folk divination that did not require written messages. However, it gradually evolved to include written messages and became extremely popular among male literati, especially during the Ming-Qing...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 129–159.
Published: 01 April 2017
... in Baoyu's life. Drawing on Lacanian theory, Keith McMahon contends that Baoyu is a “blank male,” a type of character abounding in Qing fiction, who mainly functions as the “male consort” of the “remarkable woman,” who can establish agency of her own. In other words, the “blank male” takes the feminine...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 115–147.
Published: 01 April 2024
... romantic comedies, such as Wu Bing's 吳炳 (1595–1648) Huazhong ren 畫中人 (The Lady in the Painting), in which the male lead paints a picture of his fantasy, who then comes to life in response to his infatuation. The infamous ménage à trois in Ruan Dacheng's 阮大鋮 (1587–1646) Yanzi jian 燕子箋 (Swallow Letter...
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