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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 119–147.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Yan Liang Abstract This article explores the functions that food, as a narrative trope, has played in the characterization and storytelling of three prominent martial arts novels in late imperial China: Shuihu zhuan 水滸傳 (Water Margin), Sanxia wuyi 三俠五義 (Three Gallant Men and Five Loyal Brothers...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., the military aspect of the character Lian'an and her outlawed sect is likely not a reflection of the mid-seventeenth-century sectarian practice of White Lotus Teachings. This is because martial arts became a regular practice in White Lotus Teachings only in the eighteenth century. 21 If anything, the novel...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 235–267.
Published: 01 November 2020
... no bounds. From astronomy and calendars, down to wind prognostication, geomancy, and other Daoist arts, there was nothing he hadn't completely mastered. He was especially proficient in constructing tools and weapons, which elicited sighs of admiration from Westerners” 公生平於學無所不究。自天文曆律下至風角壬遁之術靡不通曉。尤精於造器。為西人所歎...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 267–293.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Pei Ji regards Qingyun as an ordinary lady and urges her to flee, Qingyun compares herself to Hong Xian, the female knight-errant in a Tang tale, who uses her magic and martial arts skills to deter the warlord Tian Chengsi 田承嗣 (705–779) from encroaching upon the land of her master, a loyal official...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 57–84.
Published: 01 April 2016
... him. He Shiwei, Yishao's master of martial arts, is happy when he learns about Qionghua's personal traits: “This fellow is not afraid of heaven or earth, nor is he afraid of neither the emperor nor his father. Before he was afraid of only Prince Guo; later Prince Guo left the capital, and he now has...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 379–402.
Published: 01 November 2023
...” ( dan xiangsi bing 单相思病). 43 To satisfy his selfish desire, Zheng follows the advice of his friend Ji Qiao 計巧. He hires five burglars good at martial arts to sneak into the imperial censor's mansion and kidnap the girl. The two antiheroes' names are meaningful: Zheng Yiheng recalls Zheng Heng 鄭恒...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 134–172.
Published: 01 April 2015
..., Wei . “ The Search for Great Harmony: A Study of Tang Xianzu's Dramatic Art. ” PhD diss., University of California , Berkeley , 1991 . “Huagong” 畫工 (). In Taiping guangji 太平廣記 ( Extensive Records of the Taiping Era ), compiled by Li Fang 李昉 (925–996), 6: 286.2283. 10 vols Bejing...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 412–431.
Published: 01 November 2019
... novel is acutely reflexive on the art of fiction, that famous couplet summarizes most succinctly the nature of fictional literature in general. Fiction, like the Taoist priest's magic mirror, is at the same time both unreal and real, both make-believe and truthful. Further, precisely because fiction...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 403–437.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that governs the novel. He is a human-like monkey, who is also an aspiring immortal, who was once a miscreant demon, who moreover never completely sheds his demon-like behavior. Journey to the West pays particular attention to the taxonomy of beings, which therefore needs a more detailed examination than has...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 April 2018
... , 2014 . Huang, Martin . “ Dehistoricization and Intertextualization: The Anxiety of Precedents in the Evolution of the Traditional Chinese Novel .” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 12 ( 1990 ): 45 – 68 . Lee, Peter . Opium Culture: The Art and Ritual of the Chinese...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 96–136.
Published: 01 April 2019
.... Chen's inscription is transcribed on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website at www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/37396 . I have emended the translation. 63. Bai, “Chinese Letters,” 387 . 64. Chen Hongshou, “When I visited Yanke, he brought out entertainers and we had a small drink...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 411–437.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of sources available for them to deeply investigate certain topics, such as the personal background of the novel's author, Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹 (also known as Cao Zhan 曹霑, c. 1715–63). Liu Mengxi 劉夢溪, a hongxue scholar at the Chinese National Academy of Arts, stated in 2005 that “the current predicament...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 26–56.
Published: 01 April 2016
... century by the fictional treatment of the Gong-Gu story in Zeng Pu's widely read roman à clef Niehaihua 孽海花 (1905–7). In that novel, Gong's sudden death just a year and a half after his return south is blamed on poisoning by one of Gu's in-laws. (Some other versions of this story even accuse Lingxiao...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 160–179.
Published: 01 April 2017
... a stipend from the government. 11. In the eighteenth-century novel Hongloumeng 紅樓夢 there is a mention of the Daoist nun Miaoyu's 妙玉 fuji performance in an attempt to find Jia Baoyu's 賈寳玉 lost jade. As the Jia family was located in the North, most family members had never heard of such a divination...
