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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
... Teachings. This is because martial arts became a regular practice in White Lotus Teachings only in the eighteenth century. 21 If anything, the novel constituted part of the elite and popular culture that recognizes the interdependence between wen 文 (civil) and wu 武 (military), which influenced...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 235–267.
Published: 01 November 2020
... blocking the rise of the civil officials most needed to meet the challenges posed by Western imperialism—those who possessed the martial, technical, and other skills of China's European antagonists. Its prestige further eroded during the long years of the Taiping Rebellion, when higher-ranking examination...
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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
..., 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 no scruples. He...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 134–172.
Published: 01 April 2015
...常得以合之。蘇子瞻畫枯株竹石，絕異古今畫格。乃愉奇妙。若以畫格程之，幾不入格。米家山水人物，不多用意。略施數筆，形像宛然。 60 In this passage, Tang does not create a new kind of art criticism. The suggestion that the Northern Song poet-calligraphers Su Shi and Mi Fu demonstrated a lack of interest in depicting the appearance of things is not original...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 412–431.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Penglai. After an elaborate celebration of their success, Tang Guichen leaves China to reunite with her father at Little Penglai, while most of the girls join a group of young martial men to fight Wu Zetian's brothers and restore legitimate Tang rule. The seemingly episodic structure of the novel...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Keith McMahon Abstract The brothel and the local yamen are the two main institutions around which life revolves in the 1848 novel Fengyue meng 風月夢 (Seductive Dreams) by an anonymous author. Loan-sharking, squeeze, and extortion are the most prominent ways besides prostitution of making a living...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 96–136.
Published: 01 April 2019
... that the verbal texts to which he alluded not only enhanced and justified his viewers' empathetic response to his paintings but also enabled him to delineate emotions that were otherwise eschewed by the painters of his time. 38. Li, Zitao xuan zazhui , 2.287 . 39. The image of “Martial Theocrat...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 411–437.
Published: 01 November 2018
... that have been collected by Qing scholars. The next case emerged during my research for my second book, which was my first foray in the complicated world of hongxue 紅學 (redology), a robust academic subfield dedicated to the Qing dynasty novel Honglou meng 紅樓夢 (Dream of the Red Chamber). When I...
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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
... was especially thrilled by the fact that although she was poor at calligraphy in this life she actually had excelled at this art in her previous life. Although Qian worked to become good at poetry, she failed at calligraphy due to the lack of proper guidance of how to hold a brush. 41 He Ziyun's story about...
