...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...

...Mengjun Li Abstract The early Qing (1644–1911) midlength vernacular novel Guilian meng 歸蓮夢 (Returning to the Lotus Dream, hereafter Lotus Dream ), attributed to Su'an zhuren 蘇庵主人 (Master of Su'an, hereafter Su'an), features a triple hybrid narrative: a hagiographic account of the female...

..., 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...

... Penglai right after her success in the examinations. The incident of course is reminiscent of Jia Baoyu's similar departure in Honglou meng , when the boy leaves the mundane world to become a monk after earning a juren 舉人 degree. Yet as Tang Guichen leaves the country where her cohorts engage...

...Figure 4. Su Shi, “Reading Meng Jiao's Poems, Two Verses.” 1078, Northern Song period. Rubbing from Xilou Su tie . Source: Zhongguo fatie quanji , 6:169–70. ...

... was also expected to respond. A famous fushi example is Zhao Meng's 趙孟 encounter with seven Jin ministers in 545 BCE. Zhao Meng was treated to a performance of the Poetry at a court banquet held in his honor. At Zhao's request, the seven ministers in attendance each presented a poem, allowing them...

... and positions itself in the genealogy of lust. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 The Story of the Stone Honglou meng eroticism erotic fiction desire To be moved by woman's beauty is itself a kind of lust. To experience loving feelings is, even more assuredly, a kind of lust. Every...

... 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...

... to Chen's creation of Meng Lijun 孟麗君, the cross-dressed prime minister who actively resists “returning” ( gui 歸) to a female identity and “marrying” ( gui 歸) her betrothed husband Huangfu Shaohua 皇甫少華. Despite her focus on marriages and childbirth, Liang's conclusion nonetheless continues to foreground...

... Yu with Collected Annotations ). Beijing : Zhonghua shuju , 2010 . Hu Zi 胡仔 (1095–1170). Tiaoxi yuyin conghua 苕溪漁隱叢話 ( Series of Poetic Notes Taken by the Recluse of the Brook Tiao ). Beijing : Renmin wenxue chubanshe , 1962 . Hua Chenzhi 華忱之 , ed. Meng Dongye shiji 孟東野詩集...

... chubanshe , 2004 . Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹 , Honglou meng 紅樓夢 ( Dream of the Red Chamber ). Beijing : Renmin wenxue chubanshe , 2005 . Cha Fuxi 査阜西 , ed. Cun jian guqin qupu jilan 存見古琴曲譜輯覽 ( An Overview of Extant Guqin Scores Collections ). Beijing : Yinyuechubanshe , 1958 . Chen Li 陳立...

... ). Beijing : Minzu chubanshe , 2015 . Handan mengxing ren 邯鄲夢醒人 . Meng zhong yuan 夢中緣 ( Karmic Ties in a Dream ), 1885 edition preserved in National Library of China . Jin, Huan . “ Violence and the Evolving Face of Yao in Taiping Propaganda .” Journal of Religion and Violence 6...

... demanding form of chanting may have been entrusted to the sou , while the most straightforward form could be trusted to the meng , whose visual impairment was least. Among those led in performance by the taishī were blind performers referred to by terms like gu 瞽, sou 瞍, and meng 矇. According...

... were formed and how they functioned during this era. 17. Liu, Honglou meng yu Bainian Zhongguo , 405 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 electronic textual research big data digital humanities historiography classical allusions In the past couple decades, debates...

... with the flowers reminds us of the He sisters' choices of blossoms as their style names, which famously fed into the plot of Peizhu's play, Lihua meng 梨花夢 (Dream of Pear Blossoms). 54 Elements of female companionship and social mingling in poetry by the He sisters also foregrounded a Yangzhou being “revisited...

... (688–742), and Wang Changling 王昌齡 (?–756?) are all northerners, while Meng Haoran 孟浩然 (689–740) and Cen Shen 岑參 (717–70) are southerners. During this period, the north is clearly dominant. Figure 5. Diachronic change in the geographic distribution of the hometowns of eighty-five prominent Tang...

... , 1906 . Chang'an daoren 長安道人 . Jingshi yinyang meng 警世陰陽夢 ( The Yin and Yang Life of Wei Zhongxian ). Shenyang : Chunfeng wenyi chubanshe , 1985 . Cheng Lin 成林 , and Cheng Zhangshan 程章燦 , eds. and trans. Xijing zaji quanyi 西京雜記全譯 ( Complete Translation of the Miscellaneous Records...

... / poem #35 Confused before ever lifting a foot over the side of the boat— 脚頭未跨舩舷錯 4 Who could have been told the breadth of the sea or the vastness of mountains? 海濶山遥舉似誰 In one final example, Meng Haoran 孟浩然 (689–740) wrote “Sending Off Du Fourteen to Jiangnan” to see off his friend Du...