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Mencian Reincarnations: Mercy and Forgiveness in the Seventeenth-Century Chinese Novel Predestined Marriage That Awakens the World
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 292–316.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Yuanfei Wang Abstract Existing scholarship rarely examines the theme of mercy and forgiveness in the seventeenth-century novel Xingshi yinyuan zhuan (Predestined Marriage That Awakens the World) by Xizhou Sheng 西周生 (ca. 17th c.) which is known for its recurrent narratives of karmic retribution...
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The Translator's Mirror for the Romantic: Cao Xueqin's Dream and David Hawkes’ Stone
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 395–400.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., onomatopoeia, and assonance to give his writing shape and visuality in Ston e. For instance, he rendered kuhai cihang 苦海慈航 from chapter 18 of Dream as “The Ship of Mercy on the Sea of Suffering” (1: 433). The assonance created by the repeated s in this translation eloquently conveys not only the sound...
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Civilization Remapped in Chikamatsu Monzaemon's The Later Battles of Coxinga
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 349–369.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and travel to Takasago to sue for peace. Though angered, the Shunzhi emperor refuses to kill the unarmed Kinja, out of fear that other countries will deem him “a Dattan king with no sense of mercy” ( nasake o shiranu Dattan-ō 情を知らぬ韃靼王). 46 When the attack on Taiwan finally comes, it falls apart...
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What Do Jokes Reveal about Trust in Ming Work Relations?
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 367–396.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... He does not even beg for mercy when he is being stripped and cursed. The ruffians have even overdressed him for his part as a wealthy man; crowning his padded silk robe and glitzy shoes and stockings is a cloud-cap legally forbidden to commoners, as Hsu points out. For their part, the ruffians...
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Exile, Borders, and Poetry: A Study of Fang Xiaobiao's “Miscellaneous Poems on the Eastern Journey”
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 192–214.
Published: 01 April 2020
... was tough and challenging in Ningguta, but this is not the place to go into details. To make a long story short, three years later, in late 1661, the Fangs bought their freedom with fiscal donations to public works projects. They returned impoverished to China, depended on the mercy of others, and led...
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Nostalgic Fragments in the Thick of Things: Yuan Kewen (1890–1931) and the Act of Remembering
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 239–271.
Published: 01 April 2019
... with recycled artificial props and conventions. Other famous examples of high-profile costume photos are probably those of the empress dowager Cixi, who appeared in a series of photographs as Guanyin, the bodhisattva of mercy. For online photo images and a discussion of Cixi's photographs, see Hogge, “Empress...
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A Son's Obligations: Promoting and Circulating Motherly Exemplariness in Late Imperial China
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 244–266.
Published: 01 April 2023
... that he was reading works of Yuan drama in secret. His two elder sisters tried to beg for mercy on his behalf, saying that every time their feeble brother was flogged, he would have nightmares during the night. With everyone crying, his mother eventually relented. 23 “Strict father and loving mother...
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How Should the Dragon King Memorialize the Jade Emperor? Margins of Political Thought in Late Ming China
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 461–486.
Published: 01 November 2023
... powers, he utterly defeated the ghostly messengers of Ninefold Darkness; exploiting brute force, he terrorized the Ten Merciful Kings. He caused great confusion in [5] the Palace of Darkness; he abrogated by force the Register of Names, so that the category of monkeys is now beyond control...
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Voices from the Other Side: Exploring Nonhuman Agents and Their Narrative Function in the Zhuangzi
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 22–47.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., helpless, and constantly at the mercy of men. These nonhuman entities can do nothing to fend off such human tools as Zhuangzi's riding stick, the carpenter's ax, or the diviner's knife and drill. But when night comes, when humans are lying still and inert, their minds can open up to disturbing encounters...
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Gender and Violence: The Multivalent Voices of a Cannibalized Concubine in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 267–293.
Published: 01 April 2023
... independence and heroism is effectively communicated through her singing. Her prayer to Heaven in the garden is among the best-known episodes in Beijing opera. In one script, she sings: Consider your servant's heart of utmost sincerity, no blasphemy, no hubris. Please have mercy on the army and civilians...
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From Watōnai to Coxinga: Shaping and Reshaping Identities in the Kokusenya Kassen
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 370–394.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of Dattan” 甘輝吳三桂 . . . . . . つつと出て韃靼王の前に頭をさげ to beg for his mercy. 88 Hardly has the Dattan king finished responding when the two generals “spring on him . . . and, kicking him to the ground, grasp him by the throat” 飛びかかつてはつたと蹴倒ししめあぐれば。隙をあらせず. 89 This episode not only features the surprising...
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The Power of Nostalgia: Memory, Identity, and Authority in the Shishuo xinyu
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 308–337.
Published: 01 November 2022
... an impression of personal connection to the deceased person is debunked by a (real) friend or relative without mercy. In the first one, Sun's tearful plea to Chu Pou 褚裒 (303–350) reveals his wish to enter the exclusive group of the cultural elite and to be remembered as one of them by his remembrance of Liu Dan...
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Lust as Prerequisite: Eroticism in The Story of the Stone
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 129–159.
Published: 01 April 2017
... everything at the Heavenly Scent Pavilion; it is depiction without depicting” (Chen, Xinbian Shitouji Zhiyan zhai pingyu , 243). Even more suspicious, Old Tablet claims, “Concealing how Keqing dies in the entire chapter, I greatly extend my mercy. Alas!” (ibid., 243). 56. The remark “heart-piercing...
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A Discussion of the Principles for the Combination of “Feet” In the Pentasyllabic Shi Genre
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 286–323.
Published: 01 November 2015
... they gone? 蕩子/何所之 4 Under heaven all is now at peace. 天下/方太平 Laws, punishments are not relaxed, 刑法/非有貸 6 Mercy and order have rectified the babble of names. 柔協/正亂名 Of yellow gold are my lord's gates, 黃金/為君門 8 Of green disk jade his balconied hall; 璧玉/為軒堂 Upstairs there are twin...
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The Past Lives of Su Shi: Stories of Truth and Adaptation
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 248–278.
Published: 01 November 2017
... off the donkey and pleaded for mercy. They tied him up and sent him to the county court where he was sentenced to death. 唐乾封年中，京西明寺僧曇暢，將一奴二騾向岐州稜法師處聽講。道逢一人，著衲帽弊衣，掐數珠，自云賢者五戒，講。夜至馬嵬店宿，五戒禮佛誦經，半夜不歇，暢以為精進一練。至四更，即共同發，去店十餘里，忽袖中出兩刃刀子，刺殺暢，其奴下馬入草走，其五戒騎騾驅馱即去。主人未曉，夢暢告云：「昨夜五戒殺貧道。」須臾奴走到，告之如夢。時同宿三衛子，披持弓箭，乘馬趁四十餘里，以弓箭...
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The Philosophical Proposition “A Piercing Glance Elevates the Mind” and the Buddhist Thought in Zong Bing's “Preface to the Painting of Landscape”
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 297–335.
Published: 01 November 2023
... for a Buddhist Image” 佛影銘 (Foying ming): “The great merciful, vast form, is moved to make contact; the bonds that form from contacting things, divide into multiple strands; its forms are difficult to sort through, but its principles are easy to surmise” 夫大慈弘物。因感而接。接物之緣。端緒不一。難以形撿。易以理測. 22 The Buddha follows...
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