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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 92–133.
Published: 01 April 2015
..., calligraphies, and paintings that he produced. He began with ten poems in 1503, prompted by an illness that kept him from enjoying the seasonal blossoming of spring fruit trees in the Suzhou area. Shen's intention was to record his meditations on the passage of time and human mortality, but the act of writing...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 115–147.
Published: 01 April 2024
... as an “auspicious sacrifice” ( jiji 吉祭), one that foregrounds the transcendence of love over lifeless matter. Hong, conversely, insists on the function of the scene as an “unpropitious rite” ( xiongdian 凶奠), a solemn meditation on mortality and the collective expression of grief. By redirecting focus from...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2015
... is immediately obvious, as they register his unresolved anxiety about self-representation, his sense of uncertainty and misgiving regarding the past, memory, and what Tao Yuanming describes as “the ultimate becoming.” But his lament on human mortality can hardly be taken as a finalizing statement...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 April 2023
... with Wang's disillusioned return to the mortal realm and concludes in contemplation of the limits and dangers of the sensory and emotional world. 37 Wai-yee Li notes that the goddess who is the object of male literary quests is “often ambivalent, unpredictable, and ultimately inaccessible.” 38 Invoking...
View articletitled, “She Whistles Freely Shunning Companions”: The Embedded and Transcendent Selves of Poet-Painter Wang Liang in the Eighteenth Century
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 461–486.
Published: 01 November 2023
... documents—two memorials plus one letter—in various Ming prints of Xiyou ji . In particular, I demonstrate that the producers of the novels had, in their own ways, raised questions about the tension between the emperor as a mortal subject to death and as a sovereign who may not be subject to the rule...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 403–437.
Published: 01 November 2023
... studies but serves as an additional way to frame the questions of the human-animal and mortal-immortal divides, as I investigate below. As a demon-immortal, Monkey is a thief who tries to steal the cosmos from its established rulers. In such a guise, he distantly recalls the iconic status in centuries...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 411–437.
Published: 01 November 2018
... a few evenings ago, 前宵猶對飲 2 Today we are separated in life and death by the Layered Springs. 今日隔重泉 To toast this friend whose bonds were forged in the mortal world, 若謝塵中友 4 I would throw a party in the land of dreams. 因開夢裏筵 Even though our friendship was not sworn by blood, 交深非歃血...
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View articletitled, New Frontiers of Electronic Textual Research in the Humanities: Investigating Classical Allusions in Chinese Poetry through Digital Methods
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 1–28.
Published: 01 November 2014
... ). Shenyang : Liaoshen shushe , 1994 . Hamilton, James , and Gordon Mestler . “ Mortality and Survival: Comparison of Eunuchs with Intact Men and Women in a Mentally Retarded Population. ” Journal of Gerontology 24 , no. 4 ( 1969 ): 395 – 411 . He Mengmei 何夢梅 (nineteenth century...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 125–154.
Published: 01 November 2014
... In life who would not delight in longevity? 人生誰不樂長生 26 I pity myself that I have not perfected my mortal bones. 自憐凡骨修未成 [4.11a–b] The song draws on Daoist lore and is filled with dazzling Daoist imagery. It begins with a messenger from the mythological Mount Kongtong, where the Yellow...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 129–159.
Published: 01 April 2017
... and promiscuous but can also be divine and tender, as portrayed in the affair of Baoyu and Disenchantment's sister Keqing 可卿 (chapter 5), as she represents the ultimate combination of his mortal loves; Baoyu's desire to touch Baochai's 寶釵 snow-white arm and how he justifies this feeling (thinking that someday he...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 26–56.
Published: 01 April 2016
... her eyebrows 我無拙筆到眉彎 (Poem #200) It seems fitting then that Poem #9, Gong's tribute to Cuiwei Hill, ends with the arresting image of crimson soil eating away at the mortal remains buried beneath the seemingly placid surface. Simultaneously morbid yet alluring, even vaguely erotic...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 134–172.
Published: 01 April 2015
... of the viewer's part in creating an image. In the eyes of Liu Mengmei, for instance, the figure in Liniang's portrait assumes more than one shape: she is in turn a bodhisattva, the goddess of the moon, and a lovely mortal woman at leisure. What he sees is determined by his social ambition. The women he imagines...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 215–231.
Published: 01 April 2020
... as mortals, their trials on Earth, and their ultimate return to celestial positions by play's end. In the final scene of Meng zhong yuan , the Daoist priest reveals that the rebel kings are all celestial animals who stealthily came down to Earth, while the sworn brothers had all been flower goddesses...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 131–169.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... An epic plot is typically focused on the deeds of a single person or hero, mortal though exceptionally strong, intelligent, or brave, and often assisted or opposed by gods. Epic is set in a remote or legendary past represented as an age of greater heroism than the present. Its style is elevated...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 April 2024
... less than a soul-scorching ritual of mourning. He felt that the statue should be used, in Kelly's words, to present “a solemn meditation on mortality and the collective expression of grief.” The appropriate dramatic effect could be created only by a stubbornly inanimate, decidedly nonhuman prop, one...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 429–447.
Published: 01 November 2016
...), which contains the image of “a branch of pear blossoms, wet with spring rain” 梨花一枝春帶雨, evoking a beautiful young woman bathed in tears. The chrysanthemum, an autumn flower, ironically suggests age and mortality. Hu Wenhui cites an account of another university administrator at this time who was attacked...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 195–224.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., divinities and mortals enter in simple oneness into things, ordered the house.” 7 Meanwhile, Gaston Bachelard speaks of an “oneiric house” that is presumably within each of us. 8 As he puts it, “We are unable to relive duration that has been destroyed. . . . Memories are motionless, and the more...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 199–231.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., act 3 crosscuts between the longing wife trapped amid mirrors and screens, on the one hand, and the husband's fierce battle, in which he loses his shared-heart knot and sustains a mortal wound, on the other. But what seizes our attention are the two garden scenes that bookend the entire act. The first...
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View articletitled, What Noise Does a Psychotic Door Listen To? Information, Intermediality, and Guo Baochang's Peking Opera Film Dream of the Bridal Chamber
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 432–460.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of the Later Han) mention the sounds of blind masters chanting collected poems or folk songs at night ( cai shi ye song 采詩夜誦). 68 This in turn may reflect a more general notion that spirits were easier to perceive or communicate with at night, or even that their descent to the mortal realm heralded...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 87–114.
Published: 01 April 2020
... one-tenth of his wealth). This is not just a financial catastrophe for him; it is a mortal punishment. The details at the end about the exposure of his corpse and eventual burial without even a cheap coffin complete the divine punishment of reducing him to utter penury. The wealthy merchant who had...
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