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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 66–94.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Qian Zhixi; Casey Schoenberger Abstract The relationship between music and Tang poetry is a topic of ongoing interest, usually approached from the perspective of individual genres. This article considers the relationships of three major genres of Tang poetry to music, morality, and one another...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 425–457.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Ivan Yifan Zou; Yaching Tsai; William Shi-Yuan Wang Abstract Reform and innovation toward the Western standards have been a perennial theme in the modern history of Chinese music. However, reformers can be easily overwhelmed by various details, to the point that the most fundamental question, What...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Tian Qing (田青); 田青 Abstract What does music convey to people living within a culture? How is it understood? How should we approach the study of music when we want to attain a synthetic and comprehensive view of musical activities in human culture? This article explores the cultural interface...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 113–138.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Ye Ye; Erxin Wang Abstract When examining songs in Chinese literature, we can distinguish among literary, musical, and communal aspects of their circulation. Sanqu songs became popular in the form of musical texts in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, but the ci song lyrics, by the Southern Song dynasty...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 286–323.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Zhao Minli; Benjamin Ridgway Abstract China's earliest poetic genres formed in direct relationship with music, and pentasyllabic shi poetry is no exception. This was a new poetic genre that formed after tetrasyllabic poetry and the sao style associated with the Chuci 楚辭 (Lyrics of Chu...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 163–202.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., it argues that the different sonic features of sanqu merit close consideration, the loss of the notational contours of the original tunes notwithstanding. Rather than bemoaning the absence of the underlying music, it suggests that, in keeping with Walter Benjamin's vision of the “task of the translator...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 432–460.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., pitch, tonality, music, memory, and recitation existed in conceptual parallel to systems of visual knowledge of heavenly bodies, light, color, and the written record. Masters of the former set of skills were frequently blind and entrusted with a distinct set of ritual and advisory functions, including...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 515–544.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Chen Yinchi; Paula Varsano Abstract While few would contest the importance of phonology and aural considerations in the study of classical Chinese poetry, the musicality of guwen (ancient-style prose essays) writing has attracted little attention thus far. This article redresses this imbalance...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 307–340.
Published: 01 November 2021
... illustrate that it was not unusual for sanqu songs to incorporate dramatic references. This blending of song and drama can be traced to the arbitrary Yuan dynasty definition of yuefu 樂府 (literally, “Music Bureau songs”) and its relationship with sanqu songs. Thus the heterogeneous and inclusive nature...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 203–235.
Published: 01 April 2021
...” ( qingli 清麗) and “heroic abandon” ( haofang 豪放) borrowed from the discourse on ci 詞 song lyrics, immediacy and hypermediacy may allow us to articulate a different, more genre-specific aesthetic. Ye Ye's article in this issue distinguishes among sanqu as musical, literary, and informational texts...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 492–503.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the contributors to this volume come from many disciplines—art history, music history, social history, and literary history—seven of the nine essays explore different aspects of a deep ambivalence about the life of the senses in Hangzhou. In chapter 1, for example, Beverly Bossler examines how the entertainment...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 504–508.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of a small galaxy of performance arts— kunqu , gaoqiang 高腔 (“high tunes,” a form of opera), dagu 大鼓 (big drumsongs), and bajiaogu 八角鼓 (any of several performance genres accompanied by an octagonal tambourine) are some others—that might appear during a performance. She lets us hear the music and think...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 215–232.
Published: 01 November 2016
... in Chinese language and literature. As early as 1924, Hu Pu'an tried to define sound ( sheng 聲) and voice ( yin 音) through alluding to “Yueji” 樂記 (Record of Music): According to the “Record of Music” in the Book of Rites , “all the modulations of the voice arise from the mind, and the various...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2021
... kinds of audiences but also, in the process, developed new functionalities. As the articles demonstrate, in doing so the genre often broke down boundaries between popular, ritual, court, and literati realms; between indigenous and foreign practitioners; between musical, literary, and communicative uses...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 89–112.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... Although it also played an essential role in fostering the formal beauty of musical genres with relatively humble origins, such as ci 詞 (song lyric) and sanqu , parallelism is often associated with the classical literary style enjoyed by cultural elites because the organization of parallel lines...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 137–174.
Published: 01 April 2016
... : “Hanwenjia” 含文嘉 (Comprehensive Literary Praise), “Jimingzheng” 稽命征 (Verifications from Investigating Destiny), “Douweiyi” 斗威儀 (The Appearance of the Authoritative Dipper); Music Apocrypha : “Dongshengyi” 動聲儀 (Impressiveness of Musical Instruments), “Jiyaojia” 稽耀嘉 (Investigating Glorious Praise...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
... for ways to make a subject intelligible, especially if they feel that it has been ignored, sidelined, misunderstood, or maligned. Traditional Chinese theater ( xiqu 戲曲, song-drama or musical drama) is one such topic where the need to define it succinctly may be accompanied by a perhaps even greater...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 236–238.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Essays 康海散曲集校箋 (2011), coauthor of Passion, Romance, and Qing: The World of Emotions and States of Mind in Peony Pavilion (2014), and coeditor of Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music: Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema (2009), An Anthology of Critical Studies on Tang Xianzu...
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In Praise of This Prosperous and Harmonious Empire: Sanqu , Ming Anthologies, and the Imperial Court
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 139–162.
Published: 01 April 2021
... on to describe joyous scenes at the festival: decorative lantern displays, bustling music performances, and mouthwatering food, before making a historical turn in the penultimate song to reflect on the tradition of the celebration, tracing it back to the Han dynasty. The giant sea turtle is linked to the famous...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 448–454.
Published: 01 November 2021
... cultures. Lu Ji's fantastic commemorations of the Three Kingdoms period and his skill at cultural synthesis laid a foundation for his later positive reception: “Indeed, his own literary fame to a large extent was indebted to his serious commitment to Wei's musical and literary legacy” (166). Music linked...
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