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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 (2022) 9 (1): 170–194.
Published: 01 April 2022
... . 64. Barthes, Image, Music, Text , 160 . 65. Ibid., 160. 66. Carruthers, Book of Memory , 87 . References Allen, Sarah M. Shifting Stories: History, Gossip, and Lore in Narratives from Tang Dynasty China . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2014...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 312–334.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., The Sacred Books of China , 196–97 . The forms ( xing 形) and shadow ( ying 影) were often used to refer to photography. 19. Barthes, “Rhetoric of the Image,” in Image-Music-Text , 44 . 20. See Barthes, Camera Lucida . 21. The story is cited in Shen, Shen Zengzhi ji jiaozhu , 191...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 492–503.
Published: 01 November 2019
... China” (25). Zhang was a rising official with a deep knowledge of music, who is known now primarily for his song lyrics. Lam uses a wide range of texts to explore the ambient sounds Zhang wrote about, Zhang's understanding of the importance of musical performance to the state, and finally, his musical...
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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 (2015) 2 (2): 515–544.
Published: 01 November 2015
... out in the compositions of one particular ci writer, see Ashmore, “The Banquet's Aftermath.” 8. To a significant degree, the writing of yuefu is formulaic. From the musical patterns to the texts containing the original story, and finally, to the ways in which emotion is expressed, all...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 504–508.
Published: 01 November 2019
... elegant, drawing on a wide range of Chinese poetic references. But zidishu was also a musical genre, and Chiu offers as complete a reconstruction of the music as is likely to be possible, based on a few surviving examples of texts with at least rudimentary musical notation. Zidishu were sung...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 432–460.
Published: 01 November 2019
... music remains, as do other functions, such as courtship and exercise. This article suggests that the situation, especially at the more elite level better attested by text and archeological finds, was much the reverse in ancient times, with music's entertainment value secondary to its practical functions...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 163–202.
Published: 01 April 2021
... translation methods such as literal translation and rhymed translation, with an emphasis on foregrounding the rhymes as a salient feature in the target text, because rhyming is usually the most audible and noticeable sonic feature in the perception of sanqu songs' musicality. 59 Rhyme...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 137–174.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Xu Xingwu Abstract Since the Qing dynasty, the relationship between the apocrypha and literature has concerned scholars working on the Wenxuan 文選 (Selections of Refined Writings) and Wenxin diaolong 文心雕龍 (The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons). Apocryphal texts emerged in the Han dynasty...
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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): 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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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 (2022) 9 (2): 425–457.
Published: 01 November 2022
... only on exceptionally rare occasions. Only four sinograms, 琴瑟琵琶, have made it to the list. Among them, qin 琴 and se 瑟 have long enjoyed prestigious status as symbols of Chinese traditional music. One can find traces of them in many pre-Qin ancient texts, such as the Shijing 詩經 (Classic of Poetry...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 April 2019
... with poetry making: emotion externalizes itself in patterned sounds and words, and this language patterning in turn gives rise to visual manifestations, whether in the play of music, the spectacle of dance, or an image of the external worlds of man and nature. Perhaps in no other critical tradition can we...
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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
... lyrics” 樂府詞 appended to the collection of his imperial writings and not widely circulated beyond the palace. 37 The body of texts that I outlined above as “courtly sanqu songs” belong to a wider musical world in the Ming court. For instance, one may also reference a sizable body of song texts...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 91–128.
Published: 01 April 2017
... of previous canons in late imperial China. For He Jingming, the classification of yuefu poems by musical tunes in Zuo Keming's anthology is unconvincing, as the sounds have long been lost. Such a shift from sound to text in He Jingming's yuefu anthology might better serve the actual needs of writers...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 277–307.
Published: 01 November 2022
... shanshui literature alongside texts that use analogous mantic terminology. This study concludes that, while China's first “nature poets” constructed imagery, lyrics, and personae that appear distinct if not even contradictory to one another, the poets relied on a common visual prosody derived from...
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Nobody's Genre, Everybody's Song: Sanqu Songs and the Expansion of the Literary Sphere in Yuan China
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 29–64.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Patricia Sieber Abstract This article examines two key texts from early fourteenth-century Hangzhou to explore how they shaped the process of textualization of a new genre, the so-called sanqu songs. The article argues that both of these texts, the seminal anthology of the genre, the Yangchun...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 306–335.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of texts in each genre category. Table 1. Complete list of genres and contents by juan and number of pieces Genre category (in order of appearance) No. of juan No. of texts 古賦 Ancient (unregulated ) fu 9 45 詩:古今樂章 Poetry: Musical pieces old and new 2 214 詩:樂府...
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