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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 96–136.
Published: 01 April 2019
...: Chinese Narrative Illustration and Confucian Ideology . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2007 . Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修 (1007–72) and Song Qi 宋祁 (998–1061), comps. Xin Tangshu 新唐書 ( New Book of Tang ). 1060. 20 vols. Beijing : Zhonghua shuju , 1975 . Park, J. P. Art by the Book...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 60–86.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., was a leader in the Quanzhen sect, and his travelogue documents the journey of his master, Qiu Chuji, at the invitation of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan. Li's text illustrates the tension of competing political and cultural authorities: while the Mongols were becoming the source of political authority, the Taoists...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., and subtle facial expressions with conventions of printed narrative illustration to creatively convey emotion in his paintings. According to Burkus-Chasson, emotive figures were desirable in the flourishing of printed books during the late Ming period in contrast with painting. Chen brought bold innovation...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 448–470.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and transformation. Using depth of composition, the painting conveys the traditional atmosphere and emotional mood (captured by the poet in his ode), while at the same time embodying the poem's narrative framework to embed the loyalist poet's emotional pattern. By using Wu Deyi's “Illustration of Autumn Chants...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 461–486.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... 5. Using Robert Hegel's terms, “the forms of fiction conveyed meaning that is still intelligible today.” See Hegel, Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China , 3 . Well studied, in contrast, is the use of verses in prose narratives in late imperial China. See, e.g., Idema, “Prosimetric...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 324–346.
Published: 01 November 2015
... previous study, the research presented in this article interprets tonal contrast data obtained in these poems in an enriched context. The author compares the tonal contrast rates in the poems written before the Yongming 永明 era (483–93) to tonal contrast rates obtained from narrative texts written...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 487–513.
Published: 01 November 2023
... commentary and illustrations; at the same time, its fantastical content poses special challenges to translators. Topics of particular concern in this review are the use of paratextual elements, excerpting, and titles to reshape and present the text, and the ways in which various translators have used...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 481–485.
Published: 01 November 2020
... on the surface). Chen has wisely chosen to emulate Du Fu himself in using the small and intimate to illustrate the grand and epic. He focuses on a small set of Du Fu's poems on the An Lushan Rebellion 安祿山 (703–57) as “microscale narrations of the ordinary that have interpretive implications...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 April 2020
... island, where he is rescued by a renxiong , a fierce yet empathetic bear-like creature that takes him as its mate. Though short-lived, their union is one of several in the play in which marginal characters are brought into the (narrative and imperial) center through marriage: by the end of the play...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 119–147.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Yan Liang Abstract This article explores the functions that food, as a narrative trope, has played in the characterization and storytelling of three prominent martial arts novels in late imperial China: Shuihu zhuan 水滸傳 (Water Margin), Sanxia wuyi 三俠五義 (Three Gallant Men and Five Loyal Brothers...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 239–271.
Published: 01 April 2019
... to analyze how closely Yuan's account conforms to historical record, especially because memory via narrative inevitably entails a level of embellishment or fabrication. One thing is clear, however, though never explicitly articulated: Yuan in 1922 was determined to establish a significantly different image...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 195–224.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... The juxtaposition illustrates how Western theories of spatiality can help open up new possibilities for Sinological studies of medieval China. Meanwhile, such engagements can also enhance the relevance of Sinological studies of medieval China to the developments in broader academia and beyond. 1...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2022
... an impact. A more exhaustive project would require several volumes and a significantly larger cadre of contributors. Our hope is that future scholars will fill in the gaps that we have left unexplored, in areas such as narrative theory, mixed media (e.g., illustrated fiction, drama, or other works...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 129–159.
Published: 01 April 2017
...I-Hsien Wu Abstract In chapter 1 of The Story of the Stone , the internal narrator notably censures erotic fiction and draws a line between his own narrative and the filthy obscenities. Yet the novel does the exact opposite. In the Stone , eroticism is not only part of a physiological act...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 November 2019
...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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 491–501.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Schaberg has discussed in A Patterned Past (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001): this would have been an eye-opener that unfortunately no Zuozhuan edition I know provides. 9. Ronald C. Egan, “Narratives in the Tso Chuan ,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 37, no. 2 (1977): 340. I...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 105–130.
Published: 01 April 2022
... seminal 1976 article, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” Mulvey asserts that she appropriates Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory of male subject formation “as a political weapon” provided by patriarchy to deconstruct how classical Hollywood film is structured around the male gaze, which...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 205–238.
Published: 01 April 2019
... illustration of Xu's narrative, depicting the moment just before Qiu Jin's decapitation as his caption tells it. In the far background of the picture are two seated officials, one in military garb, the other in civilian dress. Fanning to the left are four soldiers carrying muskets and standing at attention...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 134–172.
Published: 01 April 2015
... narrative plot, it, nonetheless, provides a striking contrast to the latter in both execution and design. The feasibility of producing the emperor's likeness is not held in question. However, likeness consists of an illustration of the subject's military ambition. The appearance of the portrait subject...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 169–204.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of women? The mixed-media hundred beauties genre was very much a product of the late imperial era. This development culminates, as several scholars, including myself, have noted, in Yan Xiyuan's 顏希源 (fl. 1787) Baimei xinyong tuzhuan 百美新詠圖傳 (Illustrated Biographies of One Hundred Beauties with New...
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