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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 215–232.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Yu-yu Cheng Abstract During the literary revolution, Hu Shi 胡適 (1891–1962) advocated the concept of natural rhythm, emphasizing the liberation of sound and the segmentation of meaning. Since 1919, his writings have attracted a great number of writers to reconceptualize the meaning and function...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 163–202.
Published: 01 April 2021
... is an example of a sanqu song by Zhang Yanghao 張養浩 (1270–1329) (discussed below in the essay on pronouns), illustrating how one pair of translators, scholar C. H. Kwock and poet Gary G. Gach, made use of line breaks, layout, and informal punctuation to capture the contrastive nature of Zhang's imagery. 8...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 286–323.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., this method naturally creates a regular musical rhythm and is especially suited to oral singing. Thus, in early yuefu we will see the frequent appearance of parallel construction line form. For example: 1. “Mulberry on the Bank” Passers-by, on seeing Lo-fu, 行者見羅敷 14 Lay down their loads...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 481–514.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of the time. Because regular spoken language is that of prose, modification produced a natural narrative rhythm directly and with minimal effort. For this reason, Xie Zhen's words of praise for Han-Wei poetry are instructive: “like a scholar speaking in the hometown vernacular to his acquaintances” 若秀才對朋友說家常話...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 April 2016
... expression and proper comportment; it accompanies ceremonious clothing and points toward values of self-expression. The musical style of the instrument focuses its devotees on the natural rhythms of the cosmos, from which the polite usages of hundreds of generations have emerged. In the sounds and strings...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 545–572.
Published: 01 November 2015
... engenders a dynamic interplay of all its elements, from which poetic vision emerges. The birth of each major poetic genre or subgenre is marked by the formation of its distinctive prosodic rhythm(s). Each new prosodic rhythm, in turn, leads to the rise of new types of subject+predicate and topic+comment...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 November 2015
... nuanced appreciation of ancient Chinese poetry. Zhao Minli and Benjamin Ridgway's article demonstrates a close relationship between prosodic rhythm and linguistic change in the formation of pentasyllabic shi poetry. What distinguishes the pentasyllabic shi poetry from the Book of Poetry...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 515–544.
Published: 01 November 2015
... becomes the spirit breath of the ancients; the tone and rhythm of the ancients then reside in one's own throat and lips, and anything that joins with one's own throat and lips resembles the spirit breath and tone and rhythm of the ancients. Eventually, after a long while, the sounds will naturally ring...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 89–112.
Published: 01 April 2021
... requires a high degree of linguistic skill and because, in many cases, the artificial manipulation of language makes the style of a poem or song far from natural and colloquial. For this reason, Zhang Kejiu's frequent and skilled usage of parallel lines in his sanqu works has often been regarded...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 432–460.
Published: 01 November 2019
... out of them (in absence of any outside wind) could signal the arrival of a new season. Insofar as the goal was to find those harmonious pitches that corresponded to the natural rhythms of the earth, conversely, the timing of the ashes' dispersal could indicate something of the fidelity of the pitch...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 148–178.
Published: 01 April 2018
... the evidence of his inner struggle in pursuit of the Dao 道 (the Way) at the end of his life. Thus contextualized, my analysis of these poems attempts to grasp the psychological world of Sōseki and the nature of his Dao, a unique mixture of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism. Before proceeding...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 380–418.
Published: 01 November 2015
... (Eight Poems Imitating the Crown Prince of Wei's “Yezhong Ji,” Liu Zhen). 24 These fully reflect the beauty of Xie's poems, with highly polished parallel couplets and a strong sense of rhythm. Serving as a divider between two clauses, the pause between the second and third syllables is naturally...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 186–215.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Jian Zhang; Dandan Chen Abstract This article examines the history of primers on shenglü (tone and rhythm) in premodern China. The first section of the article investigates the original version of Zhu Ming's (Yuan Dynasty) Shenglü fameng (A Primer of Shenglü ), as well as its sequel and revisions...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 203–214.
Published: 01 November 2016
... modern times. This issue is divided into four modules. The first section introduces three articles regarding the modern engagement with classical poetic concepts. Cheng Yu-yu revisits a dialogue on the “sound effect” that happened in the 1930s, examining the way in which the “natural rhythm” ( ziran...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 444–480.
Published: 01 November 2015
.... Therefore, it naturally leads to the “song” lyrics that follow—where the use of xi 兮 (a mood-expressing particle) effectively distinguishes the rhythm of “song” from the melody of “poetry.” Up to this point, we have seen that “Wucheng fu” contains elements of poetry, song, and even speech. Though...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 425–457.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., and performance tradition. Examining the nature of such differences and the ideological factors behind them can help delineate the boundary of Chinese music. Out of concern for social harmony and economic benefits, traditional Chinese culture tends to attach greater importance to homogeneity than to heterogeneity...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 324–346.
Published: 01 November 2015
... difference in the occurrence and nature of T2–T4 and T2–T5 pair-wise tonal contrasts between the poetry and narrative texts. The results of the chi-square tests also suggest that the two categories of texts, namely, pentasyllabic poetry and historic narrative texts from the Han to the Wei-Jin period...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 287–306.
Published: 01 November 2021
... , 105 – 31 . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 1983 . Murashige, Stanley . “ Rhythm, Order, Change, and Nature in Guo Xi's Early Spring .” Monumenta Serica 43 ( 1995 ): 337 – 64 . Sakanishi, Shio , trans. An Essay on Landscape Painting . London : Murray , 1949...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 47–78.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of the equivalence relation in Tang poetry. The first of these is the quality-oriented nature of nouns and noun images (295, 298, and 346), which favors the equivalence relationship between members in the same or similar “quality categories” (316). The other feature has to do with syntax: “Since Chinese...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 359–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
... natural inclination to collect meant that he possessed a large library” ( Emperor Qianlong , 117 ). 38. Rawski, Last Emperors , 254–63 . 39. Elliot, Manchu Way , 294–99 . 40. This incident is presented in Elliot, Manchu Way , 295 . 41. Bai, Qianlong huangdi zhuan, 184...
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