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Beyond the City Walls: Photographic Seeing and the Longing for Wilderness in Yang Wanli's Nature Poems
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 313–338.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Li E Abstract The Southern Song poet Yang Wanli is known for his Chengzhai style, prominent features of which include humorous language, easy syntax, and nature as the source of inspiration. This article examines two characteristics of Yang's nature poems that contribute to the development of his...
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Published: 01 November 2018
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The “Natural Rhythm” Of Chinese Poetry: Physical and Linguistic Perspectives Since 1919
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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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Rereading a Poetics of Divination: Oracular Visuality and Iterations of Landscape in Wei-Jin Lyricism
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 277–307.
Published: 01 November 2022
... early medieval shanshui lyricism and that similar iterations of nature writing emerged earlier than is often recognized. By tracing the use of the divinatory utterance yangfu 仰俯 (looking up and looking down) in earlier depictions of the natural world, the author reconsiders the visual poetics of later...
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What Remains of Mountains and Waters: Fragments, Mutilation, and Creation in Early Qing Literature and Culture
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 137–168.
Published: 01 April 2019
... with ethics, these authors symbolically translate the devastated landscape (aesthetically objectified) into ethical sites, namely, the mutilated body and the shattered psyche. They push beyond the orthodox discourse of canshan shengshui , which seeks to supplement the natural landscape with artistic...
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Lu Xun, the Critical Buddhist: A Monstrous Ekayāna
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 400–428.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Ying Lei Abstract When Lu Xun 魯迅 (1881–1936) sows in “Gudu zhe” 孤獨者 (The Misanthrope) the analogy of a seed in a conversation about the nature of children, he alludes to the epistemic seedbed other than evolutionary thinking: Buddhism. This study probes into this moment of double conjuration...
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Yuan-Ming Sanqu Songs as Communal Texts: Discovering Their Literary Vitality from a New Research Perspective
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 113–138.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., and they have been widely appreciated as a “literary-cultural phenomenon” unrelated to music per se. Standard histories of Chinese literature typically interpret the interaction between Song dynasty ci song lyrics and Yuan dynasty sanqu songs and song-drama as a natural evolution of literary forms. To be sure...
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“In the Mountain Forest I Lose My Self”: The Experience of No-Self in Wang Wei's Short Landscape Poems
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 338–366.
Published: 01 November 2022
... motif in Wang's poetry. The author demonstrates that, when seen from the standpoint of emptiness, the relation of the perceiver and the perceived in Wang's short nature poems proves to be more sophisticated than usually thought. Because both the human agent and the natural objects around him...
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The Life of a Text: A Brief History of the Liji 禮記 (Rites Records) and Its Transmission
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 289–308.
Published: 01 November 2014
.... This composite nature of the text suggests that its compilers drew upon a wide range of sources, which only enhances the value of the Liji as a source for early ritual. The article then moves on to trace the history of the Liji 's transmission through written versions on bamboo and silk, carved stelae, paper...
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Between the Interior and the Artifactual: Reading the Ci Space
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 56–90.
Published: 01 April 2017
..., on the other. The author focuses on two basic loci of “private” space as represented in shi and ci , the boudoir and garden—one sexualized, forbidden, and private, and the other natural, culturally sanctioned, and constructed, but also private in certain ways regarding ownership. These two major categories...
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What Was Good Writing (or Reading) in Eleventh-Century China? Rethinking Guwen and Its Relation to Daoxue
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 336–359.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., and that between culture and nature in our understanding of Guwen . Situating the activity of writing in mid-Northern Song political culture and its civil examination system, the author also argues that the priority of dao over wen , sometimes seen in the Guwen proponents' works, should be understood...
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On the Origin of Chinese Tonal Prosody: Argumentation from a Case Study of Shen Yue's Poems
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 347–379.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the puzzle by exploring: (1) the nature of poetic prosody, (2) tonal prosodic patterns in Chinese regulated verse, (3) problems with the Sanskrit origins hypothesis of Chinese tonal prosody, and (4) the pathways of Chinese poetic metricalization from the Six dynasties (222–589) to the Tang dynasty (618–907...
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The Rhyme Book Culture of Pre-Tang China
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 419–443.
Published: 01 November 2015
... (official rhyme book) in Chinese history, the author argues for its more private and personal nature and brings to light a different picture of pre-Tang “tonal and rhyming” culture. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 yunshu 韻書 (rhyme books) Qieyun 切韻 (Spelling Rhymes) zhiyin 知音 (one...
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Networks of Exchange Poetry in Late Medieval China: Notes toward a Dynamic History of Tang Literature
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 322–359.
Published: 01 November 2018
...) the concept of “poetic schools” is not a useful lens through which to view the Late Tang, and (d) poets at the center of the network are increasingly characterized by their mobility. This combination of network analysis and close reading highlights the dynamic nature of Chinese literary history, providing...
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Su Shi Renders No Emotion
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 15–55.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Peter C. Sturman Abstract A complex triangular relationship of ideas, naturalness, and emotion is distinctly evident in the artistic practice and theory of Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037–1101), the leading figure exploring ways to expand the expressive capabilities of the graphic arts in the late Northern Song...
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Like Not Like: Writing Portraits in The Peony Pavilion
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 134–172.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Anne Burkus-Chasson Abstract In this essay, the author examines the portraits that are featured in Tang Xianzu's The Peony Pavilion . The textual portraits are mixed in nature. They contain semiotic elements that can be readily described in language and understood through iconographical...
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The Ancient Chinese Arts of the Ear: Etymology, Meteorology, Musicology
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 432–460.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... This led to an etiological hierarchy, in some ways inverted by current standards, in which the purpose of studying pitch and tonality was not, first and foremost, analysis of music qua art but, rather, the encoding, transmission, and influence of natural energies and social harmony. Copyright © 2019...
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In Praise of This Prosperous and Harmonious Empire: Sanqu , Ming Anthologies, and the Imperial Court
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 139–162.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Tian Yuan Tan Abstract This article explores the textual world and functionalities of sanqu songs in relation to the court milieu. The imperial court is not usually considered a natural habitat for the sanqu genre, best known for its portrayal of “disengagement” and “retirement” from official life...
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The Divided Liang Dynasty Literary World Seen through the Liu-Dao Dispute
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 261–286.
Published: 01 November 2021
...–527) of the Liang Dynasty 梁 (502–557). The major difference between the literary camps lies in the consideration given to natural poetic talent versus erudition in writings. When Xiao Gang 蕭綱 (503–551), Liu Xiaochuo's supporter, became crown prince in 531, his own conflict with the scholarly group...
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Guo Xi on Painting the Invisible Gaze of the Dao
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 287–306.
Published: 01 November 2021
... thought, paying particular attention to the latter's implementation of spirit, nature, and incompleteness. Guo Xi succeeded in giving these Daoist themes an aesthetic significance that had yet to be fully realized by his predecessors, while expounding them in a manner that remained faithful to the texts...
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