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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 308–337.
Published: 01 November 2022
... social functions of cultural memory. The attention to cultural memory in the Shishuo xinyu was not an accidental or isolated phenomenon. Its sentimental and personal approach to the past reflects the prevailing cultural nostalgia in writings by elite literati of the fourth and fifth centuries...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 239–271.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Shengqing Wu Abstract This article delves into the nexus of nostalgia, memory, and visuality by examining the images, objects, and events surrounding Yuan Kewen's remembrances of his father, Yuan Shikai, and their family estate in Huanshang. It also considers Zhang Boju's remembrance of his...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 268–286.
Published: 01 November 2020
... in the same region. The psychological response to exile and coping strategies of these ancient Chinese intellectuals informed their diaspora-return consciousness, which may be seen in three phases: nostalgia and repentance, resentment and hope, and disengagement and acceptance. From the perspective...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 448–454.
Published: 01 November 2021
...–539), and Xiao Gang 蕭綱 (503–551), also composed poems to express their nostalgia and melancholy for the Jian'an qizi . The cultural construction of Jian'an qizi was therefore established in the early medieval period (220–589). Chapter 2, “Circling the Tree Thrice: Lord, Vassal Community...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 383–419.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., 人生無離別 6 Who would know the gravity of love and kindness? 誰知恩愛重 Su Shi's poem to his brother gives full-throated voice to the tender sadness of leaving loved ones. Nostalgia, longing, and shades of sadness from anguish to despair are characteristic of parting poems acclaimed in Song...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 203–214.
Published: 01 November 2016
... throughout the twentieth century regardless of the predominant existence of New Literature. Although it was adopted by the conservatives to demonstrate their nostalgia, it was also celebrated among radical antitraditionalists from Lu Xun 魯迅 (1881–1936) to Mao Zedong 毛澤東 (1893–1976). Classical-style poetry...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 April 2019
... mother. She becomes the heir and carrier of her mother's legacy, and makes herself visible to the public. Finally, in “Nostalgic Fragments in the Thick of Things,” Shengqing Wu offers a critical study of memory, nostalgia, and visuality through her examination of the lives of Yuan Kewen and Zhang...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 26–56.
Published: 01 April 2016
... archives, and its multifaceted, multicultural residents. Even in the many poems extolling the peace and beauty of the hills of Hangzhou or Kunshan, his nostalgia for Beijing remains largely unabated. Both this reference to an essay of two decades before and the image of the ghoul-haunted, bone-littered...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 57–80.
Published: 01 April 2023
... “pose and artifice” in place of the nostalgia defining Wang Shizhen's cohort of early Qing poets. 34 It was this routine poetic language that created an efficient way for newcomers like the He family to find their “small place” in Yangzhou. To what extent did women poets such as the He sisters...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 492–503.
Published: 01 November 2019
... lifestyle of Hangzhou people at the time” (73). Stephen West in chapter 5 sets out accounts of the Lantern Festival in Kaifeng that “held a pivotal role in forming imagined communities of émigré Northerners who shared both a distaste for Hangzhou and a nostalgia for the pleasures that energized Kaifeng...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 65–89.
Published: 01 November 2014
... to the study of poetry and old-style prose. Jiang Shijie is therefore a hereditary “remnant subject” of the Ming—though born a Qing subject, he in effect inherited his father's memories 44 and viewed the bygone dynasty with “mediated nostalgia.” 45 His contemporaries also held him in high regard for his...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 148–178.
Published: 01 April 2018
... future, the same disillusionment seems to reemerge in this late poem, now tinged with beautiful nostalgia and poignant bleakness: Untitled (September 4, Taishō 5 [1916]) 無題（大正五年九月四日） With gray hair down, my old soul is startled; 散來華髮老魂驚 2 In retreat did I ever write about injustice in my...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 137–168.
Published: 01 April 2019
.... Not only is the view before their eyes broken, but they feel themselves to be shengpo canhun 剩魄殘魂 (remnant spirit and broken soul), their writing canpian shengju 殘篇剩句 (broken passages and remnant lines), and their painting canjian duanmo 殘縑斷墨 (torn silk and faint ink). 6 Mournful nostalgia...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 258–288.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Lu Xun and Wang Guowei marks 1908 as a year of significant fashioning of Chinese literary subjectivity in modern times. Critics have described Lu Xun and Wang Guowei in antagonistic terms, such as formalist aesthetics versus volitional articulation, cultural nostalgia versus revolutionary yearning...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 420–438.
Published: 01 November 2017
... is said to have been written and the content of the song itself. Ci tends to be a genre of plaintive nostalgia for love or joy no longer present. So it is less incongruous than one might expect to find a piece about joy past or joy recollected composed during the experience of the joyous occasion itself...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 359–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
... chastised. The Manchu emperor appeared to be at least unwittingly inconsistent in his words and deeds and hypocritical at worst in his attempts to preserve and promote the Manchu Way. In 1782, when he saw this painting again, nostalgia prompted another poem from the aging emperor. The last two verses read...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 375–410.
Published: 01 November 2018
... School of the Ming Dynasty ). Shanghai : Shanghai guji chubanshe , 2008 . Kafalas, Philip . In Limpid Dream: Nostalgia and Zhang Dai's Reminiscences of the Ming . Norwalk, CT : EastBridge , 2007 . Kafalas, Philip . “ Weighty Matters, Weightless Form: Politics and the Late Ming Xiaopin...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
... resonate in entirely different ways. Literati expressed strong nostalgia for the fallen regime and the associated way of life. As Wang demonstrates in his close readings of several seventeenth-century plays, such policies invited playwrights to exploit the stage directions devoted to costuming as a site...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 134–172.
Published: 01 April 2015
... to the play's romance and puts aside its farce, drawing the story to a conclusion that may have satisfied his audience's nostalgia for social order. In the last five scenes of The Peony Pavilion , Tang settles the confused identities of all the actors in the play, focusing in particular on revealing the real...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 235–267.
Published: 01 November 2020
... one's ability to compose regulated verse, among other talents and virtues. 4 Long after most observers considered bagu' s demise both a foregone and a welcome conclusion, Yu sounds a note of nostalgia, even as he clothes it in a parodic mode that was increasingly popular during the last years...
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