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Beef, Fish, and Chestnut Cake: Food for Heroes in the Late Imperial Chinese Novel
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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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The Attendant's Lament: Loan-Sharking, Squeeze, and Extortion in the Yangzhou Novel Fengyue meng (Seductive Dreams)
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Keith McMahon Abstract The brothel and the local yamen are the two main institutions around which life revolves in the 1848 novel Fengyue meng 風月夢 (Seductive Dreams) by an anonymous author. Loan-sharking, squeeze, and extortion are the most prominent ways besides prostitution of making a living...
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Mencian Reincarnations: Mercy and Forgiveness in the Seventeenth-Century Chinese Novel Predestined Marriage That Awakens the World
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 292–316.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Yuanfei Wang Abstract Existing scholarship rarely examines the theme of mercy and forgiveness in the seventeenth-century novel Xingshi yinyuan zhuan (Predestined Marriage That Awakens the World) by Xizhou Sheng 西周生 (ca. 17th c.) which is known for its recurrent narratives of karmic retribution...
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Genre Conflation and Fictional Religiosity in Guilian meng (Returning to the Lotus Dream)
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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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Sending Flowers into the Mirror: Jinghua yuan as Metafiction
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 412–431.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Liangyan Ge Abstract This study offers a reading of the early nineteenth-century Chinese novel Jinghua yuan 鏡花緣 (Flowers in the Mirror) by Li Ruzhen 李汝珍 (1763–1830?) as a fiction about fiction making. Contextualizing the novel in a society where the civil service examinations are among the most...
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Knowledge, Emotion, and Imagination: Negotiating Cultural Boundaries in The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 115–148.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu Abstract The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean , a late sixteenth-century novel loosely based on the historical expeditions commanded by Zheng He (1371–1433), is a peculiar mixture of factual accounts of foreign lands and fantastic narrative. While previous studies...
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How Should the Dragon King Memorialize the Jade Emperor? Margins of Political Thought in Late Ming China
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 461–486.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Shoufu Yin Abstract A vast array of “vernacular” novels from late imperial and modern China feature well-edited official documents such as decrees, edicts, and memorials. The present study argues that these long-overlooked official documents offer unique access to creative political ideas...
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Lust as Prerequisite: Eroticism in The Story of the Stone
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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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Riddles in Jin Ping Mei
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 341–370.
Published: 01 November 2021
... daozi 拆白道字) comes from and how it relates to literary riddles that precede and follow this landmark sixteenth-century novel. Jin Ping Mei cihua enlarges the presentation and associations of riddles in fiction through its engagement with contemporaneous theatrical literature and the entertainment culture...
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Zaisheng yuan and the Writing of Women's Culture
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 169–194.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Maram Epstein Abstract This article focuses on Zaisheng yuan as an intertextual work of creative fiction that draws from male-authored xiaoshuo fiction as well as earlier literary tanci novels. This case study discusses Zaisheng yuan as a key text in an affective archive of narrative works written...
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Demon-Immortal Monkey: Categories of Being in the Cosmos of Journey to the West
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 403–437.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that governs the novel. He is a human-like monkey, who is also an aspiring immortal, who was once a miscreant demon, who moreover never completely sheds his demon-like behavior. Journey to the West pays particular attention to the taxonomy of beings, which therefore needs a more detailed examination than has...
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The Richness of Ambiguity: A Mencian Statement and Interpretive Theory and Practice in Premodern China
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 262–288.
Published: 01 November 2014
... critics continually reinterpreted the Mencian statement in a way that justified their novel interpretive approaches. So, by investigating the continual reinterpretation of the Mencian statement, this article maps out the rise of diverse interpretive approaches from pre-Han times through the Qing. It also...
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The Past Lives of Su Shi: Stories of Truth and Adaptation
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 248–278.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of Wuzu Shijie's dharma mind and the successor to the orthodox Yunmen lineage. This article also shows that when the story of Su Shi's past life was introduced into dramas and novels in vernacular society and incorporated with the Honglian stories, Wuzu Shijie was misrepresented as Chan master Wujie...
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Returning Empty-Handed: Reading the Yifanfeng Corpus as Buddhist Parting Poetry
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 383–419.
Published: 01 November 2017
... that was not the province of Buddhist monasticism, namely, poems of parting, nonetheless was used by Buddhist monks within the monastery in novel ways that are recognizably Buddhist. By studying the aesthetics of parting in the Yifanfeng poems, we can see an aspect of Chinese Buddhist culture that is both literary...
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“Prose within the Poem” ( Shi Zhong You Wen ): Du Fu's Creative Breakthrough in the Light of Wugu Narrative Rhythm
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 481–514.
Published: 01 November 2015
... a novel wugu rhythm from the life and language of his own time. By its exploitation of the potential of the wugu form to narrate by single prose lines, by its enhancement of both the density of narrative sequences and the compactness of the rhythm of lines and passages, and by its exploration of the use...
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Unquiet Qing : The Course of Lovesickness in the Modernization of Chinese Literature
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 379–402.
Published: 01 November 2023
... novels made lovesickness a target for criticism by literati and prompted reflection and revision of traditional narratives. With the modernization and westernization of Chinese literature, this classical literary malady was finally “cured.” The disappearance of lovesickness reflects the gradual...
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A Companion to The Story of the Stone: A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 408–412.
Published: 01 November 2024
... this volume. The summaries are quite brief (of necessity), and in reading them, one gets very little sense of the power and the beauty of the novel. While the summaries have their utility, the real power of the book lies in its commentary. The amount of Chinese-language scholarship on the novel is enormous...
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The Potent Eunuch: The Story of Wei Zhongxian
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 1–28.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Eunuch, Sun Yaoting ). Bejiing : Renmin wenxue chubanshe , 2004 . Jiangsu sheng shehui kexue yuan 江蘇省社會科學院 . Zhongguo tongsu xiaoshuo zongmu tiyao 中國通俗小說總目提要 ( Summaries of Chinese Vernacular Novels ). Beijing : Zhongguo wenlian chuban gongsi , 1990 . Jin Yi 金易 and Shen Yiling 沈義羚...
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Eroticism and Other Literary Conventions in Chinese Literature: Intertextuality in “The Story of the Stone.”
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 486–490.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Narrative in Late Imperial China (2001). At the same time, it breaks new ground in many directions. In her preface, Wu writes, I would argue that the novel is about the relationship between ren 人 (human) and wen 文 (literature): while the mythic stone is personified and its journey is created...
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Introduction
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2015
... the mechanism of illusion making that is essential not merely to the painting but also to the creation of his own novel, characterized by its irrepressible fascination with apparently endless paradoxes of the real and unreal, truth and fiction. Besides the illusionistic paintings and disguised doors, Cao also...
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