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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 335–356.
Published: 01 November 2016
... vindicated in 1979. With the publication of his classical-style poems in the early 1980s, he became a rising star on the literary scene, but illness and old age hindered him from concentrating on writing. As he approached eighty, his poetic retrospective of his life displayed not only a calm and amiable...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 92–133.
Published: 01 April 2015
... poetry and painting mortality old-age style When Shen Zhou 沈周 (1427–1509), one of the prominent figures of Suzhou culture, entered into his very late years at the turn of the sixteenth century, he embarked on a creative project that absorbed an undue amount of attention. According to Shen...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 169–204.
Published: 01 April 2019
... and conflicting voices/perspectives on women's roles and images in the transitional era, the new-style hundred beauties albums continued to produce gendered stereotypes in the context of modernization. The lovelorn female persona from an age-old poetic tradition was transplanted into the popular beauties albums...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 481–514.
Published: 01 November 2015
...) poem the old tenor of the Han 漢 (202 BCE–220 CE) and Wei 魏 (220–65) periods. However, Du Fu did not merely imitate his Han-Wei predecessors in terms of form and style. Instead, with his efforts at recovery of the creative principles driving the Han-Wei ancient form, Du Fu succeeded in distilling...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 499–505.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and therefore limited in application. In China, Lü Dafang connected late style to the experience a writer accumulates as they age and even the physiological experience of old age. Ye Mengde focused on the literary quality of and broad knowledge demonstrated in Wang's later works. Huang Tingjian's two-phase...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 203–214.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... Such an argument strikes a more poignant note in the regime of socialist China. It will be recalled that the new republic was founded in 1949 amid the euphoric exchange of classical-style poems among Mao and his acolytes such as Liu Yazi and Guo Moruo, as if only the old form could lend a (dynastic) legitimacy...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 66–94.
Published: 01 April 2018
... and quatrains, and even a few four-character regulated and “old”-style poems ( gushi 古詩), the most common are five- and seven-character regulated quatrains of equal line length ( qiyan 齊言). Qing scholar Wang Shizhen 王士禎 (1634–1711) even described the jueju as “the yuefu of the Tang,” proving...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 313–338.
Published: 01 November 2020
... at age twenty-eight. A prolific poet, Yang had nine poetry collections compiled and published in his lifetime. 2 It is well known that he started by emulating the style of the Jiangxi school of the late Northern Song, with its heavy emphasis on poetic craft and book learning, and only later determined...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., respected family draped in shabby cotton, fearfully hiding his hands in his sleeves, hobbling along, carrying several dozen old style calligraphy rubbings that he was trying to sell. I pitied him and wanted to [help], but [my] bag was already empty. So, I beckoned to him to walk with me to the pawn shop...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 148–178.
Published: 01 April 2018
... referring to poetry composed in classical Chinese and in observance of the formal requirements of classical Chinese poetry, regardless of the nationality of the composer (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc.). Its Chinese equivalent is simply shi 詩 (poetry), or jiuti shi 舊體詩 (old-style poetry...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., in the constructed spaces of the court and the capital: partaking in banquets, watching spectacles, playing games, and—in private moments—enjoying a tryst with a lover, or combatting insomnia, illness, and old age in their rooms. Although the collections of lyric poetry that have come down to us contain many...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 312–334.
Published: 01 November 2016
...-school students, also published a number of poems on photos in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The majority of the poems are written in classical style, but some examples in the vernacular style ( yuti shi 語體詩) also exist. 26 In a formative age of heightened self-awareness, this genre, together...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 347–379.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the “Yongming style” poetry together with Wang Rong and Xie Tiao, he was among the forerunners who brought forward the innovation from old-style poems to recent-style poems. 沈約 ... ... 作詩講求聲律,提倡 「 四聲 」 、 「 八病 」 說,與王融、謝脁等創造 「 永明體 」 詩,開古詩向近體詩發展之先河。 5 The theory of “four tones and eight defects,” which...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 395–400.
Published: 01 November 2024
... changes to the Stone 's chronology. For example, in the second chapter of Dream , Dai-yu 黛玉 is described as “only 5 years old” 年方五歲. There is a reference to her age as “five years old” in every single Chinese manuscript and printed version. But already in the third chapter of Dream , Dai-yu does...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 289–311.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., “Ru Mo hefang gong yitang” 儒墨何妨共一堂 (How about Placing Confucianists and Maoists in One Hall?), in Shi, Shiji laoren de hua , 187 . 22. See poem 62, Beishan lou shi , 171 . Even in his old age, Shi Zhecun advised his students to take this moderate political line. For example, in a letter...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 461–482.
Published: 01 November 2019
...? Sixth year of Tian Fu reign, “Epitaph of Ren Jingshu”: Even while his ambition still held, he had thoughts of resigning peacefully. When he reached old age, government service became even more tiresome. As soon as his successor came, he chose to live in seclusion. Although he had untied the ribbon...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 209–215.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and daughters devotedly serving their parents-in-law through their old age and beyond. There were individuals in the Bao clan who acknowledged three “mothers” (legal, birth, and surrogate); how was one to prioritize and carry out filial obligations in such a case? Also of interest in Zhang's study...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 306–335.
Published: 01 November 2017
... later reputation as simply a guwen 古文 (ancient-style prose) anthology would suggest. By analyzing the claims of the preface, Yao Xuan's unusual organizational strategies, and some key theoretical texts in the “letters discussing literature” section of the anthology, the author shows that Yao Xuan used...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2020
... unfold according to my plan. I know that you executed all the officials who had served you when you were a prince. If they were here, despite their old age, they could still offer wise strategies. Now that you have had all of them killed, is it not Heaven that is helping me? To seize and capture you I do...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 429–447.
Published: 01 November 2016
... at an old age, full of resentment he left us” 徐森玉丈高齡衰病,含冤逝世. 50 At the same time, he also learned that Sheng Chenghua, a close friend from Tsinghua, had died years before. 51 Perhaps these two factors, apart from bringing Xindi sadness, might have led him to treasure even more the warmth...