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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 444–480.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Shengli Feng; Ash Henson Abstract The term pianwen 駢文 (parallel prose) comes from the main characteristic of the genre, while its other name—literally, “four-six prose” in Chinese—comes from its form. Theoretically, the aesthetic of the four-six configuration for Chinese writers is rooted...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 339–381.
Published: 01 November 2020
... 2020 Chinese prose forms Chinese prose art parallel prose ancient-style prose eight-legged essay This piece of descriptive parallel prose vividly reminds us of the landscape poetry written by Xie Lingyun 謝靈運 (385–433) just decades earlier; its salient formal features may be best...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 256–272.
Published: 01 April 2022
... itself is of course misleading. In the Ming and Qing (fifteenth–nineteenth centuries), when these essays were written, the term shiwen 時文 (modern prose essay) was more commonly used. There was never an official requirement that essays be written using parallel structures, and eight-legged essay...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 November 2015
... poetry, parallel and ancient-style prose—is covered. Chronologically, the ten articles span the period from the earliest times through the Qing, giving a broad view of continued primacy of sound. Our articles also reflect a balanced participation by American and Chinese scholars, by literary scholars...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 306–335.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., organized in nineteen genre categories and divided into one hundred juan . 2 In his explicitly polemical selections, Yao Xuan excluded both regulated poetry and parallel prose—two of the most common forms of Tang literature. He also centered his selections on a narrow group of writers from the mid-Tang...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 275–330.
Published: 01 November 2019
... sections that begin and end the speech bookend five short sections composed of rhyming prose featuring a variety of euphonic and rhetorical constructions, including a mix of phrase-final perfect rhyme, he yun cross-rhyme, repetitive and parallel rhetorical structures, and phrase-internal euphony based...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 515–544.
Published: 01 November 2015
... never existed in silence. This is obvious in the case of rhymed verse, a fact that we hardly need to rehearse here. But even if we speak strictly about so-called prose writing, we can say that Han fu , in its tendency to take the form of parallel paired lines, opened up the way for the meticulous...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 287–312.
Published: 01 November 2020
... in standard parallel prose, and the language shows knowledge of contemporary philosophical discussions. The explanation echoes standard accounts of such aspects in Buddhist (or Daoist) doctrine and bears a striking similarity to the writings of the influential Buddhist thinker Seng Zhao (僧肇 384–414...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 336–359.
Published: 01 November 2017
... they do not help—and may even hurt—good governance. As many have pointed out, what was at stake in the mid-eleventh-century Guwen protest was the requirement of using parallel prose in the civil service examinations. 19 Shi Jie's criticism of the “ wen of today” specifically targets that style...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 113–138.
Published: 01 April 2021
...), parallel prose ( pianwen 駢文), elegies and rhapsodies ( cifu 辭賦), and other poetry at later stages, Yuan-Ming sanqu songs stand out because of their musical nature. By the time sanqu songs became popular, ci song lyrics had become hardly singable. Second, in contrast to singable shi poems...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2020
... directly without literary ornamentation and were more interested in writing about practical matters; the southerners, in contrast, valued the aesthetic qualities of the belletristic genres, such as poetry and parallel prose, and their writings were noted for literary sophistication, elaborate allusions...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 545–572.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Cheng, Chinese Poetic Writing , 7–12 . For the Chinese translation of this book, see Cheng Baoyi, Zhonguo shihua yuyan yanju. 6. See Shengli Feng and Ash Henson's discussion of these two foot types in “Prosody of Parallel Prose” in this special issue. 7. The former tonal meter (2 + 2...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 297–335.
Published: 01 November 2023
... as one of the premier examples of Six Dynasties parallel prose. Liu Xie's The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons strictly adheres to the principles of parallel prose, and hence, his thought is lucid, his diction stately and elegant, but tends to suffer from a certain monotonousness. Although...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Qu Yuan Epic,” the narrative of a composite Qu Yuan 屈原 (trad. 340–278 BCE) persona that is distributed across multiple prose and poetic texts within and beyond the Chuci 楚辭. Based on his close and original analysis of the Lisao as a discontinuous and nonlinear sum total of parallel discourses...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 481–514.
Published: 01 November 2015
...): “Tang . . . has said that ‘while the ancients did not employ parallelism [as regards tonal category], tone yet lingers in their prose lines; in the striding paces [of their compositions], still there is rhythm’: this is what is meant by verse present within prose” 唐 ...... 曰：「古人雖不用儷偶，而散句之中，暗有聲調，步驟馳騁，亦有節...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 179–185.
Published: 01 November 2018
... identify highly similar word usage and direct borrowings between discrete passages and to discover more amorphous forms of intertextual relationships. Sturgeon's examples, primarily drawn from the Mozi 墨子, include both detection of specific, small-scale textual parallels and calculation of overall...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 461–482.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and hermits, Tao's own transcendental standing in the minds of Tang scholar-officials is strongly suggested. One noticeable phenomenon is that Tao's name is rarely used alone but instead often in juxtaposition with other historical figures. Since most epitaphs are written in parallel prose, these names...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 235–267.
Published: 01 November 2020
...) classical exegesis, his writings in or about vernacular literature, and his interventions in the political and social debates of the last decades of the dynasty. 21 He was also a master of parallel prose and a passably good poet, and his biographies, commemorative accounts, funerary inscriptions...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 357–399.
Published: 01 November 2016
... pianwen (parallel prose). It was used often for exposition or argument, and Lu Xun admired its “clear and succinct” ( qingjun 清俊) and “natural and untrammeled ( tongtuo 通脫) quality. Filtered through the scholarship of Zhang Taiyan, however, the guwen style was turned unequivocally against the two...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 209–215.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., Yao Xuan, had his own agenda in this project, and his selection of the “finest” was highly subjective. In making his choices, Yao Xuan eschewed certain genres and styles of poetry and prose in which Tang writers had taken great pride. He avoided regulated verse, for example, and prose written...
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