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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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in Digital Approaches to Text Reuse in the Early Chinese Corpus
> Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture
Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 6. Automatic highlighting of differences between parallels (visualization from Chinese Text Project, ctext.org/text.pl?node=3898&if=en&show=parallel )
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in Digital Approaches to Text Reuse in the Early Chinese Corpus
> Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture
Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 7. Parallel passage similarity (data from Sturgeon, “Unsupervised Identification of Text Reuse”)
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in Digital Approaches to Text Reuse in the Early Chinese Corpus
> Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture
Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 8. Parallel passage similarity visualized as a network graph. Colorization follows figure 4 .
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 89–112.
Published: 01 April 2021
... songs hybridize traditional literary elements with the up-and-coming form of sanqu . This article examines how Zhang embodied the aesthetics of classical poetry in the format of sanqu through a detailed examination of meter, parallel lines, and rhyme. Also, to demonstrate that the synthetic style...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 239–260.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Xinda Lian Abstract The secret of the “cumulative structure,” one of Zhuangzi's favorite rhetorical devices, is “adding.” To add is not to repeat but to arrange meanings of different shapes in various incremental parallel structures. This effective tool is used in his chapter titled “The Great...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 256–272.
Published: 01 April 2022
... that the rhetoric of involution deserves closer investigation, and focus particular attention on involution's origins in the field of aesthetics and the rise of involutionary parallelism in the Ming-Qing examination essay. It is here that the dynamics of cultural capital that dominate in the Ming and Qing...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 186–215.
Published: 01 November 2014
.... The increased use and popularity of shenglü primers, especially in primary education from the Song forward, is explored in section 2. The third section illustrates how shenglü primers emphasized an integration of yun (rhyme) and dui (paired phrasing or parallelism). While tracing the rise of shiyun shu (poetic...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 286–323.
Published: 01 November 2015
... stage of its development, poets focused primarily on the balance in the foot of each line and the balance within poetic lines. Later they focused increasingly on balance in the combination of monosyllabic words and in the parallel arrangement of lines in couplets. The fact that pentasyllabic shi poetry...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 432–460.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., pitch, tonality, music, memory, and recitation existed in conceptual parallel to systems of visual knowledge of heavenly bodies, light, color, and the written record. Masters of the former set of skills were frequently blind and entrusted with a distinct set of ritual and advisory functions, including...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 91–114.
Published: 01 April 2024
... independently of direct human manipulation, and they situated bronzes within frameworks of material vitalism that parallel many aspects of the “new materialism” associated with contemporary theorists like Karen Barad and Jane Bennett. This article interprets both of these understandings as containment...
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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 (2018) 5 (2): 186–213.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Figure 6. Automatic highlighting of differences between parallels (visualization from Chinese Text Project, ctext.org/text.pl?node=3898&if=en&show=parallel ) ...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 275–330.
Published: 01 November 2019
... euphonic and phonorhetorical patterns, such as regular meter (often tetrasyllabic), perfect rhyme, he yun 合韻 (consonance; i.e., homoeoteleuton), repetition and parallelism, phrase-internal rhyming and cross-rhyming, and quotation and citation. 10 When viewed in toto, the speeches also show how...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., the 2 + 3 rhythm of pentasyllabic shi poetry allows for an unprecedented grammatical flexibility within a line and a smooth flow from one line to the next. In addition, this new rhythm facilitates greater use of parallel syntax between two lines in a couplet and lays the ground for a tonal regulation...
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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 (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 (2022) 9 (1): 47–78.
Published: 01 April 2022
... We have here an example of “ambiguous parallelism,” in which “a couplet whose two lines each have two grammatical structures, and the structures pair off two by two” (54). Then, in a couplet taken from the second poem in the same series, we have a different kind of poetic configuration, more commonly...
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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 (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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