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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 380–418.
Published: 01 November 2015
... percentage of Yongming-style regulated pentasyllabic lines from the Qi to the Liang. After the Yongming period, it seems poets dropped the rule of differentiating the tones of the second and fifth syllables. Sometime during the Datong period of the Liang, a new practice in tonal patterns began to appear...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., such that “lyrical tradition” becomes an encompassing concept for many to distinguish Chinese literary tradition from its Western counterpart. 1 In Chinese literary thought, emotion is consistently conceptualized through verbal patterning and visual manifestation. This convergence has become synonymous...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 545–572.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Zong-qi Cai Abstract The author argues that Chinese characters have shaped Chinese poetic art not through their ideographic form but through their monosyllabic sound. Specifically, the pauses in a Chinese poetic line tend to be determined by sound patterns. Since monosyllabic sound is nearly always...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 339–381.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Zong-qi Cai Abstract This article opens with a reflection on the extrinsic and intrinsic causes of the neglect of Chinese prose in sinological literary studies, followed by the construction of a patterning-based scheme for codifying Chinese prose forms. An in-depth analysis of eight famous texts...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 347–379.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the puzzle by exploring: (1) the nature of poetic prosody, (2) tonal prosodic patterns in Chinese regulated verse, (3) problems with the Sanskrit origins hypothesis of Chinese tonal prosody, and (4) the pathways of Chinese poetic metricalization from the Six dynasties (222–589) to the Tang dynasty (618–907...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 360–374.
Published: 01 November 2018
... time in the Tang literary world. The second is a dynamic examination of poets' activities. When we compare various Tang poets, what differences and changes can we find in the places they lived and traveled? Are the poets' spatial distribution patterns even, or do they favor certain regions? Where were...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 322–359.
Published: 01 November 2018
... subject's distributed textual body. A total of 10,869 poems exchanged between 2,413 individuals are cataloged to seek the structure of the collectively imagined literary relations of the time. This catalog is subjected to social-network analysis to reveal patterns and peculiarities in the extant corpus...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 379–402.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of lovesickness in popular literature—both fiction and drama—from the Song (960–1279) to the Qing (1644–1912), including some texts rarely discussed in English scholarship from the perspective of love writing. With thorough documentation, we present two classic plot patterns of the literary malady: one involving...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 April 2024
... the boundary that both separates and enacts engagement between the human and nonhuman realms. This introduction brings these essays into conversation with each other to highlight some of the unforeseen patterns they manifest as a whole. Among these is the chronological: read in order, these essays hint...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 275–330.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Jeffrey R. Tharsen Abstract Research methods employing large-scale databases of digital texts and digital lexica can assist in the detection of the ways phonetic patterns worked in concert with semantic and syntactic structures in premodern Chinese narrative texts. When applied to the speeches...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 89–112.
Published: 01 April 2021
... also exhibited proficiency in building sanqu -style parallel lines, such as dingzudui . He frequently employed these forms together with the tonal patterns of regulated verse, which gave rise to the unique style of his sanqu works in which classical styles are deeply embedded in the newly...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 November 2015
... differentiation between the second and fourth syllables in a pentasyllabic line, setting the stage for the development of the intricate tonal patterns found in Tang recent-style poetry. To accentuate this culmination of the 2–2–1 tonal patterning, Du and E trace the gradual evolution of the 2–2–1 line from Han...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 214–249.
Published: 01 November 2018
... , the thematic distinctions that govern the organization of the text are not nearly as strong a predictor of the collection of sources cited in each chapter. Incorporating Hou Hanshu , Wenxuan , and Shuijing zhu annotations will help identify other ways in which textual structure contributes to patterns...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 277–307.
Published: 01 November 2022
... a full account of the Way of Heaven and Earth. Looking up one thus observes the patterns of Heaven and looking down one thus surveys the principles of the Earth, and for this reason one knows the purposes behind the illuminated and obscure. One follows them from beginning and returns to end...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 239–260.
Published: 01 November 2021
... stories, whether the source of this life force is wit, the palpable structure, or the pulsating sound flow. Enlightenment comes when readers find their whole selves tuned to the pattern and rhythm of the Way. The metaphysical truth is thus reached through the physical. To read Zhuangzi is thus...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 163–202.
Published: 01 April 2021
... capitalization, pointed assonance, and tongue-in-cheek rhymes. 9 Below is an example of his version of a song composed by diasporic poet Ali Xiying 阿里西瑛 (ca. 1314–ca. 1341) (discussed below in the sections “Rhyme” and “Punctuation”): [ Shuangdiao mode] To the tune pattern of “Joy in Front of the Palace...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 256–272.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., “Loose Ends of Theory on the Individual, Pattern, and Involution in Primitive Society,” 102–3 . 35. “To argue that the examination system is merely the inert ground against which a lively new voice can distinguish itself only through a radical break would be to overlook the ways in which...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 203–235.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... 50. The tune “The Joy of a ‘Myriad Years’” seems to not have circulated under this name outside the palace. It is found neither in Zhou Deqing's nor Zhu Quan's 朱權 (1378–1448) catalog of sanqu tunes, nor does the tune pattern follow the conventions of a sanqu song. For the former, see Zhou...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 179–185.
Published: 01 November 2018
... first article comes from Donald Sturgeon, the founder and curator of one of the best-known textual databases in the field, the Chinese Text Project ( ctext.org ). In his article, Sturgeon describes how to find patterns of “text reuse” throughout early Chinese texts. His method is designed to help...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 56–95.
Published: 01 April 2019
... are inadequate, we sigh them. If sighing is inadequate, we sing them. If singing is inadequate, unconsciously we dance them with our hands and tap them with our feet. Qing are expressed in sound; when those sounds are given pattern, they are called tones. 情動於中而形於言，言之不足，故嗟歎之；嗟歎之不足，故永歌之，永歌之不足，不知手之舞之、足之蹈之也。情發於聲...
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