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... of the Mongol conquests first of the territory of the Jin Dynasty and eventually of the Southern Song state, local popular culture, Mongol patronage of performers, and the Yuan service elite converged to turn a new colloquial form of Chinese into a poetic lingua franca for the Yuan empire. 21 Leading members...

.... Moreover, a proper interpretation of Jia's songs also helps us better understand the performativeness of sanqu as a genre. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 social role performance an impersonal and imperial perspective popular and elite cultures Lu gui bu 錄鬼簿 (The Register...

... Sino-Manchu performance in which mastery of Chinese cultural forms was a sign of bannermen's elite status within Chinese society. She also disentangles language from literary culture, applying Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's insights on minor literatures to Manchu cultural expression. As she puts...

... and turned “the aura of elite prestige” into “popularity and market value” and vice versa (123–24). After gifting a limited number of printed copies to his coterie, he rented the carved woodblocks to commercial bookshops so that he “was able to distribute his printed copies to a wider readership without...

... extremely popular. In time, his tribute to the Orchid Pavilion tradition during these gatherings became the predominant form of cultural emulation in Yangzhou. Poets used the sites as “markers” for a new elite identity affiliated at once with the city in recovery and with transregional cultural endeavors...

... lyrics and music recorded by elites, folk lyrics set to elite music, and folk melodies for which elites wrote new lyrics. 14 Their titles usually end with “song” ( ge 歌), “traveling” ( xing 行), “traveling song” ( gexing 歌行), or one of several other music-related terms. Their popularity during...

... developed a literati community, where they sought and found their own cultural identity and the recognition of elites. The lord-vassal community was often placed on display during feasts, as the “feast is a powerful social institution that brings people together, forms a community, and reinforces the values...

.... In the collection, the public display and use of personal memory of the cultural past are taken as means to preserve cultural legacy, construct cultural identity, and establish cultural authority in the elite literati community. Cultural memory gained much significance after the migration of the Western Jin 西晉 (265...

... cultural meanings and roles, whether as the literary genre of the educated elite culture or the popular song welcomed by authors and readers across social and cultural strata. What makes Zhang Kejiu's position in the history of sanqu special is that he belonged to both groups at the same time. He...

... and in textual form, as well as its social, ritual, political, and intellectual implications. Her dissertation, “Playing Roles: Literati, Playwrights, and Female Performers in Yuan Theater” (2019), investigates how Yuan zaju drama reshaped Chinese culture by bridging the gap between inherently oral popular...

... constituted part of the elite and popular culture that recognizes the interdependence between wen 文 (civil) and wu 武 (military), which influenced the sect members' later adoption of martial arts as a complementary practice to meditation. Hence, the military theme—embellished with fantastic elements...

...Sookja Cho Abstract This article explores the Korean evolution of the Chinese verse form known as “bamboo branch lyrics” (Ch. zhuzhici 竹枝詞; K. chukchisa ) and the cultural significance of the genre's growing popularity among late Chosŏn (1600s–1800s) Korean literati as a way to enhance...

... together cultural and political elites who identify the object and in so doing identify with each other. Here, however, it is the titular cash—the concept and sign of commensurability—that circulates across the stage and through which excluded individuals are brought into the social whole via the creation...

... “types” with such names as “The Bag Drop,” “Brokers,” “Showing Off Wealth,” and, to cover the educated elite as well as merchants and brokers, “Poetry” and “Corruption in Education.” Drawing from each of these types, in The Book of Swindles Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk have translated forty-four...

... Jia's songs as an attempt to reconcile the values of imperial and popular culture in the context of his own fraught position at the Ming court. Though much acclaimed for his songs and riddles by Ming princes and other courtiers, Jia was nevertheless keenly aware of his status as a practitioner...

... of emotion was mediated by both the historical knowledge and by the language of elite culture that he shared with his readers. 20 How could it have been otherwise? This brings me to question whether Chen Hongshou adhered to a belief in the childlike heart-mind, which may in turn have inspired his...

...-literati critics, connoisseurs, and collectors in the Qing. Yet, outside such orthodox elite circles, meirenhua gained wide popularity in the burgeoning urban culture of the Ming and Qing. Advanced by master figure painters in the Ming, paintings of beauties, among what Cahill calls “vernacular paintings...

... between Hong Mai's place in elite culture and his activities as a chronicler of the stories that occupied, at best, a marginal place in that culture is a remarkable one that bodes well for reading his collection as a record of his perception of persons outside his social class and circle. Another...

... the Southern Song (1127–1279) onward, he was featured in numerous plays, novels, and short stories. Best known as the impartial and courageous Judge Bao, he has remained one of the most beloved household names in China's late imperial and modern times. 2 Scholarly interest in Bao Zheng, like popular...

... Swartz's most recent monograph, Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry , places poetry from early medieval China (220–589) in the cultural context of xuanxue learning and practice. Swartz integrates rigorous research into early medieval China with Western approaches on the relationship between reading...