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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 91–114.
Published: 01 April 2024
... strategies designed to rein in and constrain bronze's ever-present capacity for liquefaction. As with other metals, bronze was forever oscillating between solidity, in the form of discrete, functional objects, and liquidity, as a mutable substance of tremendous potency. Both states spawned different...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 1–28.
Published: 01 November 2014
... keeping a low profile, perhaps influencing the emperor subtly from behind the scenes, but always in the end deferring to those with true sexual capacity. 50 The Ming Dynasty writer Shen Defu tells a horrific story purporting to describe the extreme lengths to which eunuchs went to regain potency...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 483–486.
Published: 01 November 2019
... a Tonic of Male Essence” (“Kidnapping,” 145–49) and “Eating Human Fetuses to Fake Fasting” (“Monks and Priests,” 179–85) make clear, those who truly harm the innocent are the book's real villains. In “A Eunuch Cooks Boys,” an itinerant Daoist monk advises a dissatisfied eunuch who wants his sexual potency...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... At the risk of stating the obvious, it is precisely the vividness and reliability of these concepts and categories that endow their subversion with the rhetorical potency they clearly had. Right from the beginning, Graziani asks the question of why the Zhuangzi so frequently uses speaking animals...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 172–198.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of either his physical weakness or his lack of sexual potency, and in so doing casts Zhang Sheng as a hapless antihero. Thus, in Xi xiang ji , the magical brush becomes a surrealist symbol for the unconscious anxieties of the traditional male in the face of modernity. An extraordinary brush again...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 195–224.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of the medieval poet and that of present-day readers in his essay. He argues that the medieval poet did not simply describe the nature as it was but took for granted “the primacy of the word” and “the religious potency of the living world.” 76 The primacy of the word, in particular, entails three levels...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 487–513.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the narrative with anachronistic Buddhist imagery and entirely failing to capture the unnatural potency of Nüwa's grudge (119). These are but two of many similar cases of erasure. The accounts associated with legendary figures and deities and traditional lore are arguably the most enthralling of Sun Jiankun's...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 545–572.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and Pound) “a continuous moving picture.” To illustrate this extraordinary potency of Chinese characters, Fenollosa and Pound used the simple sentence “Man sees horse.” As if to one-up them, Cheng opts for poetry by Tang poets Wang Wei 王維 (701?–761), Liu Changqing 劉長卿 (709?–786?), and Du Fu (712–770). See...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 400–428.
Published: 01 November 2016
... with, if not superior to, modern science, the Yogācārins' voice gained a new potency. 51 To their knowledge or not, the twentieth-century Yogācārins find an ally in Lu Xun, who, in his idiosyncratic approach to Buddhism, has likewise harbored grave doubts about this innovation at the core of the Chinese Mahāyāna...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Expanding on Yan's formulation of the pact between audience and actor, theater scholar Megan Evans pointed to the actor's skill as a catalyst that makes ethically harrowing scenarios aesthetically thrilling and imaginatively actionable: “The embodied potency of extraordinary skill exhibited in a successful...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 56–95.
Published: 01 April 2019
... the presence and catalytic potency of the residuum is morally necessary for the system to accommodate the agency and worth of the individual, but its hermeneutic function is purely negative; it is that against which what we can explain struggles. The managing function of the emotive, rather than the actuality...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 277–307.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of literary texts were another matter. Medieval authors regularly found that they lacked the potency and clarity exemplified in the mantic vision of Fu Xi. 32 As a result, the transition of yangfu into a literary device that could inform the lyrical depiction of natural imagery was more problematic...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 115–147.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of approaching theatrical objects by focusing exclusively on how they might be said to come to life. Instead, my article underscores the affective potency and critical force of scenes in which stage props resist full animation, where a playwright raises an audience's expectations (that a thing will start to act...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 15–55.
Published: 01 April 2019
... on an iconic presentation. The subtlety of Su's poetic voice, which surely was his strongest suit, is lost, but seen positively, a painting like Old Tree, Rock, and Bamboo possesses an emblematic presence of undeniable potency. This was what Su had come to understand through Wen Tong's ink bamboo: the image...
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