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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
...–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 back. The monk disappears as soon as he has offered the advice in the title, but hundreds of boys...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 195–224.
Published: 01 April 2022
... to the differences between the mentality 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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 545–572.
Published: 01 November 2015
... 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 Cheng, Chinese Poetic Writing , 7–12 . For the Chinese...
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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
... 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 xiqu performance itself expands...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 277–307.
Published: 01 November 2022
... at one's own fate. While yangfu could legitimize the project of literature itself, the composition and reception 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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 56–95.
Published: 01 April 2019
... “an all-important question for understanding what is universally human and for understanding the politics of that shaping power,” the operation of the residuum itself is, importantly, not his object of analysis. 41 Recognizing the presence and catalytic potency of the residuum is morally necessary...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 15–55.
Published: 01 April 2019
... 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 purports to encapsulate inner substance and, as such, spoke...
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