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Published: 01 April 2024
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Inward Turns, Then and Now

Alexander Des Forges
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 256–272.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9681241
Published: 01 April 2022
... of individuals in the contemporary era. In each of these cases, the trope of involution implies a judgment on the productivity of labor and resources invested and is often tied to discourses of “Chinese uniqueness.” In Sinological circles as in social media, however, the dynamics that involution claims...
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Drawing Out the Essentials: Historiographic Annotation as a Textual Network

Evan Nicoll-Johnson
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 214–249.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-7256976
Published: 01 November 2018
... annotations for Shishuo xinyu 世說新語, a collection of pithy anecdotes concerning prominent figures from the Han through Jin dynasties. These annotations were products of a new era of textual production, in which fervent interest in historiography and book collecting reached new heights. Though building...
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Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Dushu sheng and the Limits of Community in the Early Qing

Ariel Fox
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 149–166.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8313559
Published: 01 April 2020
..., the protagonist is wed to both the daughter of a boatman and the daughter of a Mongol official. But while this double marriage offers the possibility of a productive overcoming of the distinctions between scholar and merchant and between Chinese and barbarian, the tragic fate of the renxiong forecloses any...
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Where Have All the Guixiu Gone? Chinese “Women of Talent” at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Xiaorong Li
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 81–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-10362392
Published: 01 April 2023
... of Red Brahman, 1928). They reveal the persistence of guixiu culture in a diversified and transformed world of literary production and consumption from the 1910s to the 1920s. References Dooling, Amy M. , and Kristina M. Torgeson , eds. Writing Women in Modern China: An Anthology of Women's...
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From Convention to Subversion: Case Studies on the Female Gaze in Premodern China

Grace S. Fong
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 137–168.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-10362418
Published: 01 April 2023
... and painters participated in the visual culture of late imperial China and negotiated gendered difference in their aesthetic vision and artistic production. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 gender ekphrasis meirenhua gaze subjectivity...
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Civilization Remapped in Chikamatsu Monzaemon's The Later Battles of Coxinga

William C. Hedberg
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 349–369.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-11410402
Published: 01 November 2024
... might be restructured and reversed and act as catalysts for the creative reimagination of a multipolar world order that alternately engages and challenges the worldview posited in other spheres of Edo-period cultural production. References Andrade, Tonio . Lost Colony: The Untold Story...
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Gendering the Planchette: Female Writer Qian Xi's (1872–1930) Spiritual World

Yanning Wang
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 160–179.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-3780752
Published: 01 April 2017
... and disregarding the ritual of wielding the planchette as bizarre, superstitious, or even mad, the author argues that it played a meaningful role in shaping Qian's literary images and enhancing her literary productivity. More important, Qian Xi's strategies of using spirit writing to stimulate her literary...
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Playing against Type: The Moral Merchant on the Early Qing Stage

Ariel Fox
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 383–411.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8041977
Published: 01 November 2019
..., directing capital away from the dead ends of hoarding and incest and toward the creation of productive marriages. In recuperating the merchant as a moral subject and his circulation of money as a moral act, Shiwu guan offers new possibilities for the construction of selfhood both onstage and off. 30...
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The “Natural Rhythm” Of Chinese Poetry: Physical and Linguistic Perspectives Since 1919

Yu-yu Cheng
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 215–232.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-3713791
Published: 01 November 2016
... it has to emotion and motion have yet to attract enough critical attention in the English-speaking world. This article explains how these scholars built on or challenged Hu Shi's findings to provide new ways of assessing the production of sound and meaning in Chinese language and literature...
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On the Critical Reception of Lu Xun's Early Classical-Style Essays of the Japan Period

Jon Eugene von Kowallis
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 357–399.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-3713851
Published: 01 November 2016
...). Although they are products of his last student years in Japan, the fact that he chose to include the two longest of them at the very front of his 1926 anthology Fen 墳 (The Grave) indicates that he considered the views expressed therein neither too immature nor too dated to reprint at the height of his...
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The Emotive Object in Medieval China

Jeffrey Moser
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 56–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-7496833
Published: 01 April 2019
..., and indeed productive, to read grave goods as traces of emotional operations and, in so doing, to articulate a dimension of the embodied processes that structured and motivated wider developments in the social and cultural history of China. Second, the author demonstrates how sensory-based analyses of grave...
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The Life and Afterlife of Ling Zhiyuan (1831–1852) and Her Poetry Collection

Grace S. Fong
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 125–154.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-2749383
Published: 01 November 2014
... readers may have read or interpreted her poems. This essay thus highlights the discursive complexity and kinship and social networks underlying the production and interpretation of life writing in late imperial China. 60. Ling Yu, “Ba,” in Ling, Cuiluoge , 1a . 61. Ibid. 62. Ibid...
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Truth Becomes Fiction When Fiction Is True: The Story of the Stone and the Visual Culture of the Manchu Court

Shang Wei
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 207–248.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-2887601
Published: 01 April 2015
...Shang Wei Abstract This paper seeks to interpret The Story of the Stone with reference to the visual culture of the Manchu court. It argues that the Yongzheng reign (1723–1735) inaugurated a new era of visual culture when jia (the unreal or fiction) became itself a productive concept...
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Fresh Faces for Those Full of Emotions: Zhu Suchen's Qinlou Yue

Yingde Guo, Xiaoqiao Ling
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 65–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-2749479
Published: 01 November 2014
... in distinctive ways, this article aims at a better understanding of the xinxi 新戲 (new plays) of Suzhou as an important regional phenomenon of cultural production. Qinlou yue in the book's physical form makes use of the realms of both commercial and private printing to appeal to Ming loyalist sentiments...
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Identities and Literary Culture in Qing China: Manchu Emperors as Chinese Poets, Readers, and Publishers

Kai-Wing Chow
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 359–382.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8041957
Published: 01 November 2019
..., John . “ Acculturation: Living Successfully in Two Cultures .” International Journal of Intercultural Relations , no. 29 ( 2005 ): 697 – 712 . Bourdieu, Pierre . The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature . New York : Columbia University Press , 1993 . Chow, Kai...
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Manuscript and the Human in Modern China

Chloe Estep
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 172–198.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-11118506
Published: 01 April 2024
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Theories of Spatiality and the Study of Medieval China

Manling Luo
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 195–224.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9681215
Published: 01 April 2022
...' scope and relevance. The employment of this distinction also reflects my belief that, contrary to what is often assumed, general theories are not superior to concrete case studies, and the latter produces particular knowledge that is also theoretically productive. In what follows, I first identify...
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Writing for Print: Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China

Ling Hon Lam
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 466–472.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9965697
Published: 01 November 2022
..., economic gain, and social influence” (5). This spatial paradox—staying within a close circle and going places—can be resolved only by retemporalizing print as “a process” (6). Fixating our eyes on print in the “end product” form, we tend to reduce the production process into a unilinear one from...
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Introduction

Stephen J. Roddy
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 1–7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9681124
Published: 01 April 2022
... and connection to the New Critical tradition of close reading that, both for its original proponents and for Cai as well, proves highly productive as a methodology of systematic study and analysis. Lucas Klein turns his lens toward European and American poststructuralist writers who have laid some claim...
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