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In Search of Pure Sound: Sanqu Songs, Genre Aesthetics, and Translation Tactics
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 163–202.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of musicality and other salient features of the genre. The six essays discuss, respectively, pronouns, rhyme, punctuation, language registers, allusion, and citational practice. In contextualizing such strategies theoretically and illustrating them with examples, the short essays seek to contribute more broadly...
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Brevity and Breadth: A Linguistic, Aesthetic, and DH-Assisted Study of the Book of Poetry and “Nineteen Old Poems”
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 235–264.
Published: 01 November 2024
...] eyebrows”). Lines with one meaningful character and one three-character segment, the latter often including one or two pronouns (e.g., 遵彼 汝 墳, lit. “go along that Ru River dyke”). In terms of syntax, we can distinguish simple and complex subject-predicate (SP) sentences. A subject-predicate...
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Cultural Memory and the Epic in Early Chinese Literature: The Case of Qu Yuan 屈原 and the Lisao 離騷
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 131–169.
Published: 01 April 2022
...與辟芷兮 Weaving the autumn orchid as my girdle. 紉秋蘭以為佩 The “I” in this presentation, present in seven first-person pronouns, is the hero remembered; no ancient Chinese poet could have called himself a descendant of the gods. The performative nature of this impersonation is linguistically...
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Poems with Contested Meanings
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 420–438.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the particular cases of disputed provenance and meaning discussed above to enduring larger issues in the study of Chinese poetry. We must first mention, if only briefly, the well-known universalizing tendency of Chinese poetic language seen, for example, in the general avoidance of pronouns, proper names...
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Sound Symbolism in the Reduplicative Vocabulary of the Shijing
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 258–285.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of literary works, to manipulate point of view. A central means by which such manipulations are effected is the use of linguistic elements requiring reference to context for their resolution. This feature of language is termed “deixis” (“pointing”): the English first-person pronoun I , for instance, points...
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New Frontiers of Electronic Textual Research in the Humanities: Investigating Classical Allusions in Chinese Poetry through Digital Methods
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 411–437.
Published: 01 November 2018
... at National Tsing Hua University for their valuable advice. 1. See Huang, “Mingmo zhi Aomen mu Pu bing” ; Zhang, “E-kaoju shi ‘liti’ shixue” ; and Ma, “Jisuan lishi xue.” Unless otherwise noted, all first-person pronouns in the main text refer to the first author, Huang Yi-long. 2. Huang...
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On Translating Mountains and Seas : A Review Essay
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 487–513.
Published: 01 November 2023
... uses of plants and animals, she writes “if you eat some of it,” or “if you wear it.” The pronoun “you” is normally eschewed in formal writing, but her use is deliberate and works effectively with her other lexical choices to create a consistent literary work written in a simple, vernacular register...
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How Should the Dragon King Memorialize the Jade Emperor? Margins of Political Thought in Late Ming China
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 461–486.
Published: 01 November 2023
...—especially huangdi 皇帝 (emperor) and zhen 朕 (imperial first person pronoun). 41 Interestingly, whoever copied it left a space after the word bixia 陛下 (Your Majesty), though the reason for this is not entirely clear. It is possible that the copyist, after writing bixia , realized that this word...
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“In the Mountain Forest I Lose My Self”: The Experience of No-Self in Wang Wei's Short Landscape Poems
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 338–366.
Published: 01 November 2022
... in the poem sees the mountain and hears the voices? Grammatically speaking, the first line (空山不見人) should be read as the “empty mountain sees no one.” But as Sabina Knight has pointed out, in order to make the line reasonable we need to add a pronoun between the second and the third characters, so...
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Performing the Emperor: Sui Jingchen's “Han Gaozu Returns to His Home Village”
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2021
...] But just as the narrator remains unable to apprehend the significance of anything beyond the local sphere, the emperor shows no indication of being able to comprehend anything within it. Though the villager calls out to him, at points using the second person pronoun ni 你 (you) to address the main figure...
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From Watōnai to Coxinga: Shaping and Reshaping Identities in the Kokusenya Kassen
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 370–394.
Published: 01 November 2024
... , 191 ; Chikamatsu, Major Plays , 221 . 57. Chikamatsu, Chikamatsu Monzaemon shū , 254 ; Chikamatsu, Major Plays , 264 ; we have purposefully used the possessive pronoun their to suggest Komutsu's fluid gender identities here. 58. Chikamatsu, Chikamatsu Monzaemon shū , 254...
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Exploring Chinese Poetry with Digital Assistance: Examples from Linguistic, Literary, and Historical Viewpoints
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 276–321.
Published: 01 November 2018
...-phrase modification), wo 我 (first-person pronoun), and chun 春 (spring). 75. Liu et al., “Character Distributions of Classical Chinese Literary Texts.” 76. Liu, “Quantitative Analyses of Chinese poetry of Tang and Song dynasties” ; Liu, “Flexible Computing Services” ; Liu and Luo...
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