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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 515–544.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Chen Yinchi; Paula Varsano Abstract While few would contest the importance of phonology and aural considerations in the study of classical Chinese poetry, the musicality of guwen (ancient-style prose essays) writing has attracted little attention thus far. This article redresses this imbalance...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 444–480.
Published: 01 November 2015
... in the Chinese language, but why is it that prose is formed with lines of four and six syllables? Why is the four-six form favored in essays rather than in poems? And what is the aesthetic principle behind four-six prose? These are the questions that this essay attempts to answer. It is argued that poetic...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 256–272.
Published: 01 April 2022
... anticipate the effects of surveillance capital in the twenty-first century. When a so-called eight-legged essay folds back into its own prose both literally and figuratively, can we simply dismiss the complex interiority that results? Or does it speak as well to our contemporary anxieties about individual...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 306–335.
Published: 01 November 2017
... hui 唐詩品彙 (Graded Compendium of Tang Poetry), which even adds the official ranks of poets (from highest- to lowest-ranking writers) as an ordering principle on top of chronological order. 38. These five essays open the Han Yu section of the Tang Song ba dajia wenchao (The Prose of the Eight...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 375–410.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Timothy Clifford Abstract Well over one hundred classical essay anthologies were published during the printing boom in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ming dynasty China. These anthologies testify to a voracious appetite for “ancient-style prose” ( guwen ) among the expanding reading public...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 131–169.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Martin Kern Abstract The present essay combines the theory of Cultural Memory with ideas about textual repertoires, composite text, and distributed authorship that in recent years have been advanced in studies of early and medieval Chinese literature. In its first part, the essay introduces...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and political commentary is reminiscent of the prose essay, so is his frequent employment of narrative rhythm. What differentiates Du's use of narrative rhythm from Bai Juyi's 白居易 (772–846) and Su Shi's 蘇軾 (1037–1101) is that Du always keeps instances of narrative rhythm local by interspersing them within...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 273–275.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and prose essays by Ji Yun 紀昀 (1724–1805), Gong Zizhen 龔自珍 (1793–1841), Yu Yue 俞樾 (1821–1907), and Yanagawa Seigan 梁川星巌 (1789–1858). PATRICIA SIEBER is associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University. Her research interests encompass Chinese...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 481–514.
Published: 01 November 2015
... products of devices like repetition and alliteration with the poeticized products of a search for coherent prose-line-based narrative rhythm. 8 The interconnection of independent prose lines is also fundamental to the structure of the essay, the difference being that this genre does not call...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 339–381.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., while poetry was emphasized over prose only in the Tang and a few reigns of other dynasties. In the Ming-Qing, excelling in the eight-legged essay brought as much distinction as poetry writing during the Tang. Given prose's profound cultural significance, it is not surprising that traditional prose...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2022
... aesthetic and sociopolitical ramifications, to the understanding of classical prose, specifically the genre of examination prose known popularly as the “eight-legged essay” or, in its normative name, the “prose of our time” ( shiwen 時文). Beginning with involution's history of use in debates over late...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 179–185.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century “ancient-style prose” ( guwen 古文) anthologies argues that such collections represent successive attempts to overturn the canon of model examination essays. He offers a new take on Ming literary history by demonstrating that the debate over prose was organized not around...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 235–267.
Published: 01 November 2020
... for a classicist of his stature, he gained some renown as an accomplished master of bagu prose. His 1882 collection of model essays, published under the title Quyuan kesun cao 曲園課孫草 (Quyuan's Lessons for a Grandson), became a leading primer during the middle of the Guangxu 光緒 period (1875–1908). In the last...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 192–214.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of banishment, and their treatment of the trope of exile and exilic experiences in poems and prose writings is worthy of serious study. This article is a study of the exilic writings of the especially important yet understudied poet Fang Xiaobiao (1618–?), who in the wake of the examination scandal of 1657...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 336–359.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Hsiao-wen Cheng Abstract This essay proposes a new perspective on Guwen 古文 (Ancient-Style Writing) in the mid-eleventh century and Cheng Yi's 程頤 Daoxue 道學 (Learning of the Way) based on two interconnected approaches. The first involves an analysis of wenqi 文氣 and the yong 用 (efficacy) of wen...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 357–399.
Published: 01 November 2016
... In his chapter in Lu Xun and His Legacy , an edited collection of papers, Lee addresses the early essays, writing: The roots of the “Lu Xun style” lie in traditional Chinese literature. The specific legacy Lu Xun inherited, according to Wang Yao 王瑤， is the classical prose ( guwen 古文) of the Wei-Jin...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 359–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
... production since the Wanli 萬曆 reign (1572–1619), impacted by the expansion of commercial publishing, had created positions of literary authority for professional critics in all literary genres, including Classics, examination essays, prose, poetry, fictions, and drama. 20 Market-driven sales of books...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 113–138.
Published: 01 April 2021
... sung on the spot once they were written and/or whether they were set to music and performed when received as gifts. Once music was no longer a prerequisite for the writing and exchange of song texts, sanqu songs were actually used in the same way as shi poems and prose, regardless of their original...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 297–335.
Published: 01 November 2023
... coherent, fully systematic Buddhist exposition on painting. Support for the validity of Buddhist interpretations of all its terms and concepts is provided by intertextual readings of Zong Bing's “Elucidating Buddhism” and the poetry and prose by the Buddhist monks of Mt. Lu. We also demonstrate how Zong's...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 275–330.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Commentary , Fu Lipu 傅隸樸 noted: “Historical prose, although not as esteemed as writings which employ rhyme, was influenced by rhymed writings and relatively heavily cadenced. . . . The beauty of the ancients’ venerated literary works is described as ‘chirping metal and singing jade’; as these literary works...
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