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Figure 20. “Reciting Poetry beside a Window” (Chuang pan yin shi 窗畔吟詩), from Zhao and Wu, Zitai baiyang, 1:89b–90a.

“Reciting Poetry beside a Window” ( Chuang pan yin shi 窗畔吟詩), from Zhao an...

in Image, Word, and Emotion: The Persistence of the Beautiful/Lovelorn Woman in the New-Style “Hundred Beauties” Albums (1900–1920s) > Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 20. “Reciting Poetry beside a Window” ( Chuang pan yin shi 窗畔吟詩), from Zhao and Wu, Zitai baiyang , 1:89b–90a. More
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Poetry and Diplomacy in the Zuozhuan

Wai-Yee Li
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 241–261.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-2749431
Published: 01 November 2014
...Wai-Yee Li Abstract Zuozhuan (ca. fourth century BC) records many instances of statesmen who recite or chant odes ( fushi ), mostly from the extant Shijing , to convey their political vision, policy recommendation, or diplomatic finesse. This essay examines the implications of this confluence...
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Song History in Kowloon and Loyalist Classical Poetry: Chen Botao, Sung Wong Toi, and Autumn Chants on the Terrace of the Song Emperors

Ko Chia-cian
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 448–470.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-3713899
Published: 01 November 2016
...Ko Chia-cian Abstract Just a few years after the overthrow of China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing dynasty loyalist Chen Botao 陳伯陶 (1855–1930) assembled scholars at the Terrace of the Song Emperors 宋王臺 (Song Wang Tai, or Sung Wong Toi) in Hong Kong Kowloon to compose and recite poetry...
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The Ancient Chinese Arts of the Ear: Etymology, Meteorology, Musicology

Wang Xiaodun, Casey Schoenberger
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 432–460.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8042003
Published: 01 November 2019
..., pitch, tonality, music, memory, and recitation existed in conceptual parallel to systems of visual knowledge of heavenly bodies, light, color, and the written record. Masters of the former set of skills were frequently blind and entrusted with a distinct set of ritual and advisory functions, including...
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The Divided Liang Dynasty Literary World Seen through the Liu-Dao Dispute

Wang Xiaomeng, Jing Chen
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 261–286.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9299632
Published: 01 November 2021
... (508–555) valued scholarly learning still more and regarded literature as a relatively insignificant talent or minor accomplishment. Xiao Gang represents a departure—by placing literary talent above scholarship, he catered to the fashion among the Liang Dynasty's nobility for reciting poetry...
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Guwen (Ancient-Style Prose), Sound, and the History of Chinese Poetics

Chen Yinchi, Paula Varsano
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 515–544.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-3324200
Published: 01 November 2015
..., their interest in aurality was decidedly driven not by the desire to perform before an appreciative audience but, rather, by something much more personal. For these writers, the target audience for any recited essay was none other than the reciter himself. The goal was, first, the perfect, empathic comprehension...
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Chanting Dharanis While Dreaming of Lilacs: Buddhism and Beijing in Gong Zizhen's Poems of 1839

Stephen J. Roddy
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 26–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-3461808
Published: 01 April 2016
... into an instrument of his spiritual awakening, for which he thanks the player of the “divine flute”: At the first stage of dhyana , I feared the flower's shadow 未免初禪怯花影 After the dream, I recited a gatha to thank Lingxiao 夢回持偈謝靈簫 It thus appears that, far from distracting him from his spiritual...
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Primers and Poetry in Ancient China: Shenglü Fameng and Beyond

Jian Zhang, Dandan Chen
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 186–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-2749407
Published: 01 November 2014
... (paired phrases) with shenglü 聲律 (tone and rhythm), such books organized common characters from each rhyme category ( yunbu 韻部) into couplets ( duizi 對子), and couplets into easy-to-recite poems. With their beautiful sound and rhyme and delicate parallelism, these poetry primers afforded young learners...
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Riddles in Jin Ping Mei

Thomas Kelly
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 341–370.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9299671
Published: 01 November 2021
.... When in chapter 62 of Honglou meng , for instance, Baoyu recites the line “a broken jade hairpin, the red candle is cold” 敲斷玉釵紅燭冷 in response to the prompt “jade hairpin” ( yuchai 玉釵), his unwitting forecast of a broken union with Baochai 寶釵 (one that affirms her own portentous lantern riddle...
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Introduction: Thinking Through Cultural Others

Wai-yee Li
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 1–6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8313481
Published: 01 April 2020
... their counterparts in the central states, claims common ancestry with central states like Qi and Xu—being all descendants of the Lords of the Four Peaks—and demonstrates his mastery of textual traditions by reciting lines from Shijing 詩經 (Classic of Odes). Indeed, shared ancestry is a recurrent theme in Sima...
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Tao Yuanming: A Symbol of Chinese Culture

Xingpei Yuan
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 216–240.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-2749419
Published: 01 November 2014
... a model for the collective spiritual quest of later scholar-officials. For centuries, scholar-officials read and recited Tao's corpus, composed he Tao 和陶 (matching Tao) poems, and created paintings inspired by Tao. Repeatedly recast in poetry and painting, he ceased to be simply a poet and gradually...
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Cumulative Structure in Zhuangzi's “The Great and Venerable Teacher”

Xinda Lian
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 239–260.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9299619
Published: 01 November 2021
...-by-Ink heard it from the grandson of Repeated-Recitation, and the grandson of Repeated-Recitation heard it from Seeing-Brightly, and Seeing-Brightly heard it from Whispered-Agreement, and Whispered-Agreement heard it from Waiting-for-Use, and Waiting-for-Use heard it from Exclaimed-Wonder, and Exclaimed...
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From Modernity to Tradition: Zhu Ziqing's Chinese Literary Criticism

Leonard Kwok Kou Chan
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 233–257.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-3713887
Published: 01 November 2016
... with these rules. The most effective way to learn these rules is through integration, somewhat like small children learning to speak: recitation is a method of integrating [such rules]. 詩是精粹的語言，有它獨具的表現法式。初學覺得詩難懂，大半便因為這些法式太生疏之故。學習這些法式最有效的方法是綜合，多少應該像小兒學語一般；背誦便是這種綜合的方法。 34 From Yang and Zhu's Chinese...
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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
... of Fang Fangpei's poetry, which includes the last edition published when Fang was in her seventies. In the poem “Reciting from Madam Fang Zhizhai's Zaiputang shiji by the Window in Lamplight, I Inscribe This at the End of the Collection” 鐙窗展誦方芷齋夫人在璞堂詩集即題簡末, Ling begins with an admiring couplet, “She...
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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
...), commentarial traditions, and the heterogeneous materials that fall under categories such as biji 筆記 or other compendia, as well as orally recited and other demotic literature. We also wish to stress that, while we have framed this overall endeavor in the terminology of theory that, as François Jullien...
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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

Martin Kern
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 131–169.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9681189
Published: 01 April 2022
... the examples of long-lasting oral archives, whether in the early centuries of the Homeric epics or, even more dramatically, in the far larger and far more lasting Vedic textual repertoire—archives embedded and continuously reenacted in the formal structures of festivals and recitations. Likewise the ritual...
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Introduction: The Primacy of Sound in Chinese Poetry

Zong-qi Cai
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 251–257.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-3324128
Published: 01 November 2015
..., and a completed composition). Given the pivotal importance of sound, the bodily practice of chanting and reciting ancient texts emerges as the primary means through which a writer imbues himself with the language—the spirit and voice—of the ancient masters. It is in this way that they gradually become able...
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Plays within Songs: Sanqu Songs from Literary Refinement ( ya ) to Popular Appeal ( su )

Wang Shih-Pe, Erxin Wang
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 307–340.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9299658
Published: 01 November 2021
... 摘錦奇音 Zhaijin qiyin 封面、目錄或卷首題名 Cover, table of contents, or title on the first page Xinqie jingxuan gujin yuefu gundiao xinci yushuying 新鍥精選 古今樂府滾調 新詞玉樹英 Newly Carved Meticulous Selections from the Ancient and Modern Bureau of Music, New Lyrics in Rapid Recitative: Blossoms of Jade Trees...
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Image, Word, and Emotion: The Persistence of the Beautiful/Lovelorn Woman in the New-Style “Hundred Beauties” Albums (1900–1920s)

Xiaorong Li
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 169–204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-7496872
Published: 01 April 2019
...Figure 20. “Reciting Poetry beside a Window” ( Chuang pan yin shi 窗畔吟詩), from Zhao and Wu, Zitai baiyang , 1:89b–90a. ...
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The Philosophical Proposition “A Piercing Glance Elevates the Mind” and the Buddhist Thought in Zong Bing's “Preface to the Painting of Landscape”

Zong-Qi Cai, Stephen Roddy
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 297–335.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-10767961
Published: 01 November 2023
... above the images of the Book of Changes and criticized the limitations of native Daoist theories of the “image.” For those who recite sutras and whose faith is firm, on the verge of death they will see the image of Amitābha, and awakening spiritually, they will achieve the Dao. Because he longed...
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