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Figure 12. Qian Xuan (ca. 1235–before 1307). Living in Reclusion. Yuan dynasty. Portion of a handscroll, ink and color on silk. Palace Museum, Beijing. Source: Zhongguo huihua quanji, 7:16–18

Qian Xuan (ca. 1235–before 1307). Living in Reclusion . Yuan dynasty. Port...

in Presenting Mortality: Shen Zhou's Falling Blossoms Project > Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture
Published: 01 April 2015
Figure 12. Qian Xuan (ca. 1235–before 1307). Living in Reclusion . Yuan dynasty. Portion of a handscroll, ink and color on silk. Palace Museum, Beijing. Source: Zhongguo huihua quanji , 7:16–18 More
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Voices from the Crimson Clouds Library: Reading Liu Rushi's (1618–1664) Misty Willows by Moonlit Dike

Hui-Shu Lee
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 173–206.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-2887589
Published: 01 April 2015
... of this eminent pair of cultural figures precisely a year before the fall of the Ming dynasty. It also reflects upon a complex gender dimension in the expression of reclusion entangled with the trauma of dynastic transition. This is revealed, in part, by two additions to the scroll: a small landscape painting...
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Tao Yuanming in Recently Unearthed Epitaphs from the Sui and Tang

Hu Kexian, Yuan Zhang
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 461–482.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8042016
Published: 01 November 2019
... on the motives of reclusion play a significant role, laying the foundation for the complexity of Tao's image in the Song period. Current research seeks to increase our understanding of the process behind the construction of Tao as a cultural icon. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 50...
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A Couple of Soles: A Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century China

Ying Wang
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 435–441.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9299882
Published: 01 November 2021
... “The Playwright and His Art.” Other more obvious table-turnings or upsetting of the chuanqi genre are also employed in the play. For instance, Tan Chuyu's seeking an official post turns into abandoning it, and in addition to an imposter being mistaken as the capable but disguised official-turned-recluse...
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The Pursuit of the Dao: Natsume Sōseki and His Kanshi of 1916

Xiaohui Zhang
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 148–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-4345294
Published: 01 April 2018
... and have thus acquired in Chinese poetry connotations of the serenity of the life of a recluse. In another poem, Sōseki again makes use of this pair: “Trying to describe the west wind I'm short of words, / Watching the clouds, plucking chrysanthemums, I'm by the eastern hedge” 描到西風辭不足，看雲採菊在東籬 ( Zenshū...
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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
..., “Unmasking of Tao Qian” ; Tian, Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture ; Swartz, Reading Tao Yuanming ; Ashmore, Transport of Reading ; and Berkowitz, “Poetry of Reclusion.” 47. See, for example, Liang Zongdai's 梁宗岱 (1903–1985), Les poèmes de Tao Tsien (Paris: Lemarget, 1930). Rept. as Fa yi...
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How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity through the Tang

Christopher M. B. Nugent
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 481–485.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8745723
Published: 01 November 2020
... Buddhistic themes in some of Wang Wei's 王維 (692?–761) best-known poems of reclusion, such as “Zhongnan Retreat” 終南別業 (Zhongnan bieye) and “In Response to Vice-Magistrate Zhang” 酬張少府 (Chou Zhang shaofu). For a better sense of the role Buddhist themes play in Wang Wei's poetry, one might instead turn...
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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
...), committing and withdrawing, engaging and disengaging—precisely the predicament in which the capital officials of “Honoring the Recluse,” and he himself, are also trapped. 29 Dreaming of the flowers of Beijing in the midst of making “elaborate preparations” for Lingxiao's arrival at his Yucen villa...
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Introduction

Shang Wei
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 1–7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-2887529
Published: 01 April 2015
..., wordplay, and shared visual codes and symbols. At the center is Liu Yin 柳隱 (1618–1664), a courtesan turned gentry lady whose original name was Yang Ai; she later adopted the surname Liu (Willow) to refashion herself as a recluse (as signified by her personal name, Yin). She also called herself Liu Rushi 柳如...
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Networks of Exchange Poetry in Late Medieval China: Notes toward a Dynamic History of Tang Literature

Thomas J. Mazanec
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 322–359.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-7257015
Published: 01 November 2018
... practices and precedents associated with reclusion. 13. From Cao Pi, “Essay on Literature” (“Dianlun lunwen” 典論論文), in Wenxuan 52.2271 . 14. Examples of this trope are far too numerous to list here. For a few examples, see Nugent, Manifest in Words , 198–99 . 15. In 837, Jia Dao...
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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
... a skilled literary writer, considered this a minor accomplishment not to be compared with the learning of classics. 62 Xiao Tong, Xiao Gang's elder brother, took a similar stance: His “Seven Qi ” 七契 describes how a gentleman would persuade a recluse to accept an invitation to become a court official...
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Contributors

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 249–250.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-3314759
Published: 01 April 2015
..., painting and calligraphy of the seventeenth century. Among his notable publications are Mi Fu: Style and the Art of Calligraphy in Northern Song China (Yale University Press, 1997) and The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century China (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2012...
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Literati and Poems About Go ( Weiqi 圍棋)

Qi Dongfang (齊東方), 齊東方
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 85–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-3461832
Published: 01 April 2016
...:24390 . 23. Wang Jian, “Zeng Wang chu shi” 贈王處士 (To Recluse Wang), in Quan Tang shi , 9:3411 . 22. Wang Jian 王建 (767–830), “Kan qi” 看棋 (Watching Go). The whole poem reads as follows ( Quan Tang shi , 9:3432 ): The players draw for turns and the game is even, 彼此抽先局勢平 2 Onlookers...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 272–273.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-7568605
Published: 01 April 2019
..., with a particular focus on literary culture of the Song dynasty. He is the author of Mi Fu: Style and the Art of Calligraphy in Northern Song China (1997) and The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century China (2012) and is currently at work on a book on Song literati painting (1050...
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Zhonggu wenxue zhong de shi yu shi

Isaac Yue
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 496–498.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9965751
Published: 01 November 2022
..., particularly Gaoshi zhuan 高士傳 (The Biographies of Lofty Recluses), on his poetry. The third theme in this volume concerns the relationship between poetry and historical narration. Qian Nanxiu's 錢南秀 contribution meticulously examines poetic competence and function in shaping the narration of main characters...
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The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection

Katherine Carlitz
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 483–486.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8042032
Published: 01 November 2019
... Kunshan xian zhi 崑山縣志 (Kunshan Gazetteer), for example, describe diligent, productive farmers guided by reclusive, disinterested scholars. Commerce impinges, causing people to give way to unfortunate tendencies, but the list of virtues in each gazetteer outweighs the list of sins. 2 This literati...
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The Power of Nostalgia: Memory, Identity, and Authority in the Shishuo xinyu

Qiulei Hu
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 308–337.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9965619
Published: 01 November 2022
... target for insults in the Shishuo xinyu . 43 In addition, Sun's inclination to reconcile public service and reclusion sets him apart from many contemporary elites and may partially account for his somewhat unfavorable image in the collection. 44 In both anecdotes, his attempt to create...
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New Frontiers of Electronic Textual Research in the Humanities: Investigating Classical Allusions in Chinese Poetry through Digital Methods

Yi-Long Huang, Bingyu Zheng
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 411–437.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-7257054
Published: 01 November 2018
..., Han lived as a recluse for a short period and was later killed along with his two sons in the chaos of war. 2 While investigating Han Lin's background, I came across a poem composed by Sun Xiling 孫錫齡 (c. 17th century), who came from the same town as Han Lin, titled “Zhuizeng Yugong Han fuzi” 追贈...
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Yuan-Ming Sanqu Songs as Communal Texts: Discovering Their Literary Vitality from a New Research Perspective

Ye Ye, Erxin Wang
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 113–138.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8898648
Published: 01 April 2021
... combine a literary sensibility of eremitic reclusion with a spirit of mocking the pursuit of fame and fortune ( bishi - wanshi 避世-玩世) while featuring a humorous, frank, and sincere literary style, a popular and unrefined language, and an aesthetic tendency to valorize ugliness. 5 As for Ming dynasty...
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“She Whistles Freely Shunning Companions”: The Embedded and Transcendent Selves of Poet-Painter Wang Liang in the Eighteenth Century

Janet Theiss
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 108–136.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-10362405
Published: 01 April 2023
... Chestnut Recluse” ( jinli yiren yishi 金栗逸人逸事) that speaks to Wang Liang's financial power in the marriage and alludes to their identification with fallen gentry: In the winter of 1764, there was a heavy snow. Passing through Xiuzhou [秀州; a district in Jiaxing] [I] encountered a descendant of an old...
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