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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 248–278.
Published: 01 November 2017
... (Wujie Chanshi 五戒禪師), whose image has become the most widespread version of Su Shi's past life. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Su Shi reincarnation Wuzu Shijie Huihong Song biji (miscellanies) vernacular literature Literati of the Song 宋 Dynasty (960–1279) were fond...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 209–215.
Published: 01 November 2017
... was a reincarnation of a prominent Yunmen monk of the generation before his own) to a range of biji (miscellaneous notes) and Buddhist writings (including biographies and anecdote collections), all of which have a common thread: they date from just after Su Shi's death and were all composed by the eccentric...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 169–194.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and Culture 6 , no. 1 ( 2019 ): 1 – 14 . Chen Duansheng 陳端生 , and Liang Desheng 梁德繩 . Zaisheng yuan 再生緣 ( Karmic Bonds of Reincarnation ). Edited by Zhao Jingshen 趙景深 and Liu Chongyi 劉崇義 . 3 vols. Zhengzhou : Zhongzhou shuha she , 1982 . Cvetkovich, Ann . An Archive...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 476–482.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., in expecting punishment or reward in the present life and after death (i.e. in the underworld and/or in successive reincarnations.” 2 This belief was present in every aspect of Chinese society and, of course, was also reflected in Chinese literature, particularly in vernacular fiction and drama...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 297–335.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and mysterious. It is Śūramgama samādhi. The highest of those who attain our way become emperors, and those below them become kings. Successively transforming, rising and falling, they become flying celestial emperors, reincarnated sagely emperors, and the like. 史遷之述五帝也。皆云。生而神靈。或弱而能言。或自言其名。懿淵疏通。其智如神。既以類夫大乘菩薩化見而...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Bonds of Reincarnation) in Epstein's article and the concubine character in plays dramatizing the historical incident of cannibalism in the siege of Suiyang in the Tang, as re-created by playwrights through the Ming and Qing to the Republican period, in Wang and Guo's article. We have grouped...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 207–248.
Published: 01 April 2015
... she becomes a metaphor or allegory for being real and authentic. Essential to this metaphor or allegory is the subject of painting or visual arts in general, as the name Zhenzhen is intrinsically tied to the motif of a pictorial image that comes alive or is reincarnated into the human realm...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 216–240.
Published: 01 November 2014
... (so-called) free spirits of the Wei and Jin and suggested that some were merely fishing for notoriety and recognition. Tao alone attained “purity and truth” and a genuine free-spirited naturalness. In his “He ‘Guiqulaixi ci,’” Su Shi even claims to be the reincarnation of Tao: “I take as teacher...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 403–437.
Published: 01 November 2023
... categories still applies in Journey to the West , though Buddhism and Daoism add the contours of spiritual enlightenment to the notion of moral supremacy. As Huntington writes, the Buddhist concepts of reincarnation further “blur the boundaries between species,” especially in the afterlife when humans can...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 412–431.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to China. Tang Ao then disappears on Xiao Penglai 小蓬萊 (Little Penglai island) and presumably becomes an immortal. When Tang Ao's daughter Tang Xiaoshan 唐小山, the reincarnated Fairy of the Hundred Flowers (Baihua Xianzi 百花仙子), comes to the island in search of her father, she is instead informed through...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 312–334.
Published: 01 November 2016
... progression, voicing a desire to return as a monk in his next reincarnation. Figure 6. Photograph of Shen Zengzhi (Xu, Shen Zengzhi nianpu changbian ) Figure 6. Photograph of Shen Zengzhi (Xu, Shen Zengzhi nianpu changbian) In the history of the genre, a visual image and its inscription often...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 95–118.
Published: 01 April 2018
... that supported her weaving machine. 46. Zither playing ( gu se 鼓瑟) was traditionally associated with the spirits of the Xiang River 湘靈. According to one interpretation, they were the reincarnations of the two drowned wives of Shun 舜. 45. “Crying face” ( ti lian 啼臉) was a fashionable style of face...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 461–482.
Published: 01 November 2019
... reign, “Epitaph of Xiaohou Fabao”: Only he refused to be an official and live in solitude, attaching himself to mountains and waters. He was like the reincarnation of Tao Quanming, and his life was a lively embodiment of Zhu Maichen. His aspiration was astonishing to this secular world, and his insight...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to be a reincarnation of a flower spirit as well, one who resided in the Daoist sacred site the Luofu 羅浮 mountain in Guangdong province. 48 The Purple Maiden is the Goddess of the Latrine (Ceshen 廁神) in the popular pantheon and a deity worshipped mainly by women. She became associated with spirit writing ( fuji 扶乩...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 267–293.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of the unconventional, placing the language of chastity, for example, in the mouths of ghosts, monsters, and reincarnations of the unrequited dead.” 32 Similarly, the tension between the concubine's resolute surrender to her husband's wish and her expression of bitterness creates incongruity that undermines...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 57–84.
Published: 01 April 2016
... in many female-authored tanci , the two heroes are the reincarnations of immortals, sent down to earth to reestablish morality. In the public sphere, the sworn brothers serve the court with their extraordinary military skill, pacifying the Tufan rebellion on China's southwestern border and defeating...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 382–410.
Published: 01 November 2020
... 古經解彙函 (Collection of Ancient Commentaries to the Classics), which was published by Yuedong Shuju (Yuedong Press) 粵東書局 and the Shanghai Gushu Liutong Chu (Shanghai Ancient Books Circulation Office) 上海古書流通處. This demonstrates how books that were once lost can reincarnate in a variety of forms...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 137–168.
Published: 01 April 2023
... opportunities to evolve this paper through several reincarnations. 1. Dong, Yunxuan qingbi lu , 25 ; translation from Brook, Confusions of Pleasure , 228 (with modification). 2. E.g., the famous late Ming Nanjing courtesan Ma Shouzhen 馬守貞 (1548–1604) was the only woman among sixty friends...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 173–206.
Published: 01 April 2015
... talents. The association with Wang Zhaoyun proves prescient, for Qian Qianyi may well have appreciated the idea of betrothing a modern-day reincarnation of Su Shi's concubine. As a prominent scholar and official of the late Ming court, Qian faced numerous obstacles, eliciting a pointed comparison between...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 26–56.
Published: 01 April 2016
... ) language. 36 Such linguistic facility is unprecedented in the history of Chinese Buddhism, says Gong, making Yuen an heir—even a reincarnation, perhaps—of the great Indian Buddhist sage Nāgārjuna (ca. 200). Comparing Yuen to Nāgārjuna, the author of Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Ch. Zhonglun 中論...
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