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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 137–168.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Grace S. Fong Abstract This article engages the ekphrastic mode—the literary representation of visual representation—to examine the female gaze instantiated in women's poetry on paintings of beautiful women in the Ming and Qing periods. Through four case studies, it shows how women poets...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 221–243.
Published: 01 April 2023
... increasingly use gender as a category of analysis to understand the accomplishments of women artists and patrons as well as representations of female figures. This article analyzes Yutai huashi 's gendered subjects and discussions of gender roles as a means of examining both the contributions of women authors...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 125–154.
Published: 01 November 2014
... such as women than those provided by traditional biographical and literary approaches alone. In particular, I adapt the term life history/writing to explore the interplay between writing about another person's life experiences (biographical representation) and writing about one's own life experiences...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 294–296.
Published: 01 April 2023
... is the author of Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama (2020). His papers have appeared in Late Imperial China , Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies , CLEAR , T'oung Pao , and Nan Nü: Men, Women, and Gender in China among others. He is currently working on a project about the representation...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... marked the rediscovery and elucidation of the contents and shifts in women's education in scholar-official families and the debates on the nature and suitability of women's learning in the Ming and Qing. Robertson delved into women's representations of their gendered subjectivities and their literary...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 397–424.
Published: 01 November 2022
... to inscribe their growing sense of subjectivity. 24 The different meanings and poetic representations of gui granted women poets a certain degree of freedom in dealing with this physical, literary, and social space in their own writings. Many scholars have noticed the changing gui scenario...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 169–204.
Published: 01 April 2019
...: How new are the women behind such appearances of unprecedented gender roles and fashions? What are the effects of the lyrical tradition of xiangsi on new modes of imaging women? Who produced and circulated these images? How did the album creators' perspectives shape and mediate representations...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 267–293.
Published: 01 April 2023
... use suicide as a vehicle to convey to eternity the strength of their passions, from love to hatred, from jealousy to thirst for vengeance.” 5 As these discussions suggest, acts and representations of self-inflicted violence in late imperial China characterized women as female subjects of both...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 487–491.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of her life and court. The focus of the final chapter, “Gender Anarchy and the Overthrow of Female Rule,” is on the increasingly narrow use of transgressive sexuality as the discursive filter through which Wu Zhao and the women in her court are depicted. Though this insight is not new, the chapter...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 236–238.
Published: 01 April 2021
... L. IDEMA obtained his doctorate from Leiden University, where he also taught from 1970 to 1999. From 2000 to 2013 he was professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University. His research has mostly focused on the vernacular and popular traditions since the end of the Tang dynasty and on women's...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 105–130.
Published: 01 April 2022
... subjectivity and self-representation in premodern Chinese literature, which paralleled research directions and theoretical advances made in feminist scholarship on women's autobiographical writing in the West. 78 The titles of major sections in Women, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader compiled by Sidonie...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2023
... representations of the lives of women in the inner chambers” 不痛不癢的閨閣文藝. It was unlikely that Hu Shi had conducted a systematic investigation of each woman poet's work; he likely determined from his subjective perspective that most of the poems were neither exciting nor valuable. Ironically, he emphasizes...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 134–172.
Published: 01 April 2015
...-portrait—its “antisemiotic elements,” a phrase borrowed from James Elkins—are prominent. This picture thus conveniently partakes in the play's comedy of errors, for at times it cannot be fully or even partially recognized. Without discounting the representational potential of pictures and other ritual...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 232–234.
Published: 01 April 2020
...-CHEN HU is Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy in the Academia Sinica, Taiwan. A specialist in early modern Chinese literature, especially Ming-Qing narrative and women's literature, she is the author of A Conflicted New World 新理想、舊體例與不可思議之社會──清末民初上海「傳統派」文人與閨秀作家的轉型現象...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 273–275.
Published: 01 April 2022
... literature at McGill University. Her research focuses on classical Chinese poetry and women's literature of the Ming and Qing periods. She has directed the development of the Ming Qing Women's Writings digital archive and database ( digital.library.mcgill.ca/mingqing/ ) since 2003. She is the author...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 471–474.
Published: 01 November 2016
...), and The Late Ming Poet Ch'en Tzu-lung: Crises of Love and Loyalism (1991). She is the coeditor of Writing Women in Late Imperial China (with Ellen Widmer, 1997), Women Writers of Traditional China (with Haun Saussy, 1999), and Cambridge History of Chinese Literature (with Stephen Owen, 2010). Her...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 195–224.
Published: 01 April 2022
... the implicit assumption that the landscape portrayed by the poet was what he saw in nature, some scholars have explored the issue of textuality as an important dimension of spatiality in literary representations. Paul Kroll, for example, calls attention to the differences between the mentality of the medieval...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 87–114.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., eulogies, etc.). 21 Such material fulfills ceremonial and ritualistic purposes and is expected to be laudatory—rarely is anything included that is highly individualistic or perhaps even problematic. The representations of women in Yijian zhi stories are not nearly so constrained by stereotypes...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 483–486.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... The stories in the book's section on women display a sympathetic attitude even where the commentary does not. Chastity dogma has no place in this book: the sisters-in-law of “Coaxing a Sister-in-Law into Adultery” (“Women,” 130–34), who are short on cash, pay a meat vendor with a quick session in the bedroom...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 96–136.
Published: 01 April 2019
... figural paintings, one of which represents a sorrowful woman, and the other, a worried drunkard. She argues that Chen's representation of sorrow and anxiety was inextricably tied to the pictorial conventions utilized by the print designers of his day to illustrate dramatic, emotionally charged moments...
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