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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 341–370.
Published: 01 November 2021
... daozi 拆白道字) comes from and how it relates to literary riddles that precede and follow this landmark sixteenth-century novel. Jin Ping Mei cihua enlarges the presentation and associations of riddles in fiction through its engagement with contemporaneous theatrical literature and the entertainment culture...
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Nobody's Genre, Everybody's Song: Sanqu Songs and the Expansion of the Literary Sphere in Yuan China
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 29–64.
Published: 01 November 2014
... and rhymed riddles. 40 If Dadu fostered the performance of sanqu inside and outside Qubilai's court, it was Hangzhou that spurred the textualization of the form. 41 A center of commercial publishing since the Northern Song often lauded for the quality of its imprints, 42 Hangzhou continued...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 134–172.
Published: 01 April 2015
... reflection, a fabrication of layered dots and washes of color, a reenactment of a misremembered dream, a riddle, a costly material thing, and an object of misapprehension and impassioned foolishness. And yet only rarely is her portrait referred to as a xiang 像 (image). In The Peony Pavilion , Tang employs...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., he was erudite and deep in reading. Jia was good at poetry, particularly skillful in composing sanqu songs and riddles. He used to serve Emperor Wen 9 [Zhu Di 朱棣 (1360–1424)] at his princely residence in Yan [before he was enthroned], and the prince favored him very much. Whenever...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Jia's songs as an attempt to reconcile the values of imperial and popular culture in the context of his own fraught position at the Ming court. Though much acclaimed for his songs and riddles by Ming princes and other courtiers, Jia was nevertheless keenly aware of his status as a practitioner...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 287–312.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and Buddhist traditions. The political leaders were both devout Buddhists, capable of bringing religious doctrine into practice and able to bring peace and reform to a dynasty riddled with violence and chaos. The success of their rule and political reforms helped bring about a period of peace and prosperity...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of characters, and the formality of rhyme, riddles, onomatopoeia, and incongruity, both in the form of absurd remarks and discordant replies.” 31 Her discussion also highlights the metatheatrical aspect of “self-referential remarks to role-acting and costume.” 32 In her view, “metatheater is employed...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 7–33.
Published: 01 April 2020
...-yee . “ Riddles, Concealment, and Rhetoric in Early China .” In Facing the Monarch: Modes of Advice in the Early Chinese Court , edited by Garret Olberding , 100 – 132 . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2013 . Liji zhushu 禮記註疏 (Records of the Rites, with Commentaries...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 256–272.
Published: 01 April 2022
... according to the logic of the lantern riddle. Zhou, Zhongguo xin wenxue de yuanliu , 32 . Kurahashi Keiko makes a strong case for the connection between apparently dilettantish cultural practices and examination success in Chūgoku dentō shakai no erītotachi . 32. Goldhaber, “Attention Economy...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 412–431.
Published: 01 November 2019
... poetic forms, making and solving riddles, telling jokes and witty repartees, explicating principles in the Taoist almanac, exchanging knowledge in botany and herbal medicine, cracking arithmetic problems, playing drinking wager games ( jiuling 酒令), competing in archery, reciting lines from popular drama...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 250–275.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of people. The composition and message of yongwu shi could be very different: some limited themselves to the appraisal of something; others were more like riddles that encouraged the reader or listener to guess the topic. Often the object was a substitute for the author, who used it as an indirect way...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 375–410.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., but the materials we use to test them are not ancient. I'm confused by this standard of evaluation. If one requests abridged versions of the classics from officials, one finds that they are riddled with errors. Students repeat these fill-in-blank exercises verbatim, excerpting and copying from these mindless...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 203–235.
Published: 01 April 2021
... from the vantage point of an “aesthetic of playful immediacy,” acknowledging, as Kang Baocheng noted, that some sanqu songs together with other more overtly playful forms such as drinking songs and riddles emerged from the same need to entertain partygoers on the spot. 9 In the easy visibility...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 248–278.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to give a satisfying answer to a Chan riddle given by Foyin, and as punishment Su Shi was asked to give Foyin the jade belt. “Old Monk Wanhui” in the last line of the second gatha refers to Foyin. It alludes to Emperor Zhongzong 中宗 of the Tang granting a monk named Wanhui 萬廻 (632–711) a master title...
