... exploitation of the boys in the clan school, and Wang Xifeng's 王熙鳳 cruel manipulation of the pathetically horny Jia Rui 賈瑞. With Disenchantment as the original mirror maker, Jia Rui's wet dream becomes part of the fairy's grand design, and the Xifeng-Jia Rui story assumes the function of a parallel...

..., “Wu Shuji Yan Rui” 吳淑姬嚴蕊 (On Wu Shuji and Yan Rui), Yijian zhi: Zhigeng 支庚 (i.e, the sixth installment of the fifth [支] collection), 10.1216–17. 3. For a detailed discussion of Zhu Xi's accusations, the lovers, and the corruption of local government that Zhu believed their affair had led...

.... The juxtaposition of death and sexual abandonment is common in erotic fiction. The Plum in the Golden Vase serves as the most prominent example. In the Stone , the deaths of Qin Zhong, Qin Keqing, and Jia Rui 賈瑞 are all associated with physical desire. But through Sapientia the Stone elaborates the sex-death...

...” or, at least, fit Rui and Lou's stated criteria of musical potential. Writing a musical “old shi ” or, as Li Bai 李白 (701–62) was especially famous for doing, bending but not breaking the prosodic guidelines was likely a much greater challenge, since it required an understanding of where deviation would...

... the celebrations following the examinations, Tang Guichen quickly returns to Little Penglai, while other girls join the fight to restore the Tang. Indeed, the Qing scholar Yu Rui 裕瑞 (1771–1838) had good reason to question: “Why should Tang Xiaoshan be renamed Tang Guichen? Tang Ao becomes an immortal and the Fairy...

... While Linda Rui Feng's essay in this special issue examines Chang'an residents' appropriations of the vertical dimension of space as represented in Tang poems and tales, 63 I focus on her monograph here. This is because the monograph deals more extensively with the experience of Chang'an...

... to literati, commoners, female audiences, and performers alike. Zhong emphasized the pervasive reach of these songs among the elite as well as popular audiences. Of Zeng Rui 曾瑞 he noted, “The Confucian gentlemen of the floating world admired his exalted reputation; the lads in the marketplace recited (his...

... Ah, how they panted in exhaustion. 維其喙矣 To cause the Yu and the Rui to pledge peace, 虞芮質厥成 50 King Wen quickened their yielding natures. 文王蹶厥生 I say he brought those estranged to follow him; 予曰有疏附 52 I say he drew those from front and back to him; 予曰有先後 I say he caused those...

...”), see Talents from Old Hangzhou, Huanmen zidi cuoli shen , 232 . 72. Yang, Shi, and Luan, Yuan sanqu jia Xue Angfu , 129–30 . Yang Lian, Shi Xiaoqi, and Luan Rui go so far as to claim that Xue's songs were written in response to having watched actual performances. While Xue certainly would...

..., and the processing of multiple allusive origins. Qiu Rui's 丘睿 “Du shi qiexing yongdian shilun” 杜詩切姓用典試論 (On Surname-Corresponding Allusions in Du Fu's Poetry) observes in Du Fu's poetry the method of having the surname of the alluded figure correspond with that of the signified figure, that is, the so-called...

... and discloses its nasty sides. As examples of this phenomenon Tanaka discusses Sui Xuanming's 睢玄明 (second part of the 13th century?) “On a Drum” 詠鼓 (Yonggu), Liu Zhi's “Lament for a Horse” 代馬訴冤 (Daima suyuan), Yao Shouzhong's “Complaint of the Ox,” and Zeng Rui's 曾瑞 (second part 13th century?) “Complaint...

...” ( rui 睿). However, zhe 哲 here possesses a distinctly visual implication noteworthy for its frequent binomial pairing with shèng beginning no later than the Warring States–period Lisao 離騷 (Encountering Sorrow). 27 A possible visual analogue for the “sage” or “sagely person” was the zhe 哲...

...東華 . Shanghai : Shangwu yinshuguan , 1928 . Lewisohn, Ludwig . A Modern Book of Criticism . New York : Boni and Liveright , 1919 . Li Xianguo 李先國 . “ Jiejian zhi san: Zhu Ziqing yu Rui Qiaci he Yan Busun de yuyi fenxi xueshuo (1929–1948)” 借鑒之三：朱自清與瑞恰慈和燕卜蓀的語義分析學說 (1929–1948...

... 北山 Some people sit quietly at home; 或燕燕居息 20 Others wear themselves out in serving their country. 或盡瘁事國 Some lie peacefully in bed; 或息偃在床 22 Others are always on the move. 18 或不已於行 [Mao no. 205, MSZY 1:463] Spreading 緜 The peoples of Yu and Rui broke faith, 虞芮...

... Volume ). Yinchuan : Ningxia Renmin chubanshe , 2014 . Yang Lian 楊鐮 , Shi Xiaoqi 石曉奇 , and Luan Rui 欒睿 , eds. Yuan sanqu jia Xue Angfu 元散曲家薛昂夫 ( The Yuan Songwriter Xue Angfu ). Urumqi : Xinjiang renmin chubanshe , 1992 . Yang, Richard F. S. , and Charles R. Metzger . Fifty...

..., and geographical information. 102 They contained diagrammatic records of knowledge about nature and humans ( tian ren 天人). In his “Jiang rui” 講瑞 (Discussing Auspicious Omens) chapter of Lun heng , Wang Chong writes, “The discourse of Confucians on their own account can be recognized from the appearances...

... in Xiang's garden included northern refugees ( beike 北客), such as Chao Shuyi and the Liu brothers, family members by marriage (Liu Rui 劉芮), local officials appointed by the central government (magistrate Liang 粱仲敏), and other retired scholar-officials and garden owners in the Huainan region (Wu Danian or Wu...