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... of banishment, and their treatment of the trope of exile and exilic experiences in poems and prose writings is worthy of serious study. This article is a study of the exilic writings of the especially important yet understudied poet Fang Xiaobiao (1618–?), who in the wake of the examination scandal of 1657...

... a very public sex and corruption scandal in 1740, which also implicated her own wealthy merchant family. In the wake of this disaster, she and her husband severed their family ties and lived out their years in genteel poverty, childless. Surviving her husband by over twenty-five years, she fashioned...

...) of Gender in Modern East Asia (2016) and has published articles on various topics in Chinese legal, family, and gender history. She is currently working on a book titled Scandal and the Limits of Self-Invention in Eighteenth-Century China , which tells the story of an adultery and corruption scandal...

... beloved by audiences, but their heroines were also seen as scandalous and thoroughly inappropriate models for young women. Wu introduces a productive twist to this familiar topic by noting the distinction between plays written for performance, which had to be intelligible when sung, and “desktop plays...

... of historical writing, not excluding such writing produced in Buddhist circles. The editors' introduction observes of our own cultural moment that “the aberrant, the notorious, the profligate, and the scandalous disturb and titillate us, exerting a greater pull on the mind and heart than the righteous, the law...

... are in themselves neither good nor bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.” 6 Perhaps, as John Durham Peters provocatively argues, we all need a dose of “technological determinism,” a scandalous notion people mention only to dismiss. 7 Son's most profound insight is not that seventeenth...

... a “romantic” and even scandalous element attached itself to the reincarnation tale: in an earlier life, Su Shi had been the monk Wujie (not Shijie), and he was a licentious monk who had allowed himself to be seduced by the beauty Honglian (“Red Lotus”). Many versions of this narrative are found in later...

... and events nurture Baoyu's pregarden period: Qin Keqing 秦可卿 and her scandalous death, Wang Xifeng 王熙鳳 and her dramatic trap, and Qin Zhong 秦鍾 and other beautiful boys in the clan school. In this nursery of desire Baoyu dreams “the greatest wet dream in world literature,” 9 and upon his awakening...

.... Theiss's study, “‘She Whistles Freely Shunning Companions’: The Embedded and Transcendent Selves of Poet-Painter Wang Liang in the Eighteenth Century,” shows that, while Wang was entangled in a public sex and corruption scandal of her family, circumstances compelled her to evade conventional womanly duties...

... the scandal by allowing himself to be extorted, or he bolts from the scene, leaving all his wealth and belongings behind. If the young man passes by the “wife's” residence the next day, he discovers that it has been vacated overnight, because of course the couple who lived there were not a married couple...

... and connected it with her miserable fate amid the chaos of the Ming-Qing transition. 55 Although no record about Yang Wan's extramarital affairs existed in her time, the scandal spread widely and greatly influenced the reception of Yang Wan and her poetry in later anthologies. The second measure taken...

... feelings through their writings has become erotically conflated with the disclosure of scandalous trysts and the connoisseurship of women's naked bodies. For example, the “Chen Jinfeng waizhuan” 陳金鳳外傳 (Outer Biography of Chen Jinfeng), included in the biography ( zhuan 傳) section of Wen zhi , claims...

... and figuratively, can we simply dismiss the complex interiority that results? Or does it speak as well to our contemporary anxieties about individual identity and the exploitation of our attention in the age of algorithms? The scandal of involution is the failure of a specified indicator to grow...

... when understood this way, as a poem commemorating scandalous behavior, there is some deflection, some shielding or avoidance of the raw truth of what happened. The poem's title tells us it is about “a dream” after all, something easily dismissed as fantasy. Since, according to what Huang told his...

... to Text .” In Image, Music, Text , translated by Stephen Heath , 155 – 64 . London : Fotana/Collins , 1977 . Barthes, Roland . “ So, How Was China? ” In “The ‘Scandal’ of Marxism” and Other Writings on Politics: Essays and Interviews, translated by Chris Turner , 94 – 104 . London...

... on the ground, a sense of tragedy and scandal is in the air: the dismembered corpse had no funeral and no burial. Yet, Zhuang Zhou, in a moment of disbelief, first tries a few barbed wisecracks as if he wanted to amuse an audience, jesting about the sorry lot of the unknown deceased, all the while jabbing...

... By submerging her head in a hole adjacent to her husband's tomb, publicly defiling her face in the process, the gentry lady has orchestrated her own ritualistic death. In her subsequent psychopathic performances of madness, she assumes a variety of roles, each more scandalous than the next, during which process...

... Xichen's concubine, whips Xue Sujie so harshly in public that the husband is brought to his knees to “beg for mercy” ( taorao 討饒) from his concubine. Thousands of people, including the runners for the yamen and those living in the vicinity of the yamen , watch the scandalous scene. While the crowd...

.... For sources on the fallout from the scandal, see Y. Wang, Changsheng dian ziliao huibian kaoshi , 426–45 . 6. On this commentary, which reads as a sophisticated work of literary prose in and of itself, see A. Wang, “Pingdian, quanshi yu jieshou.” 7. Hong Sheng rewrites Yang's forced...

... Flower Case” ( Dingxianghua gongan 丁香花公案), the legend that Gong conducted a scandalous affair with the Manchu poetess Gu Chun 顧春 ( zi Taiqing 太清, 1799–1877). It gave rise to a raft of speculation about the true reasons for his decision to abandon Beijing in the first place, a controversy...