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...Wilt L. Idema Abstract Starting from a discussion of Yao Shouzhong's sanqu suite “The Complaint of the Ox,” in which the slaughtered animal lays its plaint before King Yama, this article calls attention to the scholarship on sanqu of the Japanese scholar Tanaka Kenji (1912–2002) of the 1950s...

... fever” in Chinese intellectual communities. The article demonstrates that the strengths of Chinese scholarship today are particularly indebted to the methodological advances achieved by Hu Shih in the last century. Comparisons with Japanese and Euro-American scholarship underscore the particular...

...Hu Kexian; Yuan Zhang Abstract A recently discovered collection of epitaphs ( muzhi 墓誌) reveals copious references to Tao Yuanming (Tao Qian 陶潛, 365–427), a writer of pervasive influence on Chinese culture. In recent decades, both English and Chinese scholarship has focused on Tao's literary...

... of such marginalia created a unique book culture that shaped scholarship, thought, and society in the Qing and produced critical texts that are still read today. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 marginalia transcription scholarly relationship scholarly culture In the past hundred years...

... (508–555) valued scholarly learning still more and regarded literature as a relatively insignificant talent or minor accomplishment. Xiao Gang represents a departure—by placing literary talent above scholarship, he catered to the fashion among the Liang Dynasty's nobility for reciting poetry...

... studies proved to be useful tools in feminist literary studies. Some came to be deployed in scholarship on women's literature in historical China. In this context, I reflect on theoretical approaches in significant studies of women's writing of late imperial China and consider the impact or critique...

... of lovesickness in popular literature—both fiction and drama—from the Song (960–1279) to the Qing (1644–1912), including some texts rarely discussed in English scholarship from the perspective of love writing. With thorough documentation, we present two classic plot patterns of the literary malady: one involving...

...Yuanfei Wang Abstract Existing scholarship rarely examines the theme of mercy and forgiveness in the seventeenth-century novel Xingshi yinyuan zhuan (Predestined Marriage That Awakens the World) by Xizhou Sheng 西周生 (ca. 17th c.) which is known for its recurrent narratives of karmic retribution...

... of either the patriotic sentiment in Edo Japan or Japanese invasive intention over China. Nevertheless, both strands of scholarship ultimately pin the hero down as Japanese despite his father's origin in the Ming state and his mother's in Edo Japan, without further inquiring how the play shapes and reshapes...

...Yucai Liu; Luke Habberstad Abstract This article surveys the compilation and transmission of the Liji (Rites Records), one of the San li 三禮 (Three Rites texts) and a key source for classical ritual practice and theory. Drawing upon accounts in early texts and the latest secondary scholarship...

..., combined with a belief in humanity's innate capacity to apprehend the dao , formed the continuity between Guwen and Daoxue ; the attitude toward writing was where they parted. A critical shift from Guwen to Daoxue scholarship was from asking “what is good writing” to “what is good reading.” The author...

... manuscript of Yifanfeng has allowed researchers to revisit the last decade of sinophone scholarship on this text. The current essay, based on close reading of the entire Yifanfeng , illuminates the broader use of occasional poetry within Buddhist monastic communities of the Song Dynasty (960–1279...

... important cultural institutions, this article considers the protagonist Tang Ao's 唐敖 voyage to bizarre, fantastical islands, narrated in the early chapters of the novel, as an account of his conversion from examination scholarship to fiction creation. From these islands, his symbolic realm of fictionality...

...Stephen J. Roddy Abstract Gong Zizhen's (1792–1841) poetic sequence, Jihai zashi ( Poems of 1839 ), is noted for its subtle, sophisticated allusions to the poet's wide-ranging intellectual interests, especially his erudite and innovative scholarship in the discipline of geographical studies...

... perspectives, these scholars address, inter alia, the following questions: What place do works written in a Western language and/or from perspectives informed substantially by non-Chinese scholarship occupy within the full ambit of Chinese literary studies? If scholarship written in English or other Western...

... in fostering new areas of research and broadening the horizons of the field. In selecting themes for these issues, we will aim for a complementarity of Chinese and Western scholarship that will best advance the field. Currently, most Chinese contributors to JCLC collaborate with Western scholars who...

..., and Durrant, Li, and Schaberg's because it provides a clear and accessible distillation of an ocean of scholarly literature. Despite the distance in time and scholarship that separates these two introductions, the reader is immediately struck by the fact that both largely deal with the same issues...

... Manchu identity. Chiu situates her discussion within the discourse of current scholarship on Qing history, in which the idea that the Manchu conquerors were gradually “sinified” by their immersion in Chinese culture has been replaced by a more sophisticated conception of bannerman identity as a hybrid...

... in several different genres. Nor are they contributions to scholarship on the circumstances of Su Shi's life. So we know immediately that these three articles stand apart from the large number of Su Shi studies in recent decades. Two of the three concern Su Shi's involvement with calligraphy. Neither...

... this volume. The summaries are quite brief (of necessity), and in reading them, one gets very little sense of the power and the beauty of the novel. While the summaries have their utility, the real power of the book lies in its commentary. The amount of Chinese-language scholarship on the novel is enormous...