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A Paper Mirror: Autobiographical Moments in Modern Chinese Poetry
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 312–334.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Shengqing Wu Abstract Through the examination of a select body of classical-style poems that are inscribed on or written about photographs of the self in the modern era, this article delves into the intertwined issues of the self, affect, and autobiographical writing. It first explores the ethical...
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Dehumanized Voices and Traumatic Articulations in Late Nineteenth-Century Chinese Classical Tales
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 148–171.
Published: 01 April 2024
... preface to the collection, Xuan engages in the artistic dehumanization of his own literary persona. From this strategic position of moral self-exile, he is able to both provide a platform for dissenting voices and suggest the therapeutic potential of writing during times of suffering. This study explores...
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The Life and Afterlife of Ling Zhiyuan (1831–1852) and Her Poetry Collection
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 125–154.
Published: 01 November 2014
... by her young husband Ding Bing (1832–1899) after her untimely death, this small collection is framed by numerous paratexts such as prefaces, verse inscriptions, biographical accounts, and elegies. I explore how Ling's self-representation in her poetry is mediated by these paratexts and show how different...
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Presenting Mortality: Shen Zhou's Falling Blossoms Project
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 92–133.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Peter C. Sturman Abstract The renowned artist Shen Zhou (1427–1509) began to explore the theme of falling blossoms as a subject for poetry, painting, and calligraphy in his very late years. The theme stands out both for the number of times Shen Zhou worked on it and for the quality of the poems...
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Cultural Identity and Cultural Difference in Zuozhuan
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 7–33.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of representation. It focuses on three issues: (1) Who is the barbarian? Using Lu's dealings with the eastern Yi domains as case studies, the author explores how representation of cultural others is inseparable from cultural self-definition. Similarities and shared roots seem to have generated the impetus...
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The Elusiveness of Commonality: Late Twentieth-Century Sinology and the Search for a Shared Lyric Language
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 8–46.
Published: 01 April 2022
... interest in Chinese poetry. From the 1960s to the 1980s, the stakes seemed high as scholars confronted their passionate disagreements about things as fundamental as the proper subject of study and the most fruitful methodology. Is China a coherent and self-sufficient subject of study? Can it be rightly...
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Space and Identity: Self-Representation of a Ming Nanjing Courtesan in Transformation
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 397–424.
Published: 01 November 2022
... through another form of space: the textual space in anthologies. By framing her poetic selections within certain well-organized textual space, the compilers explored and manipulated the ambiguity in her self-representation to build a circle for communicating their opinion about womanhood, discussing its...
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Fashioning Cosmopolitan Desires: The “Bamboo Branch Lyrics” Poetry Genre in Late Chosŏn Korea
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 317–348.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Sookja Cho Abstract This article explores the Korean evolution of the Chinese verse form known as “bamboo branch lyrics” (Ch. zhuzhici 竹枝詞; K. chukchisa ) and the cultural significance of the genre's growing popularity among late Chosŏn (1600s–1800s) Korean literati as a way to enhance...
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Who Am I? Identity, Resistance, and Resilience in the Classical-Style Poetry of Nie Gannu
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 335–356.
Published: 01 November 2016
... 2017 Nie Gannu classical-style poetry self-exploration poems of grievance refined man Nie Gannu 聶紺弩 (1903–86) is best known for the extraordinary classical-style poems ( qishi 奇詩) he produced in the last thirty years of his life. He did not begin to write poetry seriously until the late...
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The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 413–418.
Published: 01 November 2024
... recommended for scholars and students interested in translation studies, Chinese literature, and comparative cultural studies. Saussy's exploration of the boundaries between China's central and peripheral cultures breaks down barriers from within. In so doing, this book presents a more open world...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 April 2020
... issue deal with cultural difference from various perspectives. In “Closer to Home,” Ronald Egan shows us how the scholar-official Hong Mai's 洪邁 (1123–1202) stories about merchants, con artists, or singing girls amount to a conscious effort to explore terrains beyond “this culture of ours...
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Zaisheng yuan and the Writing of Women's Culture
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 169–194.
Published: 01 April 2023
... with proper order, this article discusses tanci novels as a unique outlet for women's explorations of autonomous will ( zhi 志) and imaginings of emotional justice. 6. Chen Wenshu 陳文述 (1775–1845) suggested that this was a joint project between Liang and her husband, Xu Zongyan 許宗彥 (1768–1819). Chen Wenshu...
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Lore and Verse: Poems on History in Early Medieval China
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 514–516.
Published: 01 November 2023
... language and Chinese literature and culture while bringing the Chinese literary tradition into a larger conversation about memory and identity with many other cultures and eras. More important, this volume explores newer, nontraditional critical approaches to the reading of the representative poems...
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Multiple Otherness: Identity Politics in the Taiping Civil War
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 215–231.
Published: 01 April 2020
... explores the acute malleability of the Other during the violent and chaotic Taiping Civil War and in its aftermath. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Taiping Civil War political discourses identity the third category self as an other In postcolonial studies, othering...
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Introduction
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 209–215.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., the scroll already had a peculiar identity and provenance. The article explores the special meaning that the very act of copying out earlier compositions implicitly conveyed (in this case, it was his own works that Su Shi wrote out, rather than canonical texts from a distant time), without the author...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 April 2024
... delivered in 2016, does not hide her exasperation with what seems like our willful, self-serving refusal to see the obvious or, more to the point, to listen to things (as opposed to the more open ears of the ancients). Responding directly to the rhetorical question embedded in the title of her lecture—“Can...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 April 2019
... find a conception of poetry making so consistently and thoroughly grounded in such a dynamic interplay and merging of emotion, verbal patterning, and visualization. In exploring the inner dynamics, however, Chinese critics have long emphasized language at the expense of nontextual visuality...
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Whither Theatricality? Toward Traditional Chinese Drama and Theater ( Xiqu 戲曲) as World Theater
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
... China scholars have approached notions of xiqu theatricality in innovative ways. 5 I will showcase work that seeks to elucidate the dynamic interplay between textual archive and performative repertoire. 6 Scholarly explorations of theatrical language, theatrical representation, and performance...
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From Watōnai to Coxinga: Shaping and Reshaping Identities in the Kokusenya Kassen
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 370–394.
Published: 01 November 2024
... in verifying one's identity. Kinshōjo's suspicion, foiled negatively by her visceral responses and positively by the soldiers’ shouts, alerts the audience again to the fallibility of the characters’ self-identifying claims in ascertaining who they really are. Intriguingly, the playwright has explored both...
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Introduction
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2015
... resorts to the imported mirrors that were already prominently employed in the interior decorations of the imperial palaces and gardens of the time as an important visual device when he reflects upon the issues of individual identity and self-consciousness, and thus helps to bring the novel's philosophical...
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