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Performing the Role of Playwright: Jia Zhongming's Sanqu Songs in the Supplement to The Register of Ghosts
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 April 2021
... . It challenges the conventional reading of Jia's songs as reliable sources of biographical information on individual playwrights to whom those songs are dedicated and argues instead that, if read together as a whole, they represent a catalog of various personas Jia constructs for the social role of playwright...
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A Son's Obligations: Promoting and Circulating Motherly Exemplariness in Late Imperial China
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 244–266.
Published: 01 April 2023
... to the different social roles Confucian literati were expected to play? Through an examination of sons' written tributes to their mothers in a variety of biographical and commemorative genres, this article argues that these writings show an increasing enthusiasm to promote mothers as Confucian exemplars during...
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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
... of dehumanization, typically understood as the denial of one's intrinsic human traits by other people. In the late Qing context, dehumanization can occur when an individual is perceived as deviating from the path of self-cultivation, or as inept at or resistant to fulfilling prescribed social and gender roles...
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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
... that reflected women's social roles more positively where courtesans became increasingly marginalized. 26 Yang Wan, a courtesan turned concubine/wife living in the transitory period of late Ming and early Qing, manipulated the different meanings of gui to represent her self-image in transformation...
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Virtue and Women's Authorship in Chinese Art History: A Study of Yutai huashi (History of Painting from Jade Terrace)
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 221–243.
Published: 01 April 2023
... in the content of the text, but she does indicate that painting can be a suitable occupation for virtuous women, chiefly by citing sources that reveal how painting either does not interfere with or actively supports gendered familial and social roles. What does it mean for a woman to be a compiler...
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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
... literary form for documenting locality, also made it an attractive vehicle for Korean literati to use to showcase their interest in local people and regions and to experiment with their roles as both elites and social leaders, presumably as early as the late Koryŏ period (1200s–1300s), which is when...
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Networks of Exchange Poetry in Late Medieval China: Notes toward a Dynamic History of Tang Literature
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 322–359.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Thomas J. Mazanec Abstract This article combines qualitative and quantitative methods to rethink the literary history of late medieval China (830–960 CE). It begins with an overview of exchange poetry in the Tang dynasty and its role in the construction of the poetic subject, namely, the poetic...
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The Crying Statue in Early Qing Drama
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 115–147.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Thomas Kelly Abstract Should the theatrical fantasy of a statue coming to life involve an actor performing the role of a thing, or a prop taking the place of a human? Proceeding from contests between Hong Sheng 洪昇 (1645–1704) and acting troupes over the staging of the “Crying Statue” 哭像 (Kuxiang...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
...: Shang Jinglan and Her Writings in the Ming-Qing Transition,” Yuefan Wang uncovers the important role of the Allegory Garden (Yuyuan 寓園) in Shang's literary writing and social interactions. Wang notes that although the garden was at the center of Shang's conjugal life, before the suicide of her husband...
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Introduction
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 209–215.
Published: 01 November 2017
... contingent those conventions are upon social roles and practices that themselves turn out to be less than universal. My article is not so much a look at anything distinctive about Song-period poetry as it is about the contexts we can situate it in, thanks to the abundance of sources that survive...
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“She Whistles Freely Shunning Companions”: The Embedded and Transcendent Selves of Poet-Painter Wang Liang in the Eighteenth Century
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 April 2023
... modes but as an interplay between moments when her gendered social role mattered most and moments when she could indulge in a transcendence of social constraints. 7 Wang Liang's life demonstrated the fragility, elusiveness, and impermanence of family bonds and social position. She was born...
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Collecting the Here and Now: Birthday Albums and the Aesthetics of Association in Mid-Ming China
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 43–91.
Published: 01 April 2015
... a theoretical basis on which the present discussion of birthday celebrations can be more fully examined. Communal birthday celebrations measure the lives of the persons against the changing expectations of their social roles and relate their experiences to time shared by the community. Each of these two...
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Image, Word, and Emotion: The Persistence of the Beautiful/Lovelorn Woman in the New-Style “Hundred Beauties” Albums (1900–1920s)
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 169–204.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of the older model in an effort to keep up with contemporary trends. The new-style albums appear to report women's unprecedented appearances, social roles, professions, and activities, such as “female pilot” 女飞行家 ( nü feixingjia ) and “female student” 女學生 ( nü xuesheng ). Albums like Ding Song's also highlight...
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What Do Jokes Reveal about Trust in Ming Work Relations?
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 367–396.
Published: 01 November 2022
... The jokes touch on every aspect of Ming life, relying on cultural stereotypes in a way that reveals both the best ideal of each social role and the worst failure to live up to that ideal. 2 In addition to officials, military officers, students and scholars, physicians, and servants, the jokes mock...
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The Textual Architecture of Empire in Two Early Qing Anthologies
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 371–398.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of the A-level sections. “The Filial Piety of the Son of Heaven” ( Tianzi zhi xiao 天子之孝) has fifty-five juan , more than half of the work, while the sections on the other social roles have between three and nine juan each. The editors explain in their guidelines to readers that because the personal virtue...
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Closer to Home: A Hanlin Academician Writes about Persons outside the Educated Class
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 87–114.
Published: 01 April 2020
... to their social role and function in the stories: women of heroic resolve, women who suffer in silence, women with unspecified or suppressed grievances, and madwomen and women bewitched. Given the purposes of this chapter, my interest is not in giving a comprehensive sketch of women in Song period social history...
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Where Have All the Guixiu Gone? Chinese “Women of Talent” at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2023
... stories about women and romantic love from outside China. In spite of occasionally inconsistent or even contradictory stances toward women's social roles and political rights, the magazine reported on women's suffrage in the United States and published photographs of outstanding women professionals...
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Playing against Type: The Moral Merchant on the Early Qing Stage
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 383–411.
Published: 01 November 2019
... such occupational arcs (however fanciful) capture the flux of seventeenth-century social life, beneath these ever-changing occupational roles there remains a stable moral character attributable to one's inherent shi -ness. The qualification of merchant leads like Zhan huakui' s Qin Zhong and Jubaopen' s Shen...
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Performing the Emperor: Sui Jingchen's “Han Gaozu Returns to His Home Village”
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2021
... anyone, emperor or village dweller, could function effectively in any sphere without at least some awareness of hierarchy, ritual, and the requirements of performing certain social roles. In fact, the narrator has already acknowledged his awareness of social performance in the first song, where he pokes...
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A Family of Filial Exemplars: The Baos of Luzhou in the Northern Song
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 360–382.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Cong Ellen Zhang Abstract This case study examines the central role that xiao (filial piety) played in defining character for all the members of the Bao family in the Northern Song (960–1127). It shows that while ritual and ethical codes required children to care for the welfare of their parents...
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