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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 113–138.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Ye Ye; Erxin Wang Abstract When examining songs in Chinese literature, we can distinguish among literary, musical, and communal aspects of their circulation. Sanqu songs became popular in the form of musical texts in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, but the ci song lyrics, by the Southern Song dynasty...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 19–55.
Published: 01 April 2017
... of the Northern Song dynasty in 1126–27. Investigating the dialogue of major figures such as Li Gang (1083–1140), Hu Hong (1105–61), Zhou Bida (1126–1204), Fan Chengda (1126–93), Lou Yue (1137–1213), and Zhu Xi (1130–1200) writing in a range of genres ( shi poetry, song lyrics, personal letters, travel diaries...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 125–154.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Grace S. Fong Abstract This study examines the construction of women's life histories in literary collections through the exemplary case of Ling Zhiyuan 凌祉媛 and her poetry collection, Cuiluoge shici gao 翠螺閣詩詞稿 (Drafts of Poems and Song Lyrics from the Green Snail Shell Loft). Published in 1854...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 307–340.
Published: 01 November 2021
...) is the best-known example of a pastiche of zaju play titles and dramatic protagonists intended to stimulate and guide readers' imagination. When late Ming dramatist Shen Jing 沈璟 (1553–1610) imitated Sun's pastiche song suite, he painstakingly sought to disrupt the obvious association between lyric and invoked...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 66–94.
Published: 01 April 2018
... shengshi , 323–25 . Ci poetry offered greater prosodic and musical variety, as well as the opportunity to compose lyrics for a vibrant musical tradition. Tang and even Song poets, however, worried about the foreign pedigree and vulgar reputation of the ci , as well as its divergence from...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 379–402.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the vernacular use of “ghostly illness” ( gui bing 鬼病) as a synonym for lovesickness in seventeenth-century Chinese novels and dramas. 9 Angelina C. Yee's discussion on Jia Baoyu's “emotional intensity” and Grace S. Fong's analysis of the lovesick persona in a late Qing female poet's song lyric reveal...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 448–470.
Published: 01 November 2016
... through their former kingdom, Pacing through the millet fields and sighing before wastelands. 空使遺臣經故國，徘徊禾黍嘆丘墟。 By way of this poetic allusion, Chen Botao's physical movements and lyrical imagination become even more intertwined here. 49. Chen, Song Dongguan yimin lu , 9 . 50. Some...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 420–438.
Published: 01 November 2017
... during the period that, equally important, managed to survive and be transmitted down to us today. My first example, and the subject of recent scholarship, is a well-known ci (song lyric) said to have been composed and sung by Yan Rui 嚴蕊, a mid-twelfth-century courtesan or entertainer...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 492–503.
Published: 01 November 2019
... quarters of the city were written out of later accounts of the lives of literati and officials in the Southern Song. In chapter 4, Zhang Hongsheng describes how Jiang Kui 姜夔 (1155–1221) wrote a series of song lyrics about past travels to make a “sharp contrast with the pleasure-driven and luxurious...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 439–441.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of the Collection from among the Flowers ( Huajian ji ) (2006), examined the emergence of the song lyric in a path-breaking anthology. Her recent book, One Who Knows Me: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China (2015; winner of the honorable mention for the AAS Levenson Prize), explores the literary...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 203–214.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and song lyrics. When Mao's eighteen poems were published in the inaugural issue of Shikan 詩刊 (Poetry) in 1957, coinciding with the antirightist movement, one cannot but sense an uncanny reinstatement of the tradition of imperial poetry. Meanwhile, during the same period Chen Yinke 陳寅恪 (1890–1969) wrote...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 47–78.
Published: 01 April 2022
... features of this poetic subgenre to which this poem belongs. A fundamentalist close reader from the New Criticism camp, who insists in excluding any outside evidence from the interpretive probing, will not know that the poem under discussion is not just another poem but a song lyric, or ci 詞...
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Nobody's Genre, Everybody's Song: Sanqu Songs and the Expansion of the Literary Sphere in Yuan China
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 29–64.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., cosmopolitanism, and urban culture. 65. Guan, “Yangchun baixue xu,” in Yang C., Yangchun baixue , 1a . 66. Ibid. 67. Yu, “Song Lyrics,” 83–84 . 68. See Yan'an zhinan xiansheng, Changlun , in Yang C., Yangchun baixue , 1b–2a . For an annotated version that elucidates many...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 56–90.
Published: 01 April 2017
... Press 2017 space enclosure interior artifactual typological repertoire ci shi Traditional critics of Chinese poetry often define the ci (song lyric) in terms of its complementary relation to shi poetry. Thus, their characterizations of the generic qualities of ci poetry were...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 65–89.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Shijie 姜實節 (1647–1709) were recorded in contemporary literary collections such as Xu Qiu's 徐釚 (1636–1708) Ciyuan congtan 詞苑叢談 (Miscellaneous Chats on the Garden of Song Lyrics) 10 and Gu Mei's 顧湄 (1633–after 1691) Huqiu shan zhi 虎丘山志 (Gazetteer of the Huqiu Mountain). 11 Jiang Shijie...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 105–130.
Published: 01 April 2022
... commonly women wrote poetry in the major poetic genres of shi 詩 (poetry) and ci 詞 (song lyrics). They also wrote tanci 彈詞 fiction, variously translated as plucking rhymes, prosimetric narrative, or verse novel. See Idema and Grant, Red Brush , chap. 15, “Plucking Rhymes.” The first prose fiction...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 236–238.
Published: 01 April 2021
... University in 2009. His research spans topics ranging from ci (song lyrics) of the Song dynasty to the various genres of late imperial literature. He is interested in ci (song lyrics) and sanqu (songs); scholar-official literature; literary transition during the Song, Yuan, and Ming periods; and local...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 573–576.
Published: 01 November 2015
... in the song lyrics of Su Shi (1037–1101) and their reception in the early Southern Song. Recently, he has begun work on a cultural history of the city of Hangzhou during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a period of massive population displacement from the North to the South, examining the city through...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Patricia Sieber Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Arguably, sanqu 散曲 songs may be the most misunderstood lyrical genre in the Chinese literary corpus...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 203–235.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., Zhongyuan yinyun , 224–30 ; for the latter, see Zhu, Taihe zhengyin pu jian ping , 107–19. While the tune “The Joy of ‘A Myriad Years’” had existed in the ci song lyric repertoire, the designation of a mode and the grouping as a qu in the Da Ming jili suggest that this melodic model had been...
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