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...I-Hsien Wu Abstract In chapter 1 of The Story of the Stone , the internal narrator notably censures erotic fiction and draws a line between his own narrative and the filthy obscenities. Yet the novel does the exact opposite. In the Stone , eroticism is not only part of a physiological act...

...Shang Wei Abstract This paper seeks to interpret The Story of the Stone with reference to the visual culture of the Manchu court. It argues that the Yongzheng reign (1723–1735) inaugurated a new era of visual culture when jia (the unreal or fiction) became itself a productive concept...

...Mary Scott I-Hsien Wu . Eroticism and Other Literary Conventions in Chinese Literature: Intertextuality in “The Story of the Stone.” Amherst, NY : Cambria Press , 2017 . 214 pp. ISBN 978160979770 (hardcover). Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 I-Hsien Wu's book...

...Qiang (Jason) Li 3. Copy text refers to the original Chinese version of the Dream published by the People's Literature Publishing House in 1964. 4. Fan, “Lost Translator's Copy.” References Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹 . The Story of the Stone , edited and collated by Shengyu Fan...

...Ann Waltner References Cao Xueqin . The Story of the Stone , vol. 2 , The Crab-Flower Club , translated by David Hawkes . London : Penguin Classics , 1977 . Zhou, Kexi , and Sun Wen . Dream of Red Mansions: As Portrayed through the Brush of Sun Wen . Shanghai...

... reproductions of Su Shi's calligraphy contain the Two Rhapsodies Scroll, and there are also specialized studies of it, treatments of it are incomplete and inadequate. In addition, from stone engravings, calligraphy models, and historical sources, we know that before the two rhapsodies were combined in a single...

... as represented by the versions carved in stone during the Kaicheng reign period (836–841). The essay further argues that such florilegia as Xinji wenci jiujing chao were likely widely used, implying that many readers in the period may have had a different conception of the contents of the classics from what we...

.... They composed poetry and verses in response, using the site of Sung Wong Toi to evoke the legacy of the Southern Song 南宋 (1127–1279) and its spirit of poetic expression. Ceremonial protocol at this gathering was carefully observed. Sung Wong Toi was a giant stone located in the foothills near Guanfuchang 官富場...

... for a clearer understanding of the origin and transmission of the text and thereby provides a framework for comparing variants. Excavated texts, carved stone texts, and chao ben 鈔本 (handwritten copies) should all be consulted to explore fully every interpretive possibility of a given character, passage...

...Figure 2. Tomb inscription of Lü Daya, with capstone. Stone. Northern Song. 71 × 71 × 9 cm. Excavated from Tomb M1. Collection of the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology. ...

... Stone was traveling to Qi when he passed through a place called “Crooked Shaft” [Qu Yuan]; there, he spotted an oak standing on the altar of the soil. Its canopy was so broad that it could have shaded several thousand oxen, its circumference measured a hundred yards; it was so tall that its first...

...Shang Wei Through close reading of Grannie Liu's tour through the Grand Prospect Garden and Jia Baoyu's encounter with his mirrored reflection, Shang demonstrates how The Story of the Stone sets in motion the illusionistic paintings of the time by describing the viewers' reactions to them...

... 40, Tang Ao arrives at Little Penglai island and disappears soon afterward. He has apparently become an immortal, leaving only this short poem inscribed on a stone tablet: For many years I drifted with the tide, 逐浪隨波幾度秋， 2 To the torrents I luckily was not consigned. 此身幸未付東流。 Today I...

... who Monkey is divides into describing him in terms of (1) the categories of being the book lays out in its panorama of characters, that is, all the gods, immortals, humans, and demons, not to mention animals, insects, plants, and even objects such as the stone that gives birth to Monkey; and (2...