... of banishment, and their treatment of the trope of exile and exilic experiences in poems and prose writings is worthy of serious study. This article is a study of the exilic writings of the especially important yet understudied poet Fang Xiaobiao (1618–?), who in the wake of the examination scandal of 1657...

... perspectives in order to account for the importance of space to humanity. Meanwhile, space/place has been a fairly prominent subject in the study of medieval China. This essay contrasts Western general and local theories and Sinological studies to show their divergent and overlapping concerns...

... of the scholar's study and the gauze drapes [of the women's quarters] were opened respectively. 偕吾友摭撏遺佚，商略甄收。蠟炬代吟，茶甌笑覆。家饒武庫，龍威之簡漆同探;室貯文宣，馬帳與幔紗分啟。 ( YTHS “xu” 1a) The convivial scene described here recalls poet Li Qingzhao's 李清照 (1084–ca. 1155) discussion of collecting artifacts and writings...

... is to understand why Shen Yue and the other Six dynasties poets failed to follow their own prosodic theory in their composition practices. The rise of regulated-style verse in the history of Chinese literature still remains something of a mystery. Through a case study of Shen Yue's poems, this essay aims to solve...

...Mariana Zorkina Abstract This article focuses on computational analysis of Tang dynasty “poems on things” ( yongwu shi 詠物詩) and some of the most common objects described in them. Modern technology offers many possibilities for new approaches to the study of poetic language, and this article...

..., and their contents represent a valuable resource for studying the formation of taste during this crucial moment in literary history. But how are we to compare the contents of such a large group of anthologies, when each individual anthology contains at least a few hundred individual selections? How might...

... the validity of these claims, this study adopted a quantitative approach to the analysis of tonal contrasts in three early pentasyllabic poem collections: the “Nineteen Ancient Poems,” pentasyllabic poems written by Cao Zhi 曹植 (192–232), and pentasyllabic poems written by Xie Lingyun 謝靈運 (385–433). Unlike any...

... 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...

...Liu Ning; Jue Chen Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 In the twenty-first century, Du Fu studies in mainland China have achieved fruitful accomplishments. Progress has been made in various aspects, including bibliographical studies, biographical studies (including Du Fu's...

...Grace S. Fong Abstract This article engages the ekphrastic mode—the literary representation of visual representation—to examine the female gaze instantiated in women's poetry on paintings of beautiful women in the Ming and Qing periods. Through four case studies, it shows how women poets...

... construction of Jian'an qizi was therefore established in the early medieval period (220–589). The Halberd at Red Cliff is a cultural study of the construction of the imaginary of Jian'an (196–220) and the Three Kingdoms (220–280). The book is divided into three major parts: “The Plague,” “The Bronze...

... and writing fu 賦 (rhapsody) while “rarely taking classical studies as their profession” 罕以經朮為業 and thus elevated the social status of belles lettres. 11. Ibid., 27.404–5. 14. Ibid., 40.569. 15. Ouyang, Yiwen leiju , 30.535 . 16. This term is first used in “Ming shi” 明詩 (An Exegesis...

... is that there was a profound degree of intertextuality between early medieval poetry and xuanxue . In the rest of this review, I will seek to discuss this book's contribution to early medieval Chinese literary and cultural studies chapter by chapter. The book begins with an umbrella chapter, “Reading and Writing in Early...

...) role in that culture in particular. Wang was a well-known statesman and poet who has been the subject of much scholarship in China and the West, so it is not easy to make a breakthrough in this well-studied area. However, Yang has demonstrated his superb understanding of Wang Anshi and poetic culture...

...Grace S. Fong Abstract Feminism , feminist theory , feminist literary theory were already highly contentious in what they represented to Euro-American critics and theorists in the 1980s, when scholars in Chinese literary studies began sustained research on women writers in late imperial China (ca...

...Paula Varsano Abstract As the study of what we now call “premodern” China gained traction among students in the postwar United States, the question of how it should be approached emerged as a divisive issue among interested scholars, perhaps nowhere as much as it did among those with a particular...

...Leonard Kwok Kou Chan Abstract Is “literary criticism” a foreign concept? What is the impact of the reception of literary criticism on the modern studies of Chinese literature? Zhu Ziqing's 朱自清 (1898–1948) conception of the function of literary criticism is illustrative of these questions. Zhu...

... perspective, as well as studies by Japanese scholars that attempt to restore collations of the text and studies that compare ancient handwritten copies from Japan with those from Dunhuang. The reliability of recent Japanese studies that have attempted to examine the features of the Huang Kan commentary...

...Yin Jiang Abstract Yuan Mei's literary achievements are multifaceted. As a master of poetry and poetic criticism, his influence was unmatched by anyone of his time. His poetic theory and criticism is undoubtedly worth studying, but the writing of the Suiyuan shihua itself is also worth noting. Up...