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The Richness of Ambiguity: A Mencian Statement and Interpretive Theory and Practice in Premodern China
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 262–288.
Published: 01 November 2014
... discovers two distinctive thrusts of these approaches and sheds light on the underlying dynamic unity of the Chinese interpretive tradition. 7. Waley, Book of Songs , 299 . Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Chinese interpretive theory Mencius on interpretation “The Mao...
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Feminist Theories and Women Writers of Late Imperial China: Impact and Critique
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 105–130.
Published: 01 April 2022
...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...
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Theories of Spatiality and the Study of Medieval China
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 195–224.
Published: 01 April 2022
... 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...
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On the Origin of Chinese Tonal Prosody: Argumentation from a Case Study of Shen Yue's Poems
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 347–379.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Hongming Zhang Abstract Shen Yue 沈約 (441–513) is widely believed to have created the poetic metrical theory of si sheng ba bing 四聲八病 (four tones and eight defects) and divided the four tones into ping 平 (level tone) and ze 仄 (oblique tone) categories, thus forming the binary contrast prosodic...
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Chinese Literary Thought in Modern Times: Shi , Xing , and Shishi
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 258–288.
Published: 01 November 2016
... literary and cultural studies, with Western theory taking precedence over Chinese subjects (and subjectivities). But one cannot help noting that some of the most critical voices are themselves empowered by, or even sustaining, the Western canon they set out to subvert. Overcoming such a dilemma does...
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Cultural Memory and the Epic in Early Chinese Literature: The Case of Qu Yuan 屈原 and the Lisao 離騷
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 131–169.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Martin Kern Abstract The present essay combines the theory of Cultural Memory with ideas about textual repertoires, composite text, and distributed authorship that in recent years have been advanced in studies of early and medieval Chinese literature. In its first part, the essay introduces...
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Toward an Innovative Poetics: Wang Changling on Yi 意 And Literary Creation
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 180–207.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Zong-qi Cai Abstract This article reveals the coherent theory of literary creation hidden within the multivalence of the term yi in Wang Changling's (ca. 698–ca. 756) writings on poetry. A close and intertextual reading demonstrates how Wang deftly appropriates various Daoist and Daoist-inspired...
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The Philosophical Proposition “A Piercing Glance Elevates the Mind” and the Buddhist Thought in Zong Bing's “Preface to the Painting of Landscape”
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 297–335.
Published: 01 November 2023
... consistently Buddhist theory of painting served as a firm foundation over which the Tang poet Wang Changling (698–757) built his Buddhist theory of the world of physical objects ( wujing shuo ). 24. Ibid., 196. 25. Chen, Hua shanshui xu dianjiao zhuyi , 164–80 . 26. Jindai mishu...
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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
...Li Wei Abstract This study leverages trauma theory to examine Xuan Ding's 宣鼎 (1832–1880) Yeyu qiudeng lu 夜雨秋燈錄 (Recorded on Rainy Nights by Autumn Lamp), a collection of classical tales published in the aftermath of the Taiping Civil War (1850–1864). The analysis here delves into the concept...
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The Life of a Text: A Brief History of the Liji 禮記 (Rites Records) and Its Transmission
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 289–308.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Yucai Liu; Luke Habberstad Abstract This article surveys the compilation and transmission of the Liji (Rites Records), one of the San li 三禮 (Three Rites texts) and a key source for classical ritual practice and theory. Drawing upon accounts in early texts and the latest secondary scholarship...
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Yuan Mei's Suiyuan Shihua and the Transformation of Qing Dynasty Shihua Writing
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 90–124.
Published: 01 November 2014
...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...
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Identities and Literary Culture in Qing China: Manchu Emperors as Chinese Poets, Readers, and Publishers
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 359–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
... not restrain himself from writing poetry in Chinese. In light of the theory of multiple identities and acculturation of John Berry, it is reasonable to argue that Qianlong, despite his unambiguous identification with the Manchus as the conquering ethnic group, in tortuous ways had come to embrace the identity...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2016
... in his attributive essay “Lun wenyi” 論文意 [On Writing]), this article performs a close reading of the perceptual cues featured in the five heptasyllabic quatrains, “Autumn in the Palace of Everlasting Faith” 長信秋詞. Borrowing the term focalization from recent theories of visual narrativity (most notably...
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Su Shi Renders No Emotion
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 15–55.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Peter C. Sturman Abstract A complex triangular relationship of ideas, naturalness, and emotion is distinctly evident in the artistic practice and theory of Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037–1101), the leading figure exploring ways to expand the expressive capabilities of the graphic arts in the late Northern Song...
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Guo Xi on Painting the Invisible Gaze of the Dao
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 287–306.
Published: 01 November 2021
...David Chai Abstract For the Song dynasty painter and theorist Guo Xi, Daoism runs like veins through his Lofty Appeal of Forests and Streams , helping it become one of the greatest works of landscape painting theory in China. This essay explores the influence Laozi and Zhuangzi had on Guo Xi's...
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In Search of Pure Sound: Sanqu Songs, Genre Aesthetics, and Translation Tactics
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 163–202.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to the theory and practice of the literary translation of Chinese poetic forms. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 pronouns rhyme language registers punctuation allusion citational practice Compared to other forms of Chinese verse, the translation of sanqu 散曲 songs into European...
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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
..., an extended description not of Chinese poetry but of “the Chinese language as a medium of poetic expression, as compared with English .” 9 For all of his confidence in the benefits and feasibility of an eventual umbrella theory of poetic expression under which all of Chinese poetic writing too might...
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Decentering Sinas : Poststructuralism and Sinology
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., to argue that the most successful poststructural decentering occurs in sinology when sinologists disseminate their decentering through a dissipated poststructuralism. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 poststructuralism sinology literary theory French...
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Introduction
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2022
... is far from absolute—all of the articles engage to some degree in both of these exercises—we have organized the chapters into two sections to reflect their relative differences in emphasis. In aggregate, all nine authors both argue for and demonstrate the value of the application of theory to Chinese...
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Contributors
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 471–474.
Published: 01 November 2016
... at Yale University, is a scholar of classical Chinese literature with an interest in comparative studies of poetry, literary criticism, gender studies, and cultural theory/aesthetics. Born in Beijing, China, Chang attended schools in Taiwan before moving to the United States in 1968. In 1978 she earned...
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