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Some “Han” Fu on Things

Luke Waring

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 265–291.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-11410386

Published: 01 November 2024

...Luke Waring Abstract Though poets had always been preoccupied by things, according to literary tradition it was only from the Han onward that yongwu fu 詠物賦 (literally, “ fu celebrating things”) were written in large numbers. These poems have been largely neglected or dismissed, however, while...

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Nostalgic Fragments in the Thick of Things: Yuan Kewen (1890–1931) and the Act of Remembering

Shengqing Wu

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 239–271.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-7497297

Published: 01 April 2019

... this channeling of past lived experience. Yuan's theatrical performance and relationship with both Zhang Boju and his audience, as he led it to relive his own memories of the past, also affirm the embodiment of memory in places and things. Finally, the mediation of memory through objects, events, and places...

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Return of the noise-thing.

in What Noise Does a Psychotic Door Listen To? Information, Intermediality, and Guo Baochang's Peking Opera Film Dream of the Bridal Chamber > Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture

Published: 01 April 2024

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The noise-thing all over the bodies.

in What Noise Does a Psychotic Door Listen To? Information, Intermediality, and Guo Baochang's Peking Opera Film Dream of the Bridal Chamber > Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture

Published: 01 April 2024

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The Crying Statue in Early Qing Drama

Thomas Kelly

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 115–147.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-11118514

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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Describing Objects in Tang Dynasty Poetic Language: A Study Based on Word Embeddings

Mariana Zorkina

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 250–275.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-7256989

Published: 01 November 2018

...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...

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The Elusiveness of Commonality: Late Twentieth-Century Sinology and the Search for a Shared Lyric Language

Paula Varsano

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 8–46.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9681137

Published: 01 April 2022

... interest in Chinese poetry. From the 1960s to the 1980s, the stakes seemed high as scholars confronted their passionate disagreements about things as fundamental as the proper subject of study and the most fruitful methodology. Is China a coherent and self-sufficient subject of study? Can it be rightly...

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Voices from the Other Side: Exploring Nonhuman Agents and Their Narrative Function in the Zhuangzi

Romain Graziani

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 22–47.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-11118538

Published: 01 April 2024

..., dream and wakefulness, and humans and nonhumans. A heretofore silent and passive community of living beings raises its voice and is able to challenge the well-established discourse proclaiming human sovereignty over the natural world. These voices and the themes they raise serve, among other things...

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Cauldron, Copper, Cash: Medieval Bronze in Motion and Flux

Jeffrey Moser

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 91–114.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-11118490

Published: 01 April 2024

...Jeffrey Moser Abstract Medieval Chinese thinkers conceptualized ancient bronzes in anthropocentric terms—as mute, inert objects that required the engagement of a perspicacious human subject for their value to become apparent. They also regarded bronzes as animate things that had the capacity to act...

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Playing against Type: The Moral Merchant on the Early Qing Stage

Ariel Fox

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 383–411.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8041977

Published: 01 November 2019

...Ariel Fox Abstract This article explores the changing depiction of the merchant and the mercantile in the early Qing. A figure of much anxiety and mistrust in the late imperial imagination, the traveling merchant moves things out of their proper place—through both his movement of goods across space...

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Just Listening: An Introduction

Paula Varsano

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 1–21.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-11118522

Published: 01 April 2024

... by these depictions? What can we learn from examining Chinese cultural artifacts through this lens? This special issue offers a selection of papers presented at that symposium, titled “Hearing Things: Voices of the Nonhuman in Chinese Literary and Visual Culture.” The decision to build the title around voices...

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The Emotive Object in Medieval China

Jeffrey Moser

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 56–95.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-7496833

Published: 01 April 2019

... those states were structured through embodied engagement with material things. As I show here, these engagements were locally delimited in the practices of a particular clan, practices that, in many respects, differentiated this clan from other, contemporaneous families. But through that process...

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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”

Zong-Qi Cai, Stephen Roddy

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 297–335.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-10767961

Published: 01 November 2023

... encompasses the Dao to respond to things,” Jindai mishu (6.208) and Siku yishu congshu (329) use the characters 暎 or 映; the Wang text, as well as Sun, Peiwenzhai shuhuapu lunhua wu (15.4–5), writes it as the homophonous 應 . 10. Sengyou, Hongmingji , 6.41 . 9. Yu, Zhou, and Yu...

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Guo Xi on Painting the Invisible Gaze of the Dao

David Chai

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 287–306.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9299645

Published: 01 November 2021

... correlation for qing would be this line from chapter 44: “Between fame and life, which is dearer? 名與身孰親.” Regarding the hubbub 塵囂 of the world, the character xiao 囂 is absent from the Daodejing , but chen 塵 does appear (see chapters 4 and 56) and is used in the phrase: “merge with the dust [of things...

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Contributors

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 232–233.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-11127392

Published: 01 April 2024

... social, religious, visual conventions in the arts of middle-period China. THOMAS KELLY is assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His first book, The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China (2023...

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Toward an Innovative Poetics: Wang Changling on Yi 意 And Literary Creation

Zong-qi Cai

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 180–207.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-3780764

Published: 01 April 2017

.... The all-embracing denotation of “inscape” (in relation to “landscape”) nicely captures Wang's idea of a total mirroring of the outer world. For him, what emerges from transcendental contemplation is not a stream of specific images (as conceived by Lu Ji and Liu Xie) but a vision or inscape of all things...

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Decentering Sinas : Poststructuralism and Sinology

Lucas Klein

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 79–104.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9681163

Published: 01 April 2022

... characters are not as independent of pronunciation as Saussure presents. But the accuracy of China as represented does not always matter to the poststructuralists. Michel Foucault, for instance, begins his Order of Things ( Les mots et les choses , 1966) with China as imagined—if not mocked—by Argentinian...

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Yufa yu shijing—hanshi yishu zhi poxi 語法与詩境—漢詩藝術之破析 (Grammar and Poetic Vision: Deciphering the Art of Classical Chinese Poetry)

Xinda Lian

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 401–407.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-11423529

Published: 01 November 2024

... : New Directions , 1947 . Fish, Stanley . “ What Is Stylistics and Why Are They Saying Such Terrible Things about It?—Part II. ” Boundary 2 8 , no. 1 ( 1979 ): 129 – 46 . Jakobson, Roman . “ Linguistics and Poetics. ” In Style in Language , edited by Thomas A. Sebeok , 350 – 449...

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Like Not Like: Writing Portraits in The Peony Pavilion

Anne Burkus-Chasson

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 134–172.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-2887577

Published: 01 April 2015

... is fundamentally different. The relation is not based on resemblance. Within the pictorial field, representational elements intermingle with nonrepresentational elements. Things that can be named and described are juxtaposed with colored shapes that cannot be readily interpreted. Pictorial conventions enable...

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