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... commentary and illustrations; at the same time, its fantastical content poses special challenges to translators. Topics of particular concern in this review are the use of paratextual elements, excerpting, and titles to reshape and present the text, and the ways in which various translators have used...

... not just as a way of showing off their literary talents but as ways of engaging in profound reflections on a range of important topics, including the interconnectedness of things in the world, the relationships between things and people, and the roles things were supposed to play in the successful...

... the tetrasyllabic Book of Poetry employs topic-comment sentences, in combination with simple subject-predicate syntax (one verb in a line), to convey rich content and vivid emotions with minimal word usage. By contrast, the pentasyllabic “Nineteen Old Poems” leverages a flexible line-by-line variation of complex...

...Qian Zhixi; Casey Schoenberger Abstract The relationship between music and Tang poetry is a topic of ongoing interest, usually approached from the perspective of individual genres. This article considers the relationships of three major genres of Tang poetry to music, morality, and one another...

... wore the mantle of the entire classical tradition, Nie Gannu expresses the deepest despair through deceptively humorous rustic topics, and Wang Xindi's grief over separation and loss recall Du Fu's poetry of the An Lushan Rebellion. Although the thirty years between the establishment of the People's...

... Chinese poetry, they can show some of the paradigmatic groups of images and their distribution between concepts of happiness and sadness, loneliness and companionship. Finally, topical grouping of poems on things is discussed and explored with the help of fingerprints to look for formal principles behind...

...Xingpei Yuan Abstract This article takes up the topic of shiyi hua 詩意畫 (lyrical pictures) and introduces notable examples of the genre produced by ink painters and woodblock-print artists from the Ming era. It explores the links between the poetic text and its related image and argues that lyrical...

... in front of us a game changer. Cai's innovative investigation of the topic + comment structure also provides him a new angle to examine the function played by its spatiotemporal-logical counterpart, the subject + predicate structure. He points out that, in the first place, a subject + predicate...

... brand is the laying bare—in plain analytical language—of the mechanism of Chinese poetics, long grudgingly guarded as some ineffable ( zhike yihui buke yanchuan 只可意會不可言傳) secret. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 close reading topic + comment construction...

... of the complementary topic+comment structure, an analogical-associational framework for word organization. Application of this reconstructed Chinese syntax will enable us to pursue the second inquiry: how a particular arrangement of words can yield an aesthetic experience. Poetic vision arises from an intense...

... literature and culture as we now think of it. Yet the three articles on Su Shi are not ordinary contributions to the vast field of Su Shi studies. They may also be thought of in a different way. To begin with, none of them addresses the most obvious topics in that field, which are Su Shi's literary works...

... influentially, for its praise of Han Yu and guwen ideals, a view that gained traction among Song literati from the mid-eleventh century onward; second, and less well understood, for its topical and generic diversity, which was unprecedented among surviving anthologies of Tang literature; and finally, for its...

..., as involutionary parallelism ; it has a significance to the history of Chinese prose in the Ming and Qing that is akin to the introduction of counterpoint in Western music. 12 Here I would like to give an example from an essay by Zhu Xie 諸燮 (1535 jinshi ). 13 This essay, written on the topic “Ordinary...

... of an author's conception of a given topic, extratextual patterning has infinite variety and admits no fixed subdivision. As we will see, extratextual patterning is most frequently used in narrative writing, especially historical and biographical texts, in various different periods. In contrast, textual...

... to landscape painting, in turn are divided into sixteen parts on different topics. The first chapter is divided into the following sections: painting schools, the use of the brush and ink, composition and the origin of the methods, the issue of uniformity and adequacy, and finally the transmission...

... of multidisciplinary topics on the relationship between poetry and history in medieval Chinese literature. The essays in this volume examine the vibrant and diverse relationship between poetry and history carefully and clearly, such as how the lore of historical figures and events is circulated among various...

..., and Bronze Bird Terrace. After the discussion of the poetic depiction and reception of the city of Ye and Bronze Bird Terrace, chapter 5, “Restoring the Broken Halberd,” focuses on the poetic and narrative reception of Red Cliff, another popular Three Kingdoms topic. Works of art from later historical...

... retribution by disgruntled local tutelary spirits to resentment among local officials toward his refusal to pay bribes. Two of the three topics' passages Yu took from Mencius were alleged by Cao to encourage “rebellion” ( fan 反 ) and “insubordination” ( wujun 無君), respectively, and although the emperor...

... the same publication venue. However, if they contribute to a special themed issue, they will have significant, substantive interaction with their Chinese counterparts through symposia and workshops on topics of common interest. Consequently, we hope special themed issues will play a pivotal role...

... a range of genres, including song lyrics, shi poetry, local gazetteers, strange tales, and maps, as well as painting. He has published articles on the above topics in Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, and Reviews and Frontiers of Literary Studies in China . JONATHAN SMITH is assistant...