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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 47–78.
Published: 01 April 2022
... 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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 545–572.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and semantic rhythms, I shall now examine the interrelatedness between rhythm and syntax, focused on the Shijing ( Book of Poetry ) and Chuci 楚辭 ( Songs of Chu ) First, a few words about the two basic syntactic constructions in Chinese: subject+predicate and topic+comment. In daily language as well...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 235–264.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of the States.” Acknowledging their evocative power, traditional Chinese critics called such topic-comment constructions xing 興 or bixing 比興, translated as “associational mode” and “analogical-associational mode,” respectively. 12 The layered use of xing or bixing creates abundant gaps and leaps...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 380–418.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Kao's research a step further. Based on Yuen Ren Chao's theory on the topic-comment structure, he develops Kao's syntactic structure into two basic syntactic constructions: subject+predicate and topic+comment. The former is organized according to the spatiotemporal-logical principle, and the latter...
View articletitled, Formation of the Tonal Pattern and Prosodic Transformation of the Pentasyllabic Line in the Datong Reign (535–46) of the Liang
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (2): 401–407.
Published: 01 November 2024
...-jing , turns out to be productive. The analogical-associational framework invites poetic imagination. Cai is not the first one to discover the rich potential of the topic + comment structure, but he is the first one to apply the principle of this originally syntactic construction to a holistic...
View articletitled, 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)
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for article titled, 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)
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 411–469.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., the collection conducts jiaokan 校勘 (collation), biannian 編年 (chronological compilation), zhushi 注釋 (annotation), huiping 滙評 (comment collection), and beikao 備考 (remarks on evidential studies) for all surviving poems and essays by Du Fu. The working edition is Song ben Du Gongbu ji 宋本杜工部集 (Song...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 339–381.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Zong-qi Cai Abstract This article opens with a reflection on the extrinsic and intrinsic causes of the neglect of Chinese prose in sinological literary studies, followed by the construction of a patterning-based scheme for codifying Chinese prose forms. An in-depth analysis of eight famous texts...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 256–272.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., at a moment when the genre had suddenly become the focus of critical attention; more often than not, it had a pejorative sense. 10 But although many essays did not have eight legs, and some were not even constructed in parallel form, this name for the essay does serve as a useful indicator of how important...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 306–335.
Published: 01 November 2017
... prominently in some of the largest prose categories—the lun 論 (discussions), the xu 序 (prefaces, thirty-nine of which are prefaces for individuals' collected works), and letters. The letters category in particular contains a wide range of comments on literary writing across different topical groups...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 313–338.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and heard” 流連萬象之際，沉吟視聽之區; “when the eyes have roamed over them, the mind expresses them” 目既往還，心亦吐納. 15 Liu Xie also commented on the writer's skill in describing the myriad things in the natural landscape: “They look to the circumstantial quality in scene and atmosphere; they carve out appearances...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 November 2015
... in turn delimit the range of possible syntactic constructions in a given genre; and how, yet in turn, the subject + predicate and topic+comment syntax provides the basic frameworks for stanzaic and compositional organization, giving birth to three archetypal structures of Chinese poetry. While some...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 179–185.
Published: 01 November 2018
... editors of this special issue, we express our gratitude to the anonymous readers for every article in this issue, who have provided constructive and detailed suggestions and comments. We also thank Xiaohui Zhang for providing editorial assistance for this special issue. Finally, we would like to thank...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 214–249.
Published: 01 November 2018
... the networks of textual relationships created through annotation, this study reveals the importance of otherwise marginalized texts in the construction of historiographic knowledge and sheds new light on how scholars of the early medieval period made use of, and made sense of, the increasingly vast sea of text...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 95–118.
Published: 01 April 2018
.... Owen, Cambridge History of Chinese Literature , 286–380 . I would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on an earlier version of the article. Their careful reading and constructive suggestions for revision much improved my argument and my prose. All the remaining...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 105–130.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., and, on the other, the deployment of transdisciplinary theories and concepts in critical analysis and de/constructive re/reading of gendered language and texts. 22 When sustained research took off on women writers in pre-twentieth century China, feminist critical theories and approaches were already...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 287–312.
Published: 01 November 2020
... wenxue yanjiu,” 193 . The author expresses his thanks to the two anonymous reviewers whose helpful comments were invaluable in making improvements to the arguments of the manuscript. The author also expresses his gratitude to Professor Dai Yan 戴燕 for her support in the research of this topic. All...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 438–460.
Published: 01 November 2023
... not believe Su Wu could survive by eating banners, and then he joins the debate on whether Su Wu ate the mouse or the food stored by the mouse (earlier commentators left different opinions thanks to the relatively ambiguous expression in the original biography). Finally, the emperor makes a judgment based...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 359–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... People have multiple identities, and the sense of the self, a collection of identities, is produced both objectively and subjectively. Identities—religious, ethnic, political, social, cultural, intellectual—are socially constructed and produced. The fashioning of identities, public and private...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 419–443.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., such was the origin of his compilation of Qieyun . His account brings two points to our attention: one, shengyun 聲韻 (tones and rhymes) was a conversation topic among the elite men of the day; two, the Qieyun project was spontaneously conceived at a private gathering. Clearly, unlike Tang yun or the later...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 30–56.
Published: 01 April 2023
... in Shaoxing are [like those in a] garden, it is unnecessary to build other gardens. As all gardens in Shaoxing present the beauty of natural lakes and mountains, it is unnecessary to name them. 越中之水無非山，越中之山無非水。越中之山水無非園，不必別為園。越中之園無非佳山水，不必別為名。 24 The construction project began in the winter of 1635...
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