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... 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...

... home, as in Su Shi's 蘇軾 (1037–1101) “wherever my heart is at peace is my home.” The layered features of this diaspora-return ( lisan-huigui 離散—回歸) consciousness led to a unique literary style and the development of tropes that would shape Chinese writing for a millennium. Political banishment yielded...

... of this counterpublic enabled later writers to articulate perspectives that increasingly challenged notions of guixiu propriety. As Ying Zou commented, Chen Duansheng rewrote the trope of female cross-dressing in Zaisheng yuan to create a space of interiority in which to explore “the plight that the patriarchal...

... (Deserted Woman) reminds us of the “deserted wife,” one of the major tropes in premodern poetry. Both He Qifang 何其芳 (1912–77) and Bian Zhilin 卞之琳 (1910–2000) resort to the opulent and decadent imagery of late Tang poetry in their conjuration of the wasteland of China. Feng Zhi 馮至 (1905–93), the exemplary...

.... This article traces the evolution of Su's practice, focusing first on the close relationship with a cousin, the bamboo painter Wen Tong 文同 (1018–79). Examination of communication between the two men sets a historical framework through the decade of the 1070s leading to Su's first exile at Huangzhou...

... as a work of mourning, a drama that reads not simply as a celebration of transcendence but as an eloquent meditation on mortality. By reconstructing Hong's innovations in the handling of both the trope of a living image and tales surrounding Lady Yang's portrait, I suggest that the affective power...

... on the mind), the trope of xing 興 (affective evocation), and the dialogic of shishi 詩史 (poetry as history)—while speaking to issues that concern contemporary theory. Needless to say, given the scope of the article, my discussion will be preliminary, and my purpose lies in raising questions for further...

.... 23. See chaps. 7 and 8 (invasion of the brothel) and 22.157 (punishment). See also Wu, “Wanton Woman's Story.” 22. For this contrast, see Starr, Red-Light Novels of the Late Qing , 152 . 21. See 2.9 (Lu's sendoff of Yuan when Yuan was once exiled), 12.86–88 (discussion Wu, Yuan...

...Yan Liang Abstract This article explores the functions that food, as a narrative trope, has played in the characterization and storytelling of three prominent martial arts novels in late imperial China: Shuihu zhuan 水滸傳 (Water Margin), Sanxia wuyi 三俠五義 (Three Gallant Men and Five Loyal Brothers...

... literature in European languages, especially English, French, and German. Consistent with his general stance of openness, and aiming in this survey for ecumenical coverage, he then takes aim squarely at what he sees as the most counterproductive of all binaries, that which exiles the discipline of literary...

... onward, Mao Yuanyi focused on the critical moments in his career life, such as his being assigned to a crucial military post as well as being imprisoned and exiled due to the late Ming factional conflicts. These were linked to compiling, commenting on, and publishing Yang Wan's works, implying...

... makeshift studio but also as a trope for announcing the seasonal bloom. The pavilion's identification strengthens the painting's echoing of Qian Qianyi's poem: both announce the arrival of spring's floral resplendence. More importantly, the pavilion's central position in the landscape implies the presence...

... branch lyrics poems, including tendencies to diminish the folk-song mood and color to varying degrees and to prioritize the expression of individual feelings and thoughts through conventional literary tropes. 11 Both the enhanced literariness and the fossilization of the bamboo branch lyrics...

... with the phrase “distantly I imagine,” Xiang evokes the trope of “imagined travel” ( shenyou 神遊) used in the song lyrics of Su Shi and his early Southern Song followers to evoke recollections of admired figures from the past. 22 By contrast, Xiang thinks about his sick contemporary across the distance...

... (Canglang's Remarks on Poetry) by Yan Yu 嚴羽 (1191–1241?) was especially well received by later generations. Yan Yu regarded parting poems as especially provocative: “As for the best poems of the Tang, many are written when heading off to serve in border garrisons, being sent into exile, setting off...

... The anxiety over such disjunction notably resurfaces in later scenes where a character seeks additional evidence to corroborate another's self-claimed identity. The best illustration comes from the episode in act 3, scene 1 on the reunion of the hero's exiled father with Kinshōjo, Tei Shiryū’s daughter who...

... century. 33 One evidence of this interest is the poetry written by women after reading these novels, particularly Hongloumeng . 34 Young cultivated ladies could imagine themselves as fairy maidens exiled from paradise to a dirty world—the Red Dust—and Ling Zhiyuan is not alone in using this trope...

... are disproportionately well-represented among these crucial poets because of their itinerant lifestyles. The exiled ex-monk Jia Dao is also prominent in the late medieval literary network because of his status as the paragon of the increasingly popular kuyin aesthetic. This approach to literary history...

... on the subject of mei 梅 (plum blossoms) at the end of the first year of the Shaosheng reign (late 1094 or early 1095), after Su had arrived at Huizhou (Guangdong), site of his second exile. Su wrote the first poem for an unidentified recipient after witnessing the full blooming of the trees in the middle...