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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Mengjun Li Abstract The early Qing (1644–1911) midlength vernacular novel Guilian meng 歸蓮夢 (Returning to the Lotus Dream, hereafter Lotus Dream ), attributed to Su'an zhuren 蘇庵主人 (Master of Su'an, hereafter Su'an), features a triple hybrid narrative: a hagiographic account of the female...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 12–30.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and 1960s, which culminated in his 1969 article “Gendai sankyoku no kenkyū” (A Study of the Sanqu Songs of the Yuan Period). In this long and highly original article, Tanaka first traced the origin of sanqu back to the tradition of vernacular ci of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that resulted...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 248–278.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of Wuzu Shijie's dharma mind and the successor to the orthodox Yunmen lineage. This article also shows that when the story of Su Shi's past life was introduced into dramas and novels in vernacular society and incorporated with the Honglian stories, Wuzu Shijie was misrepresented as Chan master Wujie...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 458–465.
Published: 01 November 2022
... similar problems when they were confronted by the weight of the long-established Chinese textual tradition, for they were all latecomers vis-a-vis China” (2). Within the ambitious scope of his book, Kornicki focuses sharply on the vernacular handling of Sinitic. Kornicki's characterization of the overall...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 119–147.
Published: 01 April 2018
... personalities. The selected novels are all landmark works of Chinese martial arts literature: Shuihu , one of China's earliest vernacular novels, was published in the sixteenth century, while Sanxia and Ernü both date to the nineteenth. Although martial arts fiction enjoys a long tradition in Chinese...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 209–215.
Published: 01 November 2017
... that are usually kept separate (e.g., Su Shi's biography, Buddhist lineage rivalries, and late imperial vernacular literature), or explore normative virtues (e.g., filial piety) not as part of a philosophical system but as grappled with in lived experience. Collectively, the articles suggest the range of new...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 249–250.
Published: 01 April 2015
.... SHANG WEI is Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture at Columbia University. A Specialist in early-modern Chinese fiction and culture history, he is the author of Rulin waishi and Cultural Transformation in Late Imperial China (2003) and “Writing and Speech: Rethinking the Issue of Vernaculars in Early...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2023
...) but also nü zuojia 女作家 (women writers), who wrote in the vernacular language in “modern” genres. As a result, our previous studies of Ming-Qing women's literature have tended to stop at the late Qing period, giving way to those on the New Women authors with modern outlooks. However, questions remain: Did...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2021
...) and Zheng Zhenduo 鄭振鐸 (1898–1958), preoccupied with breaking free from the yoke of foreign imperialism and with creating a literary genealogy for the modern vernacular, defined sanqu as a Yuan dynasty genre, the rich corpus of Ming sanqu notwithstanding. 5 Whatever limitations such pioneering...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 203–214.
Published: 01 November 2016
... that highlights vernacular articulation, Western-style genres, a progressive agenda predicated on revolution and enlightenment, and an “order to mimesis” in the name of realism. Above all, “modern” is invoked to celebrate whatever is deemed iconoclastic and “new.” By way of contrast, classical-style poetry...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 312–334.
Published: 01 November 2016
... exploited already) but with the relation of self to image, as well as the very act of inscription. Both claimed as “fathers” of modern Chinese vernacular literature, Lu Xun and Hu Shi wrote poems with references to the new medium of photography, bringing China's unique literary genre of “writing about...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 341–370.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Civilization.” 18. For a consideration of the “rhetoric of hiddenness” in short vernacular fiction, see Volpp, “Vernacular Story and the Hiddenness of Value.” 19. For an introduction to Zhang Zhupo's commentary, see Rolston, Traditional Chinese Fiction and Fiction Commentary , 63–73, 196–251...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
... “vernacular,” “plain Chinese,” or “mixed-register” writing. 37 For example, the heroine's tutor, Chen Zuiliang 陳最良, not only embodies the stock figure of a pedant, but his mindless use of citations from the classic amounts to a “theatrical and thus inauthentic” speech mode that indexes how men of learning...
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Nobody's Genre, Everybody's Song: Sanqu Songs and the Expansion of the Literary Sphere in Yuan China
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 29–64.
Published: 01 November 2014
...—identified by Song and Yuan historians, but these negotiations play out in the emergent realm of vernacular belles lettres rather than within office holding, examination studies, academy building, or formal literary societies. 13 In order to contextualize these divergent mappings of the nascent...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 476–482.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., in expecting punishment or reward in the present life and after death (i.e. in the underworld and/or in successive reincarnations.” 2 This belief was present in every aspect of Chinese society and, of course, was also reflected in Chinese literature, particularly in vernacular fiction and drama...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 294–296.
Published: 01 April 2023
... : Men, Women, and Gender in China and Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. JESSICA DVORAK MOYER is associate professor of Chinese at Smith College and is the author of Woman Rules Within: Domestic Space and Genre in Qing Vernacular Literature (2020). She received her PhD in Chinese literature...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 383–411.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of positive literary portrayals of merchants circulating in the late Ming and early Qing. While the character Tao Fuzhu has no antecedent in the source material, the narrative centering of a morally exemplary merchant has precedent in the larger huaben 話本 (vernacular short stories) tradition from which...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 175–202.
Published: 01 April 2016
... in the West. But by the beginning of the twentieth century, European sinology had completed its philological turn, and few academic sinologists continued to work on the vernacular literature of late imperial China. 10 An important exception was German scholar Alfred Forke (1867–1944), best known for his...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 481–514.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of the time. Because regular spoken language is that of prose, modification produced a natural narrative rhythm directly and with minimal effort. For this reason, Xie Zhen's words of praise for Han-Wei poetry are instructive: “like a scholar speaking in the hometown vernacular to his acquaintances” 若秀才對朋友說家常話...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 236–238.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to urban culture of China. WILT L. IDEMA obtained his doctorate from Leiden University, where he also taught from 1970 to 1999. From 2000 to 2013 he was professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University. His research has mostly focused on the vernacular and popular traditions since the end...
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