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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 209–215.
Published: 01 November 2017
... vernacular literature. In some of them, the lovers, Shijie and Honglian, are both reincarnated, as Su Shi and another beautiful woman, and meet again in their later lives. This article may not be a contribution to Su Shi biographical scholarship, but it is something arguably as important and perhaps...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 294–296.
Published: 01 April 2023
... 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 from Yale University in 2015. Her current research focuses on the intersection of ethnicity...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): iii–vi.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., prose, drama, and vernacular literature, as well as broader aspects of literary culture. It will also publish works that study the shaping influence of traditional literature and culture on modern and contemporary China. The journal aims to be interdisciplinary in methodology by situating literary...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 248–278.
Published: 01 November 2017
... (Wujie Chanshi 五戒禪師), whose image has become the most widespread version of Su Shi's past life. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Su Shi reincarnation Wuzu Shijie Huihong Song biji (miscellanies) vernacular literature Literati of the Song 宋 Dynasty (960–1279) were fond...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 341–370.
Published: 01 November 2021
... unique role in the remediation of different linguistic practices within the broader corpus of late imperial vernacular literature. Following a brief introduction to the place of character manipulation within the fictional world of Jin Ping Mei , this essay addresses two issues: first, the interplay...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 175–202.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., 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 work on Chinese philosophy, who also produced...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 312–334.
Published: 01 November 2016
... 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 a painting of the self” ( ziti xiaoxiang 自題...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and source of instruction” in the West, 85 it was evidently a different story in China. Traditional Chinese xiaoshuo had been saturated with religious elements from the beginning: there was never a clear boundary between literature and religion. Furthermore, as shown above, vernacular fiction...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 235–267.
Published: 01 November 2020
...) classical exegesis, his writings in or about vernacular literature, and his interventions in the political and social debates of the last decades of the dynasty. 21 He was also a master of parallel prose and a passably good poet, and his biographies, commemorative accounts, funerary inscriptions...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 119–147.
Published: 01 April 2018
... with highly distinctive 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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 335–356.
Published: 01 November 2016
... conviction was redressed in 1979, and he died in Beijing in 1986. Nie Gannu admitted that he used to be a firm supporter of the May Fourth culture represented by modern vernacular literature. As such, he despised old-style poems produced by modern authors. However, the difficult years under the heavy...
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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 (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
... cultural modernization arose from literature reform, of which language reform came as a paramount goal. For the reformers, classical Chinese was deemed obsolete and therefore should make way for the vernacular language, a more lively and democratic communication tool. This language reform had two goals...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2023
... 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 the “traditional” talented women really disappear abruptly...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 225–255.
Published: 01 April 2022
... alternative in an influential article by Shang, “Writing and Speech.” In order to bring out the literary richness and diversity of the vernacular or plain Chinese more clearly, Sieber proposed mixed-register literature as yet another way to describe this written form. See Sieber, “Flavor All Its...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 379–402.
Published: 01 November 2023
... popular literature. Dramatic representations fuse the classical lyric and vernacular narrative, alternating smoothly between poetic language and melodramatic narration to portray lovesickness. Thus, in The Western Chamber , Crimson sings about the lovesick couple, Student Zhang and Cui Yingying...
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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 (2017) 4 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 April 2017
... in the 1920s. Hu Shih has long been recognized as responsible for the transformation of the study of Chan history into a modern discipline. Hu's interest in Chan seems to have arisen in response to two other interests. Hu was a scholar of vernacular literature, and the Chan yulu 語錄 (recorded sayings...
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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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