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What Do Jokes Reveal about Trust in Ming Work Relations?
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 367–396.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of an occupation and the client. The causes and expressions of the problem of trust in Ming work appear more clearly when we read the jokes within the framework provided by the sociology of occupations. The sociology of occupations centers on what the sociologist Everett C. Hughes dubbed the “social drama...
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Haunting, (In)Visibility, Filiality: Qiu Canzhi (1901–67) and Her Works of Mourning
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 205–238.
Published: 01 April 2019
... and wealth of cultural expressions, proved to be a productive resource to Canzhi as she set about forging a connection to her famous and absent mother. A major aspect of filiality for the literati class had always been the publication of a parent's work after his/her death. Canzhi's publication of Qiu...
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in Exploring Chinese Poetry with Digital Assistance: Examples from Linguistic, Literary, and Historical Viewpoints
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Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 13. Zipf curves for ancient poetic works ( SJ , CV , and HF ; see table 1 ) do not coincide with those of later poems. See table 1 for abbreviations.
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Yuan Mei's Suiyuan Shihua and the Transformation of Qing Dynasty Shihua Writing
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 90–124.
Published: 01 November 2014
... to this day, however, only a few scholars have paid attention to this aspect of Yuan's work. In his critical biography of the writer, Wang Yingzhi discussed Suiyuan shihua 's standards for poetic selection and its characteristics in recounting events; the Canadian scholar J. D. Schmidt in his book on Yuan's...
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Beyond the Inner Chambers: Xu Zhaohua and Her Teacher Mao Qiling
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 11–29.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Ellen Widmer Abstract Mao Qiling 毛奇齡 (1623–1713) was a celebrated poet, scholar, and official whose life bridged the transition from Ming to Qing. A lesser-known aspect of his life was his interest in and work with women writers, especially the group associated with Shang Jinglan 商景蘭 (1605–1680...
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On Translating Mountains and Seas : A Review Essay
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 487–513.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Newell Ann Van Auken Abstract Translating an ancient work entails not only rewriting a work in a new language but also reorienting it for a contemporary audience. The Shanhai jing 山海經 is a particularly interesting case because of the rich paratextual tradition associated with it, including both...
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Journeys to the West: Travelogues and Discursive Power in the Making of the Mongol Empire
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 60–86.
Published: 01 April 2020
... still owned the discursive power. The author argues that Li deliberately adopted a narrative strategy that conceded the Mongol claim to political legitimacy while simultaneously asserting Taoism's cultural dominance over the Mongols. The article also juxtaposes Li's work with the travel record by Yelü...
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Buddhist Epigraphy and Traditions of Writing in the Northern Dynasties
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 287–312.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Jordan Davis Abstract Over the past several decades, hundreds of donor inscriptions ( zaoxiangji 造像記) and works of Buddhist epigraphy have been discovered, making them an abundant historical source on medieval China. To date, research related to these artifacts has mainly concentrated...
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Zaisheng yuan and the Writing of Women's Culture
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 169–194.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Maram Epstein Abstract This article focuses on Zaisheng yuan as an intertextual work of creative fiction that draws from male-authored xiaoshuo fiction as well as earlier literary tanci novels. This case study discusses Zaisheng yuan as a key text in an affective archive of narrative works written...
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On Hu Shih's Coattails: Reflections on and Prognostications for Research on Chan Buddhism
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Ge Zhaoguang Abstract This article surveys the legacy of Hu Shih in order to assess the current state of the field of Chan studies in mainland China. Though the work of Hu Shih was long neglected in the mainland, his work has enjoyed renewed popularity since the 1980s and the dynamics of “culture...
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“Prose within the Poem” ( Shi Zhong You Wen ): Du Fu's Creative Breakthrough in the Light of Wugu Narrative Rhythm
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 481–514.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of various modes of narration within a poem, Du Fu's work shows a key distinguishing feature we might term shi zhong you wen 詩中有文, or “prose within poem.” At the same time, in his mid-to-long poems, Du Fu was able both to bend the inherent capacity of the wugu for narration to its greatest expressive...
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Digital Approaches to Text Reuse in the Early Chinese Corpus
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 186–213.
Published: 01 November 2018
... through exhaustive comparisons of types that would be entirely impractical without the use of computational methods. This article investigates and contrasts unsupervised techniques for the identification of textual similarities in premodern Chinese works in general, and the classical corpus in particular...
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A Study of Su Shi's Calligraphy Scroll Containing “Rhapsody on Dongting Spring Colors Wine” and “Rhapsody on Pine Wine of Zhongshan”
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 279–305.
Published: 01 November 2017
... scroll, Su Shi wrote out his “Rhapsody on Pine Wine of Zhongshan” as a single piece, and the Qianlong emperor himself made calligraphic copies of this work. The stone engraving, calligraphy models, and Qianlong imperial copy of these compositions all have differences, which have greatly complicated...
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in Apocrypha and Literary Rhetoric of the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasty Periods
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Published: 01 April 2016
Figure 2. Yuzhu baodian 玉燭寶典 (Precious Archive of the Jade Candle), by Du Taiqin 杜臺卿 (Sui dynasty), in Guyi congshu 古逸叢書 (Collectanea of Long-Lost Books). A Japanese blockprint edition reprinted by Li Shuchang 黎庶昌, Qing dynasty. Source: Gu yi congshu 古逸叢書 (Collectanea of Long-Lost Works
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Knowledge, Emotion, and Imagination: Negotiating Cultural Boundaries in The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 115–148.
Published: 01 April 2020
... and a long-standing Sinocentric discourse. The article demonstrates that the novel reveals much of the curiosity, ambivalence, and conflict at work during the early stages of global contact. Throughout the novel, its author oscillates between conflicting urges to differentiate or assimilate, to antagonize...
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Cumulative Structure in Zhuangzi's “The Great and Venerable Teacher”
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 239–260.
Published: 01 November 2021
... progressive process of the attainment of this true knowledge is sometimes subjected to contemplative examination and sometimes compressed along the axle of time flow into an intense moment of sudden enlightenment. Since the cumulative structure works as a living body of correlation, the palpable contour...
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Guo Xi on Painting the Invisible Gaze of the Dao
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 287–306.
Published: 01 November 2021
...David Chai Abstract For the Song dynasty painter and theorist Guo Xi, Daoism runs like veins through his Lofty Appeal of Forests and Streams , helping it become one of the greatest works of landscape painting theory in China. This essay explores the influence Laozi and Zhuangzi had on Guo Xi's...
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The Textual Architecture of Empire in Two Early Qing Anthologies
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 371–398.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Piety commissioned by the Kangxi emperor. These works are textual spaces where the cultural and political negotiations of the early Qing empire play out; they use spatial strategies of juxtaposition and hierarchy to balance different messages for different constituencies, creating textual models...
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Mouvance in Medieval Chinese Textual Culture: Lunyu 論語 in a Dunhuang Florilegium
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 170–194.
Published: 01 April 2022
... might assume they had. This has implications for our understanding of intertextuality in literary works from the period. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Xinji wenci jiujing chao Lunyu Dunhuang manuscripts mouvance intertextuality...
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Decentering Sinas : Poststructuralism and Sinology
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 April 2022
... post-structuralists, alongside responses to their work by sinologists and comparatists, arguing that poststructuralist writings tend to recenter themselves on a binary opposition between China and the West. The author then addresses the influence of poststructuralism on Chinese literary studies...
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