Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 180 Search Results for
writing
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 466–472.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Ling Hon Lam lhlam@berkeley.edu Suyoung Son . Writing for Print: Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2018 . xiv, 249 pp. ISBN 9780674983830 (hardcover). Copyright © 2022 by Duke University...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 90–124.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Yin Jiang Abstract Yuan Mei's literary achievements are multifaceted. As a master of poetry and poetic criticism, his influence was unmatched by anyone of his time. His poetic theory and criticism is undoubtedly worth studying, but the writing of the Suiyuan shihua itself is also worth noting. Up...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 336–359.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Hsiao-wen Cheng Abstract This essay proposes a new perspective on Guwen 古文 (Ancient-Style Writing) in the mid-eleventh century and Cheng Yi's 程頤 Daoxue 道學 (Learning of the Way) based on two interconnected approaches. The first involves an analysis of wenqi 文氣 and the yong 用 (efficacy) of wen...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 134–172.
Published: 01 April 2015
... interpretation. But other elements in the textual portrait cannot be fully captured by words. The latter apparently fascinated Tang Xianzu, for he explained the source of inspired writing by comparing a writer to a painter. In The Peony Pavilion , the ambiguous and unfinished pictorial marks in Du Liniang's self...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 287–312.
Published: 01 November 2020
... on the religious and political function of these inscriptions. This article, considering the literary and cultural aspects of these pieces, investigates how Buddhist epigraphy can be used to trace the development of traditions of writing during the Northern Dynasties period. It starts by analyzing a seldom...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 442–447.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Yue Zhang Wendy Swartz . Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry: Intertextual Modes of Making Meaning in Early Medieval China . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2018 . 304 pp. ISBN 9780674983823 (hardcover). Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Wendy...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 169–194.
Published: 01 April 2023
... influential tanci in the corpus. The Hangzhou native Chen Duansheng 陳端生 (1751–1796) began writing Zaisheng yuan in 1768 when she was seventeen sui and wrote the first sixteen chapters (four juan ) within the span of two or three years while living in her natal home. Her mother, who was among her first...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 19–55.
Published: 01 April 2017
... of the Northern Song dynasty in 1126–27. Investigating the dialogue of major figures such as Li Gang (1083–1140), Hu Hong (1105–61), Zhou Bida (1126–1204), Fan Chengda (1126–93), Lou Yue (1137–1213), and Zhu Xi (1130–1200) writing in a range of genres ( shi poetry, song lyrics, personal letters, travel diaries...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 87–114.
Published: 01 April 2020
... in their conventional literary and scholarly writings. These Yijian zhi stories thus provide a glimpse of the ways that members of the socially and politically elite perceived persons of lowly social backgrounds. The fact that Hong Mai did not compose his stories from his own imagination but, rather, recorded tales...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 30–56.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Yuefan Wang Abstract The late Ming (16th–17th cent.) witnessed the newfound popularity of garden writing. This article questions how gentry women negotiated this traditionally male-dominant genre and even employed it to respond to the dynastic change. By analyzing the writings of a family...
Image
in Image, Word, and Emotion: The Persistence of the Beautiful/Lovelorn Woman in the New-Style “Hundred Beauties” Albums (1900–1920s)
> Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 19. “Holding a Pen to Write a Letter” ( Wobi zuoshu 握筆作書), from Zhao and Wu, Zitai baiyang , 1:37b–38a.
More
Image
in Apocrypha and Literary Rhetoric of the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasty Periods
> Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture
Published: 01 April 2016
Figure 1. “Shudu fu” 蜀都賦 (Rhapsody of the Shu Capital), by Zuo Si 左思 (c. 250–305), in Wenxuan jizhu 文選集註 ( Selections of Refined Writings with Collected Commentaries). Tang-dynasty manuscript in Japan reprinted by Guji chubanshe. Source: Tang chao Wenxuan jizhu huicun 唐鈔文選集註彙存 (Collection
More
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 160–179.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Yanning Wang Abstract Fuji (wielding the planchette, or spirit writing) was in vogue among Ming-Qing literati, and its influence extended into modern times. Existing studies focus on this popular divination itself or on men's writings related to this practice. This article, instead, explores...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 192–214.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Lawrence Yim Abstract Exile to Manchuria in the early Qing (1644–1912) is a peculiar historical, political, and cultural phenomenon whose scale and scope are unprecedented in premodern Chinese history. Among the exiles were some very accomplished writers who continued to write in the places...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 267–293.
Published: 01 April 2023
... through a case study of literary representations of a concubine who was cannibalized during the defense of Suiyang amid the An Lushan Rebellion (755–763) in the Tang dynasty. As a result of that event, the ethically questionable act of cannibalism engendered an assortment of writings down through late...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 515–544.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Chen Yinchi; Paula Varsano Abstract While few would contest the importance of phonology and aural considerations in the study of classical Chinese poetry, the musicality of guwen (ancient-style prose essays) writing has attracted little attention thus far. This article redresses this imbalance...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2016
... in his attributive essay “Lun wenyi” 論文意 [On Writing]), this article performs a close reading of the perceptual cues featured in the five heptasyllabic quatrains, “Autumn in the Palace of Everlasting Faith” 長信秋詞. Borrowing the term focalization from recent theories of visual narrativity (most notably...
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 186–213.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Donald Sturgeon Abstract Observed textual similarities between different pieces of writing are frequently cited by textual scholars as grounds for interpretative stances about the meaning of a passage and its authorship, authenticity, and accuracy. Historically, identifying occurrences...
FIGURES
| View All (8)
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 312–334.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Shengqing Wu Abstract Through the examination of a select body of classical-style poems that are inscribed on or written about photographs of the self in the modern era, this article delves into the intertwined issues of the self, affect, and autobiographical writing. It first explores the ethical...
FIGURES
| View All (7)
Journal Article
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 261–286.
Published: 01 November 2021
...–527) of the Liang Dynasty 梁 (502–557). The major difference between the literary camps lies in the consideration given to natural poetic talent versus erudition in writings. When Xiao Gang 蕭綱 (503–551), Liu Xiaochuo's supporter, became crown prince in 531, his own conflict with the scholarly group...
1
