...Ackbar Abbas The Last Emporium: Verse and Cultural Space Ackbar Abbas 1 Living in interesting times, as the old Chinese adage tells us, is a dubious advamage. Interesting times are periods of violent transition and uncer...

...Paik Nak-chung 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Commentray Zen Poetry and Realism: Reflections on Ko Un’s¯ Verse Paik Nak-chung The following essay was originally written in Korean as a contribution to the Festschrift volume celebrating...

... on the application of the conventional matrices of associations in classical poetic language to contemporary consumer-oriented intertexts. Foregrounding intertextuality provides a means of gauging premodern and modern texts in terms of multiple modes of textuality, canons, and cultural assumptions in Japanese verse...

... circulation of the poetry of Gu Cheng 顾城, whose verse and biography have circulated widely and been intensively transformed in the past thirty years. The partial and mutated versions of his life and verse that circulate via film, television, print, calligraphy, and especially the Internet produce a shared...

... [in the late seventies8 World Though insular, the world of Bei Dao is characterized by an infinite vastness apt to agitate every fixed and firm place:9 “How big is the world” exclaims a verse of “Cold Hope,” a poem that, while...

... of the imperial state, while overlooking what was an indispensable yet not-so-ideal constituent of the empire — the less- privileged working-class Japanese settlers in the colonies. The creators of the popular verse form senryu were just such subjects...

... of desirable modernity and the (self-)inclusion of Okinawa(ns) in Japanese imperialism. Extending to seven verses, “Tsuyoi nipponjin” sings, in Japanese but to sanshin accompaniment, of Japan as the land of the emperor and gods, where the men are strong...

... rhetorical turns. They tilt their Chinese allusions so that the indigenous expressions acquire another shade of meaning. Chin refor- mulates lines and images from Tang and Song verse to divulge ethnic and gender difference and launch a feminist...

... of strange things), were fabulous and mythical folktales in which allegedly “real” historical figures mingled with supernatural beings from the spirit world.16 The second type, Truyen Tho, were Vietnamese versions of melo- dramatic Chinese verse...

... conceit, in which he likens the prosody of Baude- positions ebruary26:1  F 2018 164 laire’s verse to the street map of a great city, the city in question being the poetry of the French language in the nineteenth century...

... characterize this doubling, let us examine the ways in which the usage of kana within waka doubles the usage of mana within kan- shi. The or+ may be read literally as a “broken verse.” This form is often translated as “acrostic verse” because...

... deities, a male and female couple, may have first alighted; the site of an American officers’ club after the war. 5 A fixed phrase in traditional verse referring to the earliest part of summer, when the heads of rice appear. ...

... called “Parting in the Tower” (“Lou tai hui”) in which Yingtai must tell Shanbo that she cannot marry him. It is traditional in this scene to sing a song called “Twelve Farewells.” “Twelve is just the standard number of verses for ‘Twelve...

... distinctive, richly archival, deeply researched alternative default positions for historical analysis. Wrested out of the communist feminisms she analyzes, Kim shows the reader (both those of us well versed in East Asian communist history and those who need to be better versed) how universal claims...

... as the touchstone of Japanese exceptionalism in U.S. Japanology should be exposed for the fabrication it is. Twelve tablets, the law of Myung Mi Kim’s verse, are, in Uno’s argument, learned historical convention. Their linguistic sta- tus means...

... and friends, there was a huge body of public SMS messages circulating widely through- out Chinese society. No one knew or cared about the authorship of these verses: people simply clicked their mobile phone keyboards, knowing...

...), echoing national discourses on economic development. Unlike the parental generation, the second generation do not have any sense of roots or origin. It is demonstrated in the poems collected in The Verse of Us (2015). Urban experiences in the works of the two generations are similar. Migrant work- ers...

... as one that is imagined. The specificities of prem nagar remain vague, although Kabir affirms in his verses that these specificities are necessarily esoteric. It is pos- sible that for Kabir, given the concerns of his oeuvre, prem nagar is where...

... to an onnagata style than we might have suspected. Playwright Enomoto Shigetami, well versed in Kabuki, became infuriated that critics “commended” Yamada when they called her a “ ‘woman actor’ [onna yakusha] rather than an ‘actress’ [ joy2 “Woman actor...

... by reciting Chinese poems. A woman composed this poem, after having caught the gist of a (Chinese) verse that said something like “Looking at the sun, the capital seems even farther away.” [hi wo nozomeba miyako tohoshi...