...Zong-qi Cai 8. Dai Fugu, Dai Fugu shiji , 228. 7. Quan Song shi , 56:2958.35236. 6. Su, Su Shi shiji , 905–7. 5. Wang Shihan, Su shi xuanping jianshi . 4. For a study on the form of Six Dynasties parallel prose, see Cai, “Six Dynasties Parallel Prose.” 3...

...Bozhou Men Abstract First appearing in 1892 as a serialized novel, Han Bangqing's Haishanghua liezhuan 海上花列傳 (The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai) demonstrates the problematic of an “atypical” novel and the challenges it poses to the notion of the Chinese literary “modern.” This article examines...

...Ban Wang Abstract The romantic and ecological legacy of Homo faber sheds light on Han Song's Regenerated Bricks . In that novella the victims of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, guided by an architect, produce bricks by using debris, straw, and corpses. Regenerating lives and hopes of the victims...

...Chris Song Abstract This article provides a fresh reading of British diplomat Thomas Francis Wade's translation and Qing foreign-affairs official Dong Xun's rewrite of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's “A Psalm of Life.” Situating its analyses in the context of Sino-Western diplomatic...

...Levi S. Gibbs Abstract This article looks at three contemporary novels where songs sung by rural women from the border region of northern Shaanxi Province evoke cultural and temporal hybridities, fusing social continuity with the threat and promise of change. The novels alternately portray untamed...

.... Based on two case studies, the article explores two distinct themes. The first is Royal Nirvana (2019), a pseudo-historical drama that integrates Song-dynasty culture into the plot. In doing so, it beautifully demonstrates the appeal of “Chinese style” or “Asian aesthetics” in popular imagination...

...Shannon M. Cannella There is a brilliance to Song's readings of youth symbolism in China's cultural and literary history. These sections demonstrate the author's tremendous command of the subject matter and his ability to draw from both Western and Chinese sources. The clear prose and lively...

...Charles A. Laughlin Mapping Modern Beijing: Space, Emotion, Literary Topography . Weijie Song . NEW YORK : OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS , 2018 . 306 PP. Copyright © 2020 Lingnan University 2020 The study of urban literature, or of the city in literature, in the case of China...

..., from the immediately following Southern dynasties to Tang and Song, all the way to our own times, to reconstruct their significance. The book's discussion is anchored by colorful events, personages, and writings in these two historical periods, but Tian makes it clear from the beginning...

... and singer/songwriter Jay Chou 周杰倫 (1979–) and famed lyricist Vincent Fang (Fang Wen-shan 方文山; 1969–), are at the center of a Mandopop sensation featuring lyrics deeply saturated with the beauty of classical Chinese poetry, with songs such as “Dongfeng po” 東風破 (East Wind Breaks), “Fa ru xue” 髮如雪 (Hair like...

... development in China. The whole literary tradition traces its beginnings to one anthology, the Book of Songs ( Shijing 詩經), reputedly compiled by Confucius. What guided the sage in pruning an original archive of three thousand poems to just over three hundred is impossible to know, but dogmatic answers...

.... References Adorno, Theodor W. Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy . translated by Edmund Jephcott . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1992 . Bei Dao 北島 . “ Beiqing wangshi” 悲情往事 [Past of Sorrow]. In Qin'ai de Zhang Zao 親愛的張棗 [Dear Zhang Zao], edited by Song Lin 宋琳 and Bai Hua 柏樺...

...: Colum­bia University Press, 1967. Ban, Gu comp. Han shu (History of Han). Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1962. Beijing daxue guwenxuan yanjiusuo comp. Quan Song shi (Complete Shi Poetry of the Song Dynasty). 72 vols. Beijing: Beijing University Press, 1998. Bi, Shikui Wang Changling shige yu shixue yanjiu...

... the scenes, turning them into a space of female desire. Below is a lyric song ( ci 詞) written by Lü in 1928 on the Eiffel Tower. To the tune “Jie lian huan”: The Iron Tower of Paris 解連環 ‧ 巴黎鐵塔 In the deep flowery woods. 萬紅深塢。 Fearing the soul of spring is easily dispelled; it was cast...

..., by Chris Song and Lucas Klein, stand as illuminating cases of transpacific poetics. Song's article offers a critical reading of British diplomat Thomas Francis Wade's translation and Qing foreign affairs official Dong Xun's rewrite of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's “A Psalm of Life.” Dong Xun's...

... splashed across the proscenium wall; later in the dance, a larger-than-life landscape painting in black ink appeared on the backdrop and auditorium walls. Vibrant greens and blues filled in the outlines of mountains and rivers, revealing a digitized version of the famous Song dynasty painting Qianli...

... . The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2003 . Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky . The Epistemology of the Closet . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1990 . Shen Yue 沈約 . [ Liu ] Songshu [劉]宋書 [ History of the (Liu) Song Dynasty...

... and Tang dynasties, under the influence of Taoism and Buddhism. The poems of Shijing 詩經 (Book of Songs) treat nature as a backdrop that provokes inner feelings of the poet, who deploys nature for expressive purposes. What sets the Chinese attitude apart from the anthropocentric view, according Zhu...

... different but is a late development: the nature cult did not become a dominant motif until the Jin and Tang dynasties, under the influence of Taoism and Buddhism. The poems of Shijing 詩經 (Book of Songs) treat nature as a backdrop that provokes the inner feelings of the poet, who deploys nature...

.... 32 It is unknown whether the translation of this poem reproduced in Zhou's entry was done by the one called Cangsheng or by Zhou himself. 33 The extract of “compelling lines” from the poem is rendered into just five lines in the sao 騷 style, a style derived from the Chu ci 楚辭 (Songs...