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Volume 10 • Issue 1 • April 2023
Special Issue Rethinking Authorship and Agency: Women and Gender in Late Imperial China
Editors Grace S. Fong and Guojun Wang
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Table of Contents
Rethinking Authorship and Agency: Women and Gender in Late Imperial China
GRACE S. FONG and GUOJUN WANG
Guixiu: Changes through Time and Space
Beyond the Inner Chambers: Xu Zhaohua and Her Teacher Mao Qiling
ELLEN WIDMER
Garden, Gender, and Memory: Shang Jinglan and Her Writings in the Ming-Qing Transition
YUEFAN WANG
Yangzhou Revisited: Spatial Imaginaries and Women’s Literature during the Qing
BINBIN YANG
Where Have All the Guixiu Gone?: Chinese “Women of Talent” at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
XIAORONG LI
Transcendence and Transgression
“She Whistles Freely Shunning Companions”: The Embedded and Transcendent Selves of Poet-Painter Wang Liang in the Eighteenth Century
JANET THEISS
From Convention to Subversion: Case Studies on the Female Gaze in Premodern China
GRACE S. FONG
Zaisheng yuan and the Writing of Women’s Culture
MARAM EPSTEIN
Negotiating Virtues
Agency and Strategy: Chastity Exemplars in an Early Qing Anthology
JESSICA DVORAK MOYER
Virtue and Women’s Authorship in Chinese Art History: A Study of Yutai huashi (History of Painting from Jade Terrace)
LARA C. W. BLANCHARD
A Son’s Obligations: Promoting and Circulating Motherly Exemplariness in Late Imperial China
MARTIN W. HUANG
Gender and Violence: The Multivalent Voices of a Cannibalized Concubine in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
GUOJUN WANG and GUO YINGDE
Contributors
Editors Yuan Xingpei and Zong-qi Cai
Volume 9 • Issue 2 • November 2022
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Table of Contents
Rereading a Poetics of Divination:
Oracular Visuality and Iterations of Landscape in Wei-Jin Lyricism
THOMAS DONNELLY NOEL
The Power of Nostalgia: Memory, Identity, and Authority in the Shishuo xinyu
QIULEI HU
“In the Mountain Forest I lose My Self”:
The Experience of No-Self in Wang Wei’s Short Landscape Poems
TERO TÄHTINEN
What Do Jokes Reveal about Trust in Ming Work Relations?
SARAH SCHNEEWIND
Space and Identity: Self-representation of a Ming Nanjing Courtesan in Transformation
JIANI CHEN
Facets of Chinese Culture
The Boundary of Chinese Music:
A Cultural and Aesthetic Comparison Between Pipa and Guqin
IVAN YIFAN ZOU, YACHING TSAI, and WILLIAM SHI-YUAN WANG
Book Reviews
Peter Francis Kornicki. Languages, Scripts, and Chinese Texts in East Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
MINGHUI HU
Suyoung Son. Writing for Print: Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018.
LING HON LAM
Li Ling. The Chu Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan Province). Volume 1: Discovery and Transmission. Translated and edited by Lothar von Falkenhausen. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2020.
MICHAEL NYLAN
Jiushan Shuhui. Top Graduate Zhang Xie: The Earliest Extant Chinese Southern Play. Translated and introduced by Regina S. Liamas. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.
YING WANG
Chen Jun 陳君. Runse hongye: Hanshu wenben de xingcheng yu zaoqi chuanbo 潤色鴻業：漢書文本的形成與早期傳播 (Embellishing the Imperial Order: The Formation of the Hanshu and Its Circulation in Medieval China). Beijing: Peking University Press, 2020.
XU JIANWEI
HARDY STEWART, Translator
Zhang Yue 張月 and Chen Yinchi 陳引馳. Zhonggu wenxue zhong de shi yu shi 中古文學中的詩與史 (The Interrelation of Poetry and History in Medieval Literature). Shanghai: Fudan daxue chubanshe, 2020.
ISAAC YUE
Xiaoshan Yang. Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2021.
YUE ZHANG
Titles in Chinese Literature from Academic Monthly 學術月刊
Volume 9 • Issue 1 • April 2022
Special Issue Critical Theory and Premodern Chinese Literature
Editors Stephen Roddy and Zong-qi Cai
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Table of Contents
Introduction
STEPHEN J. RODDY
Reflecting on the Past
The Elusiveness of Commonality: Late Twentieth-Century Sinology and the Search for a Shared Lyric Language
PAULA VARSANO
Secret Laid Bare: Close Reading of Chinese Poetry
XINDA LIAN
Decentering Sinas: Poststructuralism and Sinology
LUCAS KLEIN
Feminist Theories and Women Writers of Late Imperial China: Impact and Critique
GRACE S. FONG
Looking to the Future
Cultural Memory and the Epic in Early Chinese Literature: The Case of Qu Yuan 屈原 and the Lisao 離騷
MARTIN KERN
Mouvance in Medieval Chinese Textual Culture: Lunyu 論語 in a Dunhuang Florilegium
CHRISTOPHER M. B. NUGENT
Theories of Spatiality and the Study of Medieval China
MANLING LUO
Whither Theatricality? Toward Traditional Chinese Drama and Theater (Xiqu 戲曲) as World Theater
PATRICIA SIEBER
Inward Turns, Then and Now
ALEXANDER DES FORGES
Contributors
Volume 8 • Issue 2 • November 2021
Editors Yuan Xingpei and Zong-qi Cai
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Table of Contents
Cumulative Structure in Zhuangzi’s “The Great and Venerable Teacher”
XINDA LIAN
The Divided Liang Dynasty Literary World Seen Through the Liu-Dao Dispute
WANG XIAOMENG and JING CHEN
Guo Xi on Painting the Invisible Gaze of Dao
DAVID CHAI
Plays Within Songs: Sanqu Songs from Literary Refinement (ya) to Popular Appeal (su)
WANG SHIH-PE
ERXIN WANG, Translator
Riddles in Jin Ping Mei Cihua
THOMAS KELLY
The Textual Architecture of Empire in Two Early Qing Anthologies
JESSICA DVORAK MOYER
Marginalia Transcription and Scholarly Culture in the Qing Dynasty
WEI YINZONG
Book Reviews
N. Harry Rothschild and Leslie V. Wallace, eds. Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China. HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 2017.
ROBERT ASHMORE
Klaus Mühlhahn. Making China Modern: From The Great Qing to Xi Jinping. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.
MINGHUI HU
Li Yu. A Couple of Soles: A Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century China. Translated by Jing Shen and Robert E. Hegel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
YING WANG
Wendy Swartz. Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry: Intertextual Modes of Making Meaning in Early Medieval China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018.
YUE ZHANG
Xiaofei Tian. The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018.
YUE ZHANG
Volume 8 • Issue 1 • April 2021
Special Issue The Protean World of Sanqu Songs
Guest Editor Patricia Sieber
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Table of Contents
Introduction
PATRICIA SIEBER
Sanqu and Its Relationship to the Theater
The Ultimate Sanqu Song: Yao Shouzhong’s “The Complaint of the Ox” and Its Place in Tanaka Kenji’s Scholarship on Sanqu
WILT L. IDEMA
Performing the Emperor: Sui Jingchen’s “Han Gaozu Returns to His Home Village”
KARIN MYHRE
Performing the Role of Playwright: Jia Zhongming’s Sanqu Songs in the Supplement to The Register of Ghosts
WENBO CHANG
Sanqu as a Cultural Form and Its Social Diffusion
A Dialectic Between Genres and Extension of Poetic Functions: Zhang Kejiu’s “Regulated Songs”
JAEHYUK LEE
Yuan-Ming Sanqu Songs as Communal Texts: Discovering Their Literary Vitality from a New Research Perspective
YE YE
ERXIN WANG, Translator
In Praise of This Prosperous and Harmonious Empire: Sanqu, Ming Anthologies, and the Imperial Court
TIAN YUAN TAN
Sanqu and Literary Translation
In Search of Pure Sound: Sanqu Songs, Genre Aesthetics, and Translations Tactics
PATRICIA SIEBER et al.
Theoretical Reflections
A Flavor All Its Own: Some Theoretical Considerations on Sanqu Songs as Mixed-Register Literature
PATRICIA SIEBER
Contributors
Volume 7 • Issue 2 • November 2020
Editors Yuan Xingpei and Zong-qi Cai
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Table of Contents
Heroes Play by the Rules: Yu Yue’s Pedagogy for the Eight-Legged Essay
STEPHEN RODDY
Hearts in the Hometown: Diaspora Consciousness and Literature of the Tang and Song
MA ZILI and FAN PIK WAH
WENDY HOR, Translator
Buddhist Epigraphy and Traditions of Writing in the Northern Dynasties
JORDAN DAVIS
Beyond the City Walls:
Photographic Seeing and the Longing for Wilderness in Yang Wanli’s Nature Poems
Li E
Facets of Chinese Culture
The Art of Chinese Prose: A Critical Introduction
ZONG-QI CAI
Text Matters
The Huang Kan Commentary on the Analects: A Critical Examination
LIU YUCAI
CARL GENE FORDHAM, Translator
Review Essay
Du Fu Studies from 2000-2019
LIU NING and JUE CHEN
Book Reviews
Shen Zongqian. Esquif sur l´océan de la peinture 芥舟學畫編. Translated and annotated by Yolaine Escande. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2019.
ANTONIO MEZCUA LÓPEZ
Ping Foong. The Efficacious Landscape: On the Authorities of Painting at the Northern Song Court. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015.
WILLIAM MA
Zong-Qi Cai, ed. How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
CHRISTOPHER M. B. NUGENT
I-Hsien Wu. Eroticism and Other Literary Conventions in Chinese Literature: Intertextuality in The Story of the Stone. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2017.
MARY SCOTT
Zuo Tradition. Zuozhuan 左傳: Commentary on the “Spring and Autumn Annals.” Translated and introduced by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, and David Schaberg. 3 vols. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016.
KAI VOGELSANG
Volume 7 • Issue 1 • April 2020
Special Issue Cultural Others in Traditional Chinese Literature
Guest Editor Wai-yee Li
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Thinking Through Cultural Others
WAI-YEE LI
Cultural Identity and Cultural Difference in Zuozhuan
WAI-YEE LI
The Epistolary Self and Psychological Warfare: Tuoba Tao’s 拓跋燾
(408–452, r. 423–452) Letters and His Southern Audience
LU KOU
Journeys to the West: Travelogues and Discursive Power in the Making of the Mongol Empire
MING TAK TED HUI
Closer to Home: A Hanlin Academician Writes about Persons outside the Educated Class
RONALD EGAN
Knowledge, Motion, and Imagination: Negotiating Cultural Boundaries
in The Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyage to the Western Ocean
CHIUNG-YUN EVELYN LIU
Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Dushu sheng and the Limits of Community in the Early Qing
ARIEL FOX
Cultural Self-Definition of Southwest Chieftains during the Ming-Qing Transition
SIAO-CHEN HU
Exile, Borders, and Poetry: A Study of Fang Xiaobiao’s “Miscellaneous
Poems on the Eastern Journey”
LAWRENCE YIM
Multiple Otherness: Identity Politics in the Taiping Civil War
HUAN JIN
Contributors
Volume 6 • Issue 2 • November 2019
Editors Yuan Xingpei and Zong-qi Cai
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Table of Contents
Comparative Phonorhetorical Analyses of Speeches in the Zuo Commentary and the Discourses of the States
JEFFREY R. THARSEN
Genre Conflation and Fictional Religiosity in Guilian meng (Returning to the Lotus Dream)
MENGJUN LI
Identities and Literary Culture in Qing China: Manchu Emperors as Chinese Poets, Readers, and Publishers
KAI-WING CHOW
Playing Against Type: The Moral Merchant on the Early Qing Stage
ARIEL FOX
Sending Flowers into the Mirror: Jinghua yuan as Metafiction
LIANGYAN GE
Facets of Chinese Culture
The Ancient Chinese Arts of the Ear: Etymology, Meteorology, Musicology
WANG XIAODUN and CASEY SCHOENBERGER
Text Matters
Tao Yuanming in Recently Unearthed Epitaphs from the Sui and Tang
HU KEXIAN and YUAN ZHANG
Book Reviews
Zhang Yingyu. The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection.Translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.
KATHERINE CARLITZ
Rebecca Doran.Transgressive Typologies: Construction of Gender and Power in Early Tang China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2016.
MARAM EPSTEIN
Joseph S. C. Lam, Shuen-fu Lin, Christian de Pee, and Martin Powers, eds. Senses of the City: Perceptions of Hangzhou and Southern Song China 1127-1279. Hong Kong: CUHK Press, 2017.
MICHAEL FULLER
Elena Suet-ying Chiu. Bannerman Tales (Zidishu): Manchu Storytelling and Cultural Hybridity in the Qing Dynasty. Cambridge, MA: Harvard-Yenching Monograph Series 105, Harvard University Asia Center, 2018.
MARY SCOTT
Xiaorong Li. The Poetics and Politics of Sensuality in China: The “Fragrant and Bedazzling” Movement (1600-1930). New York: Cambria University Press, 2019.
PAOLA ZAMPERINI
Volume 6 • Issue 1 • April 2019
Special Issue Emotion and Visuality in Chinese Literature and Culture
Editors Zong-qi Cai and Shengqing Wu
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Table of Contents
Introduction
ZONG-QI CAI & SHENGQING WU
Su Shi Renders No Emotion
PETER C. STURMAN
The Emotive Object in Medieval China
JEFFREY MOSER
Chen Hongshou’s Laments
ANNE BURKUS-CHASSON
What Remains of Mountains and Waters: Fragments, Mutilation, and Creation in Early Qing Literature and Culture
YINGZHI ZHAO
Image, Word, and Emotion: The Persistence of the Beautiful/Lovelorn Woman in the New-Style “Hundred Beauties” Albums (1900-1920s)
XIAORONG LI
Haunting, (In)Visibility, Filiality: Qiu Canzhi (1901-67) and Her Works of Mourning
HU YING
Nostalgic Fragments in the Thick of Things: Yuan Kewen (1890-1931) and the Act of Remembering
SHENGQING WU
Volume 5 • Issue 2 • November 2018
Special Issue Digital Methods and Traditional Chinese Literary Studies
Guest Editors Thomas J. Mazanec; Jeffery R. Tharsen & Jing Chen
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Table of Contents
Introduction
THOMAS MAZANEC, JEFFREY THARSEN, JING CHEN
Digital Approaches to Text Reuse in the Early Chinese Corpus
DONALD STURGEON
Drawing out the Essentials: Historiographic Annotation as a Textual Network
EVAN NICOLL-JOHNSON
Describing Objects in Tang Dynasty Poetic Language: a Study Based on Word Embeddings
MARIANA ZORKINA
Exploring Chinese Poetry with Digital Assistance: Examples from Linguistic, Literary, and Historical Viewpoints
CHAO-LIN LIU, THOMAS MAZANEC, JEFFREY THARSEN
Networks of Exchange Poetry in Late Medieval China: Notes Toward a Dynamic History of Tang Literature
THOMAS MAZANEC
Geographic Distribution and Change in Tang Poetry: Data Analysis from the “Chronological Map of Tang-Song Literature”
WANG ZHAOPENG, QIAO JUNJUN
THOMAS MAZANEC, translator
Visualizing Alternative Literary Canons in Ming Dynasty China (1368-1644): A Preliminary Case Study
TIMOTHY ROBERT CLIFFORD
New Frontiers of Electronic Textual Research in the Humanities: Investigating Classical Allusions in Chinese Poetry through Digital Methods
YI-LONG HUANG, BINGYU ZHENG
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • April 2018
Regular Issue
Editors Yuan Xingpei & Zong-qi Cai
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Table of Contents
The Attendant’s Lament: Loansharking, Squeeze, and Extortion in the Yangzhou Novel Fengyue meng (Seductive Dreams)
KEITH MCMAHON
Men’s Appearance and Political Careers in Han China
YIQUN ZHOU
Music, Morality, and Genre in Tang Poetry
QIAN ZHIXI and CASEY SCHOENBERGER
The Xikun Experiment: Imitation and the Making of the New Poetic Style in the Early Northern Song
YUGEN WANG
Beef, Fish, and Chestnut Cake: Food for Heroes in the Late Imperial Chinese Novel
YAN LIANG
The Pursuit of the Dao: Natsume Sōseki and His Kanshi of 1916
XIAOHUI ZHANG
Volume 4 • Issue 2 • November 2017
Special Issue Song Dynasty Literature and Culture
Guest Editor Ronald Egan
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Table of Contents
Introduction
RONALD EGAN
Su Shi Studies
Su Shi’s Gift to Zhuo Qishun and the Sociality of Calligraphy
XIAOSHAN YANG
The Past Lives of Su Shi: Stories of Truth and Adaptation
ZHU GANG and ZHAO HUIJUN
XIAO RAO, translator
A Study of Su Shi’s Calligraphy Scroll Containing “Rhapsody on Dongting Spring Colors Wine” and “Rhapsody on Pine Wine of Zhongshan”
I LO-FEN
RONALD EGAN, translator
The Literary Past, Literature and Moral Values
Defining the “Finest”: A Northern Song View of Tang Dynasty Literary Culture in the Wen cui
ANNA M. SHIELDS
What Was Good Writing (or Reading) in Eleventh-Century China? Rethinking Guwen and Its Relation to Daoxue
HSIAO-WEN CHENG
A Family of Filial Exemplars: The Baos of Luzhou in the Northern Song
CONG ELLEN ZHANG
Poetry
Returning Empty-handed: Reading the Yifan feng Corpus as Buddhist Parting Poetry
JASON PROTASS
Poems with Contested Meanings
RONALD EGAN
Volume 4 Issue 1, April 2017
Regular Issue
Editors YUAN XINGPEI and ZONG-QI CAI
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Table of Contents
On Hu Shih’s Coattails: Reflections on and Prognostications for Research on Chan Buddhism
GE ZHAOGUANG
JASON PROTASS, translator
Southern Osmanthus and Northern Pear: The Garden of Xiang Ziyin as a Site of Memory in the Writings of Southern Song Literati
BENJAMIN RIDGWAY
Between the Interior and the Artifactual: Reading the Ci Space
LEI CHEN
Reinventing the Pre-Tang Tradition: Compiling and Publishing Pre-Tang Poetry Anthologies in Sixteenth-Century China
JING CHEN
Lust as Prerequisite: Eroticism in The Story of the Stone
I-HSIEN WU
Gendering the Planchette: Woman Writer Qian Xi’s (1872–1930) Spiritual World
YANNING WANG
Terms, Concepts, and Methods
Toward an Innovative Poetics: Wang Changling on Yi 意 and Literary Creation
ZONG-QI CAI
Volume 3 Issue 2, November 2016
Special Issue The Literary Mind and the Carving of Modernities
Guest Editor David Der-wei Wang
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Table of Contents
The Literary Mind and the Carving of Modernities
DAVID DER-WEI WANG
Addressing Classical Theories Anew
The “Natural Rhythm” of Chinese Poetry: Physical and Linguistic Perspectives Since 1919
YU-YU CHENG
MING-TAK TED HUI & CHIEN-HSIN TSAI, translators
From Modernity to Tradition: Zhu Ziqing’s Chinese Literary Criticism
LEONARD KWOK KOU CHAN
Chinese Literary Thought in Modern Times: Shi, Xing, Shishi
DAVID DER-WEI WANG
Reorienting Modern Subjectivities
Poetry as Memoir: Shi Zhecun’s Miscellaneous Poems of A Floating Life
KANG-I SUN CHANG
A Paper Mirror: Autobiographical Moments in Modern Chinese Poetry
SHENGQING WU
Who Am I? Identity, Resistance, and Resilience in the Classical-Style Poetry of Nie Gannu
HAOSHENG YANG
Lu Xun and The Politics of Archaism
On the Critical Reception of Lu Xun’s Early Classical-style Essays of the Japan Period
JON EUGENE VON KOWALLIS
Lu Xun the Critical Buddhist: A Monstrous Ekayāna
LEI YING
Against the Grain of History
In Search of Humanity in the Mao Era: The Contemporary Classical Poetry of Chen Yinke, Nie Gannu, and Wang Xindi
XIA ZHONGYI
BRIAN SKERRATT, translator
Song History in Kowloon and Loyalist Classical Poetry: Chen Botao, Sung Wong Toi, and Autumn Chants on the Terrace of the Song Emperors
KO CHIA-CIAN
ANDY RODEKOHR, translator
Volume 3 Issue 1, April 2016
Regular Issue
Editors YUAN XINGPEI and ZONG-QI CAI
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Table of Contents
Whose Voice is it Anyway? A Rereading of Wang Changling’s “Autumn in the Palace of Everlasting Faith: Five Poems”
PAULA VARSANO
Apocrypha and Literary Rhetoric of the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasty Periods
XU XINGWU; COTT DAVIS, translator
Facets of Chinese Culture
The Ancient Qin 琴, Musical Instrument of Cultured Chinese Gentlemen
TIAN QING; SCOTT DAVIS, translator
Literati and Poems About Go (weiqi 圍棋)
QI DONGFANG; LUKE HABBERSTAD, translator
Chanting Dharanis While Dreaming of Lilacs: Buddhism and Beijing in Gong Zizhen’s Poems of 1839
STEPHEN J. RODDY
Virtuous Wives and Shrews in Feng Shuangfei: Empowering Female Characters through a Revision of Stereotypes
WENJIA LIU
Text Matters
From Stage Scripts to Closet Drama: Editions of Early Chinese Drama and the Translations of Yuan Zaju
WILT L. IDEMA
Volume 2 Issue 2, November 2015
Special Issue The Sound and Sense of Chinese Poetry, edited by Zong-qi Cai
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In Chinese poetry, the primacy of sound has long been overlooked. A demonstration of the pivotal roles of sound in various major genres is the primary goal of this special issue. By employing approaches of literary interpretation, statistical analysis, practical criticism, and theoretical inquiry, this collection of ten articles authored by American and Chinese literary scholars and linguists has explored the aural dimensions of Chinese poetry, shown that sound does not merely echo the sense in Chinese poetry, and shed new light on the interplay of sound and sense in one or more particular genres across time. The goal of this issue is to draw more scholarly attention to the primacy of sound in Chinese poetry and contribute to the broader discourse on the sound of poetry/the poetry of sound initiated by scholars of Western poetry.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: The Primacy of Sound in Chinese Poetry, Zong-qi Cai (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign/Lingnan University of Hong Kong)
Ancient-Style Poetry: Sound and Sense in Reduplicatives and Poetic Rhythms
- Sound Symbolism in the Reduplicative Vocabulary of the Shijing, Jonathan Smith (Christopher Newport University)
- A Discussion of the Principles for the Combination of “Feet” in the Pentasyllabic Shi Genre, Zhao Minli (Capital Normal University, China) and Benjamin Ridgway (Grinnell College)
From Ancient- to Recent-Style Poetry: The Long Path toward Tonal Regulation
- Tonal Contrast in Early Pentasyllabic Poems: A Quantitative Study of Three Poem Collections, Chenqing Song (SUNY, Binghamton)
- On the Origin of Chinese Tonal Prosody: Argumentation from the Case Study of Shen Yue’s Poems, Hongming Zhang (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Formation of the Tonal Pattern and Prosodic Transformation of the Pentasyllabic Line in the Datong Reign (535-546) of the Liang, Du Xiaoqin (Peking University) and Li E (Portland State Univesity)
- The Rhyme Book Culture of Pre-Tang China, Meow Hui Goh (Ohio State University)
Poetry and Prose: Interaction and Mutual Transformation
- Parallel Prose and Spatiotemporal Freedom: A Case for Creative Syntax in “Wucheng fu”, Shengli Feng (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Ash Henson (Taiwan National Normal University)
- “Prose within the Poem” (Shi zhong you wen): Du Fu’s Creative Breakthrough in the Light of Wugu Narrative Rhythm, Ge Xiaoyin (Peking University), Jonathan Smith, translator
- Guwen (Ancient-Style Prose), Sound, and the History of Chinese Poetics, Chen Yinchi (Fudan University) and Paula Varsano (University of California, Berkeley)
Theoretical Reflections
- Sound over Ideograph: the Basis of Chinese Poetic Art, Zong-qi Cai
Volume 2 Issue 1, April 2015
Special Issue Chinese Literature and Visual Culture, edited by Yuan Xingpei and Shang Wei
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This special issue is concerned primarily with the literature and visual culture of early modern China (1550–1911). Intending to demonstrate how closely the literary texts and visual media of the early modern era engaged with each other, it focuses on individual cases so as to capture the historical particularities of the literary and visual representations of the time. Concrete case studies allow for examination of selected literary texts and images through their interactions with one another, rather than addressing the relationship between word and image in abstract terms. Contributors illuminate the cultural work that images and words do under specific circumstances, the mechanism of their operations at both visual and linguistic levels, and what these case studies reveal about the culture and society of early modern China.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, Shang Wei (Columbia University)
- The Possibilities and Limits of a Genre: Lyrical Pictures from the Ming, Yuan Xingpei (Peking University) , Allison Bernard (Columbia University)
- Collecting the Here and Now: Birthday Albums and the Aesthetics of Association in Mid-Ming China, Lihong Liu (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C)
- Presenting Mortality: Shen Zhou’s Falling Blossoms Project, Peter C. Sturman (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Like Not Like: Writing Portraits in The Peony Pavilion, Anne Burkus-Chasson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Voices from the Crimson Clouds Library: Reading Liu Rushi’s (1618–1664) Misty Willows by Moonlit Dike, Hui-Shu Lee (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Truth Becomes Fiction when Fiction is True: The Story of the Stone and the Visual Culture of the Manchu Court, Shang Wei (Columbia University)
- Contributors
Volume 1 Issue 1-2, November 2014
Inaugural Issue
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Table of Contents
- Yuan Xingpei and Zong-qi Cai. “Foreword to the Inaugural Issue.”
- Keith McMahon. “The Potent Eunuch: The Story of Wei Zhongxian.”
- Patricia Sieber. “Nobody’s Genre, Everybody’s Song: Sanqu Songs and the Expansion of the Literary Sphere in Yuan China.”
- Guo Yingde and Xiaoqiao Ling. “Fresh Faces for Those Full of Emotions: Zhu Suchen’s Qinlou yue.”
- Jiang Yin; translated by Yugen Wang. “Yuan Mei’s Suiyuan shihua and the Transformation of Qing Dynasty Shihua Writing.”
- Grace S. Fong. “The Life and Afterlife of Ling Zhiyuan (1831-1852) and Her Poetry Collection.”
- Michael Nylan. “Manuscript Culture in Late Western Han, and the Implications for Authors and Authority.”
- Zhang Jian and Dandan Chen. “Primers and Poetry in Ancient China: Shenglü Fameng and Beyond.”
Facets of Chinese Culture
- Yuan Xingpei; translated by Alan Berkowitz. “Tao Yuanming: A Symbol of Chinese Culture.”
- Wai-yee Li. “Poetry and Diplomacy in the Zuozhuan.”
Terms, Concepts, and Methods
- Zong-qi Cai. “The Richness of Ambiguity: A Mencian Statement and Interpretive Theory and Practice in Pre-modern China”
Text Matters
- Liu Yucai and Luke Habberstad. “The Life of a Text: A Brief History of the Liji 禮記 (Rites Records) and its Transmission.”