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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

Available via Project MUSE and Duke University Press Journals Online

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

Available via Project MUSE and Duke University Press Journals Online.

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

Available via Project MUSE and Duke University Press Journals Online

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 SolesA 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

Available via Project MUSE and Duke University Press Journals Online.

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

Available via Project MUSE and Duke University Press Journals Online.

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

Available via Project MUSE and Duke University Press Journals Online.

JCLC 5.2 Special Issue Data Repository: https://www.chinesepoetryforum.org/?page_id=1512

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

Available via Project MUSE and Duke University Press Journals Online.

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 Poetryedited 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

Available via Project MUSE and Duke University Press Journals Online.

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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.”