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"She Whistles Freely Shunning Companions": The Embedded and Transcendent Selves of Poet-Painter Wang Liang in the Eighteenth Century “她轻语轻伴”：十八世纪诗画家王亮的嵌入与超越

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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1215/23290048-10362405

J. Theiss

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Beyond the Inner Chambers: Xu Zhaohua and Her Teacher Mao Qiling 内室之外：徐兆华和她的老师毛启玲

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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1215/23290048-10362353

E. Widmer

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Agency and Strategy: Chastity Exemplars in an Early Qing Anthology 代理与策略：清初选集中贞洁的典范

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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1215/23290048-10362444

J. Moyer

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Rethinking Authorship and Agency: Women and Gender in Late Imperial China 对作者与代理的再思考：中国帝国后期的女性与性别

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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1215/23290048-10362340

G. Fong, Guojun Wang

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Contributors 贡献者

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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1215/23290048-10365902

{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1215/23290048-10365902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-10365902","url":null,"abstract":"Other| April 01 2023 Contributors Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 294–296. https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-10365902 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Contributors. Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 1 April 2023; 10 (1): 294–296. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-10365902 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsJournal of Chinese Literature and Culture Search Advanced Search LARA C. W. BLANCHARD is Luce Professor of East Asian Art and Lloyd Wright Professor in Conservative Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York. Her interdisciplinary research interests include Chinese arts and literature, particularly gendered images, women artists, women patrons, text-image relationships, and theories of representation. She has published articles about pictorial arts—painting, woodblock printmaking, photography, and video—from the Song dynasty (960–1279) through the contemporary era. She is the author of Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire: Gender and Interiority in Chinese Painting and Poetry (2018).MARAM EPSTEIN is a professor of late imperial Chinese literature at the University of Oregon. Her primary interests are xiaoshuo aesthetics, representations of gender, and histories of emotion. She is the author of Competing Discourses: Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction (2001) and Orthodox Passions: Narrating Filial Love during the High Qing (2019). She is currently... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":53810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135672141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Virtue and Women's Authorship in Chinese Art History: A Study of Yutai huashi (History of Painting from Jade Terrace) 中国美术史上的德性与女性创作——以《玉台画史》为例

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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1215/23290048-10362457

Lara C. W. Blanchard

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Where Have All the Guixiu Gone? Chinese "Women of Talent" at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 桂秀都到哪里去了?20世纪之交的中国“才女”

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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1215/23290048-10362392

Xiaorong Li

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Gender and Violence: The Multivalent Voices of a Cannibalized Concubine in Late Imperial Chinese Literature 性别与暴力:中国帝国晚期文学中一个被吃掉的妃子的多重声音

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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1215/23290048-10362483

Guojun Wang, Guo Yingde

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Wang Hui's Perception of Modernity and the Challenges of Alternative Modernity Theory 王辉的现代性感知与另类现代性理论的挑战

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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-28 DOI: 10.31985/jcl.90.4

Minho Park

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The study on the teaching method of ‘Chinese characters and language’Ⅳ ―The study targets 上, 大, 子《汉字与语言》教学方法的研究Ⅳ——研究对象

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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-28 DOI: 10.31985/jcl.90.7

Byung-chang Yeou

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