{"title":"The Power of Nostalgia: Memory, Identity, and Authority in the Shishuo xinyu","authors":"Qiulei Hu","doi":"10.1215/23290048-9965619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9965619","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Shishuo xinyu 世說新語 (A New Account of Tales of the World) is a collection of anecdotes concerning extraordinary historical figures active in the second through fourth centuries. This article highlights and explores the importance of the Shishuo xinyu as cultural memory. In the collection, the public display and use of personal memory of the cultural past are taken as means to preserve cultural legacy, construct cultural identity, and establish cultural authority in the elite literati community. Cultural memory gained much significance after the migration of the Western Jin 西晉 (265–316) royal house and aristocratic families to the south after its fall. On one hand, shared memory and the sharing of memory of the past created an unbroken chain of cultural legacy and secured the elite literati's cultural identities in a \"continuous\" tradition; on the other hand, personal memory and the monopoly of memory were crucial tools to claim cultural privilege in the highly competitive community of elite literati. The peculiar nature of the anecdote as a cross between private and public matters, as well as between local and universal knowledge, lends itself perfectly to carrying out the various social functions of cultural memory. The attention to cultural memory in the Shishuo xinyu was not an accidental or isolated phenomenon. Its sentimental and personal approach to the past reflects the prevailing cultural nostalgia in writings by elite literati of the fourth and fifth centuries.","PeriodicalId":53810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"308 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45068264","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}
{"title":"Titles in Chinese Literature from Academic Monthly 學術月刊 (Issues 1–12, 2021)","authors":"","doi":"10.1215/23290048-9965777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9965777","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48892912","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}
{"title":"What Do Jokes Reveal about Trust in Ming Work Relations?","authors":"Sarah Schneewind","doi":"10.1215/23290048-9965645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9965645","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article looks at jokes in a collection dating to about 1610 from the perspective of occupational sociology of the Chicago school. Sociological concepts such as technique, object of technique, and guilty knowledge suggest aspects of the lives of ordinary people who are harder to find in the historical record than the educated elite. The jokes illuminate some of the tensions in the careers of metalworkers, vendors, carpenters, actors, transport workers, barbers, couriers, pawnbrokers, and gatekeepers to suggest further avenues for historical research. Trust emerges as a complex issue. The professional relations suggest a more plebian, but not simple, outlook on the fundamental Confucian value of trustworthiness.","PeriodicalId":53810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"367 - 396"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43648912","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}
{"title":"Space and Identity: Self-Representation of a Ming Nanjing Courtesan in Transformation","authors":"Jiani Chen","doi":"10.1215/23290048-9965658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9965658","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the poetic collections of the Ming woman writer Yang Wan 楊宛 (ca. 1600–ca. 1647), whose transformation of identity from a courtesan celebrity to a gentry wife was one of the most representative in the category of courtesan turned concubine/wife. Her marriage lasted for decades, and her role as a family woman fully developed over time. By approaching her writings from the perspective of space, it reveals how a woman perceived and interpreted her changing status by framing her self-representation and emotional expression within two feminine spaces: the pleasure quarter and the inner chamber. Yang Wan's identity transformation and her strategic exploration of the gendered spaces along with their diverse symbolic codes contribute to our knowledge of the social, textual, and cultural mobility of late imperial China.","PeriodicalId":53810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"397 - 424"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46681122","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}
{"title":"Rereading a Poetics of Divination: Oracular Visuality and Iterations of Landscape in Wei-Jin Lyricism","authors":"Thomas Donnelly Noel","doi":"10.1215/23290048-9965606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9965606","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:While Chinese poets of the early medieval period have long been credited with the development of shanshui 山水 (landscape) poetry, the precursors of the prosody they employed merit further scrutiny. This article argues that an ancient poetics of visual augury informed early medieval shanshui lyricism and that similar iterations of nature writing emerged earlier than is often recognized. By tracing the use of the divinatory utterance yangfu 仰俯 (looking up and looking down) in earlier depictions of the natural world, the author reconsiders the visual poetics of later shanshui literature alongside texts that use analogous mantic terminology. This study concludes that, while China's first \"nature poets\" constructed imagery, lyrics, and personae that appear distinct if not even contradictory to one another, the poets relied on a common visual prosody derived from preestablished mantic approaches to the natural world and its representation. In so doing, this article also further highlights the underappreciated prosodic and ideological indebtedness of later shanshui poets to the authors of the Eastern Han and provides insight into the correlations that ran between diverse forms of linguistic visuality and the poetic explorations of the natural world in early China.","PeriodicalId":53810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"277 - 307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44181121","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}
{"title":"\"BoWuZhi(博物志)\"Exploration of the idea of the unity of heaven and man","authors":"Shengchao Li, Youngjun Choi","doi":"10.31985/jcl.88.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31985/jcl.88.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80477796","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}
{"title":"A Study of Ni Yuanlu and his Paintings of Shijiao","authors":"Jeongsoo Shin","doi":"10.31985/jcl.88.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31985/jcl.88.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89435334","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}
{"title":"A Study on the Performance situation of Han Dynasty Jiao-Di opera","authors":"Su-Anne Yeo","doi":"10.31985/jcl.88.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31985/jcl.88.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88553541","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}
{"title":"A Study of the meaning of Time format in Dunhuang Time-sharing joint chapter lyrics 〈Wu geng zhuan〉","authors":"Kum-nam Kim","doi":"10.31985/jcl.88.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31985/jcl.88.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture","volume":"313 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76521784","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}
{"title":"A Study of the meaning and transition process of the Chinese Character '您'","authors":"Sungsook Lee, Kanghun Joo","doi":"10.31985/jcl.88.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31985/jcl.88.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72739651","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}