Pub Date : 2015-11-11DOI: 10.1179/1529910415Z.00000000020
Qiulei Hu
Abstract This article examines the indeterminacy of gender and poetic roles of early five-syllable poems (wu yan shi 五言詩). The indeterminacy pervasive in early poetry came to be perceived as a problem beginning in the late third century. A comparison between some early five-syllable poems and their later variations, imitations, and interpretations suggests conscious clarifications of ambiguity and fluidity made by early medieval writers and literary scholars. By the fifth and sixth centuries, relatively indeterminate gender and poetic roles were gradually forced into a neat “map” of more determinate ones in poetic expressions. Certain sentiments and expressions came to be associated with a specific gender or particular identity. This map became an important part of poetic conventions for later writers and it also had a profound influence on our understanding of early poetry. This article explores reasons for changes in the view of gender and poetic roles in greater cultural and literary contexts of the early medieval period, which includes a changing notion of authorship, a different view of the nature and function of five-syllable poetry, and a growing interest in constructing the literary past for this poetic genre.
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Pub Date : 2015-11-11DOI: 10.1179/1529910415Z.00000000018
Matthew Wells
Abstract This paper revisits traditional notions about the relationship between the Jin shu and earlier sources for the Eastern Jin period (317–420), notably the Shishuo xinyu, through an analysis of the Jin shu biography of Wang Dao (276–339), the era's most powerful minister. Although scholars have long deemed the Jin shu a derivative work that uncritically drew upon the Shishuo xinyu and other texts of the period, I demonstrate how the authors of the Jin shu judiciously selected features from earlier sources to produce a portrait of their subject that was grounded in the terms and concerns of early Tang historiography. The careful curation of this material by Tang historians underlines the narrow criteria for selecting material to include in accounts of the period and demonstrates how biographies in the Jin shu were conceived and organized according to the emerging didactic and political functions of state-sanctioned historiography in the early Tang.
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Pub Date : 2015-11-11DOI: 10.1179/1529910415Z.00000000019
W. Swartz
Abstract In his monumental work, “Rhapsody on Dwelling in the Mountains” (“Shanju fu”), Xie Lingyun describes in detail the construction of his home in a setting that would constitute his style of reclusion and poetry, “mountains and rivers” (shanshui). This articles examines how Xie Lingyun built his home through architecture and discourse, and how shaping a home may bear upon the characterization of a particular brand of reclusion in early medieval China. Contrary to the prevailing early medieval view that regards reclusion as being in its loftier form when state of mind is prioritized over physical position, this rhapsody shows that for this scholar in retreat place actually matters. His rhapsody catalogues all varieties of animals and plants, related sceneries and industries, on his mountain estate. This encyclopedic enumeration of things and activities on his estate advances the claim of material self-sufficiency or completeness that he enjoys in his withdrawal, but creates a paradox with the spiritual emptiness that he sought through quietist values and Buddhist faith.
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Pub Date : 2014-09-16DOI: 10.1179/1529910414Z.00000000011
A. Dien
I came to Berkeley in 1949 to study with Professor Peter Boodberg. For someone embarking on a study of the Six Dynasties in the late 40s and early 50s of the last century, there was not much light to help one find one’s way, and there were any number of mysterious areas that beckoned but through which one made little headway. There was, for example, the matter of xuanxue 玄學 ,t he ‘‘Dark Learning,’’ which seemed to be an intriguing subject and of central concern in post-Han times. So one turned to the Shishuo xinyu 世說新語, for it seemed that the intellectual debates of that time were recorded in those pages, and questions that were addressed at that age would be better understood by reading the text. Attempts to gain some understanding by opening the pages of the Shishuo xinyu seemed only to confuse the issue, for the meanings of the passages were often rather opaque. It seemed best to steer around the whole subject and thus avoid ending up in some unrewarding and fruitless quest. This was a period when the mortality rate among students, as it were, was rather high. There was no funding for study, and jobs were almost impossible to find. There had been a few success stories, we were told: Richard Mather, before my time, was said to have found a post; we looked at him in wonder once when he appeared in the library on a rare visit.
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Pub Date : 2014-09-16DOI: 10.1179/1529910414Z.00000000016
Yue Zhang
This bibliography includes Chinese, English, Japanese, French, and German scholarship on the Shishuo xinyu (A New Account of Worldly Affairs). Because a substantial amount of Chinese scholarship has been written on this famous anecdotal collection, I have only selected Chinese monographs. The format of this bibliography largely follows my previous bibliographical article. I adopt traditional Chinese characters and pinyin to list all the items unless the original publications are transliterated in Wade-Giles. The entries are classified into the following categories: 1. Editions 1.1 Pre-Modern Chinese 1.2 Modern Chinese 1.3 Japanese 2. Commentaries and Translations 2.1 Chinese 2.2 English 2.3 Japanese 2.4 French 3. Studies 3.1 Chinese Monographs 3.2 English 3.3 Japanese 3.4 French 3.5 German 4. Reference Works
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Pub Date : 2014-09-16DOI: 10.1179/1529910414Z.00000000012
G. Sanders
Few works can match the importance of the book now known as Shishuo xinyu 世說新語 for its portrayal of cultural attitudes and social practices among elites in China from the second to fourth centuries...
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Pub Date : 2014-09-16DOI: 10.1179/1529910414Z.00000000013
Jack W. Chen, Zoe Borovsky, Yoh Kawano, Ryan Chen
Abstract The following essay takes a macro-perspective on the Shishuo xinyu, reading it not in terms of anecdotal narrative or characterological analysis, but through questions of information management and computer-based visualization. We discuss the history of data visualization and seek to demonstrate the interpretive power (and limitations) that such computational methodologies bring to the study of premodern texts. In particular, we are concerned with the use of geographical information systems (GIS) and social network analysis, as well as with how these tools help us to visualize the complex data contained within the text. In many ways, this essay is intended as an introduction to certain aspects of the emerging field of digital humanities, one that simultaneously seeks to show how these new methodologies work within the disciplinary contexts of premodern Chinese cultural studies.
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Pub Date : 2014-09-16DOI: 10.1179/1529910414Z.00000000010
Joseph R. Allen
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Pub Date : 2014-09-16DOI: 10.1179/1529910414Z.00000000015
Zhenjun Zhang
Abstract As the compiler of several noted collections of Chinese tales, Prince Liu Yiqing was one of the most important figures in the history of early medieval Chinese culture, yet his life has never been fully studied. This article provides the first complete English translation of Liu’s biography, observations on Liu’s life from three different perspectives, and a discussion of his works.
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