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Woman in the Tower: “Nineteen Old Poems” and the Poetics of Un/concealment
This paper examines a group of anonymous poems thought to date from the second century AD. Ostensibly straightforward and transparent, the poems tantalize the reader with a protean quality, for it is often difficult to determine who is speaking what to whom. This impression is confirmed by the diverse and often conflicting interpretations made by late imperial Chinese commentators. How do the poems do this? What are the possible consequences for the later development of classical Chinese poetry? These are the questions I address in this paper, with particular attention to the poems' ambiguous personae and incomplete narratives.East Asian Languages and Civilization
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Material and Symbolic Economies: Letters and Gifts in Early Medieval China
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Hao Ran and the Cultural Revolution
This chapter offers a close reading of several works by Liang Jinguang, better known as Hao Ran, contextualizing his work within a tradition of Maoist “cultural revolution” that led up to the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution that began in 1966. Although Hao Ran’s works might appear to be replete with socialist ideology, this chapter argues that the socialist content in his works is actually complicated by the literary tropes and images he uses. On a surface level, revolution sublimates and normalizes every wayward impulse; on an underlying level, however, every wayward impulse continues to seek gratification without ever bothering to justify itself, because it is always already disguised under the normalizing discourse of the revolution.East Asian Languages and Civilization
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Food and Memory: Rethinking Jian’an (196-220)
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Muffled Dialect Spoken by Green Fruits: An Alternative History of Modern Chinese Poetry
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Xin shi yu xiandai shi [New Poetry and Modern Poetry]
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Yu Xin’s “Memory Palace”: Writing Trauma and Violence in Early Medieval Chinese Aulic Poetry
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