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Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema Sinica Leidensia Edited by Barend J. ter Haar Maghiel van Crevel In co-operation with P.K. Bol, D.R. Knechtges, E.S. Rawski, W.L. Idema, H.T. Zurndorfer VOLUME 92 Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema Edited by Maghiel van Crevel Tian Yuan Tan Michel Hockx LEIDEN • BOSTON 2009 Front cover: “Da xu” 大序 (Great Preface), Qinding Shijing zhuanshuo huizuan 欽定詩經傳説彙纂 (Imperial Edition of the Book of Songs with Collected Explanations), ed. Wang Hongxu 王鴻緒 et al., 24 juan, preface 1727, printed before 1865, Leiden University Sinological Library (Sinol. KNAG 9). Back cover: Wilt Idema in 2007 (photograph by Mylène Siegers). This book is printed on acid-free paper. Text, performance, and gender in Chinese literature and music : essays in honor of Wilt Idema / edited by Maghiel van Crevel, Tian Yuan Tan, Michel Hockx. p. cm. — (Sinica Leidensia, ISSN 0169-9563 ; v. 92) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-17906-6 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Chinese literature—History and criticism. 2. China—In literature. 3. Music—China— History and criticism. 4. Idema, W. L. (Wilt L.) I. Idema, W. L. (Wilt L.) II. Crevel, Maghiel van. III. Tan, Tian Yuan. IV. Hockx, Michel. PL2265.T45 2009 895.1’09—dc22 2009028999 ISSN 0169-9563 ISBN 978 90 04 17906 6 Copyright 2009 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands contents v CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix List of Illustrations xi Introduction 1 A Poetic Narrative of Change: Du Fu’s Poetic Sequence “Going Out the Passes: First Series” 7 Stephen Owen Autobiographical Features in Bai Juyi’s “Biography of the Maestro of Mellow Versification” 23 Victor H. Mair and Rostislav Berezkin Luo Binwang’s Defense of a Jilted Lady: “Amorous Feelings: On Behalf of Miss Guo Sent to Lu Zhaolin” 45 David R. Knechtges The Fall of Former Shu in 925: An Eyewitness Account 59 Glen Dudbridge The Elder of the Eastern Hall Reforms a Prodigal Son: A Play by Qin Jianfu 83 Robert E. Hegel Time Management and Self-Control: Self-Help Guides in Yuan 113 Stephen H. West Rethinking Li Kaixian’s Editorship of Revised Plays by Yuan Masters: A Comparison with His Banter about Lyrics 139 Tian Yuan Tan Singing in Place of Screaming: Subversion As Satire in Late Imperial China 153 Kimberly Besio vi contents The Shape of Things: Locating the Self in Xu Wei’s Zen Master Yu Has a Voluptuous Dream 175 Shiamin Kwa Passion and Chastity: Meng Chengshun and the Fall of the Ming 193 Katherine Carlitz The Representation of Sovereignty in Chinese Vernacular Fiction 211 Xiaofei Tian Music and Dramatic Lyricism in Hong Sheng’s Palace of Eternal Life 233 Ayling Wang Between Performance, Manuscript, and Print: Imagining the Musical Text in Seventeenth-Century Plays and Songbooks 263 Judith T. Zeitlin Guangdong’s Talented Women of the Eighteenth Century 293 Ellen Widmer Unorthodox Female Figures in Zhu Suxian’s Linked Rings of Jade 311 Siao-chen Hu The Poetess and the Precept Master: A Selection of Daoist Poems by Gu Taiqing 325 Beata Grant In Search of a Genuine Chinese Sound: Jiang Wenye and Modern Chinese Music 341 David Der-wei Wang The Guo Guan Ritual Shadow Play of Huanxian 361 Frank Kouwenhoven and Antoinet Schimmelpenninck contents vii Rejective Poetry? Sound and Sense in Yi Sha 389 Maghiel van Crevel Master of the Web: Chen Cun and the Continuous Avant-Garde 413 Michel Hockx Wilt Idema: A Bibliography 431 Notes on Contributors 453 Index 459 viii contents contents ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank Koos Kuiper, for locating a beautiful source text for the front cover illustration; Eveline Idema, for providing the early portrait of Wilt in the Introduction; Marc de Haan and Mylène Siegers, for pro- viding the 1990s and 2007 portraits printed in the Introduction and on the back cover, respectively, and for making their work available at a very reasonable price; Hanno Lecher and DACHS Leiden, for setting up an online citation repository; and the contributors most of all, for their enthusiasm for this project and the quality of their work
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