Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music: Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema

481 Pages·2009·5.125 MB·English

by  Maghiel van Crevel, Tian Yuan Tan, Michel Hockx

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
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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
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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
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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
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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