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The phantom heroine : ghosts and gender in seventeenth-century Chinese literature
\"Zeitlin's study centers on the seventeenth century, one of the most interesting and creative periods of Chinese literature and politically one of the most traumatic, witnessing the overthrow of the Ming, the Manchu conquest, and the subsequent founding of the Qing. Drawing on fiction, drama, poetry, medical cases, and visual culture, the author departs from more traditional literary studies, which tend to focus on a single genre or author. Ranging widely across disciplines, she integrates detailed analyses of great literary works with insights drawn from the history of medicine, art history, comparative literature, anthropology, religion, and performance studies.\"
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The voice as something more : essays toward materiality
In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In The Voice as Something More, Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin tackle these paradoxes with a bold and rigorous collection of essays that look at voice as both object of desire and material object.
Using Mladen Dolar's influential A Voice and Nothing More as a reference point, The Voice as Something More reorients Dolar's psychoanalytic analysis around the material dimensions of voices—their physicality and timbre, the fleshiness of their mechanisms, the veils that hide them, and the devices that enhance and distort them. Throughout, the essays put the body back in voice. Ending with a new essay by Dolar that offers reflections on these vocal aesthetics and paradoxes, this authoritative, multidisciplinary collection, ranging from Europe and the Americas to East Asia, from classics and music to film and literature, will serve as an essential entry point for scholars and students who are thinking toward materiality.
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The Cultural Biography of a Musical Instrument: Little Hulei as Sounding Object, Antique, Prop, and Relic
JUDITH ZEITLIN traces the history of a rare musical instrument to consider how the meanings of a thing change over time and are shaped by its representation in various media. Her narrative centers on two collectors who went to extraordinary lengths to document the importance of this \"biographical object\" in their life and work: the dramatist Kong Shanren (1648-1718) and the publisher Liu Shiheng (1875-1926). Focusing on the elaborate forms of literary, theatrical, visual, and printed display that the two men adopted to express the relationships of owner to thing and of thing to the cultural heritage at large, Zeitlin follows the instrument's transformation from \"a leftover thing\" (yiwu) from the past that inspired feelings of regret and nostalgia to \"a cultural relic\" (wenwu) now under the protection of a state museum.
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My Year of Peonies
The year 1998 marked the four hundredth anniversary of Tang Xianzu'sa Peony Pavilion. By 1999 three major productions of the play had appeared in Europe, North America, Australia, and Asia. Chinese literature scholar Judith T. Zeitlin is one of the few who saw all three productions. In this article she examines them in terms of their relationship to Tang's original text and to the modern kunqud performance tradition. Judith T. Zeitlin is associate professor of Chinese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She has published several articles on Peony Pavilion and literati theatre culture of the Ming and Qing. Professor Zeitlin is currently completing a book manuscript on ghosts in the seventeenth-century Chinese literary imagination.
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Feng's original preface to the collection, with its definition of mountain songs as the expression of \"farmers and rural folk\", and its championship of the genuine voice of ordinary men and women over \"the false medicine of Confucian ethical teachings\" clearly struck a powerful chord for twentieth-century reformers and revolutionaries. Over the decades which followed the collection's rediscovery, recognition of its immense value for multiple fields of inquiry, including linguistics, literature, music, popular culture, gender studies and social history, has only grown. [...]the translation of Oki's introductory essay, which is too schematic adequately to represent his research, is riddled with English errors and mistranslations.
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Shared Dreams: The Story of The Three Wives' Commentary on The Peony Pavilion
Patterns of response to Tang Xianzu's 1598 55-act drama \"The Peony Pavilion,\" which are played out most fully in the 1694 \"Wu Wushan's Three Wives' Combined Commentary on The Peony Pavilion or The Soul's Return,\" are examined. The play was an immediate success and later attained near-cult status among 17th-century women.
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