In From Metaphor to Model: Network Analysis as an Approach to Research and Criticism 從隱喻到模型:作為研究... more In From Metaphor to Model: Network Analysis as an Approach to Research and Criticism 從隱喻到模型:作為研究和批評路徑的人文網絡分析 (Special Issue on Network Analysis). Shuzi renwen 数字人文 (Journal of Digital Humanities. Published by Zhonghua shuju 中華書局) no. 1 (2022): 53–86.
The Shiji 史記 chapter "Guji liezhuan" offers a collection of oral forms and practices that remind ... more The Shiji 史記 chapter "Guji liezhuan" offers a collection of oral forms and practices that remind readers of the performed oral culture from pre-Han and Han times. Language games, storytelling, songs, rhymed speeches, informal fu 賦, as well as various modes of acting and expression contributed to the "smooth eloquence" of guji performances that succeeded in indirect remonstrance through the paired actions of facilitating 滑 and stopping 稽. In their own ways, these anecdotes also remind us of possible connections and dynamics between performance and its textual recounting, between oral culture and its written records.
Anecdotes are important vehicles of memory in the construction of historical narratives as well a... more Anecdotes are important vehicles of memory in the construction of historical narratives as well as of various perspectives and discourses on the past.1 Accounts from major midand late Tang collections of historical anecdotes, such as Liu Su’s 劉肅 (fl. 806–820) Da Tang xinyu 大唐新語 and Li Zhao’s 李肇 (fl. ca. 812–830) Guoshi bu 國史補, have been widely quoted as source material in historical writings and “brush jottings” (biji 筆記) of later times, as well as in scholarly research today. However, as Anna M. Shields points out in her study of the Guoshi bu as mid-Tang political and social critique, the original objectives of these miscellaneous collections and how they selected and organized their material remain important and deserve due attention.2 Instead of reading large collections with hundreds of accounts such as the Guoshi bu, this paper examines a small late Tang compilation of sixteen anecdotes, titled Songchuang zalu 松牕雜錄 (Miscellaneous Notes under the Pine Window), to reveal its dis...
In From Metaphor to Model: Network Analysis as an Approach to Research and Criticism 從隱喻到模型:作為研究... more In From Metaphor to Model: Network Analysis as an Approach to Research and Criticism 從隱喻到模型:作為研究和批評路徑的人文網絡分析 (Special Issue on Network Analysis). Shuzi renwen 数字人文 (Journal of Digital Humanities. Published by Zhonghua shuju 中華書局) no. 1 (2022): 53–86.
The Shiji 史記 chapter "Guji liezhuan" offers a collection of oral forms and practices that remind ... more The Shiji 史記 chapter "Guji liezhuan" offers a collection of oral forms and practices that remind readers of the performed oral culture from pre-Han and Han times. Language games, storytelling, songs, rhymed speeches, informal fu 賦, as well as various modes of acting and expression contributed to the "smooth eloquence" of guji performances that succeeded in indirect remonstrance through the paired actions of facilitating 滑 and stopping 稽. In their own ways, these anecdotes also remind us of possible connections and dynamics between performance and its textual recounting, between oral culture and its written records.
Anecdotes are important vehicles of memory in the construction of historical narratives as well a... more Anecdotes are important vehicles of memory in the construction of historical narratives as well as of various perspectives and discourses on the past.1 Accounts from major midand late Tang collections of historical anecdotes, such as Liu Su’s 劉肅 (fl. 806–820) Da Tang xinyu 大唐新語 and Li Zhao’s 李肇 (fl. ca. 812–830) Guoshi bu 國史補, have been widely quoted as source material in historical writings and “brush jottings” (biji 筆記) of later times, as well as in scholarly research today. However, as Anna M. Shields points out in her study of the Guoshi bu as mid-Tang political and social critique, the original objectives of these miscellaneous collections and how they selected and organized their material remain important and deserve due attention.2 Instead of reading large collections with hundreds of accounts such as the Guoshi bu, this paper examines a small late Tang compilation of sixteen anecdotes, titled Songchuang zalu 松牕雜錄 (Miscellaneous Notes under the Pine Window), to reveal its dis...
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