Robert Joe Cutter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1267504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Joe Cutter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Joe |
| FAMILY NAME | Cutter |
| SIGNATURE | CUTTER R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Poetry of Cao Zhi
This book provides a translation of the complete poems and fu of Cao Zhi (192–232), one of China’s most famous poets. Cao Zhi lived during a tumultuous age, a time of intrepid figures and of bold and violent acts that have captured the Chinese imagination across the centuries. His father Cao Cao (155–220) became the most powerful leader in a divided empire, and on his death, Cao Zhi’s elder brother Cao Pi (187–226) engineered the abdication of th…
Inscribing the Foreign in Early Medieval China: Xiao Yi’s (508–555) “Preface to Illustrations of Tribute Bearers ”
This article is a translation and study of the preface Xiao Yi (508–555) wrote to accompany his scroll painting of foreign envoys to the Liang court. The painting itself exists only in the form of a damaged copy dating from perhaps 1077. The preface itself has been transmitted in Yiwen leiju, Wenyuan yinghua, and collections of Xiao Yi’s works. Despite statements made in the preface and in Xiao’s “Xuan lan fu” regarding his firsthand knowledge of…
Gastropoetics in the Jian’an Period: Food and Memory in Early Medieval China
The importance of the feast in the Jian’an period was already mentioned by Jian’an literary figures themselves, and the role of such feasts in the creation of poetical works and epistolary writing is well known. It has even been noted that the memory of such feasts is largely responsible for the very notion of a Jian’an literary period. In this article, an examination of works in various genres shows that Jian’an writing on food and the transitor…
Alan Berkowitz
To Make Her Mine: Women and the Rhetoric of Property in Early and Early Medieval Fu
The description of women in early and early medieval fu and related genres often employs the rhetorical device know as effictio, usually referred to in poetry as the blazon. The use of the blazon is mainly seen in fu on goddesses, in the Summons Poems of Chu ci, and in certain poems in the Qi, or Sevens, genre. A connection is seen between the blazoning of women and the rhetoric of property that informs the Summons Poems and many fu, with their e…
"Well, how'd you become king, then?" Swords in Early Medieval China
Saying Goodbye: The Transformation of the Dirge in Early Medieval China
Shih-shuo Hsin-yu: A New Account of Tales of the World
Shih-shuo hsin-yu (A New Account of Tales of the World), compiled by Liu I-ch'ing (403-444), is a collection of anecdotes, short conversations, and pithy observations on personalities who lived in China between about 150 and 420 A.D. Mather's classic translation incorporates the commentary of Liu Chun (461-521), adding invaluable information through citations from lost works of the third and fourth centuries.The new edition introduces numerous re…
Tao Qian and The Chinese Poetic Tradition: The Quest for Cultural Identity
A Brush with the Spur: Robert Joe Cutter on the Chinese Cockfight
The Death of Empress Zhen: Fiction and Historiography in Early Medieval China
Examination of an interpolation in Li Shan's Wen xuan commentary shows that the information contained therein, while fictitious insofar as it portrays a romantic attachment between Empress Zhen and Cao Zhi, is more plausible in the matter of her death. Her biography in Chen Shou's San guo zhi and works quoted in Pei Songzhi's commentary bear this out. A dissenting and dubious description of her death in Wang Chen's Wei shu offers a contrast to th…
The Brush and the Spur: Chinese Culture and the Cockfight
The Brush and the Spur: Chinese Culture and the Cockfight
The Poet Shen Yueh (441-513): The Reticent Marquis
This book is a literary biography of Shen Yueh, a statesman, historian, poet, and devout lay defender of both Buddhism and Taoism. His active career spanned three successive dynasties (Liu-Sung, Nan-Ch'i, and Liang), whose capitals were located in the lower Yangtze city of Chien-k'ang (modern Nanking). The title Reticient Marquis (Yin-hou) was awarded him posthumously by the Liang Emperor Wu, who, though owing his own rise to power partly to Shen…
Brocade and Blood: The Cockfight in Chinese and English Poetry
Cockfighting is an ancient and widely distributed activity. As a historical phenomenon and belletristic topic, it reveals a good deal about a society's prevailing values and general cultural tendencies. This article first surveys the history of cockfighting in China and England and then examines some poems on cockfighting in both literary traditions. A marked difference becomes immediately apparent, the English poems being far bloodier and more e…
"History and "The Old Man of the Eastern Wall
ninth-century tale The Old Man of the Eastern Wall by Ch'en Hung is in large measure a social and political commentary. story, which spans the early eighth to early ninth centuries, uses a great deal of historical detail, but close examination turns up historical inaccuracies. These inaccuracies, it is suggested, may be due to a combination of imperfect knowledge, idealization of the K'ai-yuan period, and rhetorical intent
The Incident At the Gate: Cao Zhi, the Succession, and Literary Fame
Cao Zhi's (192-232) Symposium Poems
A Note on the Transmission of the Hsü Hsüan-kuai lu
A Note on the Transmission of the Hsü Hsüan-kuai lu
Cao Zhi's (192-232) Symposium Poems
The Incident At the Gate: Cao Zhi, the Succession, and Literary Fame
"History and "The Old Man of the Eastern Wall
ninth-century tale The Old Man of the Eastern Wall by Ch'en Hung is in large measure a social and political commentary. story, which spans the early eighth to early ninth centuries, uses a great deal of historical detail, but close examination turns up historical inaccuracies. These inaccuracies, it is suggested, may be due to a combination of imperfect knowledge, idealization of the K'ai-yuan period, and rhetorical intent
Brocade and Blood: The Cockfight in Chinese and English Poetry
Cockfighting is an ancient and widely distributed activity. As a historical phenomenon and belletristic topic, it reveals a good deal about a society's prevailing values and general cultural tendencies. This article first surveys the history of cockfighting in China and England and then examines some poems on cockfighting in both literary traditions. A marked difference becomes immediately apparent, the English poems being far bloodier and more e…
The Brush and the Spur: Chinese Culture and the Cockfight
The Brush and the Spur: Chinese Culture and the Cockfight
The Poet Shen Yueh (441-513): The Reticent Marquis
This book is a literary biography of Shen Yueh, a statesman, historian, poet, and devout lay defender of both Buddhism and Taoism. His active career spanned three successive dynasties (Liu-Sung, Nan-Ch'i, and Liang), whose capitals were located in the lower Yangtze city of Chien-k'ang (modern Nanking). The title Reticient Marquis (Yin-hou) was awarded him posthumously by the Liang Emperor Wu, who, though owing his own rise to power partly to Shen…
The Death of Empress Zhen: Fiction and Historiography in Early Medieval China
Examination of an interpolation in Li Shan's Wen xuan commentary shows that the information contained therein, while fictitious insofar as it portrays a romantic attachment between Empress Zhen and Cao Zhi, is more plausible in the matter of her death. Her biography in Chen Shou's San guo zhi and works quoted in Pei Songzhi's commentary bear this out. A dissenting and dubious description of her death in Wang Chen's Wei shu offers a contrast to th…
A Brush with the Spur: Robert Joe Cutter on the Chinese Cockfight
Tao Qian and The Chinese Poetic Tradition: The Quest for Cultural Identity
Shih-shuo Hsin-yu: A New Account of Tales of the World
Shih-shuo hsin-yu (A New Account of Tales of the World), compiled by Liu I-ch'ing (403-444), is a collection of anecdotes, short conversations, and pithy observations on personalities who lived in China between about 150 and 420 A.D. Mather's classic translation incorporates the commentary of Liu Chun (461-521), adding invaluable information through citations from lost works of the third and fourth centuries.The new edition introduces numerous re…
Saying Goodbye: The Transformation of the Dirge in Early Medieval China
"Well, how'd you become king, then?" Swords in Early Medieval China
To Make Her Mine: Women and the Rhetoric of Property in Early and Early Medieval Fu
The description of women in early and early medieval fu and related genres often employs the rhetorical device know as effictio, usually referred to in poetry as the blazon. The use of the blazon is mainly seen in fu on goddesses, in the Summons Poems of Chu ci, and in certain poems in the Qi, or Sevens, genre. A connection is seen between the blazoning of women and the rhetoric of property that informs the Summons Poems and many fu, with their e…
Alan Berkowitz
Gastropoetics in the Jian’an Period: Food and Memory in Early Medieval China
The importance of the feast in the Jian’an period was already mentioned by Jian’an literary figures themselves, and the role of such feasts in the creation of poetical works and epistolary writing is well known. It has even been noted that the memory of such feasts is largely responsible for the very notion of a Jian’an literary period. In this article, an examination of works in various genres shows that Jian’an writing on food and the transitor…
The Poetry of Cao Zhi
This book provides a translation of the complete poems and fu of Cao Zhi (192–232), one of China’s most famous poets. Cao Zhi lived during a tumultuous age, a time of intrepid figures and of bold and violent acts that have captured the Chinese imagination across the centuries. His father Cao Cao (155–220) became the most powerful leader in a divided empire, and on his death, Cao Zhi’s elder brother Cao Pi (187–226) engineered the abdication of th…
Inscribing the Foreign in Early Medieval China: Xiao Yi’s (508–555) “Preface to Illustrations of Tribute Bearers ”
This article is a translation and study of the preface Xiao Yi (508–555) wrote to accompany his scroll painting of foreign envoys to the Liang court. The painting itself exists only in the form of a damaged copy dating from perhaps 1077. The preface itself has been transmitted in Yiwen leiju, Wenyuan yinghua, and collections of Xiao Yi’s works. Despite statements made in the preface and in Xiao’s “Xuan lan fu” regarding his firsthand knowledge of…
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