Every other year, the University of Oklahoma celebrates the winner of the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature (this year Ling Yü, 零⾬) as well as the winners of the Newman Prize for English Jueju (紐曼英語絕句獎). If you or your students would like to try your hand at regulated verse in English, there is a new interactive learning platform https://www.juejupath.com/ which takes learners through five levels of regulated verse rules organized into five levels of the Keju, Chinese Imperial Examination. By logging in with their unique username and password, students/learners will receive badges for each level completed on their way to mastering semantic, grammatical, ping-ze parallelism, qing/jing balance (qi-cheng-zhuan-he), as well as poetic rhythm, imagery, and eventually recitation techniques. Teachers can also create a login for whole classes and track student progress on a teacher’s dashboard. The deadline for submissions is March 7, 2025.
To begin, please visit www.juejupath.com
Learn more about the Newman Prizes.
To watch last year’s winners: see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tV5PT1f0eE&t=40s
Onward,
Jonathan Stalling