Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage: The Confucian Transformation of Popular Culture in Late Imperial Huizhou - Hardcover

Guo, Qitao

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804750327 ISBN 13: 9780804750325

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2005

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Críticas

"...scholars of drama and popular culture will be as amply rewarded by this study as the social historians." -- Journal of Chinese Religions "Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage offers much worth reading and digesting. It is an important study, and it will certainly influence future generations of students." -- Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies "Qitao Guo's most recent book is a fascinating study of the complex interplay between elite and popular and commercial and religious forces shaping the society of the Huizhou region in late imperial China..." -- China Review International "With copious notes demonstrating extensive use of gazetteers, genealogies, local writings, and scripts, Guo's interdisciplinary excursion into the performing arts makes social history exciting to artists and historians, generalists and specialists alike" -- History: Reviews of New Books

Reseña del editor

Focusing on the Confucian transformation of Mulian opera, and especially on the interplay between the "civilizing" effect of ritual performance and the rise of gentrified mercantile lineages in sixteenth-century Huizhou prefecture, this book develops a radically novel interpretation of both Chinese popular culture and the Confucian tradition in late imperial China.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0804750327
• ISBN 13: 9780804750325
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384