Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage write by Qitao Guo. This book was released on 2005. Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage
Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage write by Harriet T. Zurndorfer. This book was released on 2007. Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Huizhou
Huizhou - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Huizhou write by Prof. Qitao Guo. This book was released on 2022-03-15. Huizhou available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Huizhou studies the construction of local identity through kinship in the prefecture of Huizhou, the most prominent merchant stronghold of Ming China. Employing an array of untapped genealogies and other sources, Qitao Guo explores how developments in the sociocultural, religious, and gender realms from the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries intertwined to shape Huizhou identity as a land of "prominent lineages." This gentrified self-image both sheltered and guided the development of mercantile lineages, which were further bolstered by the gender regime and the local religious order. As Guo demonstrates, the discrepancy between representation and practice helps explain Huizhou's triumphs. The more active the economy became, the more those central to its commercialization embraced conservative sociocultural norms. Home lineages embraced neo-Confucian orthodoxy even as they provided the financial and logistical support to assure the success of Huizhou merchants. The end result was not "capitalism" but a gentrified mercantile lineage culture with Chinese—or Huizhou—characteristics.
Opera and the City
Opera and the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Opera and the City write by Andrea Goldman. This book was released on 2013-12-10. Opera and the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values. It is in this context that historian Andrea S. Goldman harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history. Her meticulous yet playful account takes up the multiplicity of opera types that proliferated at the time, exploring them as contested sites through which the Qing court and commercial playhouses negotiated influence and control over the social and moral order. Opera performance blurred lines between public and private life, and offered a stage on which to act out gender and class transgressions. This work illuminates how the state and various urban constituencies manipulated opera to their own ends, and sheds light on empire-wide transformations underway at the time.
Hokkien Theatre Across The Seas
Hokkien Theatre Across The Seas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hokkien Theatre Across The Seas write by Caroline Chia. This book was released on 2018-11-13. Hokkien Theatre Across The Seas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book adopts a refreshing approach by examining Hokkien theatre in a region connected by maritime networks, notably southern Fujian, Taiwan, Kinmen and Singapore. It considers how regional theatre is shaped by broader socio-cultural and political contexts and the motivation to stay relevant in an era of modernisation and secularisation. Political domains are often marked out by land boundaries, but the sea concept denotes fluidity, allowing theatrical forms to spread across these ‘land-bounded’ societies and share a common language and culture. "This is an insightful theatrical study on the web of Chinese cultural networks in southern China and Singapore, and by extension, between China and Southeast Asia in the twentieth century and beyond. Using diverse sources in multiple languages and extensive field ethnography, this is a ground-breaking study which is both didactic and inspiring." - Lee Tong Soon, author of Chinese Street Opera in Singapore (University of Illinois, 2009). "Focusing on Hokkien theatre, this book offers new insights into how Chinese performing art responds to geographical, temporal, and social changes. Historical sources in different languages are widely used to give access to the cultural characteristics of Hokkien theatre, offering valuable ethnographic reports on the contemporary practices of Hokkien theatre in Taiwan, Kinmen, and Singapore. The book comments on the changing ritualistic significance of Hokkien theatre, and help us understand how societies remember the past of a performing tradition, and shape its present." - Luo Ai Mei, Co-Editor of A Preliminary Survey of the Cantonese Eight Song Cycles in South China: History and Sources (2016)
