Ritual Opera And Mercantile Lineage: The Confucian Transformation Of Popular Culture In Late Imperial Huizhou - Couverture rigide

Guo, Qitao

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ISBN 10 : 0804750327 ISBN 13 : 9780804750325

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This book analyzes Confucian ideology as culture and culture as history by exploring the interplay between popular ritual performance of the opera Mulian and gentrified mercantile lineages in late imperial Huizhou. Mulian, originally a Buddhist tale featuring the monk Mulian's journey through the underworld to save his mother, underwent a Confucian transformation in the sixteenth century against a backdrop of vast socioeconomic, intellectual, cultural, and religious changes. The author shows how local elites appropriated the performance of Mulian, turning it into a powerful medium for conveying orthodox values and religious precepts and for negotiating local social and gender issues altered by the rising money economy. The sociocultural approach of this historical study lifts Mulian out of the exorcistic-dramatic-ethnographic milieu to which it is usually consigned. This new approach enables the author to develop an alternative interpretation of Chinese popular culture and the Confucian tradition, which in turn sheds significant new light upon the social history of late imperial China.

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À propos de l?auteur

Qitao Guo is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the author of Exorcism and Money: The Symbolic World of the Five-Fury Spirits in Late Imperial China (Berkeley, 2003).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804750327
• ISBN 13: 9780804750325
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible