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Theaters of Desire: Authors, Readers, and the Reproduction of Early Chinese Song-Drama, 1300-2000 Hardback - 2004 - 1st Edition

by P. Sieber

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Blending a flair for textual nuance with theoretical engagement, Theaters of Desire not only contributes to our understanding of the most influential form of early Chinese song-drama in local and international cultural contexts, but adds a Chinese perspective to the scholarship on print culture, authorship, and the regulatory discourses of desire. The book argues that, particularly between 1550 and 1680, Chinese elite editors rewrote and printed early plays and songs, so-called Yuan-dynasty zaju and sanqu, to imagine and embody new concepts of authorship, readership and desire, an interpretation that contrasts starkly with the national and racially-oriented reception of song-drama developed by European critics after 1735 and subsequently modified by Japanese and Chinese critics after 1897. By analyzing the critical and material facets of the early song and play tradition across different historical periods and cultural settings, Theaters of Desire presents a compelling case study of literary canon formation.

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In the first Chinese history of Chinese literature, History of Chinese Humanities (Zhongguo wenxue shi, 1904), Lin Chuanjia (1877-1921) faulted not only Yuan-dynasty literature for its alleged vulgarity, but also took the well-known Japanese proponent of Chinese fiction and drama, Sasagawa Rinpu (1870-1949), to task for mistaking "low-class customs" for "high-brow literature": The literary forms of the Yuan deteriorated steadily.

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  • Title Theaters of Desire: Authors, Readers, and the Reproduction of Early Chinese Song-Drama, 1300-2000
  • Author P. Sieber
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 268
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publication date 2004-01-20
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Index
  • ISBN 9781403961945 / 1403961948
  • Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.98 x 0.86 in (20.83 x 15.19 x 2.18 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
  • Category Performing Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects Ju qu - History and criticism, Qu (Chinese literature) - Song dynasty,
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002193053
  • Dewey Decimal Code 895.120

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PATRICIA SIEBER is Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University. After studying Chinese, Japanese and German literature in Tokyo, Zurich and Beijing, she received her Ph.D. in Chinese from the University of California, Berkeley. Her articles on Chinese canon formation, literary thought and East/West cultural relations have appeared in Contemporary Buddhism, Graven Images, Journal of Chinese Religions, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, and Monumenta Serica. She is also the editor of a collection of contemporary Chinese women's fiction Red Is Not the Only Color (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).
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