Love for a Laugh: The Comic in Romantic Chuanqi Plays of the 17th and 18th Centuries - Hardcover
by Yanbing Tan
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Availability:In StockContributor:Yanbing TanSeries:Sinica LeidensiaTheme:Cultural Region/Asian, Cultural Region/Middle EasternPublish date:5/31/2023Pages:170
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004547728ISBN-10:900454772XUPC:9789004547728Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Asia, Middle East, DramaSize:9.21 x 6.10 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.427Product ID:SCR2C0NVW0
After the strikingly beautiful Peony Pavilion, how could one write about love and the ideal of emotional authenticity (qing) in the chuanqi genre?
This book presents a group of creative dramatists who confronted this challenge by giving the romantic theme of chuanqi their unique comic twists. This book demonstrates how their comic articulations bring the qing ideal down to the mundane world of family obligations, political ambitions, commercial interests, and gender frustrations.
By highlighting the crucial but understudied role that the comic plays, this book enriches our understanding of the intellectual depth and critical scope of the chuanqi genre.
This book presents a group of creative dramatists who confronted this challenge by giving the romantic theme of chuanqi their unique comic twists. This book demonstrates how their comic articulations bring the qing ideal down to the mundane world of family obligations, political ambitions, commercial interests, and gender frustrations.
By highlighting the crucial but understudied role that the comic plays, this book enriches our understanding of the intellectual depth and critical scope of the chuanqi genre.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004547728ISBN-10:900454772XUPC:9789004547728Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Asia, Middle East, DramaSize:9.21 x 6.10 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.427Product ID:SCR2C0NVW0
Tan, Yanbing: - Yanbing Tan, Ph.D. (2018), Washington University in St. Louis, is Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of the South. She has published articles on late imperial Chinese literature and language pedagogy, including "Humour and Desire in Wang Yun's (1749-1819) Fanhua meng" (Nan Nü, 2019).
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