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Harvard University Press The Cornucopian Stage: Performing Commerce in Early Modern China: 140 (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)

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The long seventeenth century in China was a period of tremendous commercial expansion, and no literary genre was better equipped to articulate its possibilities than southern drama. As a form and a practice, southern drama was in the business of world-building―both in its structural imperative to depict and reconcile the social whole and in its creation of entire economies dependent on its publication and performance. However, the early modern commercial world repelled rather than engaged most playwrights, who consigned its totems―the merchant and his money―to the margins as sources of political suspicion and cultural anxiety. In The Cornucopian Stage, Ariel Fox examines a body of influential yet understudied plays by a circle of Suzhou playwrights who enlisted the theatrical imaginary to very different ends. In plays about long-distance traders and small-time peddlers, impossible bargains and broken contracts, strings of cash and storehouses of silver, the Suzhou circle placed commercial forms not only at center stage but at the center of a new world coming into being. Here, Fox argues, the economic character of early modern selfhood is recast as fundamentally productive―as the basis for new subject positions, new kinds of communities, and new modes of art.

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Brand: Harvard University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0674293754
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Performing Arts > Theatre
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Release Date: 29 September 2023
Listed Since: 07 February 2023

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