Buch
Love for a Laugh: The Comic in Romantic Chuanqi Plays of the 17th and 18th Centuries
-
Yanbing Tan
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2023
Auf brill.com kaufen
Buch kaufen
Über dieses Buch
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.
Information zu Autoren / Herausgebern
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).
Fachgebiete
Informationen zur Veröffentlichung
Seiten und Bilder/Illustrationen im Buch
eBook veröffentlicht am:
25. Mai 2023
eBook ISBN:
9789004548237
Seiten und Bilder/Illustrationen im Buch
Inhalt:
170
eBook ISBN:
9789004548237
Schlagwörter für dieses Buch
humour; gender; Ruan Dacheng; Li Yu; Wang Yun; transgender; jealousy; art forgery; humor; caizi-jiaren; scholar beauty; Wu Bing; irony; late imperial China; drama; qing
Zielgruppe(n) für dieses Buch
Graduate and undergraduate students of Chinese, scholars of China’s intellectual history and scholars of comparative theater studies .
