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Author Lam, Ling Hon, author.

Title The spatiality of emotion in early modern China : from dreamscapes to theatricality / Ling Hon Lam.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]

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Summary "In this book, Lam reads sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Chinese drama through the dual lenses of theatricality and emotion. The book argues against both accounts of theatricality as a universal category and as an exclusively European phenomenon by historicizing the emergence of theatricality out of the medieval dreamscape in early modern China. In other words, this work clings tightly both to Western theory and to the necessity of reading texts in their own historical contexts. The book includes chapters on The Peony Pavilion, cross-gender performance, and cross-cultural exchanges. It both situates the Chinese culture of emotion in the global context and offers a new perspective on the historical formation of self and society in early modern China"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Winds, dreams, theater : a genealogy of emotion-realms -- The heart beside itself : a genealogy of morals -- What is wrong with the wrong career? : a genealogy of playgrounds -- "Not even close to emotion" : a genealogy of knowledge -- Time-space is emotion.
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Subject Chinese drama -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- History and criticism.
Emotions in literature.
Emotions in literature.
Space perception in literature.
Space perception in literature.
Chronological Term 1644-1912
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Literary criticism.
Other Form: Print version: Lam, Ling Hon. Spatiality of emotion in early modern China. New York : Columbia University Press, [2018] 9780231187947 (DLC) 2017052037
ISBN 9780231547581 (electronic)
0231547587
9780231187947
0231187947