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Author Xiao, Li-ling, 1964-

Title The eternal present of the past : illustration, theatre, and reading in the Wanli period, 1573-1619 / Li-ling Hsiao.

Publication Info. Leiden : Brill ; Biggleswade : Extenza Turpin [distributor], 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 347 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series China studies ; v. 12
China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 12.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-334) and index.
Contents Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Theater, Illustration, and Time; Chapter One: Toward the Contextualization of Woodblock Illustration: A Critique of Art Historical Method; Chapter Two: The Stage or the Page: Competing Conceptions of the Play in the Wanli Period; Chapter Three: Performance Illustration; Chapter Four: Performance as an Interaction with the Past; Chapter Five: Image as an Interaction with the Past; Chapter Six: Reading as an Interaction with the Past; Conclusion: The Role of the Publisher; Appendix; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Drawing together illustration, theater, and literature, this study examines a late Ming conception of the stage as a mystical space for temporal conflation that allowed the past to be reborn in the present and to uphold the continuity of the cultural tradition.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Chronological Term 1368-1644
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Xiao, Li-ling, 1964- Eternal present of the past. Leiden : Brill ; Biggleswade : Extenza Turpin [distributor], 2007 (DLC) 2007298876 (OCoLC)85898551
ISBN 9789047419952 (electronic book)
9047419952 (electronic book)
9789004156432
9004156437
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004156432.i-349