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Author Mei, Chun, 1976-

Title The novel and theatrical imagination in early modern China / by Mei Chun.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 277 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; 101
Sinica Leidensia ; 101.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Part I. Xi in early modern context. Theatrum mundi: the theatrical, the playful, the ephemeral; the structuring of Xi in illustrations and a prologue theatrical -- Part II. Playful theatricals: Shuihu zhuan and Xiyou ji. Staging, spectacles, and acts of recognition; Staging, mimicry, and acts of appropriation; Acting, quren, and the authenticity of incongruity; Acting, jiaren, and the artifice of congruity; Viewing: perceptive and fleshly eyes -- Part III. Didactic theater versus playful theatricals: tropes of theater in Zhishang chuntai and Wusheng xi.
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Subject Shui hu zhuan.
Shui hu zhuan.
Wu, Cheng'en, approximately 1500-approximately 1582. Xi you ji.
Shui hu zhuan.
Xi you ji (Wu, Cheng'en)
Chinese fiction -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368 -- History and criticism.
Theater in literature.
Theater in literature.
Chronological Term 1260-1644
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Mei, Chun, 1976- Novel and theatrical imagination in early modern China. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004191662 (DLC) 2010046686 (OCoLC)682903107
ISBN 9789004195936 (electronic book)
9004195939 (electronic book)
9789004191662
9004191666