The Cornucopian Stage : Performing Commerce in Early Modern China /

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 de...

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Main Author: Fox, Ariel (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Massachusetts ; Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center, 2023.

Subjects:

Chinese drama > Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 > History and criticism.

Chinese drama > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 > History and criticism.

Commerce in literature.

Merchants in literature.

Money in literature.