The Cornucopian Stage : Performing Commerce in Early Modern China /

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.

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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.
Theater and society > China > History > 17th century.
Theater > China > Suzhou Shi (Jiangsu Sheng) > History > 17th century.

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Call Number: PL2386

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Author: Ariel Fox
  • Introduction /
  • Author: Ariel Fox
  • Money Props and the Properties of Money /
  • Author: Ariel Fox
  • Every Man a Merchant /
  • Author: Ariel Fox
  • Ventures over, under, and beyond the Seas /
  • Author: Ariel Fox
  • Staging the Endless Surplus /
  • Author: Ariel Fox
  • The Cornucopian Stage /
  • Author: Ariel Fox
  • Bibliography /
  • Author: Ariel Fox
  • Index /
  • Author: Ariel Fox
  • Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series /
  • Author: Ariel Fox.