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After the strikingly beautiful Peony Pavilion, how could one write about love and the ideal of emotional authenticity (qing) in the chuanqi genre?
This book presents a group of creative dramatists who confronted this challenge by giving the romantic theme of chuanqi their unique comic twists. This book demonstrates how their comic articulations bring the qing ideal down to the mundane world of family obligations, political ambitions, commercial interests, and gender frustrations.
By highlighting the crucial but understudied role that the comic plays, this book enriches our understanding of the intellectual depth and critical scope of the chuanqi genre.
This book presents a group of creative dramatists who confronted this challenge by giving the romantic theme of chuanqi their unique comic twists. This book demonstrates how their comic articulations bring the qing ideal down to the mundane world of family obligations, political ambitions, commercial interests, and gender frustrations.
By highlighting the crucial but understudied role that the comic plays, this book enriches our understanding of the intellectual depth and critical scope of the chuanqi genre.
Price: $122.00
Pages: 170
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Sinica Leidensia
Publication Date:
31 May 2023
ISBN: 9789004547728
Format: Hardcover
Yanbing Tan, Ph.D. (2018), Washington University in St. Louis, is Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of the South. She has published articles on late imperial Chinese literature and language pedagogy, including "Humour and Desire in Wang Yun's (1749-1819) Fanhua meng" (Nan Nü, 2019).