The Tapestry of Popular Songs in Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century China
The Tapestry of Popular Songs in Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century China
副标题: Reading, Imitation, and Desire
ISBN: 9789004145863
出版社: Brill Academic Pub
出版年: 2005-8
页数: 440
定价: USD 214.00
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
Popular songs in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century China form a rich and intriguing body of materials hardly studied so far in the English-speaking world. This book is about these songs and their impact on Chinese culture and literary practice.
It examines the tapestry books in which popular songs circulated, how books shaped readers, how books were shaped by a range of literacies, and how arrangements of performance-texts aided imitation and selection of words or phrases.
Publishing histories of the popular song collections bring to light how songs were duplicated for readers among the elite and sub-elite. The analysis of how popular songs bring together the "high" and the "low" is of special value for literary scholars and intellectual historians, and challenges the traditonal dichotomy between elite and popular culture.
作者简介
Kathryn A. Lowry, Ph.D. (1996), Harvard University, is Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She has written on letter collections and the circulation of letters as fiction in early modern China.