{"product_id":"ritual-opera-and-mercantile-lineage-9780804750325","title":"Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on the Confucian transformation of Mulian opera, and especially on the interplay between the civilizing effect of ritual performance and the rise of gentrified mercantile lineages in sixteenth-century Huizhou prefecture, this book develops a radically novel interpretation of both Chinese popular culture and the Confucian tradition in late imperial China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With copious notes demonstrating extensive use of gazetteers, genealogies, local writings, and scripts, Guo's interdisciplinary excursion into the performing arts makes social history exciting to artists and historians, generalists and specialists alike\" -- \u003ci\u003eHistory: Reviews of New Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Qitao Guo's most recent book is a fascinating study of the complex interplay between elite and popular and commercial and religious forces shaping the society of the Huizhou region in late imperial China...\" -- \u003ci\u003eChina Review International\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRitual Opera and Mercantile Lineage\u003c\/i\u003e offers much worth reading and digesting. It is an important study, and it will certainly influence future generations of students.\" -- \u003ci\u003eHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...scholars of drama and popular culture will be as amply rewarded by this study as the social historians.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Chinese Religions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents for         Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage        List of Map, Figures, and Tables        List of Abbreviations        List of Reign Periods of the Ming and Qing Dynasties        Acknowledgments        Introduction        Part One: The Setting        1.      A Gentrified Kinship Society        2.      Huizhou Merchants and mercantile Lineage Culture        Part Two: The Script        3.      The Mulian Legacy        4.      The Confucian Transformation of the Mulian Tradition        Part Three: The Performance        5.      An Integrated Tradition: Mulian Scripts and Female Chastity        6.      A Shared Culture: Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage        Conclusion        Appendix A: Extant Mulian Operatic Scripts        Appendix B: Huizhou Ancestral Halls (ca. 1500-1644)        Appendix C: Homophonic and Graphic Substitutions and Sardonic Characters in Mulian Scripts        Notes        Glossary        Bibliography        Index","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405559505239,"sku":"9780804750325","price":67.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804750325.jpg?v=1730492832","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ritual-opera-and-mercantile-lineage-9780804750325","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}