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Bannermen tales (zidishu) : Manchu storytelling and cultural hybridity in the Qing dynasty

Title
Bannermen tales (zidishu) : Manchu storytelling and cultural hybridity in the Qing dynasty / Elena Suet-Ying Chiu.
Author
Chiu, Elena Suet-Ying, 1974-
Publication
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Description
xiv, 366 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"The first full-length study in English of zidishu, an important storytelling and performance genre rooted in the hybrid, popular culture of Qing dynasty Beijing, which was associated with the culture of the Qing bannermen--the Manchu's military and administrative personnel. Argues that zidishu employed cultural hybridization as a way of performing and thereby perpetuating Manchu identity"--
Series Statement
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 105
Uniform Title
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 105.
Subject
  • Zidishu > History and criticism
  • Cultural fusion and the arts > China > History
  • Songs, Manchu > History and criticism
  • China > Civilization > 1644-1912
Note
  • Chiu, Elena Suet-Ying. Needs NAR Elena Suet-Ying Chiu is associate professor of Chinese at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Phone: (413) 545-5840 Birth Date: See thesis record at ocn 301745342, which says 1974. Email: chiu@llc.umass.edu http://www.umass.edu/asianlan/people/profiles/ElenaChiu.html
  • Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Los Angeles, 2007) under the title: Cultural hybridity in Manchu Bannermen tales (Zidishu).
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-344) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Zidishu in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Beijing -- The performance of zidishu -- The Manchu-Han bilingual zidishu -- Zidishu written in Han Chinese -- The dissemination of zidishu texts -- Epilogue : performance, text, and ethnicity.
Call Number
JFE 18-4880
ISBN
  • 9780674975194
  • 0674975197
LCCN
2016028807
OCLC
953918978
Author
Chiu, Elena Suet-Ying, 1974- author.
Title
Bannermen tales (zidishu) : Manchu storytelling and cultural hybridity in the Qing dynasty / Elena Suet-Ying Chiu.
Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 105
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 105.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-344) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 18-4880
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