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The cornucopian stage : performing commerce in early modern China
- Title
- The cornucopian stage : performing commerce in early modern China / Ariel Fox.
- Author
- Fox, Ariel, 1982-
- Publication
- Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2023.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Harvard University. Asia Center, publisher.
- Description
- xiii, 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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 depict and reconcile the social whole and in its creation of entire economies dependent on its publication and performance. However, the early modern commercial world repelled rather than engaged most playwrights, who consigned its totems -- the merchant and his money -- to the margins as sources of political suspicion and cultural anxiety. In 'The Cornucopian Stage', Ariel Fox examines a body of influential yet understudied plays by a circle of Suzhou playwrights who enlisted the theatrical imaginary to very different ends. In plays about long-distance traders and small-time peddlers, impossible bargains and broken contracts, strings of cash and storehouses of silver, the Suzhou circle placed commercial forms not only at center stage but at the center of a new world coming into being. Here, Fox argues, the economic character of early modern selfhood is recast as fundamentally productive -- as the basis for new subject positions, new kinds of communities, and new modes of art."--
- Series Statement
- Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 140
- Uniform Title
- Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 140.
- Subject
- 17th century
- Chinese drama > Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 > History and criticism
- Chinese drama > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 > History and criticism
- Theater > China > Suzhou Shi (Jiangsu Sheng) > History > 17th century
- Money in literature
- Merchants in literature
- Commerce in literature
- Theater and society > China > History > 17th century
- Theater
- History
- Theater and society
- China > Suzhou Shi (Jiangsu Sheng)
- China
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Money props and the properties of money -- Every man a merchant -- Ventures over, under, and beyond the seas -- Staging the endless surplus -- Conclusion: The cornucopian stage.
- Call Number
- JFE 24-1009
- ISBN
- 9780674293755
- 0674293754
- LCCN
- 2023008706
- OCLC
- 1369678954
- Author
- Fox, Ariel, 1982- author.
- Title
- The cornucopian stage : performing commerce in early modern China / Ariel Fox.
- Publisher
- Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2023.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 140Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 140.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 17th century
- Added Author
- Harvard University. Asia Center, publisher.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 24-1009