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Staging Personhood : Costuming in Early Qing Drama / Guojun Wang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wang, Guojun, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Costume--China--History--Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912.
- Costume.
- Clothing and dress--China--History--Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912.
- Clothing and dress.
- Clothing and dress--Social aspects--China.
- Theater--China--History--17th century.
- Theater.
- Theater and society--China.
- Theater and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- After toppling the Ming dynasty, the Qing conquerors forced Han Chinese males to adopt Manchu hairstyle and clothing. Yet China’s new rulers tolerated the use of traditional Chinese attire in performances, making theater one of the only areas of life where Han garments could still be seen and where Manchu rule could be contested.Staging Personhood uncovers a hidden history of the Ming–Qing transition by exploring what it meant for the clothing of a deposed dynasty to survive onstage. Reading dramatic works against Qing sartorial regulations, Guojun Wang offers an interdisciplinary lens on the entanglements between Chinese drama and nascent Manchu rule in seventeenth-century China. He reveals not just how political and ethnic conflicts shaped theatrical costuming but also the ways costuming enabled different modes of identity negotiation during the dynastic transition. In case studies of theatrical texts and performances, Wang considers clothing and costumes as indices of changing ethnic and gender identities. He contends that theatrical costuming provided a productive way to reconnect bodies, clothes, and identities disrupted by political turmoil. Through careful attention to a variety of canonical and lesser-known plays, visual and performance records, and historical documents, Staging Personhood provides a pathbreaking perspective on the cultural dynamics of early Qing China.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION. Costuming as Method
- CHAPTER ONE. Ways to Dress and Ways to See
- CHAPTER TWO. Across Genders and Ethnicities
- CHAPTER THREE. Between Family and State
- CHAPTER FOUR. The Chaste Lady Immortal of Seamless Stitching
- CHAPTER FIVE. From State Attire to Stage Prop
- EPILOGUE. Dressing Other and Self
- Appendix 1: Extant Editions of A Ten- Thousand- Li Reunion
- Appendix 2: Scene Synopsis of A Ten- Thousand- Li Reunion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Revision of author's thesis: Sartorial spectacle : clothing, identity, and the state in early Qing drama.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 05. Mai 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-231-54957-1
- OCLC:
- 1129398697
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