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Bannermen Tales (Zidishu) : Manchu Storytelling and Cultural Hybridity in the Qing Dynasty / Elena Suet-Ying Chiu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chiu, Elena Suet-Ying, author.
- Series:
- Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 105.
- Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 105
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zidishu--History and criticism.
- Zidishu.
- Cultural fusion and the arts--China--History.
- Cultural fusion and the arts.
- Songs, Manchu--History and criticism.
- Songs, Manchu.
- China--Civilization--1644-1912.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 366 pages :) illustrations ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2017.
- Other Title:
- Manchu Storytelling and Cultural Hybridity in the Qing Dynasty
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, 2017.
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The social and cultural context of zidishu in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Beijing
- The performance of zidishu
- Reading zidishu as texts
- The dissemination of zidishu texts
- Conclusion: Performance, text, and ethnicity.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Los Angeles, 2007) under the title: Cultural hybridity in Manchu Bannermen tales (Zidishu).
- 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.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [324]-344) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-68417-089-3
- OCLC:
- 1054962806
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9781684170890 DOI
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