Książka Persons, Roles, and Minds Tina Lu

Persons, Roles, and Minds

Identity in Peony Pavilion and Peach Blossom Fan

Autor: Tina Lu
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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Focusing on two late-Ming or early-Qing plays central to the Chinese canon, this study explores cruc...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2002
strony
376
EAN
9780804742023
ISBN
0804742022
Enbook ID
04717308
Waga
526
Wymiary
152 x 229 x 23

Pełny opis

Focusing on two late-Ming or early-Qing plays central to the Chinese canon, this study explores crucial questions concerning personal identity. How is a person, as opposed to a ghost or animal, to be defined? How can any specific person (as distinguished, for example, from an impostor or twin) be identified? Both plays are chuanqi, representatives of a monumental genre that represents Chinese dramatic literature at its most complex: Tang Xianzu s Peony Pavilion is a romantic comedy in 55 acts, and Kong Shangren s Peach Blossom Fan narrates the fall of the Ming Dynasty in 40 acts. No reader of Chinese literature would find a sexual encounter between a young man and a female ghost surprising. In Peony Pavilion, however, the lovers actually marry and join human society a possibility that invites speculation on the nature of personhood and agency. By contrast, Peach Blossom Fan addresses the question of identity in an explicitly political fashion. After the fall of Beijing, many men put forward imperial claims. Who, in a time of turmoil, is truly the Emperor? In a Confucian society, where hierarchy and identity are so interdependent, how does the lack of certainty about the Emperor s identity affect all human identities?

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