Persons, Roles, and Minds

Identity in Peony Pavilion and Peach Blossom Fan

Autor: Tina Lu

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Stanford University Press

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Focusing on two late-Ming or early-Qing plays central to the Chinese canon, this study explores cruc...

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Autor

Tina Lu

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2002

Stránek

376

EAN

9780804742023

ISBN

0804742022

Enbook ID

04717308

Vydavatel

Stanford University Press

Hmotnost

526

Rozměry

152 x 229 x 23

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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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