The Tapestry of Popular Songs in 16th- and 17th Century China
Title | The Tapestry of Popular Songs in 16th- and 17th Century China PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn A. Lowry |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9004145869 |
This study of popular songs offers a new hypothesis about the role of elite in popular culture and evidences how commercial publishing facilitated the rise of selective reading and imitation of texts in late-Ming China, creating a new basis for describing desire and the self.
The Tapestry of Popular Songs in 16th- and 17th-Century China
Title | The Tapestry of Popular Songs in 16th- and 17th-Century China PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Lowry |
Publisher | |
Pages | 419 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Folk poetry, Chinese |
ISBN | 9789047415640 |
Popular songs in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century China form a rich and intriguing body of materials hardly studied so far in the English-speaking world. This book is about these songs and their impact on Chinese culture and literary practice. It examines the tapestry books in which popular songs circulated, how books shaped readers, how books were shaped by a range of literacies, and how arrangements of performance-texts aided imitation and selection of words or phrases. Publishing histories of the popular song collections bring to light how songs were duplicated for readers among the elite and sub-elite. The analysis of how popular songs bring together the "high" and the "low" is of special value for literary scholars and intellectual historians, and challenges the traditonal dichotomy between elite and popular culture.
A Late Sixteenth-Century Chinese Buddhist Fellowship
Title | A Late Sixteenth-Century Chinese Buddhist Fellowship PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Eichman |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 2016-01-19 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004308458 |
Through a detailed analysis of epistolary writing, A Late Sixteenth-Century Chinese Buddhist Fellowship: Spiritual Ambitions, Intellectual Debates, and Epistolary Connections brings to life the Buddhist discourse of a network of lay disciples who debated the value of Chan versus Pure Land, sudden versus gradual enlightenment, adherence to Buddhist precepts, and animal welfare. By highlighting the differences between their mentor, the monk Zhuhong 袾宏 (1535-1615), and his nemesis, the Yangming Confucian Zhou Rudeng 周汝登 (1547-1629), this work confronts long-held scholarly views of Confucian dominance to conclude that many classically educated, elite men found Buddhist practices a far more attractive option. Their intellectual debates, self-cultivation practices, and interpersonal relations helped shape the contours of late sixteenth-century Buddhist culture.
Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature
Title | Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2017-04-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004340629 |
The contributors to Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature: Models, Genres, Subversions and Traditions draw attention to ‘wanton woman’ themes across time as they were portrayed in court history (McMahon), fiction (Stevenson), drama (Lam, Wu), and songs and ballads (Ôki, Epstein, McLaren). Looking back, the essays challenge us with views of sexual transgression that are more heterogeneous than modern popular focus on Pan Jinlian would suggest. Central among the many insights to be found is that despite gender performance in Chinese history being overwhelmingly determined by the needs of patriarchal authority, men and women in the late imperial period discovered diverse ways in which to reflect on how men constantly sought their own bearings in reference to women.
The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music
Title | The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music PDF eBook |
Author | Rhiannon Mathias |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 2021-12-31 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0429575041 |
The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music presents a unique collection of core research by academics and music practitioners from around the world, engaging with an extraordinarily wide range of topics on women’s contributions to Western and Eastern art music, popular music, world music, music education, ethnomusicology as well as in the music industries. The handbook falls into six parts. Part I serves as an introduction to the rich variety of subject matter the reader can expect to encounter in the handbook as a whole. Part II focuses on what might be termed the more traditional strand of feminist musicology – research which highlights the work of historical and/or neglected composers. Part III explores topics concerned with feminist aesthetics and music creation and Part IV focuses on questions addressing the performance and reception of music and musicians. The narrative of the handbook shifts in Part V to focus on opportunities and leadership in the music professions from a Western perspective. The final section of the handbook (Part VI) provides new frames of context for women’s positions as workers, educators, patrons, activists and promoters of music. This is a key reference work for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in music and gender.
Gender in Chinese Music
Title | Gender in Chinese Music PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel A. Harris |
Publisher | University Rochester Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1580464432 |
Gender in Chinese Music draws together contributions from ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, and literary scholars to explore how music is implicated in changing notions of masculinity, femininity, and genders "in between" in Chinese culture.
Bandits in Print
Title | Bandits in Print PDF eBook |
Author | Scott W. Gregory |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2023-04-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501769200 |
Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era. Scott W. Gregory argues that the traditional novel is best understood as a phenomenon of print. He traces the ways in which this particularly influential novel was adapted and altered in the early modern era as it crossed the boundaries of elite and popular, private and commercial, and civil and martial. Moving away from ultimately unanswerable questions about authorship and urtext, Gregory turns instead to the editor-publishers who shaped the novel by crafting their own print editions. By examining the novel in its various incarnations, Bandits in Print shows that print is not only a stabilizing force on literary texts; in particular circumstances and with particular genres, the print medium can be an agent of textual change.