Theaters of Desire
Subtitle: Authors, Readers, and the Reproduction of Early Chinese Song-Drama, 1300-2000
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 18, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781403961945
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries; Plays & playwrights: classical, early & medieval; Theater - History & Criticism; Performing Arts; History and criticism; Political Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Theater - General; Performing Arts/Dance; China; Asia - General; Asian - General; Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism; History; General; Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368; Ju qu; Qu (Chinese literature); Song dynasty, 960-1279
First sentence: In the first Chinese history of Chinese literature, History of Chinese Humanities (Zhongguo wenxue shi, 1904), Lin Chuanjia (1877-1921) faulted not only Yuan-dynasty literature for its alleged vulgarity, but also took the well-known Japanese proponent of Chinese fiction and drama, Sasagawa Rinpu (1870-1949), to task for mistaking "low-class customs" for "high-brow literature": The literary forms of the Yuan deteriorated steadily.