{"product_id":"ritual-opera-and-mercantile-lineage-the-confucian-transformation-of-popular-culture-in-late-imperial-huizhou-9780804750325","title":"Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage: The Confucian Transformation of Popular Culture in Late Imperial Huizhou","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book analyzes Confucian ideology as culture and culture as history by exploring the interplay between popular ritual performance of the opera \u003ci\u003eMulian\u003c\/i\u003e and gentrified mercantile lineages in late imperial Huizhou. \u003ci\u003eMulian\u003c\/i\u003e, originally a Buddhist tale featuring the monk Mulian's journey through the underworld to save his mother, underwent a Confucian transformation in the sixteenth century against a backdrop of vast socioeconomic, intellectual, cultural, and religious changes. The author shows how local elites appropriated the performance of \u003ci\u003eMulian\u003c\/i\u003e, turning it into a powerful medium for conveying orthodox values and religious precepts and for negotiating local social and gender issues altered by the rising money economy. The sociocultural approach of this historical study lifts \u003ci\u003eMulian\u003c\/i\u003e out of the exorcistic-dramatic-ethnographic milieu to which it is usually consigned. This new approach enables the author to develop an alternative interpretation of Chinese popular culture and the Confucian tradition, which in turn sheds significant new light upon the social history of late imperial China.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Qitao Guo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.46w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804750325\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQitao Guo is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the author of \u003ci\u003eExorcism and Money: The Symbolic World of the Five-Fury Spirits in Late Imperial China (Berkeley, 2003).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40141673988211,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_541650e4-8b43-41b5-832a-ce390f1b9b35.jpg?v=1654521324","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/ritual-opera-and-mercantile-lineage-the-confucian-transformation-of-popular-culture-in-late-imperial-huizhou-9780804750325","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}