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100	1		_aFox, Ariel, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Cornucopian Stage : _bPerforming Commerce in Early Modern China / _cAriel Fox.
246	3		_aPerforming Commerce in Early Modern China
264		1	_aMassachusetts ; _aCambridge : _bHarvard University Asia Center, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_tPreliminary Material / _rAuthor: Ariel Fox -- Introduction / _rAuthor: Ariel Fox -- Money Props and the Properties of Money / _rAuthor: Ariel Fox -- Every Man a Merchant / _rAuthor: Ariel Fox -- Ventures over, under, and beyond the Seas / _rAuthor: Ariel Fox -- Staging the Endless Surplus / _rAuthor: Ariel Fox -- The Cornucopian Stage / _rAuthor: Ariel Fox -- Bibliography / _rAuthor: Ariel Fox -- Index / _rAuthor: Ariel Fox -- Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series / _rAuthor: Ariel Fox.
520			_aThe long seventeenth century in China was a period of tremendous commercial expansion, and no literary genre was better equipped to articulate its possibilities than southern drama. As a form and a practice, southern drama was in the business of world-building—both in its structural imperative to depict and reconcile the social whole and in its creation of entire economies dependent on its publication and performance. However, the early modern commercial world repelled rather than engaged most playwrights, who consigned its totems—the merchant and his money—to the margins as sources of political suspicion and cultural anxiety. In The Cornucopian Stage , Ariel Fox examines a body of influential yet understudied plays by a circle of Suzhou playwrights who enlisted the theatrical imaginary to very different ends. In plays about long-distance traders and small-time peddlers, impossible bargains and broken contracts, strings of cash and storehouses of silver, the Suzhou circle placed commercial forms not only at center stage but at the center of a new world coming into being. Here, Fox argues, the economic character of early modern selfhood is recast as fundamentally productive—as the basis for new subject positions, new kinds of communities, and new modes of art. See Less
546			_aEnglish
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aChinese drama _yMing dynasty, 1368-1644 _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aChinese drama _yQing dynasty, 1644-1912 _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aCommerce in literature.
650		0	_aMerchants in literature.
650		0	_aMoney in literature.
650		0	_aTheater and society _zChina _xHistory _y17th century.
650		0	_aTheater _zChina _zSuzhou Shi (Jiangsu Sheng) _xHistory _y17th century.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tThe Cornucopian Stage : Performing Commerce in Early Modern China. _dMassachusetts ; Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center, 2023. _z9780674293755 _w(DLC) 2023008706
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9781684176816
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