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ISBN 10: 9004156437

ISBN 13: 978-9004156432

Author: Li Ling Hsiao

This study draws together various elements in late Ming culture - illustration, theater, literature - and examines their interrelation in the context of the publication of drama. It examines a late Ming conception of the stage as a mystical space in which the past was literally reborn within the present. This temporal conflation allowed the past to serve as a vigorous and immediate moral example and was considered a hugely important mechanism by which the continuity of the Confucian tradition could be upheld.
By using theatrical conventions of stage arrangement, acting gesture, and frontal address, drama illustration recreated the mystical character of the stage within the pages of the book, and thus set the conflation of past and present on a broader footing.

Table of contents:

1. Toward The Contextualization Of Woodblock Illustration: A Critique Of Art Historical Method

2. The Stage Or The Page: Competing Conceptions Of The Play In The Wanli Period

3. Performance Illustration

4. Performance As An Interaction With The Past

5. Image As An Interaction With The Past

6. Reading As An Interaction With The Past

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