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Songs of Contentment and Transgression - Discharged Officials and Literati Communities in Sixteenth-Century North China (Hardcover)
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Songs of Contentment and Transgression - Discharged Officials and Literati Communities in Sixteenth-Century North China (Hardcover)
Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
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A discharged official in mid-Ming China faced significant changes
in his life. This book explores three such officials in the
sixteenth century-Wang Jiusi, Kang Hai, and Li Kaixian-who turned
to literary endeavors when forced to retire. Instead of the formal
writing expected of scholar-officials, however, they chose to
engage in the stigmatized genre of qu (songs), a collective term
for drama and sanqu. As their efforts reveal, a disappointing end
to an official career and a physical move away from the center led
to their embrace of qu and the pursuit of a marginalized literary
genre. This book also attempts to sketch the largely unknown
literary landscape of mid-Ming north China. After their
retirements, these three writers became cultural leaders in their
native regions. Wang, Kang, and Li are studied here not as solitary
writers but as central figures in the "qu communities" that formed
around them. Using such communities as the basic unit in the study
of qu allows us to see how sanqu and drama were produced,
transmitted, and "used" among these writers, things less evident
when we focus on the individual.
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