Screen LibraryStaging personhood : costuming in early Qing drama /
"Throughout Chinese history, almost all the "conquest" dynasties forced Chinese people to conform to the rulers' ethnic clothing and hairstyle in the wake of the conquests. This was no different in the early Qing period, when Manchu rulers forced their style on the Han majority....
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Columbia University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Throughout Chinese history, almost all the "conquest" dynasties forced Chinese people to conform to the rulers' ethnic clothing and hairstyle in the wake of the conquests. This was no different in the early Qing period, when Manchu rulers forced their style on the Han majority. However, the theater was one of the only areas of life that was not permeated by Manchu culture and where Han costumes remained. In Exile to the Stage: Costuming and Personhood in Early Qing Drama, Guojun Wang explores clothing and costumes as indices of ethnic and gender identities during the Ming-Qing transition"-- |
| Item Description: | Revision of author's thesis (doctoral) -- Vanderbilt University (2015). |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-285) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780231191906 0231191901 |
| Index Number: | PL2387 |
| CLC: | K892.23 |
| Call Number: | K892.23/W246-1 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Costuming as method -- Ways to dress and ways to see -- Across genders and ethnicities -- Between family and state -- Seamless goddess or chaste lady -- From state attire to stage prop -- Epilogue: Dressing other and self. |