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Staging 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....
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2020]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| 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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis: Sartorial spectacle : clothing, identity, and the state in early Qing drama. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231549578 0231549571 |