商品簡介
Guo (history, U. of Hawai'i-Manoa) explores the intersection of a particular expression of popular culture in a particular place during a particular period. The genre is a religious drama depicting the journey of the Buddhist monk Mulian through the underworld to rescue his sinful mother. The place is a Jiangnan prefecture famed since the 16th century for its Confucian gentry society, strong practice of kinship organization, and far-reaching mercantile influence. The period is late imperial China. He looks at how society, business, and art interacted, and how each developed over time. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Qitao Guo is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the author ofExorcism and Money: The Symbolic World of the Five-Fury Spirits in Late Imperial China (Berkeley, 2003).
