Cornucopian Stage - Performing Commerce in Early Modern China

Ariel Fox's The Cornucopian Stage examines a body of influential yet understudied early modern Chinese plays by a circle of Suzhou playwrights. These plays about long-distance traders and small-time peddlers, impossible bargains and broken contracts, place commercial forms not only at center stage but at the center of a new world coming into being.

About the author

Ariel Fox is Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Chicago.

Summary

Ariel Fox’s The Cornucopian Stage examines a body of influential yet understudied early modern Chinese plays by a circle of Suzhou playwrights. These plays about long-distance traders and small-time peddlers, impossible bargains and broken contracts, place commercial forms not only at center stage but at the center of a new world coming into being.

Product details

• Authors: Ariel Fox
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9780674293755
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29375-5
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, HISTORY / Asia / China, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century, Theatre Studies, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Asian History, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800