Worldly Stage: Theatricality in Seventeenth-Century China - Harvard East Asian Monographs - Sophie Volpp - Books - Harvard University, Asia Center - 9780674021440 - 2008
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Worldly Stage: Theatricality in Seventeenth-Century China - Harvard East Asian Monographs


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The goal of Worldly Stage is to show how the theater acquired the figurative power to animate diverse aspects of literati cultural production. Conceptions of theatrical spectatorship, Sophie Volpp argues, helped shape a discourse on social spectatorship that suggested how a discerning person might evaluate the performance of status.


350 pages, 3 b/w illustrations

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released 2008
ISBN13 9780674021440
Publishers Harvard University, Asia Center
Pages 350
Dimensions 164 × 237 × 30 mm   ·   694 g

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