Wu Cuncun
Biographic Data
| ID | 8985505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wu Cuncun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wu |
| FAMILY NAME | Cuncun |
| SIGNATURE | CUNCUN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Hong Kong University;, Email: [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Suzhou Dialect, Social Status, and Gender in Sancaifu , a Rediscovered Mid-Qing Chuanqi Play
Commencing in the mid-Qing period, the composition of literary works in authors’ local dialects emerged as a growing trend in the Jiangnan region. Studies to date have noted several examples of Wu dialect fiction and tanci, while Kunqu plays, the dominant form of southern (chuanqi) opera, continued to be written in a mixture of classical Chinese and guanhua. The mid-Qing play Sancaifu 三才福 (All Goes Well for Three Talented Friends), kept in the Sk…
'It Was I Who Lured the Boy'
This paper surveys bodily imagery and eroticism in Feng Menglong's Shan'ge (Mountain songs) and Guazhi'er (Hanging branch) collections. The direct simplicity and natural expression of desire in folksongs originating among commoners and courtesans caught the imagination of Feng Menglong and other members of the late Ming literati seeking to challenge orthodox strictures on life and imagination. This study argues that the contrasts between the cont…
Speaking of Flowers
This paper examines the nineteenth-century flourishing of a homoerotic theatre literature paralleling the development of jingju (Beijing opera), theorizing its impact on public culture in the Chinese capital. Popular among literati gentlemen, "flower guides" (huapu) extolling the beauty of boy actors (xiao ling) have left a valuable record of the busy social life that centered upon Beijing's theatres and nearby restaurants and nightclubs. With re…
Speaking of Flowers
This paper examines the nineteenth-century flourishing of a homoerotic theatre literature paralleling the development of jingju (Beijing opera), theorizing its impact on public culture in the Chinese capital. Popular among literati gentlemen, "flower guides" (huapu) extolling the beauty of boy actors (xiao ling) have left a valuable record of the busy social life that centered upon Beijing's theatres and nearby restaurants and nightclubs. With re…
'It Was I Who Lured the Boy'
This paper surveys bodily imagery and eroticism in Feng Menglong's Shan'ge (Mountain songs) and Guazhi'er (Hanging branch) collections. The direct simplicity and natural expression of desire in folksongs originating among commoners and courtesans caught the imagination of Feng Menglong and other members of the late Ming literati seeking to challenge orthodox strictures on life and imagination. This study argues that the contrasts between the cont…
Speaking of Flowers
This paper examines the nineteenth-century flourishing of a homoerotic theatre literature paralleling the development of jingju (Beijing opera), theorizing its impact on public culture in the Chinese capital. Popular among literati gentlemen, "flower guides" (huapu) extolling the beauty of boy actors (xiao ling) have left a valuable record of the busy social life that centered upon Beijing's theatres and nearby restaurants and nightclubs. With re…
Suzhou Dialect, Social Status, and Gender in Sancaifu , a Rediscovered Mid-Qing Chuanqi Play
Commencing in the mid-Qing period, the composition of literary works in authors’ local dialects emerged as a growing trend in the Jiangnan region. Studies to date have noted several examples of Wu dialect fiction and tanci, while Kunqu plays, the dominant form of southern (chuanqi) opera, continued to be written in a mixture of classical Chinese and guanhua. The mid-Qing play Sancaifu 三才福 (All Goes Well for Three Talented Friends), kept in the Sk…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (2 works) · Beijing (2 works) · China (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works)