Performing the Emperor
Sui Jingchen's “Han Gaozu Returns to His Home Village”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13087765 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karin Myhre (University of Georgia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-58 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2329-0056 • E-ISSN: 2329-0048 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/23290048-8898609 |
| OpenAlex | W3172104150 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
Reading Sui Jingchen's song suite “Gaozu Returns to His Home Village” against early sources, this article explores how Sui's work selects and inverts the elements that ground definitive historical accounts of rulership to refashion a familiar narrative in a theatrical mode. The sanqu's use of performance tropes expands the scope of criticism in this humorous piece past concerns about Yuan rulership, or even the imperial institution, to broader questions of representational instability and uncertainty. These shifts implicate readers in a social and political critique and engage issues often associated with early modern fiction and drama, including authenticity, imposture, and interpolations of author, character, player, reader, and audience
Ancient history · Art · Character (mathematics · Criticism · Drama · Emperor · Institution · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Social science · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law
Records of the grand historian of China
The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays
Worldly Stage
Great Reckonings in Little Rooms
Chinese Theater 1100-1450
Enchantment and Disenchantment
Enchantment and Disenchantment
The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China
Text and Ritual in Early China
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature
Chinese Theater, 1100-1450
Nobody's Genre, Everybody's Song
The Eternal Present of the Past
Prohibition of Jiatou Zaju in the Ming Dynasty and the Portrayal of the Emperor on Stage
Playing With Food
Persons, Roles, and Minds
Rethinking the History of Early Sanqu Songs
Sunflower Splendor
From Ritual to Theatre
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |