Popular Fiction and the Culture of Everyday Life
A Cultural Analysis of Qin Shouou's Qiuhaitang
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6008384 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mau-Sang Ng (University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 131-156 |
| Publication date | 1994-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/009770049402000201 |
| OpenAlex | W2019744859 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
Author Qin Shouou's claim about the popularity of his work is hardly exaggerated.2 According to Chen Cunren, a long-time Shanghai resident and well-known scholar of traditional Chinese medicine, when the work was serialized in Shenbao between 1940-1941, it was so popular that he would hear passengers discussing it in buses and trams (Chen, 1975: 23-24). Immediately after the serialization, the work was adapted for the Shanghai opera and shown to packed houses for six consecutive months. The popularity of the opera caught the attention of Huang Zuolin, a famous playwright, who adapted it into a modem drama which was first performed on December 24, 1942. It is reported that when the play opened in the Carlton Theater, one of the classiest in Shanghai, the audience was mostly from the welldressed middle or upper middle class, but later performances also attracted members of the lower classes. A janitor of the theater was quoted as saying that after each performance, the floor was scattered with orange and banana peels, as well as peanut and melon seed shells, something rare with the usual Carlton audience. Later, the celebrated woman storyteller Fan Xuejun adapted the story, and sang and narrated it in her well-attended performances
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 1999 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |