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In seventeenth-century China, as formerly disparate social spheres grew closer, the theater began to occupy an important ideological niche among traditional cultural elites. As the newly rich and the newly educated challenged the position of older elites, notions of performance and spectatorship came to animate diverse aspects of literati cultural production. The goal of Worldly Stage is to show how the theater acquired this figurative power.

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. The exploration of theatricality allowed authors to discuss the emerging middle elite's precarious grasp of symbolic capital and the cultural past. That social roles resembled theatrical roles illuminated the excesses of the socially aspiring and the success of the undeserving. The transience of the world and the vanity of reputation had long informed the Chinese conception of theatricality. But in the seventeenth century, these notions acquired a new verbalization. That theatrical spectatorship provided a model for how one viewed the world was an old idea. What was new was that theatrical models of spectatorship were now applied to the contemporary urban social spectacle in which the theater itself was deeply implicated.

Sophie Volpp is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

猫弟 maud

04-03

Sophie Volpp的文学分析呈现出从文学到社会和从社会到文学的两种模式，而在两种模式背后一致的是挖掘文本背后的文化政治。二元对立的广泛运用，实际上没有让十七世纪戏剧性问题的答案现身。她说推崇的那种让幻觉与幻灭具有张力的戏剧观念，具体化到个人或许不是一种认知能力，而是敏感的伤痛。明朝的衰退与覆灭，与个人青春年华的逝去交相辉映，如同一曲弹词，在风中歌唱这萧飒与凄凉。

pasha

02-28

虽然evidence也许过于unique了一点，但是的确是很有趣的evidence啊！

_iaalaf_

06-10

Late Ming & Early Qing literati-theatre life (CH2: space & architecture)