Bannermen Tales (Zidishu) : : Manchu Storytelling and Cultural Hybridity in the Qing Dynasty / / Elena Suet-Ying Chiu.

• Superior document: Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 105
• VerfasserIn: Chiu, Elena Suet-Ying,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2017.; Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 105.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 366 pages :); illustrations
• Notes: Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Los Angeles, 2007) under the title: Cultural hybridity in Manchu Bannermen tales (Zidishu).; Chiu, Elena Suet-Ying. Needs NAR Elena Suet-Ying Chiu is associate professor of Chinese at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Phone: [phone] Birth Date: See thesis record at ocn 301745342, which says 1974. Email: [e-mail] http://www.umass.edu/asianlan/people/profiles/ElenaChiu.html.

"The first full-length study in English of zidishu, an important storytelling and performance genre rooted in the hybrid, popular culture of Qing dynasty Beijing, which was associated with the culture of the Qing bannermen--the Manchu's military and administrative personnel. Argues that zidishu employed cultural hybridization as a way of performing and thereby perpetuating Manchu identity"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

The social and cultural context of zidishu in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Beijing -- The performance of zidishu -- Reading zidishu as texts -- The dissemination of zidishu texts -- Conclusion: Performance, text, and ethnicity.