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Playful Exorcist : = Theatrical Representations of Zhong Kui in Ming and Qing Dramas.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Playful Exorcist :/
Reminder of title:	Theatrical Representations of Zhong Kui in Ming and Qing Dramas.
Author:	Liu, Yilin.
Description:	1 online resource (293 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-11A(E).
Subject:	Asian studies. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780438082687

Playful Exorcist : = Theatrical Representations of Zhong Kui in Ming and Qing Dramas.
Liu, Yilin.

Playful Exorcist :Theatrical Representations of Zhong Kui in Ming and Qing Dramas. - 1 online resource (293 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation is a monograph on Zhong Kui "special characters omitted": a deity who was recruited by the Daoist masters in late imperial China and whose divinity was defined by texts, visual representations, and practice. His divine career is narrated in literature as early as the Tang dynasty, peaked in the Ming dynasty, and continues to be reiterated through different media today. This dissertation is a study of his cult through translating and investigating a set of Ming and Qing plays involving Zhong Kui. While the exorcist appeared in the Song Dynasty New Year's nuo parades, it was in the Ming dynasty that Zhong Kui was incorporated into Daoist liturgies and local pantheons while still utilizing power derived from the ancient exorcistic practice named nuo. As a scholar official, Zhong Kui's uprightness and integrity have been regarded as desired qualities in the Chinese bureaucratic system. Additionally, this dissertation discusses Zhong Kui's minor role as a grand judge in the underworld. In the late Ming and Qing, some literati transformed Zhong Kui's propensity for violence into a political allegory to criticize injustice and express their own career frustrations. As Zhong Kui is a multidimensional deity, his divinity consists of his role as a nuo dancer, an exorcist, a scholar official, and a judge. However, throughout his divine life, the physical prowess of the deity, the playfulness centered on and around him remain an essential dimension of his image. These indispensable features of Zhong Kui were greatly celebrated in the Ming and Qing theater and today's Chinese local theater.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780438082687Subjects--Topical Terms:

1179577
Asian studies.
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554714
Electronic books.

Playful Exorcist : = Theatrical Representations of Zhong Kui in Ming and Qing Dramas.
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