Wuyue Urban Entertainment Culture and Citizen Literature in the Late Ming Dynasty
by Dai Jian
About This Novel
In the late Ming Dynasty, Wuyue City was very prosperous in drama performances, commentaries, singing, opera and acrobatic performances, as well as leisure reading such as scripts, novels, Mongolian books, and essays. The author of the book combed out its relationship with the creation and dissemination of citizen literature by investigating the living conditions, communication channels, and main characteristics of urban entertainment culture in the Wuyue area at that time. The author pointed out that the Wuyue area was the origin and gathering place of the new humanistic thought trend in the late Ming Dynasty. The unorthodox ideas representing the spiritual demands of citizens were reflected through citizen literature and spread rapidly and widely through entertainment consumption. The book is rich in information and thoughtful in argumentation, and is a well-founded monograph.
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