Theater and Court Culture in the Qing Dynasty

This collection of essays features twenty-four papers by scholars from China and abroad. Approaching the subject from a range of perspectives, including theatrical performance spaces, ceremonial plays, textual traditions, the transmission and development of court drama culture, research into historical materials on Chinese opera, and the experience of watching performances, the essays seek to reconstruct the form and essence of theatrical performances in the Qing court as fully as possible, and to reveal the exchange and fusion between court and folk performances.