Talented Actors: New Aesthetics in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, mostly on the works of Li Yu and Cao Xueqin / 奇優:以李漁、曹雪芹為例的明清人物審美新論

碩士 / 國立中央大學 / 中國文學系碩士在職專班 / 100 / The phrase “talented actors" comes from chapter two of Dream of Red Chamber. Cao pointed out that people, who were endowed with both the Qi of good and evil, acting between benevolent and evil, if born in a poor family, definitely became either talented actors or famous prostitutes.
“Talented actors" refers to actors that are beautiful, outstanding and with aloof temperament. Although living in the bottom of society, they are unwilling to wallow in the lower class, or to succumb to the power or the wealth. Furthermore, they are often independent, unique in mind and action, and, not sociable.
Focusing on “talented actors", this article explores the literary image of the actors depicted by Li Yu (1611-1680) and Cao Xueqin (1715-1763) of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, and the interaction between literati, the troupe owners, and actors of their own troupe. And then, it presents the arguments of literati over appreciation of those actors.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/100NCU05045062
Date January 2012
CreatorsYu-yen Chang, 張毓晏
ContributorsLai-shin Kang, 康來新
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format101

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