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The Many Transformations of White Snake: Gender, Ritual, and Performance in Late Imperial China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Many Transformations of White Snake: Gender, Ritual, and Performance in Late Imperial China./
Author:	Balivet, Aaron .
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	201 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-08A.
Subject:	Asian literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27736793
ISBN:	9781392472460

The Many Transformations of White Snake: Gender, Ritual, and Performance in Late Imperial China.
Balivet, Aaron .

The Many Transformations of White Snake: Gender, Ritual, and Performance in Late Imperial China. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 201 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation explores the performance of The Legend of White Snake (Bai she zhuan) during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Like many other famous narratives of late imperial China, White Snake does not have a dominant version, and the plot has changed over time and across geographic region and literary genre. This variability is perhaps one of the reasons that previous research has often focused on tracing the story's development in full-length written texts. This dissertation focuses instead on how the story was actually performed, as short plays featuring the most popular scenes, and uses historical accounts and modern performance recordings to rebuild the visual experience of performance of Kunqu, pihuang, Sichuan opera, and storytelling versions from the Qing.What does the performance of White Snake reveal about Qing society? Despite the quantity and variation of White Snake scripts and storytelling narratives, I show that there is a consistent focus on female virtue. As attitudes toward female social roles changed during the Qing, so too did White Snake's role within her own narrative. In versions from the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century, White Snake became the story's protagonist, and additional plot elements transformed her from a monster into a loyal wife and a mother. But while in many ways she became an embodiment of female virtue, White Snake never completely shed her persona as a monster. Rather, conflict within the story developed around White Snake's struggle to reconcile her contrasting identities. In this dissertation, I show how the performance of White Snake in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries reveals tensions in the construction of idealized female virtue through the development of White Snake's struggle to reconcile her monstrous nature and her roles as wife and mother.

ISBN: 9781392472460Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122707
Asian literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Exorcism

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