The Tapestry of Popular Songs in 16th- and 17th Century China

The Tapestry of Popular Songs in 16th- and 17th Century China

Reading, Imitation, And Desire

by Kathryn A. Lowry

419 pages· 2005· ISBN 9789004145863
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This study of popular songs offers a new hypothesis about the role of elite in popular culture and evidences how commercial publishing facilitated the rise of selective reading and imitation of texts in late-Ming China, creating a new basis for describing desire and the self.

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