Folk Perspectives on Qing Dynasty Yangzhou Popular Literature

Author: Ke Ling
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: This book takes a specific historical period and regional environment as its perspective, closely integrating the topic of urban cultural consumption, and conducts a detailed review and in-depth exploration of the formation and continuation of Qing Dynasty Yangzhou popular literature. The author focuses on two aspects: the relationship between the formation, prevalence, and regional folk culture of Qing Dynasty Yangzhou popular literature; the connection between the popular literary activities in Qing Dynasty Yangzhou and the daily lives of its residents at the time; the production and consumption concepts reflected in Qing Dynasty Yangzhou's popular literary activities, as well as the indelible influence of Qing Dynasty Yangzhou popular literature, and so on. This book analyzes the rise and fall mechanisms of Qing Dynasty Yangzhou's popular literary activities, with an eye toward the current urban cultural construction and the formation of urban individual characteristics. The author believes that urban popular literary activities contain immense literary, folkloric, and sociological research value. The consumers of popular literary activities are always the majority, because it is the literature of the common people.