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Article: Official Life: Homoerotic Self-Representation and Theater in Li Ciming’s Yuemantang Riji
Title | Official Life: Homoerotic Self-Representation and Theater in Li Ciming’s Yuemantang Riji |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Beijing boy-actors diaries homoeroticism late Qing dynasty Li Ciming (1830-94) theater |
Issue Date | 2014 |
Publisher | Higher Education Press and Brill Academic Publishers. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.brill.com/publications/journals/frontiers-history-china |
Citation | Frontiers of History in China, 2014, v. 9 n. 2, p. 202-224 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Homoerotic play was central to the recreational culture of theatergoing from the mid-Qing to the beginning of the twentieth century, especially in Beijing. Theatergoing literati in particular played an important role in the production and reproduction of an elite, theater-based, homoerotic sub-culture, heavily investing themselves in the pursuit of social distinction. While it is important not to underestimate the importance of lower-status audiences in the popularisation of Peking opera, the literati doubtlessly considered themselves the aesthetic vanguard in terms of both the judgment of staged drama and the literary promotion of romances between themselves and the boy-actors offstage. Unlike “flower-guides” (Huapu) that circulated between friends, diaries from the period record private thoughts on the scene that would not, and could not, be expressed in public. Drawing on the diary of the influential late-Qing scholar-official Li Ciming (1830–94), I focus on the question of how an understanding of public participation entered Li’s diaries, as well as examining what his self-representations have to say about Qing literati ownership of homoerotic sensibilities and spaces, which is to say, how he saw himself as presenting to others and how that self-presentation is (re-)presented in his writing. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/199615 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Wu, C | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-07-22T01:25:03Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-07-22T01:25:03Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Frontiers of History in China, 2014, v. 9 n. 2, p. 202-224 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/199615 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Homoerotic play was central to the recreational culture of theatergoing from the mid-Qing to the beginning of the twentieth century, especially in Beijing. Theatergoing literati in particular played an important role in the production and reproduction of an elite, theater-based, homoerotic sub-culture, heavily investing themselves in the pursuit of social distinction. While it is important not to underestimate the importance of lower-status audiences in the popularisation of Peking opera, the literati doubtlessly considered themselves the aesthetic vanguard in terms of both the judgment of staged drama and the literary promotion of romances between themselves and the boy-actors offstage. Unlike “flower-guides” (Huapu) that circulated between friends, diaries from the period record private thoughts on the scene that would not, and could not, be expressed in public. Drawing on the diary of the influential late-Qing scholar-official Li Ciming (1830–94), I focus on the question of how an understanding of public participation entered Li’s diaries, as well as examining what his self-representations have to say about Qing literati ownership of homoerotic sensibilities and spaces, which is to say, how he saw himself as presenting to others and how that self-presentation is (re-)presented in his writing. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Higher Education Press and Brill Academic Publishers. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.brill.com/publications/journals/frontiers-history-china | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Frontiers of History in China | en_US |
dc.subject | Beijing | - |
dc.subject | boy-actors | - |
dc.subject | diaries | - |
dc.subject | homoeroticism | - |
dc.subject | late Qing dynasty | - |
dc.subject | Li Ciming (1830-94) | - |
dc.subject | theater | - |
dc.title | Official Life: Homoerotic Self-Representation and Theater in Li Ciming’s Yuemantang Riji | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Wu, C: wucuncun@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Wu, C=rp01420 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3868/s020-003-014-0014-7 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84905262020 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 231224 | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 9 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 202 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 224 | en_US |
dc.publisher.place | Beijing | en_US |