Popular Culture in Late Imperial China

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. First paperback printing. Paperback. Small tear to rear cover and spine foot edge, sunned spine, very gently rubbed corners, light soiling to covers, else Very good.. Yellow octavo, xvii, 449 pages, 1 b&w map; 23 cm. Out of print. Popular culture -- China -- History. Contents: Economic and social foundations of late imperial culture / E. Rawski -- Communication, class, and consciousness in late imperial China / D. Johnson -- Specialists and written materials in the village world / J. Hayes -- Distinguishing levels of audiences for Ming-Ch'ing vernacular literature / R. Hegel -- The social and historical contest of Ming-Ch'ing local drama / T. Issei -- Regional operas and their audiences: evidence from Hong Kong / B. Ward -- Religion and popular culture: the management of moral capital in "the romance of three teachings" / J. Berling -- Values in Chinese sectarian literature: Ming and Ch'ing Pao-chiian / D. Overmyer -- The transmission of white lotus sectarianism in late imperial China / S. Naquin -- Standardizing the gods: the promotion of T'ien Hou ("empress of heaven") along the south China coast, 960-1960 / J. Watson -- Language and ideology in the written popularizations of the "Sacred Edict" / V. Mair -- The beginnings of mass culture: journalism and fiction in the late Ch'ing and beyond / L. Ou-fan Lee and A. Nathan. Series: Studies on China, 4.