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    Clothing, Food and Travel: Ming Material Culture as Reflected in Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan

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    Author
    Liu, Xiaoyi
    Issue Date
    2010
    Keywords
    clothing
    food
    material history
    Ming
    sumptuary
    Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan
    Advisor
    Pao Tao, Chia-lin
    Committee Chair
    Pao Tao, Chia-lin
    
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    Abstract
    Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan 醒世姻缘传 (The Story of a Marital Fate to Awaken the World) is a 100-chapter, 100,000-character Chinese magnum opus written under the pseudonymous aegis of the seventeenth-century writer Xizhou Sheng 西周生. The novel primarily concerns itself with a curious reversal of power dynamics and relations in the institution of marriage, namely henpecking. To do so, the novel weaves into its narrative, both in the personalities and the events it illustrates, great details of Ming material life. It is through this literary snapshot of material culture that this dissertation is able to investigate the practices and custom of clothing, food and travel, three of the "four major concerns of the people's livelihood", known as yishizhuxing 衣食住行 in Chinese. The project, while frequenting economic dimensions and probing the impact that Ming politics had on the ethos and social economy of the period, sheds significant, if not equal, light on folk custom, legal and religious practices and women's status, among other issues. Although this dissertation allocates one chapter to the surveying of Ming sumptuary laws and ethos as evidenced by the "guxiu incident," the struggle between the forces of conservative social hierarchy and the growing market as a feature of Ming material life is a question that runs throughout the entire composition.
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    Ph.D.
    Degree Level
    doctoral
    Degree Program
    East Asian Studies
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    University of Arizona
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