{"title":"A Prince, the Literati, and the Emperor: Two Faces of One Shuihu Play by Zhu Youdun","authors":"Wenbo Chang","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341382","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Zhu Youdun, the prince of Zhou and the grandson of the Ming founding emperor, wrote and published thirty-one <em>zaju</em> plays. While Zhu Youdun’s plays have been well-researched in drama scholarship, their publication, circulation, and textual variations emerging from transmission among different audiences are rarely studied. Situating Zhu Youdun’s <em>zaju</em> writing and publishing activities as part of Ming princely publishing, this paper examines and compares two editions of <em>Black Whirlwind Li Spurns Riches Out of Righteousness</em> as a case study, one the printed edition circulating mainly among literati audience/readers and the other the heavily adapted manuscript edition based on inner palace performance for the imperial audience.</p>","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"East Asian Publishing and Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341382","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ASIAN STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Zhu Youdun, the prince of Zhou and the grandson of the Ming founding emperor, wrote and published thirty-one zaju plays. While Zhu Youdun’s plays have been well-researched in drama scholarship, their publication, circulation, and textual variations emerging from transmission among different audiences are rarely studied. Situating Zhu Youdun’s zaju writing and publishing activities as part of Ming princely publishing, this paper examines and compares two editions of Black Whirlwind Li Spurns Riches Out of Righteousness as a case study, one the printed edition circulating mainly among literati audience/readers and the other the heavily adapted manuscript edition based on inner palace performance for the imperial audience.
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East Asian Publishing and Society is a journal dedicated to the study of the publishing of texts and images in East Asia, from the earliest times up to the present. The journal provides a platform for multi-disciplinary research by scholars addressing publishing practices in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam. East Asian Publishing and Society invites articles that treat any aspect of publishing history: production, distribution, and reception of manuscripts, imprints (books, periodicals, pamphlets, and single sheet prints), and electronic text. Studies of authorship and editing, the business of publishing, reading audiences and reading practices, libraries and book collection, the relationship between the state and publishing—to name just a few possible topics—are welcome.