The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to Theatricality

Author/Contributor(s):	Lam, Ling Hon
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	12/28/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Ling Hon Lam gives a deeply original account of the history of emotions in Chinese literature centered on the idea of emotion as space. Tracing how the emotion-realm underwent significant transformations from the dreamscape to theatricality in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century China, this book is a major rethinking of key terms in Chinese culture.