Table of Contents for

Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage

List of Map, Figures, and Tables

List of Abbreviations

List of Reign Periods of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: The Setting

1.      A Gentrified Kinship Society

2.      Huizhou Merchants and mercantile Lineage Culture

Part Two: The Script

3.      The Mulian Legacy

4.      The Confucian Transformation of the Mulian Tradition

Part Three: The Performance

5.      An Integrated Tradition: Mulian Scripts and Female Chastity

6.      A Shared Culture: Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage

Conclusion

Appendix A: Extant Mulian Operatic Scripts

Appendix B: Huizhou Ancestral Halls (ca. 1500-1644)

Appendix C: Homophonic and Graphic Substitutions and Sardonic Characters in Mulian Scripts

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index