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