@Article{JAS-2-1,
author = {ZHANG, Hanmo},
title = {Property of the State, Prisoners of Music: Identity of the Song Drama Players and Their Roles in the Washi Pleasure Precincts},
journal = {饒宗頤國學院院刊},
year = {2015},
volume = {2},
number = {1},
pages = {277--326},
abstract = {<p style="text-align: justify;">This paper responds to the widely accepted yet overly simplistic assumption in Song drama studies that the drama players were ordinary people, who were liberated from agricultural activities because of the economic and commercial boom from the ninth century onward, and acted of their own will&nbsp; &nbsp; to&nbsp;choose&nbsp;drama&nbsp;performance&nbsp;as&nbsp;their&nbsp;means&nbsp;of&nbsp;making&nbsp;profit.&nbsp;Based&nbsp;<br/>on&nbsp;an&nbsp;indepth investigation of the long history of the musician household registration system from the early medieval to late imperial periods, this paper proves that the majority of the goulan drama players belonged to the musician households, were trained by and for the government, and had little freedom to change their identity. It also further reveals how the Song court and its civil and military bureaus controlled and used the entertainers in the pleasure precincts, deliberately established in the capital and other cities, to facilitate wine selling and&nbsp;other&nbsp;government-owned&nbsp;profitable&nbsp;enterprises.</p>},
issn = {},
doi = {https://doi.org/2015-JAS-17012},
url = {https://global-sci.com/article/84034/property-of-the-state-prisoners-of-music-identity-of-the-song-drama-players-and-their-roles-in-the-washi-pleasure-precincts}
}