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My dissertation explores how a new relationship between the state and society was formed in twelfth-fourteenth century China. Taking Mingzhou, modern Ningbo city, Zhejiang Province, as my case study, I challenge the assumption on which many interpretations of this period are bas…

Yuan tsa-chu theater, a theatrical form under Mongol rule between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, has been studied as a literary and a dramatic form. Hardly explored are the ritualistic aspects of this pioneering form of theater in the history of Chinese theater. Howeve…