Page and Stage: The Printing of Drama in the Late Ming
Monday, April 13, 2026 | 4:10PM-5:50PM | Zoom (meeting link will be emailed) | RSVP
EASC Guest Speaker Series: Talk by Prof. Yuming He (UC Davis) with Faculty Moderator Prof. Mengxiao Wang (EALC 506: Selections from Classical Chinese Literature) 
 

The late Ming was an age of print, and drama was one of its most dynamic forms. How did printers and scholars manage the way drama was presented on the page? How did that management— easily overlooked within our own assumptions about textual organization—not only raise questions about the place of drama, but also help answer them? This talk discusses the characteristic strategies used by late-Ming bookmakers to organize dramatic texts in print, and explores how these editorial acts allowed such imprints to enter broader intellectual and cultural life where a critical position within the popular became possible.