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...Alexander Des Forges Abstract The term involution has been used to characterize economic development and state formation in eighteenth- through twentieth-century China; more recently, it has seen unprecedented popularity in Chinese-language social media as a representation of the lived experience...

... misunderstanding of that tradition, she cites several provocative recent efforts to revisit fundamental questions of theatricality in its Chinese contexts. Alexander Des Forges brings a novel perspective to late imperial literary history through the application of the concept of involution, including both...