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Imagined (or Perhaps Not) Late Ming Music and Oral Performing Literature in an Imaginary Late Ming Household: The Production and Consumption of Music and Oral Performing Literature by and in the Ximen Family in the Jin Ping Mei cihua (Plum in the Golden Vase) David L. Rolston, University of Michigan (drolston@umich.edu) Ximen Qing’s Household as the Best Known Late Ming Household With the possible exception of the imperial household, the late Ming household for which we have the most intimate details is that of the family of Ximen Qing in the novel Jin Ping Mei cihua 金瓶梅詞話. This novel, for