The soul of Beijing opera : theatrical creativity and continuity in the changing world /
Combining theatre, cultural, and area studies perspectives, this text explores how performers as social beings have responded to conflicts between tradition and modernity, and between convention and innovation.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press,
©2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : eyes on jingju
- Jingju : formation, growth and the first reform
- Training a total performer : four skills and five canons
- Cheng Yanqiu
- masculinity and femininity
- Li Yuru
- the Jingju tradition and communist ideology
- Ma Yongan
- a painted-face role type and a non-painted-face character
- Yan Qinggu
- staging the ugly and the beautiful in the millennium
- Kuo Hsiao-chuang
- a theatre that "belongs to tradition, modernity and to you and me"
- Wu Hsing-kuo
- subversion or innovation?
- Epilogue : new beginnings or the beginning of the end?