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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Li, Ruru
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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?