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Acting the right part : political theater and popular drama in contemporary China /

Acting the Right Part is a cultural history of huaju (modern Chinese drama) from 1966 to 1996. Xiaomei Chen situates her study both in the context of Chinese literary and cultural history and in the context of comparative drama and theater, cultural studies, and critical issues relevant to national...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chen, Xiaomei, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: why not modern Chinese drama?
  • Operatic revolutions: tradition, memory, and women in model theater
  • Family, village, nation/state, and the third world: the imagined communities in model theater
  • Audience, applause and actor: border crossing in social problem plays
  • Performing Tiananmen: from street theater to theater of the street
  • A stage of their own: feminism, countervoices, and the problematics of women's theater
  • From discontented mother to woman warrior: body politics in post-Maoist theater
  • A stage in search of a tradition: the dynamics of form and content in post Maoist theater
  • A selected list of plays in English translation.