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Opera and the city : the politics of culture in Beijing, 1770-1900 /
In late imperial China, opera was an integral part of life and culture, shared across the social hierarchy. Opera transmitted ideas about the self, family, society, and politics over time and space. The Qing capital of Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In late imperial China, opera was an integral part of life and culture, shared across the social hierarchy. Opera transmitted ideas about the self, family, society, and politics over time and space. The Qing capital of Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values via performance. It is in this context that the author harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history. By examining opera in Qing Beijing, this work illuminates how the state and various urban constituencies partook of opera and manipulated it to their own ends |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 365 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-351) and index |
| ISBN: | 9780804782623 0804782628 9780804778312 0804778310 9780804792059 0804792054 |