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Soul of Beijing Opera, The : Theatrical Creativity and Continuity in the Changing World /

Any traditional theatre has to engage the changing world to avoid becoming a living fossil. How has Beijing opera -- a highly stylized theatre with breath-taking acrobatics and martial arts, fabulous costumes, and striking makeup -- survived into the new millennium while coping with a century of gre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Li, Ruru
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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?