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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Li, Ruru
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Theater.
Peking-Oper.
Peking-Oper
Operas, Chinese.
Operas, Chinese > History and criticism.
Operas, Chinese > Performances.
Operas, Chinese > Production and direction.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
ARCHITECTURE > Interior Design > General.
Theâtre > Chine > Pekin > Histoire et critique.
Theater > China > Beijing > History and criticism.
China.
China > Beijing.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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?

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