| Description |
vii, 92 pages : illustrations (part color), portraits ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
History and development -- Actors. Training ; Roles ; Superstitions -- Costumes, make-up and stage properties. Costumes ; Hairstyles ; Shoes ; Make-up ; Stage properties -- Movements and gestures -- Music and singing. Percussion ; Strings ; Woodwind -- Other operas. K ́un Ch ́ü ; Pang Tzu ; Yüeh Chü ; Ping Hsi ; Chuan Chü ; Wu Chü -- Stories from Peking Opera. Buddhist flower-fair misunderstanding ; The drunken concubine ; The eight maces ; The empty city ; The extraordinary double encounter ; Fen River Bend ; The fight in the dark ; The magic palm fan ; A life of sorrow ; The phoenix returns to her nest ; The punishment of Tsu Tou ; Saving the nation ; Ting Chün Mountain ; Wen Chao Pass ; White snake (or Thunderbolt Pagoda) |
| Subject |
Operas, Chinese -- Analysis, appreciation.
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Operas, Chinese -- Analysis, appreciation. |
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Operas, Chinese. |
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Operas, Chinese -- Stories, plots, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Stories, plots, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Halson, Elizabeth. Peking opera. Hong Kong, New York, Oxford University Press [1966] (OCoLC)639573687 |
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