Description |
1 online resource (xv, 365 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-351) and index. |
Contents |
Opera aficionados and guides to boy-actresses -- Metropolitan opera, border crossings, and the state -- Musical genre, opera hierarchy, and court patronage -- Social melodrama and the sexing of political complaint -- Sex versus violence in "I, sister-in-law" operas. |
Summary |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Operas, Chinese -- History and criticism.
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Operas, Chinese. |
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Operas, Chinese -- Social aspects -- China -- Beijing.
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Operas, Chinese -- Social aspects. |
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China -- Beijing. |
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Operas, Chinese -- Political aspects -- China -- Beijing.
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Operas, Chinese -- Political aspects. |
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Operas, Chinese -- China -- Beijing -- History and criticism.
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Beijing (China) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Beijing (China) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Added Title |
Politics of culture in Beijing, 1770-1900 |
Other Form: |
Print version: Goldman, Andrea S. (Andrea Sue). Opera and the city. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012] 9780804778312 (DLC) 2011047716 (OCoLC)762768547 |
ISBN |
9780804782623 (electronic book) |
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0804782628 (electronic book) |
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0804778310 |
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9780804778312 |
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9780804778312 |
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