| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), music |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
List of Figures and Plates; Foreword Two Pairs of Eyes; Author's Words; Prologue Eyes on Jingju; 1 Jingju: Formation, Growth and the First Reform; 2 Training a Total Performer: Four Skills and Five Canons; 3 Cheng Yanqiu -- Masculinity and Femininity; Color Photos; 4 Li Yuru -- The Jingju Tradition and Communist Ideology; 5 Ma Yongan- A Painted-Face Role Type and a Non-Painted-Face Character; 6 Yan Qinggu -- Staging the Ugly and the Beautiful in the Millennium; 7 Kuo Hsiao-chuang -- A Theatre That "Belongs to Tradition, Modernity and to You and Me." |
| Summary |
Combining theatre, cultural, and area studies perspectives, this text explores how performers as social beings have responded to conflicts between tradition and modernity, and between convention and innovation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Theater -- China -- Beijing -- History and criticism.
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Theater. |
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China -- Beijing. |
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Operas, Chinese -- History and criticism.
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Operas, Chinese. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Li, Ruru. Soul of Beijing opera. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2010 9789622099944 (DLC) 2010505408 (OCoLC)619662415 |
| ISBN |
9789882205802 (electronic book) |
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9882205801 (electronic book) |
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9789622099944 |
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9622099947 |
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9622099955 |
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9789622099951 |
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