Opera, Society, and Politics in Modern China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Opera, Society, and Politics in Modern China write by Hsiao-t'i Li. This book was released on 2020-10-26. Opera, Society, and Politics in Modern China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Popular operas in late imperial China were a major part of daily entertainment, and were also important for transmitting knowledge of Chinese culture and values. In the twentieth century, however, Chinese operas went through significant changes. During the first four decades of the 1900s, led by Xin Wutai (New Stage) of Shanghai and Yisushe of Xi’an, theaters all over China experimented with both stage and scripts to present bold new plays centering on social reform. Operas became closely intertwined with social and political issues. This trend toward “politicization” was to become the most dominant theme of Chinese opera from the 1930s to the 1970s, when ideology-laden political plays reflected a radical revolutionary agenda.Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, this book focuses on the reformed operas staged in Shanghai and Xi’an. By presenting extensive information on both traditional/imperial China and revolutionary/Communist China, it reveals the implications of these “modern” operatic experiences and the changing features of Chinese operas throughout the past five centuries. Although the different genres of opera were watched by audiences from all walks of life, the foundations for opera’s omnipresence completely changed over time."
On the Way to the Cultural Revolution
On the Way to the Cultural Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Way to the Cultural Revolution write by Hsiao-t'i Li. This book was released on 2014. On the Way to the Cultural Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Urban Politics and Cultural Capital
Urban Politics and Cultural Capital - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Politics and Cultural Capital write by Ma Haili. This book was released on 2016-02-11. Urban Politics and Cultural Capital available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book tells the story of how a regional Chinese theatrical form, Shanghai Yue Opera, evolved from the all-male ’beggar’s song’ of the early twentieth century to become the largest all-female opera form in the nation, only to face increasing pressure to survive under Chinese political and economic reforms in the new millennium. Previous publications have focused mainly on the historical development of Chinese theatre, with emphasis placed on Beijing opera. This is the first book to take an interdisciplinary approach to the story of the Shanghai Yue Opera, bringing history, arts management, central and regional government policy, urbanisation, gender, media, and theatre artistic development in one. Through the story of the Shanghai Yue Opera House market reform this book facilitates an understanding of the complex Chinese political economic situation in post-socialist China. This book suggests that as state art institutions are key organs of the Communist party gaining legitimacy, the vigorous evolution and struggle of the Shanghai Yue Opera house in fact directly mirrors the Communist Party internal turmoil in the new millennium to gain its own legitimacy and survival.
Opera, Society and Politics
Opera, Society and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Opera, Society and Politics write by Xiaoti Li. This book was released on 1996. Opera, Society and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Opera and the City
Opera and the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Opera and the City write by Andrea Goldman. This book was released on 2013-12-10. Opera and the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values. It is in this context that historian Andrea S. Goldman harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history. Her meticulous yet playful account takes up the multiplicity of opera types that proliferated at the time, exploring them as contested sites through which the Qing court and commercial playhouses negotiated influence and control over the social and moral order. Opera performance blurred lines between public and private life, and offered a stage on which to act out gender and class transgressions. This work illuminates how the state and various urban constituencies manipulated opera to their own ends, and sheds light on empire-wide transformations underway at the time.
