Chinese Drama

Author : Patricia Sieber,Regina Llamas
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780231546669

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How to Read Chinese Drama by Patricia Sieber,Regina Llamas Pdf

This book is a comprehensive and inviting introduction to the literary forms and cultural significance of Chinese drama as both text and performance. Each chapter offers an accessible overview and critical analysis of one or more plays—canonical as well as less frequently studied works—and their historical contexts. How to Read Chinese Drama highlights how each play sheds light on key aspects of the dramatic tradition, including genre conventions, staging practices, musical performance, audience participation, and political resonances, emphasizing interconnections among chapters. It brings together leading scholars spanning anthropology, art history, ethnomusicology, history, literature, and theater studies. How to Read Chinese Drama is straightforward, clear, and concise, written for undergraduate students and their instructors as well as a wider audience interested in world theater. For students of Chinese literature and language, the book provides questions to explore when reading, watching, and listening to plays, and it features bilingual excerpts. For teachers, an analytical table of contents, a theater-specific chronology of events, and lists of visual resources and translations provide pedagogical resources for exploring Chinese theater within broader cultural and comparative contexts. For theater practitioners, the volume offers deeply researched readings of important plays together with background on historical performance conventions, audience responses, and select modern adaptations.

Author : Xiaomei Chen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231535540

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The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama by Xiaomei Chen Pdf

This condensed anthology reproduces close to a dozen plays from Xiaomei Chen's well-received original collection, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama, along with her critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolution of twentieth-century Chinese spoken drama. Comprising representative works from the Republican era to postsocialist China, the book encapsulates the revolutionary rethinking of Chinese theater and performance that began in the late Qing dynasty and vividly portrays the uncertainty and anxiety brought on by modernism, socialism, political conflict, and war. Chosen works from 1919 to 1990 also highlight the formation of national and gender identities during a period of tremendous social, cultural, and political change in China and the genesis of contemporary attitudes toward the West. PRC theater tracks the rise of communism, juxtaposing ideals of Chinese socialism against the sacrifices made for a new society. Post-Mao drama addresses the nation's socialist legacy, its attempt to reexamine its cultural roots, and postsocialist reflections on critical issues such as nation, class, gender, and collective memories. An essential, portable guide for easy reference and classroom use, this abridgment provides a concise yet well-rounded survey of China's theatricality and representation of political life. The original work not only established a canon of modern Chinese drama in the West but also made it available for the first time in English in a single volume.

Author : Teresa Chi-Ching Sun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780761871323

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Chinese Drama and Society by Teresa Chi-Ching Sun Pdf

This book contends that the evolution of modern literary stage drama was an important aspect of the Chinese intellectual movement, transforming stage shows into messengers of social change, and instigated renovation of Chinese drama.

Author : Xiaomei Chen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231165020

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The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama by Xiaomei Chen Pdf

This condensed anthology reproduces close to a dozen plays from Xiaomei ChenÕs well-received original collection, along with her critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolution of twentieth-century Chinese spoken drama. Comprising representative works from the PeopleÕs Republic of China, the collection encapsulates the revolutionary rethinking of Chinese theater and performance that began in the late Qing dynasty and vividly portrays the uncertainty and anxiety brought on by modernism, socialism, political conflict, and war. Chosen works from 1919 to 1990 also highlight the formation of Chinese national and gender identities during a period of tremendous social, cultural, and political change and the genesis of contemporary attitudes toward the West. PRC theater tracks the rise of communism in China, juxtaposing ideals of Chinese socialism against the sacrifices made for a new society. Post-Mao drama addresses the nationÕs socialist legacy, its attempt to reexamine its cultural roots, and postsocialist reflections on critical issues such as nation, class, gender, and collective memories. An essential, portable guide for easy reference and classroom use, this abridgement provides a concise yet well-rounded survey of China's theatricality and representation of political life. This work has not only established a canon of modern Chinese drama but also made it available for the first time in English in a single volume.

Author : Haiping Yan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317453772

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Theatre and Society: Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama by Haiping Yan Pdf

Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific.

Author : Shiao-Ling Yu
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0773487808

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Chinese Drama After the Cultural Revolution, 1979-1989 by Shiao-Ling Yu Pdf

Covering the two major dramatic forms in China, this volume includes a translation of two traditional operas and five spoken plays. These works are among the most controversial plays produced in the post-Mao era, and collectively represent a new trend which could transform Chinese drama.

Author : George A. Hayden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684172139

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Crime and Punishment in Medieval Chinese Drama by George A. Hayden Pdf

Provides full annotated translations of three previously untranslated Yuan-Ming Judge Pao courtroom dramas.

Author : Martha Cheung,Jane Lai
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015039924462

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An Oxford Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama by Martha Cheung,Jane Lai Pdf

This anthology of fifteen plays introduces Western readers to some of the finest Chinese drama of the last twenty years. Representing writers from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, the plays offer a wide selection of living Chinese theater, from socialist-realist, to comedic, to the experimental and avant-garde.

Author : James R. Brandon,Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521588227

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The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre by James R. Brandon,Martin Banham Pdf

A comprehensive and authoritative single-volume reference work on the theatre arts of Asia-Oceania. Nine expert scholars provide entries on performance in twenty countries from Pakistan in the west, through India and Southeast Asia to China, Japan and Korea in the east. An introductory pan-Asian essay explores basic themes - they include ritual, dance, puppetry, training, performance and masks. The national entries concentrate on the historical development of theatre in each country, followed by entries on the major theatre forms, and articles on playwrights, actors and directors. The entries are accompanied by rare photographs and helpful reading lists.

Author : Ying Zhu,Michael Keane,Ruoyun Bai
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622099401

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TV Drama in China by Ying Zhu,Michael Keane,Ruoyun Bai Pdf

This collection of essays brings together the first comprehensive study of TV drama in China. Examining in depth the production, distribution and consumption of TV drama, the international team of experts demonstrate why it remains the pre-eminent media form in China. The examples are diverse, highlighting the complexity of producing narrative content in a rapidly changing political and social environment. Genres examined include the revisionist Qing drama, historical and contemporary domestic dramas, anti-corruption dramas, "pink" dramas, Red Classics, stories from the Diaspora, and sit-coms. In addition to genres, the collection explores industry dynamics: how TV dramas are marketed and consumed on DVD, and China's aspirations to export its television drama rights. The book provides an international and cross-cultural perspective with chapters on Taiwanese TV drama in China, the impact of South Korean drama, and trans-border production between the Mainland and Hong Kong.

Author : William H. Nienhauser
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0253329833

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The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature by William H. Nienhauser Pdf

"A vertitable feast of concise, useful, reliable, and up-to-dateinformation (all prepared by top scholars in the field), Nienhauser's now two-volumetitle stands alone as THE standard reference work for the study of traditionalChinese literature. Nothing like it has ever been published." --Choice The second volume to The Indiana Companion to TraditionalChinese Literature is both a supplement and an update to the original volume. VolumeII includes over 60 new entries on famous writers, works, and genres of traditionalChinese literature, followed by an extensive bibliographic update (1985-1997) ofeditions, translations, and studies (primarily in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and German) for the 500+ entries of Volume I.

Author : Xiaoyang Zhang
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874135362

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Shakespeare in China by Xiaoyang Zhang Pdf

The value of the book is not limited to the scope of Shakespeare studies and comparative literature. With the combination of the literary criticism and sociological approach, it describes and investigates a variety of social and psychological phenomena in the process of cultural exchange between the West and the East. The book also provides a brief view of the social, political, and historical changes in modern China for Western readers.

Author : Paul Kuritz
Publisher : PAUL KURITZ
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0135478618

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The Making of Theatre History by Paul Kuritz Pdf

Author : Zhu Shoutong
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443876414

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New Literature in Chinese by Zhu Shoutong Pdf

This book systematically discusses the academic connotations of the concept of “Modern Chinese Literature”, as well as its basic categories. The discipline founded upon this concept is influential both in China and throughout the world, and scholars engaged in teaching and research in this field number around ten thousand. The discipline was originally established in haste in an abnormal academic environment, and, with the passage of time, such derivative disciplines as “Contemporary Chinese Literature”, “20th Century Chinese Literature”, “the Literature of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau” and “World Chinese Literature” have appeared. This book argues that these fields should be united in the area of “New Literature in Chinese”, because they have a shared language, culture and tradition. In today’s multi-polar world, where Chinese literature is so diversified, such an approach is obviously helpful.

Author : Claire Cochrane,Jo Robinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350034310

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The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography by Claire Cochrane,Jo Robinson Pdf

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography is an authoritative guide to contemporary debates and practices in this field. The book covers the key themes and methods that are current in theatre history research, with a particular focus on expanding the object of study to include engagement with theatre and performance practices and the development of theatre histories around the world. Central to the book are eighteen specially commissioned essays by established and emerging scholars from a wide range of international contexts, whose discussion of individual case studies is predicated on their understanding and experience of their 'local' landscape of theatre history. These essays reveal where important work continues to be done in the field and, most valuably, draws on academic contexts beyond the Western academy to expand our knowledge of the exciting directions that such an approach opens up. Prefaced by an introduction tracing the development of the discipline of theatre history and changing historiographical approaches, the Handbook explores current issues pertaining to theatre and performance history research, as well as providing up to date and robust introductions to the methods and historiographic questions being explored by researchers in the field. Featuring a series of essential research tools, including a detailed list of resources and an annotated bibliography of key texts, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance history and historiography.