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Ruling the Stage: Social and Cultural History of Opera in Sichuan from the Qing to the People's Republic of China

Through an innovative interdisciplinary reading and field research, Igor Chabrowski analyses the history of the development of opera in Sichuan, arguing that opera serves as a microcosm of the profound transformation of modern Chinese culture between the 18th century and 1950s. He investigates the c...

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Autor principal: Chabrowski, Igor Iwo
Format: Online
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Brill 2025
Matèries:
China
commercialisation
commercialization
laicization
opera
opera performers
politicization
politics of culture
Sichuan
Sichuan Opera
social institutions
temple festivals
theater
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies
thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China
thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MN 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899
thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
Accés en línia:ONIX_20250808T162309_9789004519398_42
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Sumari:Through an innovative interdisciplinary reading and field research, Igor Chabrowski analyses the history of the development of opera in Sichuan, arguing that opera serves as a microcosm of the profound transformation of modern Chinese culture between the 18th century and 1950s. He investigates the complex path of opera over this course of history: exiting the temple festivals, becoming a public obsession on commercial stages, and finally being harnessed to partisan propaganda work. The book analyzes the process of cross-regional integration of Chinese culture and the emergence of the national opera genre. Moreover, opera is shown as an example of the culture wars that raged inside China’s popular culture.

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