Author: Sven Broman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789748299372
Category : Chinese drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Chinese Shadow Theatre Libretti
Author: Sven Broman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789748299372
Category : Chinese drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789748299372
Category : Chinese drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Chinese Shadow Theatre
Author: Fan Pen Li Chen
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773575995
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. Drawing on extensive research and fieldwork, she argues that these plays served a mainly religious function during the Qing dynasty and that the appeal of women warrior characters reflected the lower classes' high tolerance for the unorthodox and subversive. Chinese Shadow Theatre includes several rare transcriptions of oral performances, including a didactic play on the eighteen levels of Hell, and Investiture of the Gods, a sacred saga, and translations of three rare, hand-copied shadow plays featuring religious themes and women warrior characters. Chen examines the relationship between historical and fictional women warriors and those in military romances and shadow plays to demonstrate the significance of both printed works and oral transmission in the diffusion of popular culture. She also shows that traditional folk theatre is a subject for serious academic study by linking it to recent scholarship on drama, popular religion, and popular culture.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773575995
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. Drawing on extensive research and fieldwork, she argues that these plays served a mainly religious function during the Qing dynasty and that the appeal of women warrior characters reflected the lower classes' high tolerance for the unorthodox and subversive. Chinese Shadow Theatre includes several rare transcriptions of oral performances, including a didactic play on the eighteen levels of Hell, and Investiture of the Gods, a sacred saga, and translations of three rare, hand-copied shadow plays featuring religious themes and women warrior characters. Chen examines the relationship between historical and fictional women warriors and those in military romances and shadow plays to demonstrate the significance of both printed works and oral transmission in the diffusion of popular culture. She also shows that traditional folk theatre is a subject for serious academic study by linking it to recent scholarship on drama, popular religion, and popular culture.
Bulletin
Author: Östasiatiska museet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Chinese Shadow Theatre
Author: Fan-Pen Li Chen
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773531971
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan-Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. She argues how a traditional folk theatre reflected and subverted Chinese popular culture.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773531971
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan-Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. She argues how a traditional folk theatre reflected and subverted Chinese popular culture.
Shadow Play
Chinese Shadow Theatre
Asian Theatre Journal
Asian Folklore Studies
Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music
Author: Maghiel van Crevel
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047441419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Bringing together new research on Chinese literature and music by twenty-two scholars, on topics ranging from Tang poetry to women's writing and the internet, this collection pays tribute to Wilt Idema as a leading scholar in a field of tremendous scope and diversity.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047441419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Bringing together new research on Chinese literature and music by twenty-two scholars, on topics ranging from Tang poetry to women's writing and the internet, this collection pays tribute to Wilt Idema as a leading scholar in a field of tremendous scope and diversity.
Visions for the Masses
Author: Fan-Pen Li Chen
Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This collection of Chinese shadow plays contains seven selected traditional shadow plays from the Qing and early Republican periods from Shaanxi and Shanxi. A minor operatic genre, the Chinese shadow theatre provides one of the best avenues for examining the mentality and sense of humor of the silent masses. Although Shaanxi sports the largest number of shadow traditions in China and is where the art form is most vibrant, its shadow plays have never before been published in either Chinese or English. Translated from rare hand-copied play scripts, this volume includes the most literary and refined plays of the genre as well as coarser popular plays and farcical Post-midnight skits. It also features a survey of the state of the shadow theatre in contemporary China, extensive critical introductions and bibliography.
Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This collection of Chinese shadow plays contains seven selected traditional shadow plays from the Qing and early Republican periods from Shaanxi and Shanxi. A minor operatic genre, the Chinese shadow theatre provides one of the best avenues for examining the mentality and sense of humor of the silent masses. Although Shaanxi sports the largest number of shadow traditions in China and is where the art form is most vibrant, its shadow plays have never before been published in either Chinese or English. Translated from rare hand-copied play scripts, this volume includes the most literary and refined plays of the genre as well as coarser popular plays and farcical Post-midnight skits. It also features a survey of the state of the shadow theatre in contemporary China, extensive critical introductions and bibliography.