The soul of Beijing opera : theatrical creativity and continuity in the changing world / Li Ruru ; with a foreword by Eugenio Barba.
Li, Ruru.
2010
PN2876.P4 L45 2010eb
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Title The soul of Beijing opera : theatrical creativity and continuity in the changing world / Li Ruru ; with a foreword by Eugenio Barba.
Author Li, Ruru.
ISBN 9789882205802 (electronic book)
9882205801 (electronic book)
9789622099944
9622099947
Imprint Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2010.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrations, music
Call Number PN2876.P4 L45 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 729.50951/156
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.
Note 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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
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."

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