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Amateur Theatre In China 1949 1966
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Author : Colin Mackerras
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Amateur Theatre In China 1949 1966 written by Colin Mackerras and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Amateur plays categories.
"The phrase 'amateur theatre' conveys, in the West, a picture of unpaid actors performing for their own and their friends' amusement, aiming chiefly to entertain but perhaps, incidentally, to help train future professional actors. In China, however, amateur theatre has for many centuries reflected the various ideologies which have dominated the country, and has played an altogether more significant role in society. Though he traces the history of amateur theatre from dynastic times, [author] is here most concerned with the concept of 'amateur' from Liberation to the eve of the Cultural Revolution. He discusses the ideals set forth for the performers and the problems they have encountered in living up to them. He shows how the communist government has used amateur theatre to spread its message, especially among the vast masses of the peasantry, and concludes that, by and large, it has been successful."--Inside cover.
Contemporary Chinese Theatre
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Author : Roger Howard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-05-17
Contemporary Chinese Theatre written by Roger Howard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-17 with Social Science categories.
Chinese theatre underwent a great experiment under the cultural revolution. Using the reformed Beijing operas as models, the whole range of theatre arts, from straight plays to acrobatics and from ballet to ballads saw a profound transformation. Alongside the professional theatre, an upsurge of workers’ and peasants’ amateur theatre stimulated new developments. This book, first published in 1978, sketches the historical background to these changes and offers a factual survey of the main forms and characteristics of Chinese theatre at the time. It traces the rise of the new drama since 1949 and explores the political principles underlying the reforms. It examines the new amateur theatre and describes typical plays and operas staged in China.
Listening To China S Cultural Revolution
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Author : Laikwan Pang
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-26
Listening To China S Cultural Revolution written by Laikwan Pang and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Bringing together the most recent research on the Cultural Revolution in China, musicologists, historians, literary scholars, and others discuss the music and its political implications. Combined, these chapters, paint a vibrant picture of the long-lasting impact that the musical revolution had on ordinary citizens, as well as political leaders.
Writers Directory
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Author : NA NA
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-03-05
Writers Directory written by NA NA and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Performing Arts In Contemporary China
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Author : Colin Mackerras
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-05-17
The Performing Arts In Contemporary China written by Colin Mackerras and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-17 with Social Science categories.
The overthrow of the ‘gang of four’ in 1976 had profound effects in all areas of Chinese society, and probably nowhere can this be seen more clearly than in the performing arts. Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong’s widow, was strongly interested in the performing arts and exercised great influence over them. Professor Mackerras describes this influence and the effects its removal had on the arts in the years after Mao’s death, as well as in the years following the Cultural Revolution. This book, first published in 1981, deals not only with opera, the spoken play, music and dance but also with cinema, describing how in all these cases the Chinese have adapted traditional art forms for political, social and propagandist purposes, both domestic and international. It charts the transformations that have taken place in all the multiple aspects of the performing arts and sets them against the development of Chinese society as a whole. It also looks at the role of the actor and performer in society, including their training, social status and livelihood.
Chinese Theater
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Author : Colin Mackerras
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2021-05-25
Chinese Theater written by Colin Mackerras and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-25 with Performing Arts categories.
This volume is the first concise introduction to the splendid variety of the Chinese theatrical tradition. It presents a rounded perspective on the development of Chinese theater by considering all of its major aspects—history and social context, performance, costume, makeup, actors, playwrights, and theaters—and by discussing all the major forms of Chinese theater, including the Beijing opera, which arose in the eighteenth century, and the spoken play, an entirely twentieth-century form. Its contributors are uniquely qualified to write about the Chinese theater. They have enjoyed an intimate relationship with their subject, both as academics and as theater workers, and they have combined a deep knowledge of Chinese theater with a high regard for its long tradition and continuing vitality. The book is intended for general as well as more specialized readers. Those with an interest in theater as a worldwide phenomenon and those wanting a new light on Chinese culture and society will find it equally useful. To those with a particular interest in Chinese theater, it will be a rich and important resource.
The Playful Revolution
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Author : Eugène Van Erven
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Playful Revolution written by Eugène Van Erven and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Theater categories.
" The Playful Revolution is an entertaining journal.... exemplary... " --Illusions " The Playful Revolution breaks new ground by documenting developmental theatre in Asia in its current socio-political and economic ethos... " --New Theatre Quarterly "[T]his book is the account of a personal journey through Asia, a written documentary of a quest to find political theatre that really works and that possesses a vitality and passion that the contemporary Western theatre seems to have lost." --from the book In this groundbreaking book, van Erven reports on the liberation theatre movements throughout Asia, which include a diverse collection of creative artists whose politics range from liberal to revolutionary but who all share a common goal of using grass-roots theatre as an agent of liberation.
Popular Chinese Literature And Performing Arts In The People S Republic Of China 1949 1979
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Author : Bonnie S. McDougall
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2024-06-21
Popular Chinese Literature And Performing Arts In The People S Republic Of China 1949 1979 written by Bonnie S. McDougall and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essays in this volume constitute an exceptionally broad and inclusive account of Chinese literature and performing arts since 1949. Extending beyond fiction to poetry and drama, and covering song, opera, and film as well, these essays reveal a more lively and varied cultural life than that disclosed by studies confined to fiction and literary politics. Rather than stopping at the assumption that art reflects Party or government policy, the essays uncover the traditional roots of popular literature and performing art by employing literary and artistic methods of analysis. While often lacking in appeal to Western audiences, these popular arts nonetheless have their own artistic validity and convey complex meanings to broadly based Chinese audiences. The materials and analyses presented here have social as well as cultural relevance. Variety and change rather than monolithic uniformity have characterized post-1949 cultural bureaucracies, writers, performers, and audiences. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Revolutionary Stagecraft
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Author : Tarryn Li-Min Chun
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2024-06-04
Revolutionary Stagecraft written by Tarryn Li-Min Chun and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-04 with Performing Arts categories.
Revolutionary Stagecraft draws on a rich corpus of literary, historical, and technical materials to reveal a deep entanglement among technological modernization, political agendas, and the performing arts in modern China. This unique approach to Chinese theater history combines a close look at plays themselves, performance practices, technical theater details, and behind-the-scenes debates over “how to” make theater amid the political upheavals of China’s 20th century. The book begins at a pivotal moment in the 1920s—when Chinese theater artists began to import, use, and write about modern stage equipment—and ends in the 1980s when China's scientific and technological boom began. By examining iconic plays and performances from the perspective of the stage technologies involved, Tarryn Li-Min Chun provides a fresh perspective on their composition and staging. The chapters include stories on the challenges of creating imitation neon, rigging up a makeshift revolving stage, and representing a nuclear bomb detonating onstage. In thinking about theater through technicity, the author mines well-studied materials such as dramatic texts and performance reviews for hidden technical details and brings to light a number of previously untapped sources such as technical journals and manuals; set design renderings, lighting plots, and prop schematics; and stage technology how-to guides for amateur thespians. This approach focuses on material stage technologies, situating these objects equally in relation to their technical potential, their human use, and the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that influence them. In each of its case studies, Revolutionary Stagecraft reveals the complex and at times surprising ways in which Chinese theater artists and technicians of the 20th century envisioned and enacted their own revolutions through the materiality of the theater apparatus.
The Cambridge History Of China
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Author : John King Fairbank
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1987
The Cambridge History Of China written by John King Fairbank and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with China categories.