Madame Sadayakko
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Madame Sadayakko
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Author : Lesley Downer
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2003
Madame Sadayakko written by Lesley Downer and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The author of Women of the Pleasure Quarters shares the story of the famous geisha whose life inspired Puccini's Madame Butterfly, from her training and participation in secret geisha traditions to her defection from her lucrative career to marry the penniless actor and political maverick Otojiro Kawakami and her rise to international celebrity. Reprint.
A Geisha For The American Consul A Short Story
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Author : Lesley Downer
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-12-06
A Geisha For The American Consul A Short Story written by Lesley Downer and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Fiction categories.
Two cultures. One man and one woman. One moment in time. Cultures collide when Okichi, a beautiful geisha, is sent to work for the American envoy in Japan. Age and pride meet youth and grace. How will she survive in a home where no one speaks her language, where she understands nothing and she must submit to a strange barbarian's will?
Imperial Masquerade
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Author : Grant Hayter-Menzies
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2008-02-01
Imperial Masquerade written by Grant Hayter-Menzies and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-01 with Social Science categories.
"Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling, the first biography of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing cross-cultural personalities, traces not only the life of Princess Der Ling, in all its various transformations, but offers a fresh look at the woman she lionized and, ultimately, betrayed - the Empress Dowager Cixi, to whom, like Der Ling, many legends have been affixed over the past century. The book also depicts the changing worlds of Paris, Tokyo and the other international stages of Der Ling's development as woman and as mystery, and deals with the many teachers who made her who she was." --Book Jacket.
Made Up Asians
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Author : Esther Kim Lee
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2022-07-11
Made Up Asians written by Esther Kim Lee 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 2022-07-11 with Performing Arts categories.
Made-Up Asians traces the history of yellowface, the theatrical convention of non-Asian actors putting on makeup and costume to look East Asian. Using specific case studies from European and U.S. theater, race science, and early film, Esther Kim Lee traces the development of yellowface in the U.S. context during the Exclusion Era (1862–1940), when Asians faced legal and cultural exclusion from immigration and citizenship. These caricatured, distorted, and misrepresented versions of Asians took the place of excluded Asians on theatrical stages and cinema screens. The book examines a wide-ranging set of primary sources, including makeup guidebooks, play catalogs, advertisements, biographies, and backstage anecdotes, providing new ways of understanding and categorizing yellowface as theatrical practice and historical subject. Made-Up Asians also shows how lingering effects of Asian exclusionary laws can still be seen in yellowface performances, casting practices, and anti-Asian violence into the 21st century.
Madame Sadayakko
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Author : Lesley Downer
language : es
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Madame Sadayakko written by Lesley Downer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Actresses categories.
Polish Theatre Revisited
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Author : Agata Luksza
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2024-01-19
Polish Theatre Revisited written by Agata Luksza and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-19 with Performing Arts categories.
Polish Theatre Revisited explores nineteenth-century Polish theatre through the lens of theatre audiences. Agata Łuksza places special emphasis on the most engaged spectators, known as “theatremaniacs”—from what they wore, to what they bought, to what they ate. Her source material is elusive ephemera from fans’ lives, such as notes scribbled on a weekly list of shows in the Warsaw theatres, collections of theatre postcards, and recipes for sweets named after famous actors. The fannish behavior of theatremaniacs was usually deemed excessive or in poor taste by people in positions of power, as it clashed with the ongoing embourgeoisement of the theatre and the disciplining of audiences. Nevertheless, the theatre was one of the key areas where early fan cultures emerged, and theatremaniacs indulged in diverse fan practices in opposition to the forces reforming the theatre and its spectatorship.
Kimono
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Author : Terry Satsuki Milhaupt
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2014-05-15
Kimono written by Terry Satsuki Milhaupt and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-15 with Design categories.
What is the kimono? Everyday garment? Art object? Symbol of Japan? As this book shows, the kimono has served all of these roles, its meaning changing across time and with the perspective of the wearer or viewer. Kimono: A Modern History begins by exposing the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century foundations of the modern kimono fashion industry. It explores the crossover between ‘art’ and ‘fashion’ in this period at the hands of famous Japanese painters who worked with clothing pattern books and painted directly onto garments. With Japan’s exposure to Western fashion in the nineteenth century, and Westerners’ exposure to Japanese modes of dress and design, the kimono took on new associations and came to symbolize an exotic culture and an alluring female form. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the kimono industry was sustained through government support. The line between fashion and art became blurred as kimonos produced by famous designers were collected for their beauty and displayed in museums, rather than being worn as clothing. Today, the kimono has once again taken on new dimensions, as the Internet and social media proliferate images of the kimono as a versatile garment to be integrated into a range of individual styles. Kimono: A Modern History, the inspiration for a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,not only tells the story of a distinctive garment’s ever-changing functions and image, but provides a novel perspective on Japan’s modernization and encounter with the West.
American Impressionism Realism
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Author : Helene Barbara Weinberg
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 2009
American Impressionism Realism written by Helene Barbara Weinberg and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art, American categories.
An exhibition publication featuring curatorial essays and works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Asian Crossings
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Author : Steve Clark
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2008-07-01
Asian Crossings written by Steve Clark and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The fourteen chapters in this book examine various topics and contexts of travel writings on China, Japan and Southeast Asia. From the first Colombian on a trade mission to China, to French women travellers in Asia, and the opening of "Japan Fairs" in the US during the latter half of the nineteenth century, this book offers a kaleidoscopic glimpse of the various cultures in the eyes of their beholders coupled with insightful understanding of the various politics and relationships that are involved. While this book will appeal to expert scholars and students of travel literature and Asian studies, as well as those working on cultural studies, general readers will also find it an interesting and accessible addition to their collections.
Empire Of Love
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Author : Matt K. Matsuda
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005
Empire Of Love written by Matt K. Matsuda and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
This title studies the creation of an 'Empire of Love' in the Pacific and the interconnections between culture and imperial power in the 19th and 20th centuries. It examines the European presence in such contested territories as New Caledonia, and Tahiti, and encounter and conflict in Panama and Indochina.