Chinese Shadow Theatre Libretti
Author: Sven Broman
Publisher:
Published: 1994-12
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9789748299372
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sven Broman
Publisher:
Published: 1994-12
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9789748299372
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Fan Pen Li Chen
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2007-06-21
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 0773575995
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Fan-Pen Li Chen
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0773531971
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Ashley Thorpe
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first Western language book to examine the chou ("clown") role-type in traditional Chinese drama--a role-type credited with so much importance that some critics insist that "withouth the chou, there would not be drama." This assertion is evaluated through an analysis of historical documents and translated play texts, fieldwork research, and from the perspectives of ethnomusicology and anthropology.
Author: Maghiel van Crevel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-11-27
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9047441419
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.