Opera and the city : the politics of culture in Beijing, 1770-1900 / Andrea S. Goldman.

By:

Goldman, Andrea S. (Andrea Sue) [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780804782623
0804782628
9780804778312
0804778310
9780804792059
0804792054

Other title:

Politics of culture in Beijing, 1770-1900

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Opera and the city.DDC classification:

782.10951/156 23

LOC classification:

ML1751.C58 G65 2012eb

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Contents:

Opera aficionados and guides to boy-actresses -- Metropolitan opera, border crossings, and the state -- Musical genre, opera hierarchy, and court patronage -- Social melodrama and the sexing of political complaint -- Sex versus violence in "I, sister-in-law" operas

Summary: In late imperial China, opera was an integral part of life and culture, shared across the social hierarchy. Opera transmitted ideas about the self, family, society, and politics over time and space. The Qing capital of Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values via performance. It is in this context that the author harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history. By examining opera in Qing Beijing, this work illuminates how the state and various urban constituencies partook of opera and manipulated it to their own ends

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In late imperial China, opera was an integral part of life and culture, shared across the social hierarchy. Opera transmitted ideas about the self, family, society, and politics over time and space. The Qing capital of Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values via performance. It is in this context that the author harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history. By examining opera in Qing Beijing, this work illuminates how the state and various urban constituencies partook of opera and manipulated it to their own ends