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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldman, Andrea S. (Andrea Sue)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Operas, Chinese--Social aspects--China--Beijing.

Operas, Chinese.

Operas, Chinese--Political aspects--China--Beijing.

Operas, Chinese--China--Beijing--History and criticism.

Beijing (China)--Intellectual life--18th century.

Beijing (China).

Beijing (China)--Intellectual life--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values. It is in this context that historian Andrea S. Goldman harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history. Her meticulous yet playful account takes up the multiplicity of opera types that proliferated at the time, exploring them as contested sites through which the Qing court and commercial playhouses n

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Reign Periods of the Ming and Qing Dynasties; Acknowledgments; Overture; Part One: Audiences and Actors; 1. Opera Aficionados and Guides to Boy Actresses; Part Two: Venues and Genres; 2. Metropolitan Opera, Border Crossings, and the State; 3. Musical Genre, Opera Hierarchy, and Court Patronage; Part Three: Plays and Performances; 4. Social Melodrama and the Sexing of Political Complaint; 5. Sex versus Violence in "I, Sister-in-Law" Operas; Coda; Appendices; List of Characters; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804782623

0804782628

OCLC:

793193175