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China's Greatest Operatic Male Actor of Female Roles [electronic resource] : Documenting the Life and Art of Mei Lanfang, 1894-1961
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tian, Min.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Actors--China--Biography.
- Actors--China.
- Mei, Lanfang, -- 1894-1961.
- Actors.
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
- Augustine.
- Local Subjects:
- Actors--China--Biography.
- Actors--China.
- Mei, Lanfang, -- 1894-1961.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (433 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the first English language book to systematically examine the life and art of Mei Lanfang (1894-1961). Mei, who specialized in female roles in classical Chinese theatre, especially jingju, is widely considered the greatest actor of twentieth-century China. This text includes analyses of his work from Chinese, Western, Russian,and intercultural perspectives.
- Contents:
- CHINA'S GREATEST OPERATIC MALE ACTOR OF FEMALE ROLES: Documenting the Life and Art of Mei Lanfang, 1894-1961; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction - Min Tian; Part One - Mei Lanfang's Perspective; 1.1 - My Life on Stage; Part Two - Chinese Perspectives; 2.1 - Mei Lan-fang and the Chinese Drama; 2.2 - On Mei Lanfang; 2.3 - Down with the Dan Actors in Women's Clothes; Down with the Representative Dan Actor Mei Lanfang; 2.4 - About Mei Lanfang's Daiyu Buries Flowers; 2.5 - Du Liniang in Deep and Boundless Love
- 2.6 - Mei Lanfang: A True Actor, Creator of the Beautiful2.7 - Mei Lanfang, Stanislaysky, Brecht: A Study in Contrasts; Part Three - Western and Russian Perspectives; 3.1 - Mei Lan-Fang; 3.2 - Chinese Acting; 3.3 - On Mei Lan-fang: Artiste on Tour Speech at the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), April 14, 1935; 3.4 - The Magician of the Pear Orchard; 3.5 - Mei Lan-fang-Our Guest; 3.6 - An Evening for the Final Conclusion of the Visit of Mei Lan-fang's Theatre in the USSR, April 14, 1935; Part Four - Intercultural Perspectives
- 4.1 - Mei Lanfang: A Case Against and a Model for the Occidental Stage4.2 - The Effect of Displacement: Bertolt Brecht's Interpretation and Refunctioning of Mei Lanfang's Art; 4.3 - ""What then is the practical lesson"": The Interpretations and Appropriations of Mei Lanfang by the Soviet Theatre; 4.4 - Mei Lanfang in Moscow, 1935: Familiar, Unfamiliar, Defamiliar; 4.5 - Brokering Glory for the Chinese Nation: Mei Lanfang's 1930 American Tour; 4.6 - ""Introducing Occidentals to an Exotic Art"": Mei Lanfang in New York; Appendix - Mei Lanfang: A Chronology; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7734-2230-7
- 0-7734-2203-X
- OCLC:
- 821177944
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