How to read Chinese drama : a guided anthology / edited by Patricia Sieber and Regina Llamas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sieber, Patricia, Author.

Contributor:

Sieber, Patricia Angela, editor.

Llamas, Regina, editor.

Series:

How to read Chinese literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese drama--History and criticism.

Chinese drama--Translations into English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

Majority of text in English with snippets from plays in Chinese with parallel English translations.

Summary:

"How to Read Chinese Drama: A Guided Anthology introduces students to the wide world of Chinese theater through excerpts from and context about 14 plays. Special attention is paid to how those plays are realized on stage. These examples cover the entire history of the most important genres up to the maturity of Peking opera in the second half of the nineteenth century. Students will be exposed to many play texts and aspects of Chinese theater, including three types of expressive modes-music (music and singing), text (speaking/reciting/written text), and movements (acting)-historical, biographical, and sociopolitical backgrounds about Chinese drama and playwrights, staging and rituals, and close textual analyses. The book is designed to be used independently or in concert with How to Read Chinese Drama: A Language Text, but the guided anthology volume does not assume any knowledge of Chinese"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Thematic Contents

Preface to the How to Read Chinese Literature Series

A Note on How to Use This Anthology

Chronology of Historical Events

Symbols, Abbreviations, and Typographical Usage

Introduction: The Cultural Significance of Chinese Drama, by Patricia Sieber and Regina Llamas

Part I: Yuan and Ming Dynasties: Zaju Plays

1. The Story of the Western Wing: Tale, Ballad, and Play, by Wilt L. Idema

2. Purple Clouds, Wrong Career, and Tiger Head Plaque: Jurchen Foreigners in Early Drama, by Stephen H. West

3. The Pavilion for Praying to the Moon and The Injustice to Dou E: The Innovation of the Female Lead, by Patricia Sieber

4. The Story of the Western Wing: Theater and the Printed Image, by Patricia Sieber and Gillian Yanzhuang Zhang

5. The Orphan of Zhao: The Meaning of Loyalty and Filiality, by Shih-pe Wang

6. The Female Mulan Joins the Army in Place of Her Father: Gender and Performance, by Shiamin Kwa

Part II: Ming Dynasty and Early Qing Dynasty: Nanxi and Chuanqi Plays

7. Top Graduate Zhang Xie and The Lute: Scholar, Family, and State, by Regina Llamas

8. The Southern Story of the Western Wing: Traditional Kunqu Composition, Interpretation, and Performance, by Joseph S. C. Lam

9. The Peony Pavilion: Emotions, Dreams, and Spectatorship, by Ling Hon Lam

10. Green Peony and The Swallow's Letter: Drama and Politics, by Ying Zhang

11. A Much Desired Match: Playwriting, Stagecraft, and Entrepreneurship, by S. E. Kile

12. Peach Blossom Fan and Palace of Everlasting Life: History, Romance, and Performance, by Mengjun Li and Guo Yingde

Part III: Mid-Qing Dynasty: Zaju and Chuanqi Plays

13. Song of Dragon Well and Other Court Plays: Stage Directions, Spectacle, and Panegyrics, by Tian Yuan Tan

14. The Eight-Court Pearl: Performance Scripts and Political Culture, by Andrea S. Goldman

Part IV: Ming, Qing, and Modern Eras: Ritual Plays

15. Mulian Rescues His Mother: Play Structure, Ritual, and Soundscapes, by Sai-shing Yung

16. The Story of Hua Guan Suo: Chantefable and Ritual Plays, by Anne E. McLaren

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Visual Resources

Glossary-Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-231-54666-1

OCLC:

1245250591