Women playing men : Yue opera and social change in twentieth-century Shanghai / Jin Jiang.
Modern forces converge and gender roles are challenged in this volume that explores the influence of Yue opera - a subgenre of Chinese opera that transformed all-male opera into an all-female art forms, with women cross-dressing as male characters.
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| Other title: | Yue opera and social change in twentieth-century Shanghai. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
©2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Opera, gender, and the city
- The origins of Yue opera
- The rise of feminine opera
- Patrons and patronage
- Staging in the public arena
- The opera as history
- A feminine aesthetics
- Conclusion.