How to read Chinese drama :: a guided anthology /

"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 t...

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Weitere Verfasser: Sieber, Patricia Angela (HerausgeberIn), Llamas, Regina (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Chinese
Veröffentlicht: New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]
Schriftenreihe:How to read Chinese literature
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xliv, 434 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231546669
0231546661

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