Ruling the Stage

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  • Ruling the Stage Book Detail

  • Author : IGOR IWO. CHABROWSKI
  • Release Date : 2022
  • Publisher : China Studies
  • Genre : Drama
  • Pages : 376
  • ISBN 13 : 9789004519381
  • File Size : 11,11 MB

Ruling the Stage by IGOR IWO. CHABROWSKI PDF Summary

Book Description: "Through an innovative interdisciplinary reading and field research, Igor Chabrowski analyses the history of the development of opera in Sichuan, arguing that opera serves as a microcosm of the profound transformation of modern Chinese culture between the 18th century and 1950s. He investigates the complex path of opera over this course of history: exiting the temple festivals, becoming a public obsession on commercial stages, and finally being harnessed to partisan propaganda work. The book reads into the process of cross-regional integration of Chinese culture and the emergence of the national opera genre. Moreover, opera is shown as an example of the culture wars that raged inside China's popular culture"--

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