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Author Bao, Huai, author.

Title Cross-gender China : the revival of nandan performance in Jingju / Huai Bao aka H.B. Dhawa
Edition First edition
Published London : Routledge, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
Contents Chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Cultural obsession -- chapter 3 Mao's?gender trouble? -- chapter 4 The revival -- chapter 5 The new generation -- chapter 6 Rebel or follow -- chapter 7 Conclusion
Summary "Cross-Gender China, the outcome of more than twenty years of theatrical and sociological research, deconstructs the cultural implications of cross-gender performance in today's China. The recent revival in male-to-female cross-gender nandan performance in Chinese theatre raises a multitude of questions: it may suggest new gender dynamics, or new readings of old aesthetic traditions in new socio-cultural contexts. Interrogating the positions of the gender being performed and the gender doing the performing, this volume gives a broad cultural account of the contexts in which this unique performance style has found new life."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 5, 2017)
Subject Operas, Chinese -- China -- Beijing -- History and criticism
Sex role in music.
Sex role in the theater -- China
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
Operas, Chinese
Sex role in music
Sex role in the theater
China
China -- Beijing
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315164625
1315164620
9781351674713
1351674714