Ruling the stage : : social and cultural history of opera in Sichuan from the Qing to the People's Republic of China / / by Igor Iwo Chabrowski.
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 c...
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Superior document: | China Studies ; 49 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | China Studies ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (367 pages) |
Notes: | Igor Chabrowski analyses the history of the development of opera in Sichuan, arguing that opera serves as a microcosm of the profoundtransformation of modern Chinese culture between the 18th century and 1950s. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- List of Plates, Table and Maps
- Introduction
- PART 1: Opera in Qing-Era Sichuan
- 1 Development of Opera in Qing-Era Sichuan
- 1 The Role of Opera in Qing Society
- 2 Opera and Construction of the Community
- 3 The Nineteenth-Century Flourishing: The Role of Opera in Shaping Local Religious Practice
- 4 Opera and Shaping of the Material and Social Landscape
- 5 A Market Town: A Temple-Centered Society, An Opera-Centered Society
- 6 The Big City Perspective
- 7 Opera between the Elites and the Commoners
- 8 Opera, Officials, and the Social (Dis)Order
- 9 Concluding Remarks
- PART 2: The New Institutionalization: Law, Market, Politics, and Culture of Commercialized Art, 1902–1937
- 2 A Transformed Relationship: Theater and Power after the Qing New Policies
- 1 The Three Forces of Change: Destruction of Temples, Commercialization, and the New Legal Order
- 2 New Policies and a Novel Way of Doing Business in Sichuan
- 3 The Protecting Power of Official Greed: Republican Commercial Theater
- 4 Taxing
- 5 Helping Hand
- 6 Women on the Show
- 7 Rectifying Opera
- 3 Commercial Opera: Shaping the City and Shaping the Actors
- 1 Theaters and Urban Zoning: Researching the Social Background of the Audiences
- 2 Early Transformation in the Social and Spatial Geography of Opera
- 3 Republican Theaters and Urban Zoning: Crystallization of the Opera’s Public
- 4 Commercial Theater and Actors’ Careers
- 5 Concluding Remarks
- 4 The Culture of the Commercial Opera
- 1 The Methods of Studying Opera: Troupes, Talent, and Repertoires
- 2 Watching the Commercial Show: How Was It Served?
- 3 Favorite Plays and the Cultural Universe of Sichuan Audiences
- 4 Gods, Emperors, Heroes…
- 5 Time and Place
- 6 Concluding Remarks
- Illustration Quire
- PART 3: Creating the New World
- 5 The Divide: Local Intellectuals and the Cultural Conflict
- 1 Commercial Daily ’s Explorations and Experimentations with New Drama
- 2 Dissatisfaction, Estrangement, Elitism, and a Turn to the Left
- 3 Radicalization and Rejection
- 4 Concluding Remarks
- 6 The Times of the Nationalists (1937–1949) and the War
- 1 Performing Arts Culture
- 2 Military Emergency and China’s Migration to the Southwest
- 3 Inventing the Wartime Theater
- 4 Putting Words into Action
- 5 Living through Frustration: Playwrights and the War
- 6 An All Too Visible Context: Sichuan Opera and the War
- 7 Concluding Remarks
- 7 Revolution: Communist “People’s Art”
- 1 Communist Conquest of Sichuan: A New Political Context
- 2 Political and Ideological Basis of the Opera Reform
- 3 Breaking the “Superstitious” Opera
- 4 Adjusting to the New Party-State Policies
- 5 Seizing Control over the Opera Companies
- 6 Opera Becomes Useful to the Communist State
- 7 Policy in Action: Chongqing, 1951–1952
- 8 Concluding Remarks
- 8 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.