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Drama in the People's Republic of China
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Hardcover - 353 pages |
| Release Date: July 1987 |
ISBN10: 0-88706-389-6
ISBN13: 978-0-88706-389-3
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Paperback - 353 pages |
| Release Date: July 1987 |
ISBN10: 0-88706-390-X
ISBN13: 978-0-88706-390-9
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This is the first book ever published in the West on drama in the People's Republic of China. The plays, playwrights, theories, and performances range from the play that inflamed the Cultural Revolution to a post-Mao satiric drama that upset party leaders; from Jiang Qing's drama theory for her model plays to the discovery of Bertolt Brecht; from the problems and dilemmas that confront theater reform in the post-Mao era to the performance of Ibsen's Peer Gynt and Viennese operettas; and from a historical play glorifying Mao's supremacy to a playwright calling for individualism and women's rights. This book not only depicts aspects of drama in the People's Republic of China, it also provides analyses of the political and social conditions that shaped and are represented in this drama.
Constantine Tung is Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Colin MacKerras is Foundation Professor in the School of Modern Asian Studies, Griffith University, Australia.
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Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Tradition and Experience of the Drama of the People's Republic of China
Constantine Tung
Part One Drama on Historical Themes
Chapter 1. Hai Rui Dismissed From Office and China's Opposition Movement, 1958-1959
Lin Chen
Chapter 2. Images of Women in the Dramas of Guo Moruo: The Case of Empress Wu
Bruce Gordon Doar
Part Two Drama, Ideal and Theory
Chapter 3. Prescriptive Dramatic Theory of the Cultural Revolution
Ellen R. Judd
Chapter 4. Model Drama as Myth: A Semiotic Analysis of Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy
Kirk A. Denton
Chapter 5. Mei Lanfang, Stanislavsky and Brecht on China's Stage and Their Aesthetic Significance
William Huizhu Sun
Chapter 6. Huang Zuoling's Ideal of Drama and Bertolt Brecht
Adrian Hsia
Part Three Post 1976 Theater and Drama
Chapter 7. Theater Activities in Post-Cultural Revolution China
Daniel S. P. Yang
Chapter 8. Modernization and Contemporary Chinese Theater: Commercialization and Professionalization
Colin Mackerras
Chapter 9. The Darkened Vision: If I Were For Real and the Movie
Gilbert C. F. Fong
Chapter 10. Tensions of Reconciliation: Individualistic Rebels and Social Harmony in Bai Fengxi's Plays
Constantine Tung
Chapter 11. The Drama Tragic Song of Our Time (Shidai de beige ): Functions of Literature in the Eighties and Its Socio-Political Limitations
Helmut Martin
Part Four Foreign Theaters in China: Two Case Studies
Chapter 12. Austrian Musical Theater and Music in China
Gerd KaminskI And Else Unterrieder
Chapter 13. Performances of Ibsen in China after 1949
Elisabeth Eide
Chapter 14. Conclusion Colin Mackerras
Notes on Contributors
Index
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