Backstaging Modern Chinese Theatre

Modern Chinese theatre once entailed a variety of forms, but now it primarily refers to spoken drama, or huaju. Backstaging Modern Chinese Theatre looks beyond scripts to examine visuality, acoustics, and performance between the two World Wars, the period when huaju gained canonical status. The back...

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Main Author:	He, Man (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	University of Michigan Press 2025
Subjects:	huaju, xiqu, spoken drama, wenmingxi, Beijing opera, Ibsen, backstage, peasant theater, mobile theater, performance, realism, modernism, amateur, professionalization, popularization, Hong Shen, Tian Han, Yu Shangyuan, Xiong Foxi, cosmopolitanism, nationalism, left-wing, May Fourth, Republican China, Nanjing Decade, World War II, overseas students, cultural entrepreneur, National Drama School, CCP, KMT, The Ohio State University, Ding Xian, Chongqing, Shanghai thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
Online Access:	Open access – download the full text (archived at NCDS Library)
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