Opera and the City The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900

Name: Opera and the City The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900
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ISBN: 9780804792059

ISBN-10: 0804792054

ISBN-13: 9780804792059

Edition: 2012

Authors: Andrea Goldman

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In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values.It is in this context that historian Andrea S. Goldman harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history. Her meticulous yet playful account takes up the multiplicity of opera types that proliferated at the time, exploring them as contested sites through which the Qing court and commercial playhouses negotiated influence and control over the social and moral order. Opera performance blurred lines between public…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 12/10/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 386
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English