Contemporary Chinese Theatre

Chinese theatre underwent a great experiment under the cultural revolution. Using the reformed Beijing operas as models, the whole range of theatre arts, from straight plays to acrobatics and from ballet to ballads saw a profound transformation. Alongside the professional theatre, an upsurge of workers' and peasants' amateur theatre stimulated new developments.



This book, first published in 1978, sketches the historical background to these changes and offers a factual survey of the main forms and characteristics of Chinese theatre at the time. It traces the rise of the new drama since 1949 and explores the political principles underlying the reforms. It examines the new amateur theatre and describes typical plays and operas staged in China.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Roger Howard

Zusammenfassung

This book, first published in 1978, sketches the historical background to the changes Chinese theatre underwent under the cultural revolution. It traces the rise of the new drama since 1949 and explores the political principles underlying the reforms.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Howard Roger, Roger Howard
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.10.2023
• Thema: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien
• EAN: 9780367771539
• ISBN: 978-0-367-77153-9
• Anzahl Seiten: 144
• Serie: Routledge Library Editions: Chinese Literature and Arts
• Themen: POETRY / General, Poetry, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Society & culture: general, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general, Poetry / Poems, performing arts reform, cultural revolution performance, post-1949 stage history, revolutionary opera analysis, workers amateur productions, political theatre China, socialist realism drama