Operatic China Staging Chinese Identity across the Pacific

by Lei, Daphne P.

• ISBN13: 9781403973276
• ISBN10: 140397327X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-17
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

"Operatic China is a groundbreaking study of Chinese opera and identity in the new millennium. Citing rare archival material and drawing on insights from performance studies, theatre history, Asian American studies and anthropology, Daphne P. Lei shows how opera has furnished much of the imagery and thematics for recent centuries' representations of China."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Daphne Lei is Assistant Professor of Drama, University of California-Irvine.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	viii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Lotus and Mud	1	(24)
Chinese Theatre and the Eternal Frontier in Nineteenth-Century California	25	(62)
Local, National, and International Performance of Barbarians at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	87	(46)
Rebellion, Revolution, and Theatricality in Late Qing China	133	(40)
San Francisco Chinatown, Cantonese Opera, and the New Millennium	173	(34)
The Global Consensus in Chinese Opera on Stage and Screen	207	(48)
Epilogue: What Could Be More Chinese Than Chinese Opera?	255	(6)
Notes	261	(54)
Bibliography	315	(24)
Index	339